American Realities, Volume I

by Youngs, J. William T.

• ISBN13: 9780321157089
• ISBN10: 0321157087
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

American Realities, a best-selling collection of secondary sources, integrates the lives of Americans with their respective time periods, and depicts a diverse American experience that challenges the preconceived notions of students. This edition includes new scholarship and revised writing in existing chapters. The clarity of the author's unique, anecdotal writing style successfully engages students in an exploration of unique historical characters and significant events.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Native Americans
October 11, 1492	1	(18)
The First Euro-Americans
Norse Settlers in the New World	19	(20)
The English Background
A Puritan Death: John and Thomasine Winthrop	39	(18)
The British American
William Byrd in Two Worlds	57	(20)
Divided Loyalties
Jonathan Boucher and the Pre-Revolutionary Crisis	77	(20)
The American Revolution
1776: The Continental Army in the Year of Independence	97	(26)
Testing the Constitution
The Alien and Sedition Acts	123	(20)
Republican Nationalism
The Lewis and Clark Expedition	143	(22)
The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
The Cherokee Removal	165	(24)
Abolitionists and Antiabolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison and the Broadcloth Mob	189	(22)
The Texas Revolution
Lorenzo de Zavala, Patriot	211	(26)
Reform in the Early Republic
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848	237	(18)
Manifest Destiny
Down the Santa Fe Trail with Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847	255	(30)
A Slave's Story
Adb Rahman Ibrahima's Journey from Slavery to Freedom	285	(24)
The Civil War
Two Soldiers and Their Worlds	309	(22)
Credits	331	(2)
Index	333