Voices of the American Past Documents in U.S. History, Volume I
by Hyser, Raymond M.; Arndt, J. ChrisEdition: 4th
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Pub. Date: 2007-05-03
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Summary
VOICES OF THE AMERICAN PAST is a two-volume reader that presents a variety of diverse perspectives through more than 230 primary sources. Excerpts from speeches, letters, journals, magazine articles, hearings and government documents raise issues from both public and private aspects of American life throughout history. A "Guide to Reading and Interpreting Documents" in the front matter explains how and why historians use primary source evidence, and outlines basic points to help students learn to analyze sources. Brief headnotes set each source into context. "Questions to Consider" precede each document, offering prompts for critical thinking and reflection. The volumes are organized chronologically into 31 chapters, with the Reconstruction chapter overlapping in both volumes -- corresponding to the splits of most survey texts.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xv |
| A Guide to Reading and Interpreting Documents | p. xvii |
| Diverse Beginnings | p. 1 |
| The Spanish Letter of Columbus to Luis Sant' Angel (1493) | p. 1 |
| Early New York (1626) | p. 3 |
| Jesuit Comparison of French and Native Life (1657-1658) | p. 6 |
| Captain John Smith Describes the Founding of Jamestown (1607) | p. 8 |
| General Considerations for the Plantation in New England (1629) | p. 11 |
| William Bradford on Sickness among the Natives (1633) | p. 12 |
| "Captivity Account" of Mary Rowlandson (1675) | p. 14 |
| The Pueblo Revolt (1680) | p. 15 |
| Seventeenth-Century Florida as Described by Shipwrecked Englishman (1699) | p. 17 |
| Emerging Colonial Societies | p. 21 |
| A Treaty Between the Five Nations and the New England Colonies (1689) | p. 21 |
| Petition of an Accused Witch (1692) | p. 24 |
| "Pennsylvania, the Poor Man's Paradise" (1698) | p. 25 |
| Of the Servants and Slaves in Virginia (1705) | p. 28 |
| Cotton Mather on the Evils of "Self-Pollution" (1723) | p. 30 |
| The Dilemma of New France (1724) | p. 32 |
| Eliza Lucas, a Modern Woman (1741-1742) | p. 35 |
| Toward an American Identity | p. 38 |
| "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (1741) | p. 38 |
| A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations of America (1743) | p. 41 |
| Pennsylvania Assembly Comments on German Immigration (1755) | p. 43 |
| The Albany Plan of Union (1754) | p. 45 |
| Edmund Burke on British Motives in the Seven Years' War (1762) | p. 48 |
| "The Pontiac Manuscript" (1763) | p. 49 |
| "What Is an American?" (1770) | p. 51 |
| Olaudah Equiano Describes the "Middle Passage" (1789) | p. 53 |
| Coming of the Revolution | p. 56 |
| John Locke on Political Society and Government (1689) | p. 56 |
| Cato's Letters (1721) | p. 58 |
| Stamp Act Riots (1765) | p. 60 |
| Ann Hulton, Loyalist View of Colonial Unrest (1774) | p. 62 |
| Englishwoman's Appeal to the People of Great Britain on the Crisis in America (1775) | p. 63 |
| Abigail Smith Adams on the British Occupation of Boston (1775) | p. 66 |
| A Loyalist Perspective on the Coming of the Revolution (1780) | p. 69 |
| Introduction to Common Sense (1776) | p. 71 |
| A Speech against Independence (1776) | p. 73 |
| Creating the New Nation | p. 76 |
| German Doctor's Account of War and Surgery (1777) | p. 76 |
| The Articles of Confederation (1777) | p. 79 |
| Voting Qualifications in Virginia (1779) | p. 81 |
| The Battle of King's Mountain and Loyalism in the Carolinas (1780) | p. 83 |
| Women's Contributions to the War Effort (1780) | p. 85 |
| The Quock Walker Decision (1783) | p. 88 |
| Failure of the Continental Congress (1786) | p. 89 |
| The Northwest Ordinance (1787) | p. 91 |
| Grievances of the Shays Rebels (1786) | p. 94 |
| Pennsylvania Dissent to the Ratification of the Constitution (1787) | p. 96 |
| Federalist Number 10 (1788) | p. 99 |
| The Limits of Republicanism | p. 103 |
| Judith Sargent Murray on the Equality of the Sexes (1790) | p. 103 |
| Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, Blacks and Liberty in the New Nation (1791) | p. 106 |
| Alexander Hamilton Speaks in Favor of the National Bank (1791) | p. 108 |
| Opposing Views of the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) | p. 112 |
| George Washington's "Farewell Address" (1796) | p. 115 |
| Description of a Conversion Experience at Cane Ridge, Kentucky (1801) | p. 117 |
| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | p. 120 |
| Resolutions of the Hartford Convention (1815) | p. 123 |
| The New Nation and Its Place in the World | p. 125 |
| Military Disaster on the Ohio Frontier (1791) | p. 125 |
| Jefferson's Instructions to Robert Livingston, Minister to France (1802) | p. 127 |
| Heading West with Lewis and Clark (1804) | p. 129 |
| A Frontier View of the Chesapeake Affair (1807) | p. 132 |
| Tecumseh on White Encroachment (1810) | p. 134 |
| Margaret Bayard Smith on the Burning of Washington, DC (1814) | p. 136 |
| Tennessee Expansionists on the Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) | p. 139 |
| The Monroe Doctrine (1823) | p. 140 |
| The Rise of Democracy | p. 143 |
| Fanny Wright on Equality (1830) | p. 143 |
| Daniel Webster's Second Reply to Robert Y. Hayne (1830) | p. 145 |
| Commentary on Elections in Jacksonian America (1832) | p. 147 |
| The American System (1832) | p. 149 |
| Andrew Jackson's Bank Veto Message (1832) | p. 151 |
| The Cherokee Phoenix on Georgia Policy Toward the Cherokee (1832) | p. 153 |
| South Carolina Nullifies the Tariff (1832) | p. 155 |
| "Spirit of Jacksonism" (1832) | p. 156 |
| Society and Economy in the North | p. 160 |
| Promoting the Erie Canal (1818) | p. 160 |
| Charles G. Finney Describes the Rochester Revival (1830-1831) | p. 162 |
| American Mania for Railroads (1834) | p. 164 |
| "Americans on the Move" (1835) | p. 166 |
| Urban Riots (1835) | p. 168 |
| A German Traveler on Race Relations in the North (1839) | p. 170 |
| Women Workers Protest "Lowell Wage Slavery" (1847) | p. 173 |
| "On Irish Emigration" (1852) | p. 174 |
| A Chinese American at Yale (1850) | p. 177 |
| Social Reform | p. 180 |
| Lyman Beecher on Intemperance (1825) | p. 180 |
| "Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" (1829) | p. 183 |
| William Lloyd Garrison on Slavery (1831) | p. 185 |
| Evidence against the Views of the Abolitionists (1833) | p. 187 |
| Sarah Grimke Argues for Gender Equality (1837) | p. 190 |
| Horace Mann on Educational Reform (1840) | p. 193 |
| "Declaration of Sentiments," Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | p. 195 |
| Manifest Destiny | p. 198 |
| Texas and California Annexation (1845) | p. 198 |
| American Description of Mexican Women in Santa Fe (1845) | p. 201 |
| Mob Violence against Mormons (1846) | p. 203 |
| Life on the Overland Trail (1846) | p. 205 |
| Mexican View of U.S. Occupation (1841) | p. 207 |
| San Francisco and the California Gold Rush (1848) | p. 209 |
| "Civil Disobedience" (1849) | p. 211 |
| The Question of Cuban Annexation (1853) | p. 213 |
| Slavery and the Old South | p. 216 |
| The Alabama Frontier (1821) | p. 216 |
| The Trial of Denmark Vesey (1822) | p. 218 |
| A Reaction to the Nat Turner Revolt (1831) | p. 220 |
| The Plantation Labor Force (1838-1839) | p. 222 |
| Labor at the Tredegar Iron Works (1847) | p. 224 |
| Martin Delany and African American Nationalism (1852) | p. 226 |
| A Slave Describes Sugar Cultivation (1853) | p. 228 |
| A Defense of Southern Society (1854) | p. 230 |
| The Southern Yeomen (1860) | p. 231 |
| Origins of the Civil War | p. 234 |
| An African American Minister Responds to the Fugitive Slave Law (1851) | p. 234 |
| Southern Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) | p. 236 |
| Charles Sumner on "Bleeding Kansas" (1856) | p. 237 |
| Chicago Tribune on the Dred Scott v. Sanford Decision (1857) | p. 240 |
| Sensible Hints to the South (1858) | p. 242 |
| The Freeport Doctrine (1858) | p. 243 |
| Frederick Douglass on John Brown (1859) | p. 246 |
| Inaugural Address of South Carolina Governor Francis Pickens (1860) | p. 249 |
| The Civil War | p. 252 |
| Mary Boykin Chesnut, the Attack on Fort Sumter (1861) | p. 252 |
| "A War to Preserve the Union" (1861) | p. 254 |
| Jefferson Davis Responds to the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) | p. 256 |
| African American Troops in Combat (1863) | p. 258 |
| George Pickett on the "Charge" (1863) | p. 259 |
| New York City Draft Riots (1863) | p. 261 |
| The Southern Home Front (1863) | p. 263 |
| General William T. Sherman on War (1864) | p. 266 |
| Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865) | p. 268 |
| Reconstruction | p. 271 |
| A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-1865) | p. 271 |
| Charleston, South Carolina, at the Conclusion of the Civil War (1865) | p. 214 |
| African Americans Seek Protection (1865) | p. 276 |
| Thaddeus Stevens on Reconstruction and the South (1865) | p. 278 |
| A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868) | p. 281 |
| The Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction (1872) | p. 283 |
| An African American Congressman Calls for Civil Rights (1874) | p. 287 |
| The Situation for African Americans in the South (1879) | p. 290 |
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