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The American Promise, Volume 1 To 1877
The American Promise, Volume 1 To 1877
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9781457668418
- ISBN 10:
1457668416
- Edition: 6th
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/12/2014
- Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
The American Promise has long been a course favorite, and it has just gotten better. Students value the text’s readability, clear chronology, and lively voices of ordinary Americans, while instructors rely upon the rich content, the many documents and features, and the overall support for teaching their class their way. The sixth edition introduces LaunchPad, which combines carefully-curated new assignments and assessments integrated with an e-book in its own intuitive course space. The American Promise now provides the best formats for every activity—the print book allows for a seamless reading experience while LaunchPad provides the right space for active learning assignments and dynamic course management tools that measure and analyze student progress. LaunchPad comes with a wealth of primary sources and special critical thinking activities to help students progress toward learning outcomes; LearningCurve, the adaptive learning tool that students love to use to test their understanding of the text and instructors love to assign to prepare students for class; and a suite of instructor resources from videos to test banks that make teaching simpler and more effective.What's in the LaunchPad
Author Biography
Read moreJames L. Roark (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History at Emory University. In 1993, he received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001–2002 he was Pitt Professor of American Institutions at Cambridge University. He has written Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction and coauthored Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South with Michael P. Johnson.
Michael P. Johnson (Ph.D., Stanford University) is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia; Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Speeches and Writings; and Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, the documents reader for The American Promise. He has also coedited No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War with James L. Roark.
Patricia Cline Cohen (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005–2006. She has written A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America and The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, and she has coauthored The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York.
Sarah Stage (Ph.D., Yale University) has taught U.S. history at Williams College and the University of California, Riverside, and she was visiting professor at Beijing University and Szechuan University. Currently she is professor of Women’s Studies at Arizona State University. Her books include Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women’s Medicine and Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession.
Susan M. Hartmann (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. In 1995 she won the university's Exemplary Faculty Award in the College of Humanities. Her publications include Truman and the 80th Congress; The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s; From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960; and The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment.
Table of Contents
Read moreNOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading activities, assessment tools, Reflections activities, What’s Your Question? activities, Chronological Reasoning activities, and all of the documents from Reading the American Past – has been indicated on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, timeline activities, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.Preface Versions and Supplements Contents Maps, Figures, and Tables Special Features 1. ANCIENT AMERICA, BEFORE 1492Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadArchaeology and HistoryWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 1 LaunchPadDocument 1-1: A Taino Origin Story: Ramón Pané, On Taino Religious Practices LaunchPadDocument 1-2: A Penobscot Origin Narrative: Joseph Nicolar, The Life and Traditions of the Red Men, 1893 LaunchPadDocument 1-3: Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative: "In the Beginning" LaunchPadDocument 1-4: Aristotle on Masters and Slaves: The Politics, ca. 300 B.C. LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 1 LaunchPadChapter 1 Summative Quiz LaunchPad2. EUROPEANS ENCOUNTER THE NEW WORLD, 1492–1600Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadEurope in the Age of ExplorationMediterranean Trade and European ExpansionA Century of Portuguese ExplorationWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 2 LaunchPadDocument 2-1: The King of the Congo Writes to the King of Portugal: King Afonso and King João III, Correspondence, 1526 LaunchPadDocument 2-2: Columbus Describes His First Encounter with "Indians": The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493 LaunchPadDocument 2-3: A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519-1520: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, 1632 LaunchPadDocument 2-4: A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico: Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex LaunchPadDocument 2-5: Cabeza de Vaca Describes His Captivity Among Native Americans in Texas and the Southwest, 1528-1536: Narrative, 1542 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 2 LaunchPadChapter 2 Summative Quiz LaunchPad3. THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601–1700Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadAn English Colony on Chesapeake BayThe Fragile Jamestown SettlementCooperation and Conflict between Natives and NewcomersFrom Private Company to Royal GovernmentReflections on Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake LaunchPadToward a Slave Labor SystemReligion and Revolt in the Spanish BorderlandThe West Indies: Sugar and SlaveryCarolina: A West Indian FrontierSlave Labor Emerges in the ChesapeakeWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 3 LaunchPadDocument 3-1: Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia: Letter to Father and Mother, March 20, April 2, 3, 1623 LaunchPadDocument 3-2: Opechancanough's 1622 Uprising in Virginia: Edward Waterhouse, Declaration, 1622 LaunchPadDocument 3-3: Sex and Race Relations: Testimony from Virginia Court Records, 1681 LaunchPadDocument 3-4: Bacon's Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676 LaunchPadDocument 3-5: Pedro Naranjo Describes Pueblo Revolt: Declaration of Pedro Naranjo of the Queres Nation, December 19, 1681 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 3 LaunchPadChapter 3 Summative Quiz LaunchPad4. THE NORTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601–1700Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadPuritans and the Settlement of New EnglandPuritan Origins: The English ReformationThe Pilgrims and Plymouth ColonyThe Founding of Massachusetts Bay ColonyReflections on The Evolution of New England Society LaunchPadThe Founding of the Middle ColoniesFrom New Netherland to New YorkNew Jersey and PennsylvaniaToleration and Diversity in PennsylvaniaReflections on The Colonies and the English Empire LaunchPadConclusion: An English Model of Colonization in North AmericaChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 4 LaunchPadDocument 4-1: The Arbella Sermon: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 LaunchPadDocument 4-2: Observations of New England Indians: Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, 1643 LaunchPadDocument 4-3: Wampanoag Grievances at the Outset of King Philip's War: John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, 1675 LaunchPadDocument 4-4: A Provincial Government Enacts Legislation: The Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682 LaunchPadDocument 4-5: Words of the Bewitched: Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget Bishop, 1692 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 4 LaunchPadChapter 4 Summative Quiz LaunchPad5. COLONIAL AMERICA IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1701–1770 Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadA Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North AmericaReflections on New England: From Puritan Settlers to Yankee Traders LaunchPadThe Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and WorkGerman and Scots-Irish Immigrants"God Gives All Things to Industry": Urban and Rural LaborVISUALIZING HISTORY: "A View of Urban Life"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadReflections on The Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and Work LaunchPadThe Southern Colonies: Land of SlaveryThe Atlantic Slave Trade and the Growth of SlaverySlave Labor and African American CultureTobacco, Rice, and ProsperityWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 5 LaunchPadDocument 5-1: Elizabeth Ashbridge Becomes an Indentured Servant in New York: Elizabeth Ashbridge, Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, Who Died in…1755 (1807) LaunchPad
Document 5-2: Poor Richard's Advice: Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757 LaunchPad
Document 5-3: An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry: Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the Presbyterians, ca. 1768 LaunchPad
Document 5-4: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves: South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737-1745 LaunchPad
Document 5-5: A Moravian Missionary Interviews Slaves in the West Indies, 1767-1768: Christian George Andreas Oldendorp, History of the Evangelical Brethren's Mission on the Caribbean Islands, 1777 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 5 LaunchPadChapter 5 Summative Quiz LaunchPad6. THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE COLONIAL CRISIS, 1754–1775Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763French-British Rivalry in the Ohio CountryThe Albany CongressVISUALIZING HISTORY: "Cultural Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century Portraits"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadThe War and Its ConsequencesPontiac’s Rebellion and the Proclamation of 1763What’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 6 LaunchPadDocument 6-1: Mary Jemison Is Captured by Seneca Indians during the Seven Years' War: James E. Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, 1824 LaunchPadDocument 6-2: An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre: Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772 LaunchPadDocument 6-3: A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party: George R. T. Hewes, Memoir, 1834 LaunchPadDocument 6-4: Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire: To the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, 1774-1775 LaunchPadDocument 6-5: Edmund Burke Urges Reconciliation with the Colonies: Speech to Parliament, March 22, 1775 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 6 LaunchPadChapter 6 Summative Quiz LaunchPad7. THE WAR FOR AMERICA, 1775–1783Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Second Continental CongressAssuming Political and Military AuthorityPursuing Both War and PeaceThomas Paine, Abigail Adams, and the Case for IndependenceThe Declaration of IndependenceReflections on The Southern Strategy and the End of the War LaunchPadConclusion: Why the British LostChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 7 LaunchPadDocument 7-1: Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence: Common Sense, January 1776 LaunchPadDocument 7-2: Letters of John and Abigail Adams: Correspondence, 1776 LaunchPadDocument 7-3: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Describes the Distresses of a Frontier Farmer during the Revolution: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, "Distresses of a Frontier Man," 1782 LaunchPadDocument 7-4: Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army: Memoir, 1798 LaunchPadDocument 7-5: Joseph Brant Appeals to British Allies to Keep Promises: Address to British Secretary of State Lord Germain, 1776 and Message to Governor of Quebec, Frederick Haldimand, 1783 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 7 LaunchPadChapter 7 Summative Quiz LaunchPad8. BUILDING A REPUBLIC, 1775–1789Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Articles of ConfederationConfederation and TaxationThe Problem of Western LandsRunning the New GovernmentVISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Great Seal of the United States"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadReflections on The Articles of Confederation LaunchPadThe Sovereign StatesThe State ConstitutionsWho Are "the People"?Equality and SlaverySEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: A Slave Sues for Her FreedomQuiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPadReflections on The Sovereign States LaunchPadThe Confederation’s ProblemsThe War Debt and the Newburgh ConspiracyThe Treaty of Fort StanwixLand Ordinances and the Northwest TerritoryThe Requisition of 1785 and Shays’s Rebellion, 1786–1787Shays’s RebellionWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 8 LaunchPadDocument 8-1: Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church: Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833 LaunchPadDocument 8-2: Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race: Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782 LaunchPadDocument 8-3: Benjamin Rush Proposes a Proper Education for a Republic: Benjamin Rush, "Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic," 1786 LaunchPadDocument 8-4: Making the Case for the Constitution: James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787 LaunchPadDocument 8-5: Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution: Observations on the New Constitution, 1788 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 8 LaunchPadChapter 8 Summative Quiz LaunchPad9. THE NEW NATION TAKES FORM, 1789–1800Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Search for StabilityWashington Inaugurates the GovernmentThe Bill of RightsHISTORICAL QUESTION: "How Did America’s First Congress Address the Question of Slavery?"Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPadThe Republican Wife and MotherReflections on Federalists and Republicans LaunchPadConclusion: Parties NonethelessChapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 9 LaunchPadDocument 9-1: Alexander Hamilton on the Economy: Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 LaunchPadDocument 9-2: Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky: Journal, 1788-1789 LaunchPadDocument 9-3: Judith Sargent Murray Insists on the Equality of the Sexes: Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes," 1790 LaunchPadDocument 9-4: A French Sugar Planter Describes the French and Saint Domingue Revolutions: A Sugar Planter of Saint Domingue Experiences Revolution in France and Saint Domingue, 1791 LaunchPadDocument 9-5: President George Washington's Parting Advice to the Nation: Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 9 LaunchPadChapter 9 Summative Quiz LaunchPad10. REPUBLICANS IN POWER, 1800–1824Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadJefferson’s PresidencyTurbulent Times: Election and RebellionHISTORICAL QUESTION: "How Could a Vice President Get Away with Murder?"Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPadThe Jeffersonian Vision of Republican SimplicityDangers Overseas: The Barbary WarsReflections on Women’s Status in the Early Republic LaunchPadMonroe and AdamsFrom Property to DemocracyThe Missouri CompromiseThe Monroe DoctrineThe Election of 1824The Adams AdministrationWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 10 LaunchPadDocument 10-1: President Thomas Jefferson's Private and Public Indian Policy: Letter to Governor William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803 and Address to the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation, December 30, 1806 LaunchPad
Document 10-2: Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone: The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805 LaunchPad
Document 10-3: A Slave Demands That Thomas Jefferson Abolish Slavery: A Slave to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1808 LaunchPad
Document 10-4: James Forten Protests Pennsylvania Law Threatening Enslavement of Free African Americans: Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania, 1813 LaunchPad
Document 10-5: James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812: Confession, 1818 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 10 LaunchPadChapter 10 Summative Quiz LaunchPad11. THE EXPANDING REPUBLIC, 1815–1840Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Market RevolutionImprovements in TransportationFactories, Workingwomen, and Wage LaborDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Mill Girls Stand Up to Factory Owners, 1834"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPadBankers and LawyersBooms and BustsReflections on Cultural Shifts, Religion, and Reform LaunchPadVan Buren’s One-Term PresidencyThe Politics of SlaveryElections and PanicsSEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Going Ahead or Gone to Smash: An Entrepreneur Struggles in the 1830s"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPadReflections on Van Buren’s One-Term Presidency LaunchPadConclusion: The Age of Jackson or the Era of Reform?Chapter Review [[√]] LearningCurve LaunchPadWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 11 LaunchPadDocument 11-1: President Andrew Jackson's Parting Words to the Nation: Farewell Address, March 4, 1837 LaunchPadDocument 11-2: Cherokees Debate Removal: John Ross, Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, 1836 and Elias Boudinot, A Reply to John Ross, 1837 LaunchPadDocument 11-3: Alexis de Toqueville Describes the Three Races in the United States: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835 LaunchPadDocument 11-4: David Walker Demands Emancipation: Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829 LaunchPadDocument 11-5: Sarah Grimké on the Status of Women: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 11 LaunchPadChapter 11 Summative Quiz LaunchPad12. THE NEW WEST AND THE FREE NORTH, 1840–1860Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadEconomic and Industrial EvolutionAgriculture and Land PolicyManufacturing and MechanizationRailroads: Breaking the Bonds of NatureVISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Path of Progress"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadReflections on Economic and Industrial Evolution LaunchPadFree Labor: Promise and RealityThe Free-Labor IdealEconomic InequalityBEYOND AMERICA’S BORDERS: "Global Prosperity in the 1850s"Quiz for Beyond America’s Borders LaunchPadImmigrants and the Free-Labor LadderReflections on Expansion and the Mexican-American War LaunchPadReforming Self and SocietyThe Pursuit of Perfection: Transcendentalists and UtopiansWoman’s Rights ActivistsAbolitionists and the American IdealWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 12 LaunchPadDocument 12-1: Abraham Lincoln Explains the Free Labor System: Abraham Lincoln, "Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society," Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859 LaunchPadDocument 12-2: The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellows on Commerce and Morality: The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral Life of America, 1845 LaunchPadDocument 12-3: Gold Fever: Walter Colton, California Gold Rush Diary, 1849-1850 LaunchPadDocument 12-4: That Woman Is Man's Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration: Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 LaunchPadDocument 12-5: A Farmer's View of His Wife: Eliza Farnham, Conversation with a Newly Wed Westerner, 1846 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 12 LaunchPadChapter 12 Summative Quiz LaunchPad13. THE SLAVE SOUTH, 1820–1860Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad The Growing Distinctiveness of the SouthCotton Kingdom, Slave EmpireVISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Auction Block"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadThe South in Black and WhiteDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Defending Slavery"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPadThe Plantation EconomyWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 13 LaunchPadDocument 13-1: Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson's Enslaved Son: Interview, 1873 LaunchPadDocument 13-2: Plantation Rules: Bennet Barrow, Highland Plantation Journal, May 1, 1838 LaunchPadDocument 13-3: Fanny Kemble Learns about Abuses of Slave Women: Frances Anne Kemble, Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 LaunchPadDocument 13-4: Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist: The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831 LaunchPadDocument 13-5: The Proslavery Argument: James Henry Hammond, Letter to an English Abolitionist, 1845 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 13 LaunchPadChapter 13 Summative Quiz LaunchPad14. THE HOUSE DIVIDED, 1846–1861Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Bitter Fruits of WarVISUALIZING HISTORY: "Ball Playing Among the Sioux"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadThe Wilmot Proviso and the Expansion of SlaveryThe Election of 1848Debate and CompromiseReflections on The Sectional Balance Undone LaunchPadRealignment of the Party SystemThe Old Parties: Whigs and DemocratsThe New Parties: Know-Nothings and RepublicansSEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "A Purse of her Own"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPadThe Election of 1856What’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 14 LaunchPadDocument 14-1: The Kansas-Nebraska Act: Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854 LaunchPadDocument 14-2: The Antislavery Constitution: Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860 LaunchPadDocument 14-3: The Proslavery Constitution: Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860 LaunchPadDocument 14-4: Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner's Attempt to Escape Slavery: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences, 1880 LaunchPadDocument 14-5: Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child Defends John Brown and Attacks the Slave Power: Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise, 1859 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 14 LaunchPadChapter 14 Summative Quiz LaunchPad15. THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR, 1861–1865Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad"And the War Came"Attack on Fort SumterThe Upper South Chooses SidesReflections on Union and Freedom LaunchPadThe South at WarRevolution from AboveHardship BelowDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Home and Country"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPadThe Disintegration of SlaveryWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 15 LaunchPadDocument 15-1: President Lincoln's War Aims: Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862; The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863; and The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 LaunchPadDocument 15-2: A Former Slave's War Aims: Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans, 1863 LaunchPadDocument 15-3: The New York Draft Riots: Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863 LaunchPadDocument 15-4: Susie King Taylor Describes Her Wartime Experiences: Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, 1902 LaunchPadDocument 15-5: General William T. Sherman Explains the Hard Hand of War: Correspondence, 1864 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 15 LaunchPadChapter 15 Summative Quiz LaunchPad16. RECONSTRUCTION, 1863–1877Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadWartime Reconstruction"To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds"Land and LaborThe African American Quest for AutonomyDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Meaning of Freedom"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPadReflections on Wartime Reconstruction LaunchPadPresidential ReconstructionJohnson’s Program of ReconciliationWhite Southern Resistance and Black CodesExpansion of Federal Authority and Black RightsReflections on The Struggle in the South LaunchPadReconstruction CollapsesGrant’s Troubled PresidencyNorthern Resolve WithersWhite Supremacy TriumphsAn Election and a CompromiseWhat’s Your Question? LaunchPadChronological Reasoning LaunchPadDocuments from Reading the American Past, Chapter 16 LaunchPadDocument 16-1: Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South: Report on the Condition of the South, 1865 LaunchPadDocument 16-2: Black Codes Enacted in the South: Mississippi Black Code, November 1865 LaunchPadDocument 16-3: Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families: Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865-1870 LaunchPadDocument 16-4: Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves, 1867: Louis Manigault, "A Narrative of a Post-Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations," March 22, 1867 LaunchPadDocument 16-5: Klan Violence against Blacks: Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 LaunchPadCOMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 16 LaunchPad
- Reflections on Archaeology and History
- Reflections on The First Americans LaunchPad
- Reflections on Archaic Hunters and Gatherers LaunchPad
- Reflections on Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms LaunchPad
- Reflections on Native Americans in the 1490s LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture
- Reflections on Europe in the Age of Exploration LaunchPad
- Reflections on A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic LaunchPad
- Reflections on Spanish Exploration and Conquest LaunchPad
- Reflections on The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe LaunchPad
- Reflections on An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay LaunchPad
- Reflections on A Tobacco Society LaunchPad
- Reflections on Toward a Slave Labor System LaunchPad
- Reflections on Puritans and the Settlement of New England LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Founding of the Middle Colonies LaunchPad
- Reflections on A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North America
- Reflections on The Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery LaunchPad
- Reflections on Unifying Experiences LaunchPad
Document 5-2: Poor Richard's Advice: Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's Speech from Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757 LaunchPad
Document 5-3: An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry: Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the Presbyterians, ca. 1768 LaunchPad
Document 5-4: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves: South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737-1745 LaunchPad
Document 5-5: A Moravian Missionary Interviews Slaves in the West Indies, 1767-1768: Christian George Andreas Oldendorp, History of the Evangelical Brethren's Mission on the Caribbean Islands, 1777 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 5 LaunchPadChapter 5 Summative Quiz LaunchPad6. THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE COLONIAL CRISIS, 1754–1775Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763French-British Rivalry in the Ohio CountryThe Albany CongressVISUALIZING HISTORY: "Cultural Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century Portraits"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPadThe War and Its ConsequencesPontiac’s Rebellion and the Proclamation of 1763
- Reflections on The Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763–1765 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767–1770 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770–1774 LaunchPad
- Reflections on Domestic Insurrections, 1774–1775 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Second Continental Congress LaunchPad
- Reflections on The First Year of War, 1775–1776 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Home Front LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Campaigns of 1777–1779: The North and West LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Confederation’s Problems LaunchPad
- Reflections on The United States Constitution LaunchPad
- Reflections on Ratification of the Constitution LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Search for Stability LaunchPad
- Reflections on Hamilton’s Economic Policies LaunchPad
- Reflections on Conflicts on America’s Borders and Beyond LaunchPad
- Reflections on Jefferson’s Presidency LaunchPad
- Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges in the West LaunchPad
- Reflections on Jefferson, the Madisons, and the War of 1812 LaunchPad
- Reflections on Monroe and Adams LaunchPad
Document 10-2: Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone: The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805 LaunchPad
Document 10-3: A Slave Demands That Thomas Jefferson Abolish Slavery: A Slave to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1808 LaunchPad
Document 10-4: James Forten Protests Pennsylvania Law Threatening Enslavement of Free African Americans: Letters from a Man of Colour, on a Late Bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania, 1813 LaunchPad
Document 10-5: James Hamilton's Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812: Confession, 1818 LaunchPad
COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPadQuiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 10 LaunchPadChapter 10 Summative Quiz LaunchPad11. THE EXPANDING REPUBLIC, 1815–1840Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPadThe Market RevolutionImprovements in TransportationFactories, Workingwomen, and Wage LaborDOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Mill Girls Stand Up to Factory Owners, 1834"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPadBankers and LawyersBooms and Busts
- Reflections on The Market Revolution LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Spread of Democracy LaunchPad
- Reflections on Jackson Defines the Democratic Party LaunchPad
- Reflections on Free Labor: Promise and Reality LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Westward Movement LaunchPad
- Reflections on Reforming Self and Society LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Growing Distinctiveness of the South LaunchPad
- Reflections on Masters and Mistresses in the Big House LaunchPad
- Reflections on Slaves in the Quarter LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Plain Folk LaunchPad
- Reflections on Black and Free: On the Middle Ground LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Politics of Slavery LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Bitter Fruits of War LaunchPad
- Reflections on Realignment of the Party System LaunchPad
- Reflections on Freedom under Siege LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Union Collapses LaunchPad
- Reflections on "And the War Came" LaunchPad
- Reflections on The Combatants LaunchPad
- Reflections on Battling It Out, 1861–1862 LaunchPad
- Reflections on The South at War LaunchPad
- Reflections on The North at War LaunchPad
- Reflections on Grinding Out Victory, 1863–1865 LaunchPad
- Reflections on Presidential Reconstruction LaunchPad
- Reflections on Congressional Reconstruction LaunchPad
- Reflections on Reconstruction Collapses LaunchPad
Chapter 16 Summative Quiz LaunchPad
APPENDICESI. Documents The Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United States Amendments to the Constitution with Annotations (including the six unratified amendments) II. Government and Demographics Presidential Elections Admission of States to the UnionPopulation Growth, 1630–2010 Major Trends in Immigration, 1820-2010 Glossary Selected Bibliography Acknowledgements Index U.S. Political/Geographic and World Maps About the Authors
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