American Realities Historical Episodes: From the First Settlements to the Civil War

by Youngs, J. William T.; Moon, Cecily

• ISBN13: 9780321070944
• ISBN10: 0321070941
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Highly regarded for its excellent writing, American Realities, is a well-respected secondary source collection that uses a unique anecdotal style and focuses on the important people and events in our country's history. The book covers political, social, and cultural issues, events and individuals. MARKET Appropriate for anyone interested in American history. 7

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Native Americans	1	(16)
October 11, 1492
The First Euro-Americans	17	(20)
Norse Settlers in the New World
The English Background	37	(18)
A Puritan Death: John and Thomasine Winthrop
The British American	55	(20)
William Byrd in Two Worlds
Divided Loyalties	75	(18)
Jonathan Boucher and the Pre-Revolutionary Crisis
The American Revolution	93	(24)
1776: The Continental Army in the Year of Independence
Testing the Constitution	117	(18)
The Alien and Sedition Acts
Republican Nationalism	135	(22)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy	157	(22)
The Cherokee Removal
Abolitionists and Antiabolitionists	179	(20)
William Lloyd Garrison and the Broadcloth Mob
The Texas Revolution	199	(26)
Lorenzo de Zavala, Patriot
Reform in the Early Republic	225	(18)
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Manifest Destiny	243	(30)
Down the Santa Fe Trail with Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847
Plantation Life	273	(16)
The Ordeal of Slavery
The Civil War	289	(20)
Two Soldiers and Their Worlds
Index	309