American Realities, Volume II

by Youngs, J. William T.

• ISBN13: 9780321157072
• ISBN10: 0321157079
• 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

From the First Settlements to the Civil War

Preface

The Native Americans

October 11, 1492

The First Euro-Americans

Norse Settlers in the New World

The English Background

A Puritan Death: John and Thomasine Winthrop

The British American

William Byrd in Two Worlds

Divided Loyalties

Jonathan Boucher and the Pre-Revolutionary Crisis

The American Revolution

1776: The Continental Army in the Year of Independence

Testing the Constitution

The Alien and Sedition Acts

Republican Nationalism

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy

The Cherokee Removal

Abolitionists and Antiabolitionists

William Lloyd Garrison and the Broadcloth Mob

The Texas Revolution

Lorenzo de Zavala, Patriot

Reform in the Early Republic

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848

Manifest Destiny

Down the Santa Fe Trail with Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847

A Slave's Story

Adb Rahman Ibrahima's Journey from Slavery to Freedom

The Civil War

Two Soldiers and Their Worlds

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