Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Volume 1: To 1877

About this Book
	Cover Page
	Half Title Page
	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	Preface for Instructors
	Introduction for Students
	Contents
Chapter 1: Ancient America: Before 1492
	Document 1–1: Tools of Ancient America
		Ancient American Spear Point
	Document 1–2: A Taino Origin Story
		Ramón Pané, On Taino Religious Practices
	Document 1–3: A Penobscot Origin Narrative
		Joseph Nicolar, The Life and Traditions of the Red Men, 1893
	Document 1–4: Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative
		“In the Beginning”
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 2: Europeans Encounter the New World: 1492–1600
	Document 2–1: Columbus Describes His First Encounter with “Indians”
		The Diario of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage to America, 1492–1493
	Document 2–2: A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519–1520
		Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain, 1632
	Document 2–3: A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico
		Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex
	Document 2–4: Rebuilding Mexico City after Conquest
		Reconstructing Mexico City after Spanish Conquest
	Document 2–5: Cabeza de Vaca Describes His Captivity among Native Americans in Texas and the Southwest, 1528–1536
		Cabeza de Vaca, Narrative, 1542
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 3: The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: 1601–1700
	Document 3–1: Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia
		Letter to Father and Mother, March 20, April 2, 3, 1623
	Document 3–2: Opechancanough’s 1622 Uprising in Virginia
		Edward Waterhouse, Declaration, 1622
	Document 3–3: A European Tobacco Shop
		Johan van Beverwijck, A Dutch Tobacco Shop
	Document 3–4: Bacon’s Rebellion
		Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration, 1676
	Document 3–5: Pedro Naranjo Describes Pueblo Revolt
		Declaration of Pedro Naranjo of the Queres Nation, December 19, 1681
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 4: The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century: 1601–1700
	Document 4–1: The Arbella Sermon
		John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630
	Document 4–2: Puritan Lessons for Boston Babes
		John Cotton, Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes, 1656
	Document 4–3: Wampanoag Grievances at the Outset of King Philip’s War
		John Easton, A Relation of the Indian War, 1675
	Document 4–4: A Provincial Government Enacts Legislation
		The Laws of Pennsylvania, 1682
	Document 4–5: Words of the Bewitched
		Cotton Mather, Testimony against Accused Witch Bridget Bishop, 1692
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 5: Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century: 1701–1770
	Document 5–1: Elizabeth Ashbridge Becomes an Indentured Servant in New York
		Some Account of the Early Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, Who Died in … 1755 (1807)
	Document 5–2: Poor Richard’s Advice
		Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham’s Speech from Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757
	Document 5–3: Lenape Chiefs Who Agreed to Pennsylvania Walking Purchase
		Gustavus Hesselius, Portraits of Tishcohan and Lapowinsa, 1735
	Document 5–4: An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry
		Charles Woodmason, Sermon on the Baptists and the Presbyterians, ca. 1768
	Document 5–5: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves
		South Carolina Gazette and Virginia Gazette, 1737–1745
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 6: The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis: 1754–1775
	Document 6–1: Mary Jemison Is Captured by Seneca Indians during the Seven Years’ War
		James E. Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, 1824
	Document 6–2: British Troops Occupy Boston, 1768
		Paul Revere, “A View of Part of the Town of Boston in New England and British Ships of War Landing Their Troops! 1768”
	Document 6–3: An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
		Joseph Warren, Boston Massacre Oration, March 5, 1772
	Document 6–4: A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party
		George R. T. Hewes, Memoir, 1834
	Document 6–5: Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire
		To the Inhabitants of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, 1774–1775
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 7: The War for America: 1775–1783
	Document 7–1: Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence
		Common Sense, January 1776
	Document 7–2: Letters of John and Abigail Adams
		Correspondence, 1776
	Document 7–3: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Describes the Distresses of a Frontier Farmer during the Revolution
		Distresses of a Frontier Man, 1782
	Document 7–4: British Cartoon Depicts Surrender at Yorktown, 1781
		James Gillray, “The American Rattle Snake,” 1782
	Document 7–5: Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army
		Memoir, 1798
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 8: Building a Republic: 1775–1789
	Document 8–1: Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church
		Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours, 1833
	Document 8–2: Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race
		Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782
	Document 8–3: Backcountry Homestead
		Carolina Home
	Document 8–4: Making the Case for the Constitution
		James Madison, Federalist Number 10, 1787
	Document 8–5: Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution
		Observations on the New Constitution, 1788
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 9: The New Nation Takes Form: 1789–1800
	Document 9–1: Alexander Hamilton on the Economy
		Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791
	Document 9–2: Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky
		Journal, 1788–1789
	Document 9–3: Flatboat on the Ohio River
		Alfred Waud, “Flatboat on the Ohio River,” 1916
	Document 9–4: Judith Sargent Murray Insists on the Equality of the Sexes
		On the Equality of the Sexes, 1790
	Document 9–5: President George Washington’s Parting Advice to the Nation
		Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 10: Republicans in Power: 1800–1828
	Document 10–1: President Thomas Jefferson’s Private and Public Indian Policy
		Letter to Governor William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803
		Address to the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation, December 30, 1806
	Document 10–2: Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone
		The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1805
	Document 10–3: A Slave Demands That Thomas Jefferson Abolish Slavery
		A Slave to Thomas Jefferson, November 30, 1808
	Document 10–4: The British and Their Indian Allies, 1812
		William Charles, “A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the ‘Humane’ British and their ‘Worthy’ Allies,” 1812
	Document 10–5: James Hamilton’s Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812
		Confession, 1818
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 11: The Expanding Republic: 1815–1840
	Document 11–1: President Andrew Jackson’s Parting Words to the Nation
		Farewell Address, March 4, 1837
	Document 11–2: Farmers Nooning, 1836
		William Sidney Mount, “Farmers Nooning,” 1836
	Document 11–3: Cherokee Leaders Debate Removal
		John Ross, Answer to Inquiries from a Friend, 1836
		Elias Boudinot, A Reply to John Ross, 1837
	Document 11–4: David Walker Demands Emancipation
		Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, 1829
	Document 11–5: Sarah Grimké on the Status of Women
		Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, 1838
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 12: The North and West: 1840–1860
	Document 12–1: Abraham Lincoln Explains the Free-Labor System
		Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 30, 1859
	Document 12–2: The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellows on Commerce and Morality
		The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral Life of America, 1845
	Document 12–3: “The Drunkard’s Progress, from the First Glass to the Grave, 1846”
		“The Drunkard’s Progress, from the First Glass to the Grave, 1846”
	Document 12–4: Gold Fever
		Walter Colton, California Gold Rush Diary, 1849–1850
	Document 12–5: That Woman Is Man’s Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration
		Declaration of Sentiments, 1848
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 13: The Slave South: 1820–1860
	Document 13–1: Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson’s Enslaved Son
		Interview, 1873
	Document 13–2: “After the Sale: Slaves Going South from Richmond,” 1854
		Eyre Crowe, “After the Sale: Slaves Going South from Richmond,” 1854
	Document 13–3: Plantation Rules
		Bennet Barrow, Highland Plantation Journal, May 1, 1838
	Document 13–4: Fanny Kemble Learns about Abuses of Slave Women
		Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839
	Document 13–5: Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist
		The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 14: The House Divided: 1846–1861
	Document 14–1: The Kansas–Nebraska Act
		Abraham Lincoln, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854
	Document 14–2: “Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free-Soiler,” 1856
		John L. Magee, “Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free-Soiler,” 1856
	Document 14–3: The Antislavery Constitution
		Frederick Douglass, The Constitution of the United States: Is It Proslavery or Antislavery? 1860
	Document 14–4: The Proslavery Constitution
		Jefferson Davis, Speech before the U.S. Senate, May 1860
	Document 14–5: Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner’s Attempt to Escape Slavery
		Reminiscences, 1880
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 15: The Crucible of War: 1861–1865
	Document 15–1: President Lincoln’s War Aims
		Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862
		The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
		The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
	Document 15–2: A Former Slave’s War Aims
		Statement from an Anonymous Former Slave, New Orleans, 1863
	Document 15–3: The New York Draft Riots
		Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863
	Document 15–4: “In Search of Freedom,” 1863
		Edwin Forbes, “In Search of Freedom,” 1863
	Document 15–5: General William T. Sherman Explains the Hard Hand of War
		Correspondence, 1864
	Comparative Questions
Chapter 16: Reconstruction: 1863–1877
	Document 16–1: Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South
		Report on the Condition of the South, 1865
	Document 16–2: Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
		Advertisements from the Christian Recorder, 1865–1870
	Document 16–3: Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves
		A Narrative of a Post–Civil War Visit to Gowrie and East Hermitage Plantations, March 22, 1867
	Document 16–4: Klan Violence against Blacks
		Elias Hill, Testimony before Congressional Committee Investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
	Document 16–5: The Ignorant Vote and the Election of 1876
		Thomas Nast, “The Ignorant Vote,” 1876
	Comparative Questions
Acknowledgments
Notes
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