A More Perfect Union Documents in U.S. History, Volume I: To 1877

by Boller, Paul F.; Story

• ISBN13: 9780618436835
• ISBN10: 0618436839
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-19
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This reader provides a wealth of political and diplomatic primary source documents, including many selections illustrated with photographs. Each document is preceded by a headnote that places the document within a historical context. Headnotes conclude with Questions to Consider, which stimulate comprehension of the document and provide comparative analysis of related selections. Volume I has been expanded to include several new selections such as poetry by Anne Bradstreet, a "Great Awakening" sermon by Jonathan Edwards, and a resolution by Boston journeymen carpenters. Additional coverage in Volume II highlights the Monroe Doctrine, labor rights and songs of labor organizations, Richard Nixon's impeachment, and responses to the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Table of Contents

Volume I

Planters and Puritans

Contact: Address to

First Privileges: The Virginia Ordinance of 1619

Pilgrims and Settlers: The Mayflower Compact, A Massachusetts Town Covenant

The Underside of Privilege: Virginia Slavery Legislation

Church Versus State: The Bloody Tenent of Persecution

The Hand of Empire: The Navigation Acts

A New England Woman: Two Poems

Breaking Away

Diversity and Abundance: Letter from Pennsylvania

Self-Improvement: The Junto Queries

A Right to Criticize: John Peter Zenger's Libel Trial

The Great Awakening: Heaven Is a World of Love

A Right to Privacy: No Writs of Assistance

Ideology and Agitation: The Crisis, Number One

A Republican Army: The Newburgh Address

Securing Liberty: The Federalist, Number Ten

Nationalists and Partisans

Church and State: An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom

Moving West: The Northwest Ordinances

An Industrial Vision: On Manufactures

Sedition or Dissent: The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

The Constitution Construed: Marbury v. Madison

The Sectional Specter: South Carolina Exposition and Protest

Politics and Democracy: Rotation in Office, Bank Veto Message

The Trail of Tears: Appeal of the Cherokee Nation

Empire: Annexation

The Age of Reform

Schooling for Women: Address to the New York Legislature

The Evangelical Impulse: The Remedy for Intemperance

Of Human Bondage: That Class of Americans Called Africans

The Struggles of Labor: Address to the General Trades' Union

Public or Private: Report on the Common Schools

Individualism: Self-Reliance

Balm for the Afflicted: Memorial on Asylums

Women's Rights: The Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848

The Antislavery Impulse: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Patriotism and Slavery: The Slave and the Fourth of July

Coming Apart

Race, Slavery, and the Constitution

Liberty and Union: The Republican Party Platform of 1860

Flight from Union: Mississippi Resolutions on Secession

Union Inviolate: First Inaugural Address

Anthems of War: Maryland My Maryland

Sinews of War: Message on Conscription

A Declaration of Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation

People's Government: The Gettysburg Address

Faces of War: Message to the Atlanta City Council

Binding Wounds: Second Inaugural Address

The Agony of Reconstruction

Klansmen of the Carolinas: Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction

A Kind of Unity: What the Centennial Ought to Accomplish

Aftermath: Address to the Louisville Convention

Reconstructing the Union

Unity: What the Centennial Ought to Accomplish

Monthly

Subjugation: Address to the Louisville Convention

Cheyenne Autumn: A Century of Dishonor

Catholicism in America: The Catholic Bishops on Parochial Education

Newcomers: How the Other Half Lives

From Another Shore: Congressional Report on Chinese Immigration

New South, Old South: A Red Record

Patriotism: The Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy; Lift Every Voice and Sing

Bearing Gifts: Russian Jews

Closing the Doors: Immigration Act of 1924

Industry, Expansion, and Reform

Production and Wealth: Triumphant Democracy

Labor's Vision: What Does the Working Man Want?

The Lure of the East: America's Destiny

The Woman Movement: Address to the Woman Suffrage Association, Carrie Chapman Catt

The Big Stick: Monroe Doctrine Corollary, Theodore Roosevelt

Industrial Blight: The Jungle

City Dangers, City Lights: The Spirit of Youth

The War for Democracy: Address to Congress

The Diplomacy of Isolation: Speech to the Senate

The Business of America: The Man Nobody Knows, Bruce Barton; A Sales Promotion Address

Crisis and Hope

American Earthquake: Women on the Breadlines

The Politics of Upheaval: First Inaugural Address

Need and Affliction: The Social Security Act

Organizing the Masses: Four Union Songs

The Rights of Labor: National Labor Relations

War Aims: The Four Freedoms

Shattering the Axis: A Fireside Chat

Destroyer of Worlds: Hiroshima, John Hersey

Protracted Conflict

Rebuilding Europe: Harvard Commencement Address

Seeing Reds: Lincoln Day Address

A Question of Command: Address on Korea and MacArthur

The Military-Industrial Complex: Farewell Address

The Defense of Freedom: Inaugural Address

Blank Check: Message on the Gulf of Tonkin

Agony in Asia: A Time to Break Silence

Movements for Change

Desegregation

Saving the Habitat: Silent Spring

Nonviolence and Protest: Letter from Birmingham Jail

Women's Liberation: The Feminine Mystique

The Right to Vote: The American Promise

A Turn to Militancy: Black Power

Life and Choice: Roe v. Wade

Crisis of the Presidency: Statement on the Impeachment of Richard Nixon

Modern Times

Business Unleashed: First Inaugural Address

The Evil Empire: Speech to the National Association of Evangelicals

Response to Terror: The Bush Strategic Doctrine

Gay Rights: Lawrence v. Texas

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