Documents Collection: America*s History to 1877

by Matson, Cathy; Alexander, John K.; Gerteis, Louis S.

• ISBN13: 9781572592230
• ISBN10: 1572592230
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins

Table of Contents

Preface	v
PART 1 The Creation of American Society, 1450--1775
Worlds Collide: Europe and America, 1450--1630	1	(20)
Native American Worlds	1	(8)
Indian and Non-Indian Population Charts, 1492--1980	2	(1)
Diaz del Castillo's Discovery and Conquest of Mexico	3	(2)
Myths of Creation	5	(2)
Charlevoix's Account of Huron Society	7	(2)
Traditional European Society in 1450 and Europe and the World, 1450--l550	9	(5)
Raoul Glaber's Account of Famine	10	(1)
Prince Henry of Portugal	11	(1)
Columbus's Landfall	12	(2)
The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of England, 1500--1630	14	(7)
Objections against Enclosure (1548)	15	(1)
The Separatists State Their Case	16	(2)
Richard Hakluyt Promotes Colonization	18	(3)
Invasion and Settlement, 1565--1675	21	(18)
Spanish, French, and Dutch Goals	21	(3)
A Franciscan Monk Refutes Las Casas (1555)	21	(1)
The Dutch Buy Manhattan Island (1624)	22	(2)
Social Conflict in the Chesapeake	24	(6)
``A True Relation of...Virginia'' (1608)	24	(2)
John Smith
Check List for Virginia-Bound Colonists (1624)	26	(2)
John Smith
Nathaniel Bacon's ``Manifesto'' (1676)	28	(2)
Puritan New England and The Indians' New World	30	(9)
The Examination of Anne Hutchinson (1637)	31	(1)
The Mayflower Compact (1620)	32	(1)
Seal of the Massachusetts Bay Company (1629)	33	(1)
Metacom's War: A Puritan Explanation (1675)	34	(5)
The British Empire in America, 1660--1750	39	(16)
The Politics of Empire, 1660--1713	39	(4)
Preface to the Frame of Government for Pennsylvania (1682)	40	(1)
William Penn
The Navigation Act of 1660	41	(1)
The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts (1689)	42	(1)
The Imperial Slave Economy	43	(7)
An African Prince Sold into Slavery	44	(1)
Slavery and Prejudice: ``An Act for the Better Order and Government of Negroes and Slaves,'' South Carolina (1712)	45	(2)
Early Protests against Slavery: The Mennonites (1688)	47	(1)
Conflicts between Masters and Slaves: Maryland in the Mid-Seventeenth Century	48	(1)
Desire for Freedom: Poems by Phillis Wheatley	49	(1)
The New Politics of Empire, 1713--1750	50	(5)
Increasing Liberties: The Case of Pennsylvania (1701)	51	(1)
The Necessity of the West Indies Trade (1732)	52	(3)
Growth and Crisis in American Society, 1720--1765	55	(14)
Freehold Society in New England and The Mid-Atlantic: Toward a New Society, 1720--1765	55	(5)
A New Hampshire Will (1763)	56	(1)
The Obligations of a Wife (1712)	57	(1)
Esther Edwards Burr, Letter on the Birth of Her Son (March 26, 1756)	58	(1)
A Description of Philadelphia (1748)	58	(1)
Class Structure in New York (1765)	59	(1)
The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1740--1765	60	(4)
The American Enlightenment (Benjamin Franklin, 1749)	61	(1)
The Great Awakening in Charles Town, South Carolina (1740)	62	(1)
Reaction against the Great Awakening (1742)	63	(1)
The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Land	64	(5)
George Washington's Report to Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia on the Defeat of General Braddock (1755)	65	(1)
Protests on the Frontier	66	(3)
Toward Independence: Years of Decision, 1763--1775	69	(24)
The Reform Movement, 1763--1765, and The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765--1766	69	(9)
Jared Ingersoll's Report on the Debates in Parliament	70	(3)
Thomas Hutchinson's Account of a Crowd Action (1765)	73	(1)
New York Merchant Boycott Agreement (1765)	74	(1)
Norfolk Sons of Liberty Pronouncement (1766)	75	(1)
``Declarations'' of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)	76	(2)
The Growing Confrontation, 1767--1770	78	(7)
John Dickinson's Letter VII from ``A Farmer''	79	(1)
The Boycott Agreements of Women in Boston (1770)	80	(1)
Peter Oliver's ``Origin & Progress of the American Rebellion''	81	(2)
Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the ``Boston Massacre''	83	(2)
The Road to War, 1771--1775	85	(8)
George Robert Twelve Hewes's Account of the Boston Tea Party of 1773	86	(1)
The Edenton, North Carolina, Boycott Agreement (1774)	87	(1)
Joseph Galloway's Plan of Union (1774)	88	(2)
The Continental Congress Creates the Association (1774)	90	(3)
PART 2 The New Republic, 1775--1820
War and Revolution, 1775--1783	93	(28)
Toward Independence, 1775--1776	93	(6)
Gouverneur Morris on the ``Poor Reptiles'' (1774)	94	(1)
The Dangers of Race War within a War for Independence (December 1775)	95	(1)
Common Sense (1776)	96	(2)
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson Attacks the King on the Issue of Slavery (1776)	98	(1)
The Perils of War and Finance, 1776--1778, and The Path to Victory, 1778--1783	99	(16)
Number I of, ``The American Crisis'' (December 1776)	100	(2)
Thomas Paine
A Loyal Englishman Assesses the Importance of the American Victory at Trenton (1776--1777)	102	(1)
Sarah Osborn's Account of Life with the Army	103	(3)
Jacob Francis's Account of His War Service	106	(2)
John Struthers's Account of War on the Frontier	108	(2)
Charles Herbert's Prisoner of War Diary	110	(2)
Ebenezer Denny Describes the Victory at Yorktown (1781)	112	(3)
Republicanism Defined and Challenged	115	(6)
Boston Women Support Price Control (1777)	116	(1)
Philadelphia Militiamen Seek to Protect Their Rights (1779)	117	(1)
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1786)	118	(3)
The New Political Order 1776--1800	121	(26)
Creating New Institutions, 1776--1787	121	(6)
The Concord Town Meeting's Observations on Constitution Making (1776)	122	(1)
The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)	123	(1)
Abigail and John Adams Debate the Rights of Women (1776)	124	(2)
Pachgantschihilas Warns about ``The Long Knives'' (1781)	126	(1)
The Constitution of 1787	127	(10)
Elbridge Gerry Warns the Delegates about Leveling (1787)	128	(1)
Benjamin Franklin on Compromise and the Future (1787)	129	(1)
The Federalist, No. 10 (1787)	130	(4)
James Madison
Virginia Proposes Amendments to the Constitution (1788)	134	(3)
The Political Crisis of the 1790s	137	(10)
Alexander Hamilton's Report on Public Credit (1790)	138	(2)
George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)	140	(2)
The Sedition Act (1798)	142	(1)
Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801)	143	(4)
Toward a Continental Nation, 1790--1820	147	(18)
Western Expansion	147	(4)
Thomas Jefferson, Message to Congress (January 18, 1803)	148	(1)
From Albany, New York, to Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1815	149	(1)
Congressional Resolution on Western Lands (1800)	150	(1)
Republican Policy and Diplomacy	151	(7)
Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1805)	152	(1)
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804--1806)	153	(2)
William Henry Harrison, Speech to Tecumseh and the Prophet (1811) and Report to the Secretary of War (1814)	155	(1)
``The Hunters of Kentucky''	156	(2)
Regional Diversity and National Identity	158	(7)
The Benefits of Slavery in Missouri	159	(1)
Life on a South Carolina Cotton and Rice Plantation	160	(2)
``Eagle Map of the United States''	162	(3)
Toward a Capitalist Protestant Nation, 1790--1820	165	(16)
Political Economy: The Capitalist Commonwealth	165	(6)
Cotton Cultivation and Textile Factories	166	(2)
John C. Calhoun's Speech on the Tariff Bill (April 4, 1816)	168	(1)
John Marshall's Decision in Fletcher v. Peck (1810)	169	(1)
Argument for the Plaintiff in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1818)	170	(1)
Daniel Webster
Visions of a Republican Social Order	171	(4)
Martin Van Buren against Unrestricted Male Suffrage (1821)	172	(1)
Lydia Maria Child, The Mother's Book	173	(1)
Mercy Otis Warren and the Writing of American History (1805)	174	(1)
Protestant Christianity and Women's Lives	175	(6)
The Formation of the American Home Missionary Society (1826)	176	(1)
Ezra Stiles Ely, The Duty of Christian Freemen to Elect Christian Rulers (1828)	177	(2)
The Education of Republican Women	179	(2)
PART 3 Early Industrialization and the Sectional Crisis, 1820--1877
The Industrial Revolution, 1820--1840	181	(22)
The Rise of Northeastern Manufacturing	181	(8)
A Textile Manufacturer Discusses His Enterprise (1832)	182	(2)
A Mill Worker Describes Her Work and Life (1844)	184	(2)
Harriet Martineau on ``Morals of Manufactures'' (1837)	186	(2)
The Educational Purpose of the Franklin Institute (1826)	188	(1)
The Expansion of Markets	189	(7)
Typical Section of a Power Train	190	(2)
From New Jersey to Illinois by Covered Wagon (1847)	192	(2)
A Railroad Journey South from Philadelphia in 1838	194	(2)
Social Structure in an Industrializing Society	196	(7)
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1818)	197	(1)
Charles Grandison Finney Experiences Conversion (1821)	198	(2)
The Beginning of the Temperance Movement (1812)	200	(3)
A Democratic Revolution, 1820--1844	203	(18)
Democratizing Politics, 1820--1829	203	(5)
James Kent Argues against Universal Suffrage (1821)	204	(1)
Speech on the Tariff (March 30--31, 1824)	205	(2)
Henry Clay
The Beginnings of Grass Roots Democracy (1830)	207	(1)
The Jacksonian Presidency, 1820--1837	208	(1)
Bank Veto Message (1832)	208	(2)
Andrew Jackson
Opposition to Banks and Monopoly (c. 1832)	210	(1)
Texas Declares Its Independence	211	(1)
The Early Labor Movement, 1794--1836, and Democrats and Whigs: The Second Party System, 1836--1844	2l2	(221)
Address to the Working Men of New England (1832)	213	(1)
Seth Luther
Acquittal of Cordwainers of Hudson, New York, in People v. Cooper (1836)	214	(1)
``Set-To between the Champion Old Tip and the Swell Dutchman of Kinderhook'' (1836)	215	(3)
Protecting ``Domestic Industry'' (1842)	218	(3)
Freedom's Crusaders, 1820--1860	221	(16)
Transcendentalists and Utopians	221	(6)
Walden (1854)	222	(1)
Henry David Thoreau
The Blithedale Romance (1852)	223	(1)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Shakers	224	(1)
Male Continence (1872)	225	(2)
John Humphrey Noyes
The Women's Movement	227	(4)
Breaking Out of Women's ``Separate Sphere'' (1838)	227	(1)
Margaret Fuller Meets George Sand	228	(2)
``Declarations of Sentiments'' and Resolutions (1848)	230	(1)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Antislavery Movement, to 1844	231	(6)
``Commencement of The Liberator'' (1831)	231	(1)
William Lloyd Garrison
Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery as It Is (1839)	232	(5)
Sections and Sectionalism, 1840--1860	237	(22)
The Slave South: A Distinctive Society	237	(9)
Slave Management on a Mississippi Plantation (1852)	238	(2)
In Defense of Slavery (1831)	240	(1)
Memories of a Slave Childhood	241	(1)
Slavery as It Exists in America; Slavery as It Exists in England (1850)	242	(3)
The Enslavement of Solomon Northup (1841)	245	(1)
The Northeast and Midwest: The Industrial Revolution Accelerates	246	(6)
A German Immigrant in Philadelphia (1855)	247	(1)
The American (``Know-Nothing'') Party Platform (1856)	248	(1)
Democracy, Social Change, and the Schools (1848)	249	(2)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)	251	(1)
Conflict over the Trans-Mississippi West, 1844--1846	252	(7)
The American Secretary of State Defends Slavery to the British Minister in Washington (1844)	253	(1)
Texas and Politics	254	(5)
Disrupting the Union, 1846--1860	259	(20)
The Mexican War and Its Aftermath, 1846--1850	259	(6)
James Polk Decides for War (1846)	260	(2)
Ulysses S. Grant Commands Troops in Mexican War (1847)	262	(2)
Salmon P. Chase Defines the Constitutional Limits of Slavery (1850)	264	(1)
Sectional Strife and the Third Party System, 1850--1858	265	(9)
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850	266	(1)
John Greenleaf Whittier, ``A Sabbath Scene'' (1850)	267	(2)
The Rescue of a Slave	269	(1)
Charles Summer, ``The Crime against Kansas'' (1856)	270	(2)
The Dred Scott Decision	272	(2)
Abraham Lincoln and the Breaking of Union, 1858--1860	274	(5)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)	275	(2)
The Trial of John Brown	277	(2)
Two Societies at War 1861--1865	279	(18)
Choosing Sides, 1861, and War Machines, North and South	279	(7)
Alexander Stephens's ``Cornerstone'' Speech (March 1861)	280	(1)
The Crisis at Fort Sumter (April 1861)	281	(2)
The New York City Draft Riots (July 1863)	283	(1)
The Work of the United States Sanitary Commission (1864)	284	(2)
Military Deadlock, 1861--1863	286	(6)
A British Reporter Witnesses the First Battle of Bull Run (July 1861)	287	(1)
A Northern Black Woman Teaches Contrabands in South Carolina	288	(2)
A Soldier's Letter to His Wife (1862)	290	(1)
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)	291	(1)
The Union Victorious, 1864--1865	292	(5)
Black Soldiers in Missouri Bring Families to Freedom (May 1864)	293	(1)
Second Inaugural Address (1865)	294	(3)
Abraham Lincoln
The Union Reconstructed, 1865--1877	297	(1)
Presidential Restoration	297	(1)
Andrew Johnson's Plan of Reconstruction (1865)	298	(1)
Report on Conditions in the South (1865)	299	(5)
Carl Schurz
The Mississippi Black Codes (1865)	304	(2)
The Civil Rights Act of 1866	306	(2)
Radical Reconstruction	308	(1)
Thaddeus Stevens on Black Suffrage and Land Redistribution (1867)	308	(2)
The Rise and Fall of Northern Support for Reconstruction (1868, 1874)	310	(3)
``A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools'' (1879)	313	(1)
Albion W. Tourgee
Black Farm Owners in the South (1870--1910); Black Homeowners in the South (1870--1910)	314	(2)
The North during Reconstruction	316	(1)
``Republicanism vs. Grantism'' (1872)	317	(1)
Charles Sumner
Montgomery Blair on the Compromise of 1877	318