Living American History: Our Nation's Past Through It's Documents

by Young, William D.; Clark, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780787272883
• ISBN10: 0787272884
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Pub Co

Table of Contents

Understanding Native America: Problems from the European Perspective	1	(26)
A Maidu Account of the Beginning of the World	3	(1)
The Iroquois Explain How the World Begins on a Turtle's Back	4	(4)
The Creation as Told in Genesis	8	(1)
Christopher Columbus: Excerpts from His Journal 1492	9	(3)
Father Paul LeJeune Describes the Matagnais Savages	12	(1)
Anonymous Jesuit Comparisons of French and Native Life, 1657--1658	12	(5)
A Dutch View of the Mohawk Indians of the New Netherlands	17	(2)
Captain John Smith Describes the Natural Inhabitants of Virginia	19	(2)
Thomas Morton Describes the Indians of New England in 1637	21	(3)
Chief Powhatan Addresses Captain John Smith in 1609	24	(3)
Discovering a Sense of Identity: The Puritans in Their Own Words	27	(24)
The Mayflower Compact by William Bradford, November 11, 1620	28	(1)
John Winthrop, ``A Modell of Christian Charity,'' 1630	29	(6)
Thomas Hooker, The Importance of Community, 1648	35	(1)
John Winthrop's Journal 1639 Speaks to Just and Fair Prices in the Community	36	(2)
Sumptuary Laws of Massachusetts, 1651	38	(1)
The Old Deluder Act, 1647	38	(1)
Crime, Punishment and Order in a Puritan Community, Suffolk County Court Records, 1671--1673	39	(2)
Proper Behavior in Puritan Massachusetts, 1675	41	(1)
Coping with Licentiousness and Unlicensed Trade	42	(2)
Threats to the Stability of Family, Church and Community: The Case of Anne Hutchinson	44	(7)
Land of Equality? Haves and Have-Nots in Colonial America	51	(22)
Richard Frethorne Describes Life as an Indentured Servant in Virginia 1623	53	(1)
Legal Rulings Regarding Indentured Servants in Virginia, 1640	54	(2)
Former Indentured Servant George Alsop Praises the System, Maryland, 1666	56	(2)
Advertisement to Sell Skilled Slaves in the Maryland Gazette, 1748--1763	58	(1)
Letter from Indentured Servant Elizabeth Sprigs, 1756	59	(1)
Job Johnson Praises Immigration to America, 1767	59	(1)
Gabriel Thomas Describes Conditions in Pennsylvania, 1698	60	(2)
Life among the Wealthy: William Byrd of Virginia, 1710--1711	62	(4)
Robert Parke Explains Why America Is Good for Free Men with Money, 1725	66	(1)
Dr. Alexander Hamilton Comments on His Travels in North America, 1744	67	(6)
The American Revolution: A Wicked and Evil War, or a Justifiable Defense of American Rights?	73	(36)
Reverend Jonathan Mayhew: Liberty in America	75	(1)
Samuel Seabury: An Anglican Minister's Perspective	76	(1)
``An Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre''	77	(4)
A Different View of the Massacre: Captain Thomas Preston's Official Account	81	(2)
Daniel Leonard ``Massachusettensis'' Denounces the Desire for Independence	83	(2)
John Adams ``Novanglus'' Responds to Massachusettensis	85	(2)
Thomas Paine Attacks the Sanctity of Royal Government: Common Sense, 1776	87	(4)
James Chalmers ``Candidus'': A Loyalist's Response to Paine	91	(4)
Grace Barcley ``A Patriot Wife in Occupied New York City''	95	(2)
Ann Hulton: Wartime Sufferings of a Loyalist Lady	97	(1)
Legislating an Attack on the Loyalists	98	(5)
``The American Times'' by Jonathan Odell, 1780	103	(1)
The Declaration of Independence	104	(5)
An Instrument of Tyranny or a Guarantee of Liberty? Debates on the Ratifying of the Constitution	109	(60)
David Redick: The Loss of American Liberty	112	(1)
William Findley: Concerns of an Officer of the Late Continental Army	113	(4)
Pennsylvania's Ratifying Convention Debates the Need for a Bill of Rights	117	(1)
``Giles Hickory'' Attacks the Opponents of the Constitution	118	(2)
Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention	120	(12)
Noah Webster Dismisses the Pennsylvania Minority	132	(4)
Letters from ``Brutus''	136	(5)
Patrick Henry Fears for the Republic	141	(2)
Another Founding Father Objects to the New Constitution	143	(2)
James Madison and Alexander Hamilton Write The Federalist #10, #51, #55, #70, #78	145	(13)
June 08, 1789 Proposed Amendments to the United States Constitution	158	(11)
West of the Appalachians: Stages of Settlement on the American Frontier	169	(42)
Tecumseh Speaks Out Against White Aggression and Wrong-Doings	171	(1)
Views of Recent Indian Hostilities	172	(1)
Black Hawk's Memory of Sauk Life and White Invasion	172	(7)
A Trip Down the Ohio River by Flatboat in 1803	179	(4)
An Englishman Describes the Northwestern Territories, 1818	183	(6)
An Alabama Settler Promotes Her Region, 1821	189	(1)
A New Englander Gives His Views of the Mississippi Valley, 1826	190	(2)
A Foreign Observer Judges the Promise of the West	192	(4)
Traveling to Illinois, 1836	196	(2)
A Closer Look at Two Frontier Towns in 1842 Illinois	198	(3)
The Proper Role of Women on the Frontier: Two points of View, 1846	201	(2)
Life on an 1851 Illinois Farm	203	(8)
``A Proper Role for Women'': The Debate over Women's Rights and Duties in the Antebellum United States	211	(26)
A Pastoral Letter from the Massachusetts Congregational Clergy, 1837	213	(1)
Sarah M. Grimke Responds to the Pastoral Letter, 1837	214	(3)
An Argument for the Domestic Sphere	217	(1)
A Southern Matron Promotes Deference and Self-Control for a Planter's Bride	218	(1)
Catherine Beecher Exalts the Middle-Class Home and a Woman's Role	219	(4)
Senator Daniel Webster Praises Women's Activities Outside of Politics	223	(2)
Nancy Cummings Johnson Speaks Out against Domestic Abuse, 1854	225	(1)
The Lily Comments on Women's Rights	226	(1)
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, 1848	227	(2)
The Presidential Address at the 1850 Worcester Women's Rights Convention	229	(3)
A Debate over Women's Rights and Duties in the New York Tribune, November 02, 1850	232	(5)
Two Perspectives on the Antebellum South and Slavery	237	(38)
Last Will and Testament of James Richey, Deceased	239	(1)
John C. Calhoun Pronounces Slavery a Positive Good	240	(2)
George Fitzhugh on the Failure of Free Society	242	(1)
A Southern Religious Defense of Slavery	243	(6)
Advice from the Editor on ``Managing Slaves''	249	(1)
Rules for a Louisiana Plantation	250	(2)
1824 Louisiana Slave Laws	252	(2)
Southern Slavery Indicted by Its Own Hand	254	(8)
A Slave's Testimony: Lewis Clark	262	(1)
A Slave's Testimony: Solmon Northup	263	(1)
A Slave's Testimony: William Brown	264	(3)
A Slave's Testimony: Rose Williams	267	(2)
A Slave's Testimony: Josiah Henson	269	(1)
Spirituals: Expressions of Present Life and Future Hope	270	(5)
``Lie, Cheat and Steal, but Come Back Victorious'': The Birth of Modern Political Parties	275	(38)
An Early Campaign Song: ``The Hunters of Kentucky''	278	(1)
An Anti-Adams Editorial in the New York Telegraph, May 04, 1827	279	(3)
Another Attack on John Quincy Adams in the Steubenville, Pennsylvania Leger, May 17, 1827	282	(1)
Duff Green Attacks President Adams Again, September 11, 1828	283	(2)
President Jackson Vetoes the Recharter of the 2nd Bank of the United States	285	(1)
President Jackson Protests the Censure Resolutions, 1834	286	(5)
James Fenimore Cooper Explains the Difference Between Aristocracy and Democracy	291	(2)
The Coffin Handbill	293	(1)
Denouncing the ``Spirit of Jacksonism''	294	(2)
A Rich Conservative Examines the Effects of Political Parties 1834--1837	296	(4)
Daniel Webster Explains ``Whig Principles and Purposes,'' 1840	300	(5)
Calvin Colton Explains the Promise of Whig Democracy for American Labor, 1840	305	(2)
Whigs Use History to Defend Their Record	307	(6)
Manifest Destiny and Mission: Grand Justifications and Ignoble Results	313	(28)
John L. O'Sullivan Proclaims Our Manifest Destiny, July 1845	316	(3)
Senator Thomas Hart Benton Explains the Mission of the Anglo-Saxon Race	319	(1)
President Polk Plans for War	320	(2)
President Polk's War Message to Congress	322	(3)
A Missouri Volunteer Justifies the War with Mexico	325	(2)
Commodore Robert F. Stockton Justifies the Conquest of California	327	(1)
A Mexican View of the United States' Manifest Destiny, 1848	328	(3)
A Mexican Citizen Condemns American Behavior in Mexico City	331	(1)
Another View from Mexico after the War	332	(2)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	334	(7)
Differing Ideas, Angry Words, and Violent Actions: The Causes of the United States' Civil War	341	(40)
Georgia Draws a Line in the Sand	343	(5)
A Southerner's Viewpoint of the Kansas Situation, 1856--1857	348	(2)
Pro-Slavery Newspaper Advocates Violence as the Solution	350	(1)
Another Pro-Slavery Newspaper Expresses Its Views	351	(1)
Border Ruffian or Kansas Ranger: A Southerner in Kansas, 1855--1856	351	(4)
Julia Louise Lovejoy Remembers 1850s Kansas	355	(9)
Southern Justice: The First Sack of Lawrence Remembered	364	(1)
Charles Sumner Denounces the ``Crime against Kansas''	365	(1)
Dred Scott v. Sanford: The Southern Majority on the Supreme Court Creates Legal History	366	(8)
The North Responds to the Dred Scott Decision	374	(1)
John Brown Explains His Actions to a Virginia Court and the Nation	375	(1)
South Carolina Secedes and Breaks Up the Union	376	(5)
``Why We Fight This Great War'': The Soldier's Views, North and South	381	(26)
Patriotic Sentiments from a Michigan Volunteer	383	(1)
A Recent Immigrant Fights in the Ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry	384	(1)
A Unionist from Missouri Speaks Out	385	(2)
Sullivan Ballou Expresses Love for Family and Nation	387	(2)
Sharing the Incommunicable Experience of War	389	(1)
A New Orleans Black Soldier Explains the War	390	(2)
The Meaning of the War from the 54th Massachusetts	392	(1)
An Early Southern View of the War	393	(1)
Why a Louisiana Man Fights Far from Home in Virginia	394	(1)
Cynicism Grows with the War: A Mississippi Veteran Speaks	395	(1)
Letters to North Carolina Talk about the War	396	(1)
The Inner Civil War in East Tennessee	397	(1)
The Southern Cause from a Writer's Eyes	398	(2)
Mounting Concerns for Confederate Soldiers	400	(7)
Reconstruction and Beyond: Old South, New South?	407	(1)
An Anonymous Journalist Describes the South in 1866	408	(6)
A Report from the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, June 20, 1866	414	(2)
The Louisiana Black Code, 1865	416	(1)
Petition from a Convention of Loyal African American Citizens, 1865	417	(1)
The Atlanta News Calls for Whites to Use Brute Force	418	(1)
Personal Accounts of Ku Klux Klan Attacks	419	(2)
General Alfred Terry Testifies about Race Relations in Georgia	421	(1)
Black Life during Reconstruction	422	(2)
Black Land Ownership and Sharecropping in the Postwar South	424	(1)
A Texas Shares Contract	425	(1)
Lynchings in the South	426	(3)
Booker T. Washington: The Atlanta Compromise	429