Out of Many Vol. 1 : A History of the American People, Media and Research Update:Documents in United States History

by Faragher, John Mack

• ISBN13: 9780131502581
• ISBN10: 0131502581
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-16
• Publisher: Pearson

Table of Contents

Part One MEETING OF THREE CULTURES
Marco Polo Recounts His Travels Through Asia (1324)	1	(1)
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain (1494)	2	(2)
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, ``Indians of the Rio Grande'' (1528-1536)	4	(1)
Jacques Cartier: First Contact with the Indians (1534)	5	(3)
Bartolome de Las Casas, ``Of the Island of Hispaniola'' (1542)	8	(1)
Thomas Mun, from England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)	9	(1)
Don Juan de Onate, Plaus: A Settlement in New Mexico (1599)	10	(4)
The Founding of St. Augustine, 1565	14	(3)
The Columbian Exchange (1590)	17	(3)
Thomas Harriot, The Algonquian Peoples of the Atlantic Coast (1588)	20	(4)
Jose de Acosta, A Spanish Priest Speculates on the Origins of the Indians (1590)	24	(5)
Part Two COLONIZING THE NEW WORLD
John White, The Lost Colony (1590)	29	(7)
Samuel de Champlain's Battle With the Iroquois, July 1609	36	(3)
An Act Concerning Servants and Slaves	39	(5)
Reasons for the Plantation in New England (1629)	44	(4)
John Winthrop, ``A Model of Christian Charity'' (1630)	48	(1)
The Taking of the Fort at Mystic: A Brief History of the Pequot Wark	49	(3)
The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1638)	52	(5)
A Jesuit Priest Describes New Amsterdam (1642)	57	(2)
George Alsop, The Importance of Tobacco (1660)	59	(1)
The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem Village (1692)	60	(1)
Onandogas and Cayugas: Iroquois Chiefs Address the Governors of New York and Virginia (1684)	60	(2)
James Oglethorpe: The Stono Rebellion (1739)	62	(2)
Gottlieb Mittelberger, The Passage of Indentured Servants (1750)	64	(2)
Part Three COLONIAL AMERICA (A MATURING COLONIAL SOCIETY IN THE LATE 1600S AND 1700S)
Navigation Act of September 13, 1660	66	(2)
Nathaniel Bacon's Challenge to William Berkeley and the Governor's Response (1676)	68	(2)
Early French Explorations of the Mississippi River (1673)	70	(3)
Edward Randolph Describes King Philip's War (1685)	73	(1)
Excerpt from Cotton Mather's ``Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions'' (1689)	74	(2)
William Penn's Charter of Privileges (1701)	76	(3)
William Byrd II, Diary (1709)	79	(1)
Manners and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century	80	(4)
``The Storm Arising in the West,'' George Washington Delivers a Warning to the French (1753)	84	(2)
The Closing of the Frontier (1763)	86	(5)
The Adventures of Daniel Boone (1769)	91	(2)
Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788)	93	(2)
Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788)	95	(2)
Part Four PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION
John Peter Zenger and the Responsibility of the Press (1734)	97	(1)
Declaration of the Injured Frontier Inhabitants [of Pennsylvania] (1764)	98	(2)
Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766)	100	(1)
``Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania'' (1767)	101	(2)
John Dickinson, from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1768)	103	(1)
The Boston ``Massacre'' or Victims of Circumstance? (1770)	104	(2)
John Andrews to William Barrell, Letter Regarding the Boston Tea Party (1773)	106	(2)
Address of the Inhabitants of Anson County to Governor Martin (1774)	108	(1)
J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur, ``What Is an American?'' (1782)	109	(2)
Part Five THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Benjamin Franklin, ``Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c.'' (1751)	111	(1)
James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1763)	112	(2)
The Crisis Comes to a Head: April 19, 1775	114	(4)
A Freelance Writer Urges His Readers To Use Common Sense (1776)	118	(3)
Abigail Adams and John Adams Letters; Abigail Adams Letter to Mercy Otis Warren (1776)	121	(2)
Petition of ``A Grate Number of Blackes of the Province'' to Governor Thomas Gage and the Members of the Massachusetts General Court (1774)	123	(1)
Joseph Warren, ``Account of the Battle of Lexington'' (1775)	123	(1)
Thomas Jefferson, ``Original Rough Draught'' of the Declaration of Independence (1776)	124	(2)
Rights of Women in an Independent Republic	126	(2)
The Rise of Partisan Warfare in the South (1778)	128	(4)
Part Six FORGING A CONSTITUTION
Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776)	132	(1)
A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1780)	133	(5)
George Washington, The Newburgh Address (1783)	138	(1)
Henry Knox, Letter to George Washington (1786)	139	(1)
Marquis de Chastellux, Travels in North America (1786)	140	(2)
Shays's Rebellion: Letters of Generals William Shepard and Benjamin Lincoln to Governor James Bowdoin of Massachusetts (1787)	142	(1)
Divergent Reactions to Shays's Rebellion	143	(2)
The ``Distracting Question'' in Philadelphia (1787)	145	(4)
Patrick Henry Speaks Against Ratification of the Constitution (1788)	149	(2)
Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1791)	151	(1)
James Wilson, An Introductory Lecture To a Course of Law Lectures (1791)	152	(2)
Molly Wallace, Valedictory Oration (1792)	154	(1)
Part Seven THE FEDERALIST ERA
James Madison Defends the Constitution (1788)	155	(2)
[William Maclay], ``For the Independent Gazetteer'' (1790)	157	(1)
Alexander Hamilton, Final Version of ``An Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank'' (1791)	157	(3)
Questions Concerning the Constitutionality of the National Bank (1791)	160	(3)
Opposing Visions for the New Nation (1791)	163	(3)
An African American Calls for an End to Slavery (1791)	166	(2)
Backcountry Turmoil Puts the New Government to the Test (1794)	168	(1)
George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)	169	(2)
The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)	171	(2)
Questions of Constitutionality and the Roots of Nullification (1798)	173	(2)
Reverend Peter Cartwright on Cane Ridge and the ``New Lights'' (1801)	175	(2)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)	177	(1)
Part Eight JEFFERSON AND THE REPUBLIC
``Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as Dictated to Charles Campbell by Isaac'' (1847)	178	(1)
Thomas Jefferson, ``First Inaugural Address'' (1801)	179	(1)
Margaret Bayard Smith Meets Thomas Jefferson (1801)	180	(2)
Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase (1803)	182	(2)
The United States Navy and the Bombardment of Tripoli (1803)	184	(3)
A Matter of Honor or Vengeance? (1804)	187	(3)
Fisher Ames, ``The Republican. No. II'' (1804)	190	(2)
Sacagawea Interprets for Lewis and Clark (1804)	192	(1)
An ``Uncommon Genius'' Advocates Indian Unity (1809)	193	(2)
Indian Hostilities (1812)	195	(1)
The British Attack Baltimore (1814)	196	(1)
Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention (1814)	197	(2)
Davy Crockett, Advice to Politicians (1833)	199	(2)
Part Nine ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE
``The Western Country,'' Extracts from Letters Published in Niles' Weekly Register (1816)	201	(1)
The Cherokee Treaty of 1817	201	(4)
The Case for the Erie Canal	205	(1)
John Marshall Affirms the Power of the Federal Government	206	(5)
Thomas Jefferson Reacts to the ``Missouri Question'' (1820)	211	(1)
The Monroe Doctrine and a Reaction (1823)	212	(1)
Henry Clay, ``Defense of the American System'' (1832)	213	(2)
Imminent Dangers to the Free Institutions of the United States through Foreign Immigration (1835)	215	(3)
The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836)	218	(1)
James F. Cooper, Notions of the Americans (1840)	219	(1)
Resolutions of the Boston Carpenters' Strike (1845)	220	(1)
The Trials of a Slave Girl	221	(5)
Part Ten JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (1823)	226	(4)
A ``Corrupt Bargain'' or Politics as Usual? (1824)	230	(5)
A Disaffected Mason Speaks Out Against the Order (1826)	235	(3)
The ``Commoner'' Takes Office (1828)	238	(1)
Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829)	239	(1)
``Memorial of the Cherokee Nation'' (1830)	240	(1)
Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Bank Bill (1832)	241	(1)
President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification (1832)	242	(8)
The Force Bill (1833)	250	(2)
Black Hawk, ``Life of Black Hawk'' (1833)	252	(1)
A French Traveler Reports on American Society (1835)	253	(2)
Female Industry Association, from the New York Herald (1845)	255	(2)
Part Eleven REFORMING THE NATION
Joshua and Sally Wilson Letters to George Wilson (1823)	257	(1)
Lyman Beecher, Six Sermons on Intemperance (1828)	258	(1)
``Early Habits of Industry,'' The Mother's Magazine (1834)	259	(2)
Charles Finney, ``What a Revival of Religion Is'' (1835)	261	(1)
Temperance and the Washingtonians (1836)	262	(3)
A Lowell Mill Girl Tells her Story (1836)	265	(2)
``Petition of the Catholics of New York'' (1840)	267	(1)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, ``Self-Reliance'' (1841)	268	(1)
Ja Norcom, Letter to Mary Matilda Norcom (1846)	269	(1)
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York (1848)	270	(1)
Horace Mann on Education and National Welfare	271	(6)
John Humphrey Noyes and Bible Communism (1845 and 1849)	277	(2)
Sojourner Truth, Address to the Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio (1851)	279	(2)
Part Twelve MANIFEST DESTINY
The Treaties of Velasco (May 14, 1836)	281	(2)
The Aroostook War (1839)	283	(2)
Across the Plains With Catherine Sager Pringle in 1844	285	(3)
John L. O'Sullivan, ``The Great Nation of Futurity'' (1845)	288	(1)
Thomas Corwin, Against the Mexican War (1847)	289	(1)
Chief Seattle, Oration (1854)	290	(3)
Part Thirteen ANTEBELLUM SOUTH
State v. Boon (1801)	293	(1)
A Black Abolitionist Speaks Out (1829)	294	(2)
Nat Turner, Confession (1831)	296	(1)
An Abolitionist Defends the Amistad Mutineers (1839)	297	(3)
De Bow's Review, ``The Stability of the Union,'' (1850)	300	(1)
Benjamin Drew, Narratives of Escaped Slaves (1855)	301	(2)
George Fitzhugh, ``The Blessings of Slavery'' (1857)	303	(2)
Part Fourteen THE SECTIONAL CRISIS
William Lloyd Garrison, from The Liberator (1831)	305	(1)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)	305	(1)
National Convention of Colored People, Report on Abolition (1847)	306	(1)
A Dying Statesman Speaks Out Against the Compromise of 1850	307	(6)
Frederick Douglass, Independence Day Speech (1852)	313	(2)
Kansas Begins to Bleed (1856)	315	(4)
A White Southerner Speaks Out Against Slavery (1857)	319	(4)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)	323	(1)
Abraham Lincoln, ``A House Divided'' (1858)	324	(1)
Part Fifteen THE CIVIL WAR
Jefferson Davis, Address to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America (1861)	325	(1)
The ``Cornerstone Speech'' (1861)	326	(3)
Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Confederate Lady's Diary (1861)	329	(1)
Why They Fought (1861)	330	(2)
A Confederate General Assesses First Bull Run (1861)	332	(1)
Charles Harvey Brewster, Three Letters from the Civil War Front (1862)	333	(2)
Clara Barton, Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862)	335	(1)
James Henry Gooding, Letter to President Lincoln (1863)	336	(1)
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)	337	(1)
John Dooley, Passages from a Journal (1863)	338	(1)
A Firsthand Account of the New York Draft Riots (1863)	339	(2)
Susie King Taylor, Reminiscences of an Army Laundress (1902)	341	(1)
General William Tecumseh Sherman on War (1864)	342	(3)
Part Sixteen RECONSTRUCTION
``Address from the Colored Citizens of Norfolk, Virginia, to the People of the United States'' (1865)	345	(2)
Carl Schurz, Report on the Condition of the South (1865)	347	(2)
Clinton B. Fisk, Plain Counsels for Freedmen (1865)	349	(1)
Mississippi Black Code (1865)	350	(2)
James C. Beecher, Report on Land Reform in the South Carolina Islands (1865, 1866)	352	(1)
The Memphis Riot (1866)	353	(3)
The Fourteenth Amendment (1868)	356	(1)
Albion W. Tourgee, Letter on Ku Klux Klan Activities (1870)	357	(2)
The Nation, ``The State of the South'' (1872)	359	(2)
Susan B. Anthony and the ``New Departure'' for Women (1873)	361	(3)
James T. Rapier, Testimony Before U.S. Senate Regarding the Agricultural Labor Force in the South (1880)	364	(2)
A Sharecrop Contract (1882)	366