دانلود کتاب Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents, Volume 1: To 1877

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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 Back Cover