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American Spirit, Volume 1 : To 1877

by: Bailey

American Spirit, Volume 1 : To 1877

by: Bailey

ISBN 13:
9780395871003
ISBN 10:
039587100X
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/30/1997
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Presents the social and political history of the United States through contemporary source materials from the era of Reconstruction to the present day.

Preface

xxi

New World Beginnings, 33,000 B.C.---A.D.1769

(27)

The Native Americans

(5)

Visualizing the New World (1505, 1509)

(2)

Juan Gines de Sepulveda Belittles the Indians (1547)

(1)

Bartoleme de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552)

(2)

The Spanish in America

(11)

Hernan Cortes Conquers Mexico (1519--1526)

(3)

Aztec Chroniclers Describe the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1519)

(4)

Francisco Coronado Explores the American Southwest (1541)

(1)

Don Juan de Onate Conquers New Mexico (1599)

(3)

The African Slave Trade

(6)

Mungo Park Describes Slavers in the African Interior (c. 1790)

(2)

A Slave Is Taken to Barbados (c. 1750)

(4)

New Worlds for the Taking

(5)

John Cabot Voyages for England (1497)

(1)

Richard Hakluyt Calls for an Empire (1582)

(1)

An English Landlord Describes a Troubled England (1623)

(1)

Hakluyt Sees England's Salvation in America (1584)

(2)

The Planting of English America, 1500--1733

(10)

Precarious Beginnings in Virginia

(3)

The Starving Time (1609)

(1)

Governor William Berkeley Reports (1671)

(2)

The Mix of Cultures in English America

(4)

The Great Indian Uprising (1622)

(1)

A West Indian Planter Reflects on Slavery in Barbados (1673)

(2)

A Missionary Denounces the Treatment of the Indians in South Carolina (1708)

(1)

Religious Strife in Maryland

(3)

The Intolerant Act of Toleration (1649)

(1)

Persecutions of the Catholics (1656)

(2)

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619--1700

(23)

The Planting of Plymouth

(4)

The Pilgrims Leave Holland (1620)

(2)

Framing the Mayflower Compact (1620)

(1)

Abandoning Communism at Plymouth (1632)

(1)

Conformity in the Bay Colony

(7)

John Cotton Describes New England's ``Theocracy'' (1636)

(3)

Anne Hutchinson Is Banished (1637)

(1)

John Winthrop's Concept of Liberty (1645)

(1)

Puritan Mistreatment of Quakers (1660)

(2)

The Rule of Biblical Law

(1)

The Blue Laws of Connecticut (1672)

(1)

A Defense of Buying Indian Land (1722)

(1)

Indian-White Relations in Colonial New England: Three Views of King Philip's War

(8)

Mary Rowlandson Is Captured by Indians (1675)

(4)

Plymouth Officials Justify the War (1675)

(2)

A Rhode Island Quaker Sympathizes with the Indians (1675)

(2)

Founding the Middle Colonies

(3)

The Misrule of ``Peter the Headstrong'' (1650)

(1)

Early Settlers in Pennsylvania (1682)

(2)

American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607--1692

(21)

Indentured Servants in the Chesapeake Region

(9)

A Londoner Agrees to Provide a Servant (1654)

(1)

A Servant Describes His Fate (c. 1680)

(6)

A Servant Girl Pays the Wages of Sin (1656)

(1)

An Unruly Servant Is Punished (1679)

(1)

Bacon's Rebellion and Its Aftermath

(3)

The Baconite Grievances (1677)

(1)

The Governor Upholds the Law (1676)

(1)

Slavery Is Justified (1757)

(1)

Slavery in the Colonial Era

(3)

The Conscience of a Slave Trader (1694)

(1)

The Stono River Rebellion in South Carolina (1739)

(2)

Life Among New England's Puritans

(6)

Cotton Mather on the Education of His Children (1706)

(3)

A Dutchman Visits Harvard College (1680)

(1)

The Salem Witch Hysteria (1692)

(2)

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700--1775

(18)

The Colonial Melting Pot

(7)

Benjamin Franklin Analyzes the Population (1751)

(2)

Gottlieb Mittelberger Voyages to Pennsylvania (c. 1750)

(3)

Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur Discovers a New Man (c. 1770)

(1)

The Growth of the Colonial Population (1740--1780)

(1)

The Great Awakening

(4)

George Whitefield Fascinates Franklin (1739)

(2)

Jonathan Edwards Paints the Horrors of Hell (1741)

(2)

The Colonial Economy

(3)

The West Indian Connection (1766)

(1)

The Pattern of Colonial Commerce (1766)

(3)

The Shoots of Democracy

(4)

The Epochal Zenger Trial (1735)

(2)

Grevecoeur Finds a Perfect Society (c. 1770)

(2)

The Duel for North America, 1608--1763

100

(14)

The Development of New France

100

(5)

Father Isaac Jogues Endures Tortures (1642)

100

(3)

A Swede Depicts the Indian Trade (1749)

103

(2)

The French and Indian War

105

(5)

Benjamin Franklin Characterizes General Edward Braddock (1755)

105

(2)

A Frenchman Reports Braddock's Defeat (1755)

107

(1)

Francis Parkman Analyzes the Conflict (1884)

108

(2)

A New Restlessness

110

(4)

Andrew Burnaby Scoffs at Colonial Unity (1760)

110

(1)

A Lawyer Denounces Search Warrants (1761)

111

(3)

The Road to Revolution, 1763--1775

114

(21)

The Burden of Mercantilism

114

(3)

Virginia Resents Restrictions (1671)

114

(1)

Adam Smith's Balance Sheet (1776)

115

(2)

The Tempest over Texation

117

(4)

Benjamin Franklin Testifies Against the Stamp Act (1766)

117

(2)

Philadelphia Threatens Tea Men (1773)

119

(1)

Connecticut Decries the Boston Port Act (1774)

120

(1)

Britain at the Crossroads

121

(7)

Dean Josiah Tucker Advises a Divorce (1774)

121

(2)

Adam Smith Criticizes Empire (1776)

123

(1)

Samuel Johnson Urges the Iron Fist (1775)

124

(2)

Two Views of the British Empire (1767, 1775)

126

(2)

Loyalists Versus Patriots

128

(3)

Daniel Leonard Deplores Rebellion (1775)

128

(1)

Patrick Henry Demands Boldness (1775)

129

(1)

New Yorkers Abuse Tories (1775)

130

(1)

The Clash of Arms

131

(4)

Conflicting Versions of the Outbreak (1775)

131

(1)

Franklin Embittered by Bloodshed (1775)

132

(1)

Why an Old Soldier Fought (1898)

132

(3)

America Secedes from the Empire, 1775--1783

135

(17)

General Washington in Command

135

(3)

Washington Scorns Independence (1775)

135

(1)

Washington's Deep Discouragements (1775--1776)

136

(1)

The Unreliable Militia (1776)

137

(1)

The Formal Break with Britain

138

(6)

Thomas Paine Talks Common Sense (1776)

138

(2)

Richard Henry Lee's Resolution of Independence (1776)

140

(1)

Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1776)

141

(3)

The Abortive Slave Trade Indictment (1776)

144

(1)

Voices of Dissent

144

(3)

Lord Chatham Assails the War (1777)

144

(2)

Tories Fear French Catholics (1779)

146

(1)

A Civil War Within a Civil War

147

(5)

Pistols on the Pulpit (1775)

147

(1)

Vengeance on the Tories (1779)

148

(1)

The Hanging of a Loyalist (c. 1778)

149

(3)

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776--1790

152

(21)

The Shock of Shays's Rebellion

152

(3)

Daniel Gray Explains the Shaysites' Grievances (1786)

152

(1)

George Washington Expresses Alarm (1786)

153

(1)

Thomas Jefferson Favors Rebellion (1787)

154

(1)

Clashes in the Philadelphia Convention

155

(5)

The Debate on Representation in Congress (1787)

155

(1)

The Argument over Slave Importations (1787)

156

(2)

Singing for the Constitution (1787)

158

(2)

First Reactions to the Constitution

160

(5)

A Philadelphia Editor Is Expectant (1787)

160

(1)

Alexander Hamilton Scans the Future (1787)

161

(1)

George Mason Is Critical (1787)

162

(2)

Jefferson Is Unenthusiastic (1787)

164

(1)

The Ratification Debate in Massachusetts

165

(2)

A Delegate Fears for the Little People (1788)

165

(1)

A Storekeeper Blasts Standing Armies (1788)

165

(1)

A Farmer Favors the Constitution (1788)

166

(1)

The Ratification Debate in New York

167

(6)

An Anti-Federalist Demands Deliberation (1787)

167

(2)

James Madison Defends the New Constitution (1787)

169

(4)

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789--1800

173

(27)

Conflict in the Infant Republic

173

(6)

The Senate Snubs George Washington (1789)

173

(1)

Alexander Hamilton Versus Thomas Jefferson on Popular Rule (1780s--1820s)

174

(2)

The Clash over States' Rights (1780s--1820s)

176

(1)

The Spectrum of Disagreement (1780s--1820s)

177

(2)

State Debts and the National Bank

179

(5)

Jefferson Duped (?) by Hamilton (1790)

179

(2)

Hamilton Defends Assumption (1792)

181

(2)

Jefferson Versus Hamilton on the Bank (1791)

183

(1)

Overawing the Whiskey Boys

184

(2)

Hamilton Upholds Law Enforcement (1794)

184

(1)

Jefferson Deplores Undue Force (1794)

185

(1)

The Birth of a Neutrality Policy

186

(3)

The French Revolution: Conflicting Views (1790s)

186

(2)

A Jeffersonian Condemns Neutrality (1793)

188

(1)

The Controversial Jay Treaty

189

(2)

Virginians Oppose John Jay's Appointment (1794)

189

(1)

Hamilton Attacks Jay's Attackers (1795)

190

(1)

The Retirement of Washington

191

(4)

A President Bids Farewell (1796)

191

(2)

Editor Benjamin Franklin Bache Berates Washington (1797)

193

(1)

Editor William Cobbett Blasts Bache (1797)

194

(1)

The Alien and Sedition Hysteria

195

(5)

Timothy Pickering Upholds the Repressive Laws (1798)

195

(1)

The Virginia Legislature Protests (1798)

196

(1)

Rhode Island Rebuffs Virginia's Plea (1799)

197

(3)

The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800--1809

200

(19)

John Marshall and the Supreme Court

200

(5)

Marshall Sanctions the Bank (1819)

200

(2)

A Maryland Editor Dissents (1819)

202

(1)

Marshall Asserts the Supremacy of the Constitution (1803)

203

(2)

The Louisiana Purchase

205

(6)

Thomas Jefferson Alerts Robert Livingston (1802)

205

(1)

Jefferson Stretches the Constitution to Buy Louisiana (1803)

206

(1)

Representative Roger Griswold Is Unhappy (1803)

207

(1)

Senator John Breckinridge Supports the Purchase (1803)

208

(1)

Lewis and Clark Meet a Grizzly (1805)

209

(2)

The Issue of Sailors' Rights

211

(3)

A Briton (James Stephen) Recommends Firmness (1805)

211

(1)

A Briton (Basil Hall) Urges Discretion (1804)

212

(2)

The Resort to Economic Coercion

214

(5)

A Federalist (Philip Barton Key) Attacks the Embargo (1808)

214

(2)

A Jeffersonian (W. B. Giles) Upholds the Embargo (1808)

216

(3)

The Second War of Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812--1824

219

(24)

The Cauldron of War

219

(10)

Tecumseh Challenges William Henry Harrison (1810)

219

(1)

Representative Felix Grundy Demands War (1811)

220

(2)

Causes of the War (1812, 1813)

222

(2)

President James Madison's Fateful War Message (1812)

224

(2)

Federalist Congressmen Protest (1812)

226

(1)

The London Times Cries Vengeance (1814)

227

(1)

The London Times Bemoans Peace (1814)

228

(1)

Disloyalty in New England

229

(3)

A Boston Paper Obstructs the War (1813)

229

(1)

The Hartford Convention Fulminates (1814)

230

(1)

John Quincy Adams Reproaches the Hartfordites (1815)

231

(1)

The Missouri Statehood Controversy

232

(4)

Representative John Taylor Reviles Slavery (1819)

232

(2)

Representative Charles Pinckney Upholds Slavery (1820)

234

(2)

A Connecticut Antislavery Outcry (1820)

236

(1)

Launching the Monroe Doctrine

236

(7)

Thomas Jefferson Turns Pro-British (1823)

236

(2)

John Quincy Adams Rejects a Joint Declaration (1823)

238

(1)

James Monroe Warns the European Powers (1823)

239

(1)

A Baltimore Editor Exults (1824)

240

(1)

Prince Metternich Is Miffed (1824)

241

(2)

The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy, 1824--1830

243

(21)

Background of the New Democracy

243

(4)

A Disgusting Spirit of Equality (1807)

243

(1)

A Plea for Nonproperty Suffrage (1841)

244

(1)

Davy Crockett Advises Politicians (1836)

245

(2)

John Quincy Adams and the ``Corrupt Bargain''

247

(3)

Adams Confers with Henry Clay (1824--1825)

247

(2)

Clay Protests His Innocence (1825)

249

(1)

The Renewal of the Tariff Controversy

250

(3)

Representative James Strong Pleads for Wool (1828)

250

(1)

A Carolinian Condemns the Tariff (1828)

251

(2)

The New Spirit of Enterprise in Jacksonian America

253

(2)

Justice Joseph Story Defends the Rights of Contract (1837)

253

(1)

Chief Justice Roger B. Taney Supports ``Creative Destruction'' (1837)

254

(1)

The Debate on Internal Improvements

255

(5)

Jackson Vetoes the Maysville Road Bill (1830)

255

(3)

Clay Protests (1830)

258

(2)

The Webster-Hayne Debate

260

(4)

Senator Robert Hayne Advocates Nullification (1830)

260

(1)

Daniel Webster Pleads for the Union (1830)

261

(3)

Jacksonian Democracy at Flood Tide, 1830--1840

264

(20)

The Nullification Crisis

264

(4)

South Carolina Threatens Secession (1832)

264

(2)

Andrew Jackson Denounces Nullification (1832)

266

(1)

Jackson Fumes in Private (1832)

267

(1)

The War on the Bank

268

(4)

Jackson Vetoes the Bank Recharter (1832)

268

(2)

A Boston Journal Attacks Jackson (1832)

270

(1)

Cartooning the Banking Crisis (1833, 1837)

270

(2)

Transplanting the Tribes

272

(3)

Jackson Endorses the Indian Removal (1829)

272

(1)

Theodore Frelinghuysen Champions Justice (1830)

273

(2)

The Van Buren Era

275

(4)

Davy Crockett Caricatures Martin Van Buren (1835)

275

(1)

Philip Hone Welcomes a Change (1837)

276

(1)

Van Buren Opposes Handouts (1837)

276

(2)

Charles Dickens Dislikes Yankee ``Smartness'' (1842)

278

(1)

The Emergence of Mass Political Parties

279

(5)

James Fenimore Cooper Castigates Parties (1838)

279

(1)

Alexis de Tocqueville Defends Parties (1830s)

280

(4)

Forging the National Economy, 1790--1860

284

(25)

The Spread of the Factory

284

(7)

Wage Slavery in New England (1832)

284

(2)

The Abuse of Female Workers (1836)

286

(2)

The ``Utopian'' Lowell Looms (1844)

288

(1)

``Slavers'' for New England Girls (1846)

289

(1)

Disaster in a Massachusetts Mill (1860)

290

(1)

The Flocking of the Immigrants

291

(5)

An English Radical Praises America (1818)

291

(1)

The Coming of the Irish (1836)

292

(1)

The Burning of a Convent School (1834)

293

(1)

A Southerner Defends the Catholics (1854)

294

(2)

Mounting Labor Unrest

296

(5)

One-Sided Labor Contract (c. 1832)

296

(1)

Agitation for the Ten-Hour Day (1835)

297

(1)

The Tailors Strike in New York (1836)

298

(1)

Chattel Slavery Versus Wage Slavery (1840)

299

(1)

Regulations at the Lowell Mills (1830s)

300

(1)

Steamboats and Canals

301

(4)

The First ``Fire Canoe'' in the West (1811)

301

(2)

The Impact of the Erie Canal (1853)

303

(1)

Steamboats Lose to the Railroads (c. 1857)

304

(1)

The Coming of the Iron Horse

305

(4)

A Canal Stockholder's Outburst (1830)

305

(1)

Railroads Link East and West (1849)

306

(3)

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790--1860

309

(38)

Religious Ferment

309

(5)

A Catholic Views Camp Meetings (c. 1801)

309

(2)

Joseph Smith Has a Vision (1820)

311

(3)

Social and Humanitarian Reformers

314

(6)

William Ellery Channing Preaches Reformism (c. 1831)

314

(2)

Dorothea Dix Succors the Insane (1843)

316

(1)

T. S. Arthur's Ten Nights in a Barroom (1854)

317

(2)

Dr. William Morton Administers Ether (1846)

319

(1)

The Changing Role of Women

320

(9)

The Seneca Falls Manifesto (1848)

320

(4)

New Yorkers Ridicule Feminists (1856)

324

(1)

Lucy Stone Protests Traditional Marriage (1855)

324

(2)

Orestes Brownson Explores the Woman Question (1869)

326

(1)

The Beecher Sisters Defend the Home (1869)

327

(2)

Transcendentalism and Earthly Utopias

329

(6)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Chides the Reformers (1844)

329

(2)

The ``Paradise'' at Brook Farm (c. 1846)

331

(1)

Henry David Thoreau Praises Spiritual Wealth (1854)

332

(2)

Emersonisms and Thoreauisms

334

(1)

Three Views of the Indians

335

(12)

Alexis de Tocqueville Predicts the Indians' Future (1835)

335

(4)

George Catlin Dreams of a National Park to Preserve the Indian Way of Life (1832)

339

(2)

John James Audubon Is Pessimistic About the Indians' Fate (1843)

341

(6)

The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793--1860

347

(29)

The Face of Slavery

347

(11)

A Slave Boy Learns a Lesson (c. 1827)

347

(1)

A Former Slave Exposes Slavery (1850)

348

(2)

Human Cattle for Sale (c. 1850)

350

(1)

Cohabitation in the Cabins (c. 1834)

351

(1)

From Slavery to Freedom (1835)

352

(2)

A Slave Woman's Tale (1930s)

354

(3)

The Sundering of Families (1874)

357

(1)

The White Southern View of Slavery

358

(6)

William Harper's Apology (1837)

358

(2)

The ``Blessings'' of the Slave (1849)

360

(2)

Slaves Don't Strike (1846)

362

(1)

Comparing Slave Labor and Wage Labor (1850)

362

(2)

The Abolitionist Crusade

364

(5)

William Lloyd Garrison Launches The Liberator (1831)

364

(1)

Manifesto of the Anti-Slavery Society (1833)

365

(1)

Theodore Dwight Weld Pillories Slavery (1839)

366

(2)

Slavery and the Family (1840)

368

(1)

Judgements on the Abolitionists

369

(3)

Daniel Webster Is Critical (1850)

369

(1)

Abraham Lincoln Appraises Abolitionism (1854)

370

(1)

The Abolitionists Provoke War (1882)

371

(1)

The Rising White Southern Temper

372

(4)

Hinton Helper's Banned Book (1857)

372

(1)

The South Condemns Helperites (1859)

373

(1)

James Hammond Proclaims Cotton King (1858)

374

(2)

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841--1848

376

(20)

The Debate over Oregon

376

(6)

Senator George McDuffie Belittles Oregon (1843)

376

(2)

Senator Edward Hannegan Demands 54° 40' (1846)

378

(1)

Two Pioneers Describe Oregon (1847)

379

(2)

A British View of the Oregon Controversy (1846)

381

(1)

Provoking War with Mexico

382

(6)

Charles Sumner Assails the Texas Grab (1847)

382

(1)

President James Polk Justifies the Texas Coup (1845)

383

(2)

The Cabinet Debates War (1846)

385

(2)

The President Blames Mexico (1846)

387

(1)

A British View of the Mexican War (1847)

388

(1)

Opposition to the War

388

(3)

Massachusetts Voices Condemnation (1847)

388

(2)

Abolitionists Libel General Zachary Taylor (1848)

390

(1)

Peace with Mexico

391

(5)

Polk Submists the Trist Treaty (1848)

391

(1)

A Whig Journal Accepts the Pact (1848)

392

(1)

Democrats Hail a Glorious Achievement (1848)

393

(1)

Mexico Remembers the Despoilers (1935)

394

(2)

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848--1854

396

(17)

The Wilmot Proviso Issue

396

(3)

David Wilmot Appeals for Free Soil (1847)

396

(2)

Southerners Threaten Secession (1849)

398

(1)

The Compromise Debates of 1850

399

(4)

John Calhoun Demands Southern Rights (1850)

399

(2)

Daniel Webster Urges Concessions (1850)

401

(1)

Free-Soilers Denounce Webster (1850)

402

(1)

Reactions to the Fugitive Slave Law

403

(4)

Joshua Giddings Rejects Slave Catching (1850)

403

(2)

Robert Rhett Resents a Hoax (1851)

405

(1)

The South Threatens Retaliation (1855)

406

(1)

The Debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Bill

407

(6)

Stephen Douglas's Popular-Sovereignty Plea (1854)

407

(1)

Salmon Chase Upholds Free Soil (1854)

408

(1)

Northwestern Support for Douglas (1854)

409

(1)

The South Is Lukewarm (1854)

410

(3)

Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854--1861

413

(20)

The Impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin

413

(5)

Tom Defies Simon Legree (1852)

413

(2)

The South Scorns Mrs. Stowe (1852)

415

(1)

Mrs. Stowe Inflames the Southern Imagination (1853)

416

(1)

The London Times Demurs (1852)

417

(1)

Bleeding Kansas and ``Bully'' Brooks

418

(3)

Charles Sumner Assails the Slavocracy (1856)

418

(2)

The South Justifies Yankee-Beaters (1856)

420

(1)

The Delicate Balance (1856)

421

(1)

The Dred Scott Decision

421

(3)

The Pro-Southern Court Speaks (1857)

421

(1)

A Virginia Newspaper Gloats (1857)

422

(1)

The North Breathes Defiance (1857)

423

(1)

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

424

(2)

Stephen Douglas Opposes Black Citizenship (1858)

424

(1)

Abraham Lincoln Denies Black Equality (1858)

425

(1)

John Brown at Harpers Ferry

426

(4)

The Richmond Enquirer Is Outraged (1859)

426

(1)

Governor J. A. Wise Refuses Clemency (1859)

427

(1)

Horace Greeley Hails a Martyr (1859)

428

(1)

Lincoln Disowns Brown (1860)

429

(1)

The Presidential Campaign of 1860

430

(3)

Fire-Eaters Urge Secession (1860)

430

(1)

The North Resents Threats (1860)

431

(2)

Girding for War: The North and the South, 1861--1865

433

(19)

Lincoln and the Secession Crisis

433

(4)

A Marylander Rejects Disunion (1861)

433

(1)

Fort Sumter Inflames the North (1861)

434

(1)

Fort Sumter Inspirits the South (1861)

435

(2)

Framing a New Government

437

(1)

Alexander Hamilton Stephen's Cornerstone Speech (1861)

437

(1)

The New York Times Dissents (1861)

437

(1)

British Involvement

438

(4)

The London Times Breathes Easier (1862)

438

(1)

Britons Hail Democracy's Collapse (1862)

439

(1)

Southern Resentment Against England (1862)

440

(1)

A Northerner Lambastes Britain (1863)

441

(1)

Graft and Shortages North and South

442

(3)

Shoddy Wool in Yankeeland (1861--1865)

442

(1)

Chiselers in the South (1862--1863)

443

(1)

The Pinch of the Blockade (1861--1865)

444

(1)

Civil Liberties North and South

445

(4)

Clement Vallandigham Flays Despotism (1863)

445

(2)

William Brownlow Scolds the Secessionists (1861)

447

(1)

A North Carolinian Is Defiant (1863)

448

(1)

Abraham Lincoln Defines the Purposes of the War

449

(3)

The War to Preserve the Union (1863)

449

(1)

The War to End Slavery (1865)

449

(3)

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861--1865

452

(33)

Northern War Aims

452

(6)

Congress Voices Its Views (1861)

452

(1)

Abolitionists View the War (1863)

453

(4)

Abraham Lincoln Answers Horace Greelay's Prayer (1862)

457

(1)

Lincoln and His Generals

458

(3)

George McClellan Snubs the President (1861)

458

(1)

McClellan Upbraids His Superior (1862)

459

(1)

Lincoln Warns General Joseph Hooker (1863)

460

(1)

The Proclaiming of Emancipation

461

(6)

Lincoln Expresses Misgivings (1862)

461

(2)

Jefferson Davis Deplores Emancipation (1863)

463

(1)

Border States Are Alarmed (1862)

464

(1)

Racist Anxieties (1864)

465

(1)

Lincoln's Home Town Applauds (1862)

466

(1)

The Emancipation Proclamation in England

467

(2)

Blackwood's Blasts Servile War (1862)

467

(1)

English Working Classes Cheer (1863)

468

(1)

The Uncivil War

469

(12)

A Report from Antietam (1862)

469

(1)

The Hall of Andersonville Prison (1864)

470

(3)

General William Sherman Dooms Atlanta (1864)

473

(2)

Georgia Damns the Yankees (1864)

475

(1)

General Ulysses S. Grant Displys Generosity (1865)

476

(1)

An Abolitionist Officer Commands Black Troops (1869)

477

(4)

Lincoln's Reelection and Assassination

481

(4)

The South Bemoans Lincoln's Election (1864)

481

(1)

Davis Deplores Lincoln's Murder (1881)

482

(1)

The British Press Recants (1865)

483

(1)

A Kentucky Editor Laments (1865)

483

(2)

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865--1877

485

The Status of the South

485

(6)

Carl Schurz Reports Southern Defiance (1865)

485

(2)

General Ulysses S. Grant Is Optimistic (1865)

487

(1)

The Former Slaves Confront Freedom (1901)

488

(3)

Emancipation Violence in Texas (c. 1865)

491

(1)

The Debate on Reconstruction Policy

491

(8)

Southern Blacks Ask for Help (1865)

491

(1)

The White South Asks for Unconditional Reintegration into the Union (1866)

492

(2)

The Radical Republicans Take a Hard Line (1866)

494

(1)

President Andrew Johnson Tries to Restrain Congress (1867)

495

(3)

The Controversy over the Fifteenth Amendment (1866, 1870)

498

(1)

Impeaching the President

499

(3)

Johnson's Cleveland Speech (1866)

499

(2)

Senator Lyman Trumbull Defends Johnson (1868)

501

(1)

``Black Reconstruction''

502

(6)

Thaddeus Stevens Demands Black Suffrage (1867)

502

(1)

Black and White Legislatures (c. 1876)

503

(2)

W. E. B. Du Bois Justifies Black Legislators (1910)

505

(1)

Benjamin Tillman's Antiblack Tirade (1907)

506

(2)

The Ku Klux Klan's Reign of Terror

508

(8)

Alfred Richardson Testifies about Reconstruction-Era Georgia (1871)

508

(3)

Maria Carter Describes an Encounter with the Klan (1871)

511

(3)

Henry Lowther Falls Victim to the Klan (1871)

514

(2)

The Legacy of Reconstruction

516

Editor E. L. Godkin Grieves (1871)

516

(1)

Frederick Douglass Complains (1882)

517

(2)

Booker T. Washington Reflects (1901)

519

Constitution of the United States

(1)

Index

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