Table of Contents
Preface for Instructors xv
Where to Begin xix
Chapter 1 The Collision of Cultures 1
From In Defense of the Indians (c. 1550) Bartolomé De Las Casas 3
From A Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590) Thomas Harriot John White 6
From Discourse (1609) John Smith Powhatan 7
From The Jesuit Relations (1640) Paul Le Jeune Jerome Lalemant 9
Chapter 2 England's Colonies 14
From The Generall Historie (1624) Captain John Smith 16
From An Indentured Servant's Letter Home (1623) Richard Frethorne 18
From Bacon's Manifesto (1676) Nathaniel Bacon 20
From General Observations and Model of Christian Charity (1629-30) John Winthrop 23
From The Massachusetts Bay Colony Case against Anne Hutchinson (1637) 26
From The Frame of Government and Laws Agreed upon in England (1682) William Penn 29
Chapter 3 Colonial Ways of Life 38
From A Captivity Narrative (1676) Mary Rowlandson 40
From Accounts of the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1693) Cotton Mather 45
From Articles of Belief (1728) Benjamin Franklin 48
From Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion (1743) Jonathan Edwards 51
From Letters from South Carolina (1740-42, 1760-61) Eliza Lucas Pinckney 57
From The Way to Wealth (1757) Benjamin Franklin 64
From The Itinerarium (1774) Alexander Hamilton 67
Newspapers Ads for Runaway Servants and Slaves (1733-72) 70
Chapter 4 From Colonies to States 77
The Government of Charles II From The Navigation Act of 1660 79
From The Second Treatise of Civil Government (1689) John Locke 80
The Albany Congress From The Albany Plan of Union (1754) 86
Stamp Act Congress From Declaration of Rights and Grievances of the Colonies (1765) 89
From Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767-68) John Dickinson 91
About the Boston Massacre (1770) Samuel Adams 94
From Common Sense (1776) Thomas Paine 97
Draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776) Thomas Jefferson 104
Chapter 5 The American Revolution, 1776-1783 109
From The American Crisis, Number 1 (1776) Thomas Paine 111
On the Death of General Wooster (1778) Phillis Wheatley 113
Petition to the Assembly of Pennsylvania against the Slave Trade (March 1780) Pennsylvania Citizens 115
From Massachusetts Bill of Rights (1780) 116
From Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty (1786) 120
From The Articles of Confederation (Ratified 1781) 122
From Family Letters on Revolutionary Matters (1776-83) Abigail John Adams 126
Chapter 6 Strengthening the New Nation 134
From A Proclamation of Shaysite Grievances (1786) Daniel Gray 136
About Shays's Rebellion (1786) George Washington 137
Constitutional Convention Debates on Slavery (1787) 139
Constitution of the United States (1787) 143
FROM Arguments against Ratification at the Virginia Convention (1788) Patrick Henry George Mason 151
The Federalist Papers, No. 45 (1788) James Madison 158
From Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) Thomas Jefferson 162
From Farewell Address (1796) George Washington 163
From Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) 168
From Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798 and 1799) 173
Chapter 7 The Early Republic, 1800-1815 179
From First Inaugural Address (1801) Thomas Jefferson 181
From Marbury v. Madison (1803) 183
Reflections on the Cession of Louisiana to the United States (1803) 190
From Journals of Exploration (1804-05) Meriwether Levis William Clark 192
From Free and Impressed Sailor (1804-12) James Durand 199
From Letter to Freeholders (1812) John Randolph of Roanoke 203
Chapter 8 The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815-1850 207
The Ohio (1830s) John James Audubon 209
From The Factory System of Yankeedoodledum (1845) William Schauler 212
From Letters Home to Germany (1849-50s) Anna Maria Klinger 217
From The Irish in America (1867) John Francis Maguire 219
From Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States (1835) Samuel F. B. Morse 224
Chapter 9 Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815-1828 231
From Report of Florida Expedition (1818) Andrew Jackson 233
From Observations on Jackson and the Spanish Florida
Situation (1818-19) John Quincy Adams 236
Reflections on the Missouri Question (1820 John Quincy Adams 240
From Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829) David Walker 244
From McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) 249
From the Monroe Doctrine (1823) James Monroe 255
On the Election, the Court, and Improvements (1823) Henry Clay 261
Chapter 10 The Jacksonian Era, 1828-1840 265
An Address to the Citizens of New-York (1831) Samuel Ennals Philip Bell 267
From South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification (1832) 270
From The President's Nullification Proclamation (1832) Andrew Jackson 272
From City of Washington… Indians (1830) Frances Trollope 278
From The Chiefs Annual Message (1831) John Ross 281
From Worcester v. Georgia (1832) 285
Interpreting Visual Sources: Picturing Development Versus Nature 290
Lockport-Erie Canal 292
View of the Railroad to Utica (taken at Little Falls) 293
Passenger Pigeon 294
American Bison 295
Progress 297
Chapter 11 The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800-1860 299
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1345) Frederick Douglass 301
Trials of Girlhood (late 1820s) Harriet A. Jacobs 303
From Propositions Defining Slavery and Emancipation (1833) Lydia Maria Child 306
From Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1833) William Lloyd Garrison 309
From The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists (1836) H. Manly, Publisher 312
From Prejudices against People of Color (1836) Lydia Maria Child 318
Chapter 12 Religion, Romanticism, and reform, 1800-1860 322
From Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835, with 1868 revisions) Charles Grandison Finney 325
From Walden (1854) Henry David Thoreau 328
From Moral and Religious Education (1848) Horace Mann 331
From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) Margaret Fuller 336
Woman's Rights From Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) 339
Convention, Seneca Falls Sojourner Truth From Address to the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (1851) 342
Chapter 13 Western Expansion, 1830-1848 344
New York Morning From Home Missionary Society (1840) 346
From A Pioneer Woman's Westward Journey (1849) Herald Catherine Haun 348
The Ohio Statesman FROM Oregon-Adjourned Meeting (1844) 353
From The President's War Message to Congress James K. Polk (1846) 358
From Speech about the Mexican War (1847) Henry Clay 362
Chapter 14 Te gathering Storm, 1848-1860 370
From The Fugitive Slave Law (1854) Ralph Waldo Emerson 373
The Democratic Party The Democratic Platform (1856) 378
The Republican Party The Republican Platform (1856) 382
From Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) 384
From The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) Abraham Lincoln Stephen Douglas 391
Hinton Rowan Helper From The Impending Crisis of the South (1857) 399
From South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession and Declaration of Independence (1860) 403
Speech upon Leaving the Senate (January 1861) Jefferson Davis 407
Chapter 15 The War of the Union, 1861-1865 411
From The Reasons for Our Troubles (1862) Frederick Douglass 413
From The Diary of a Union Soldier (1862) Elisa Hunt Rhodes 418
From Tracts for the Times. Courage! (1862) Mary Abigali Dodge 425
Gettysburg Address (1863) Abraham Lincoln 427
From Preface (1866) Jubal A. Early 428
Interpreting Visual Sources: Picturing the Civil War 433
Mathew Brady and Associates: Yorktown Fortifications (1862) 435
Antietam/Sharpsburg (1862) 436
Fredericksburg (1862-63) 438
Gettysburg (1863) 440
Freedman's Camp (1865) 442
Chapter 16 The ERA of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 443
The New York Times From The Late Convention of Colored Men (1865) 445
From Black Codes of Mississippi (1865) 446
From One Man Power Versus Congress (1866) Charles Sumner 450
From Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1868) 451
Klan Terrorism in South Carolina (1872) 453
From Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association (1867) Sojourner Truth 457