Introduction to the Documents
Document 1-1: Thomas Hariot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
Document 1-2: Limbourg Brothers, March: Peasants at Work from the “Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry” (15th Century)
Document 1-3: Christopher Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage (1492)
Document 1-4: Bartolome De Las Casas, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)
Document 1-5: Council Of Huejotzingo, Letter to the King of Spain (1560)
Document 1-6: Brother Luis Brandaon, Letter to Father Sandoval (1610)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 1
Introduction to the Documents
Document 2-1: Testimony of Acoma Indians (1599)
Document 2-2: John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)
Document 2-3: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
Document 2-4: Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649)
Document 2-5: Edmund White, Letter to Joseph Morton (1687)
Document 2-6: Rev. Father Louis Cellot, Letter to Father François Le Mercier (1656)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 2
Introduction to the Documents
Document P1-1: Meal Of Maize And Beans, the Sixth Month of the Aztec Solar Calendar (c. 1585)
Document P1-2: Theodore De Bry, The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Commander on His First Voyage (1591)
Document P1-3: Thomas Morton, Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England) (1637)
Document P1-4: Thomas Phillips, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693–1694)
Document P1-5: Richard Hakluyt, A Discourse of Western Planting (1584)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document 3-1: The Declaration Of The Gentlemen, Merchants and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent (1689)
Document 3-2: Canassatego, Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New York (1742)
Document 3-3: The General Assembly Of VIrginia, An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves (1691)
Document 3-4: William Byrd II, Diary Entries (1709–1712)
Document 3-5: John Barnard, The Autobiography of the Rev. John Barnard (1766)
Document 3-6: Lord Cornbury, Letter to the Lords of Trade (1704)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 3
Introduction to the Documents
Document 4-1: Gilbert Tennent, Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry (1740)
Document 4-2: Sarah Osborn, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn (1814)
Document 4-3: Charles Woodmason, Journal (1766–1768)
Document 4-4: Benjamin Franklin, Albany Plan of Union (1754)
Document 4-5: State of the British and French Colonies in North America (1755)
Document 4-6: Petition From The Inhabitants Of Orange County, North Carolina (1770)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 4
Introduction to the Documents
Document P2-1: OLAUDAH EQUIANO,The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1794)
Document P2-2: Letter from Christen Janzen to His Family (1711)
Document P2-3: The Vain Prodigal Life and Tragical Penitent Death of Thomas Hellier (1680)
Document P2-4: A Ballad of Pigwacket (1725)
Document P2-5: Journal of James Kenny (1761–1763)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Part 2
Introduction to the Documents
Document 5-1: Richard Bland, Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)
Document 5-2: Stamp Act Congress, Declaration of Rights (1765)
Document 5-3: Peter Oliver, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1781)
Document 5-4: A Protest By The Worcester, Massachusetts, Selectmen (1774)
Document 5-5: Thomas Hutchinson, Letter to Thomas Whately (1769)
Document 5-6: Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 5
Introduction to the Documents
Document 6-1: Instructions to the Delegates from Mecklenburg to the Provincial Congress at Halifax in November (1776)
Document 6-2: Abigail And John Adams, Correspondence (1776)
Document 6-3: Prince Hall, Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Council and the House of Representatives (1777)
Document 6-4: James Peale, General George Washington at Yorktown (c. 1782)
Document 6-5: Daniel Gray, Address to the People of Several Towns (1786)
Document 6-6: James Madison, Federalist No. 10 and Federalist No. 51 (1787)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 6
Introduction to the Documents
Document 7-1: Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Edward Carrington (1792)
Document 7-2: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)
Document 7-3: Fisher Ames, Foreign Politics (c. 1801–1805)
Document 7-4: The Panoplist And Missionary Herald, Retrograde Movement of National Character (1818)
Document 7-5: Tecumseh, “Sleep Not Longer, O’ Choctaws and Chickasaws” (1811)
Document 7-6: Report of the Hartford Convention (1815)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 7
Introduction to the Documents
Document 8-1: J. Hill, Junction of Erie and Northern Canal (c. 1830–1832)
Document 8-2: The Weekly Register, Home Influence (1813)
Document 8-3: Mercy Otis Warren, Letter to a Young Friend (1790)and Letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham (1791)
Document 8-4: Benjamin Rush, Thoughts Upon Female Education (1787)
Document 8-5: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes (1820)
Document 8-6: Lorenzo Dow, Analects Upon the Rights of Man (1816)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document P3-1: John Dickinson, The Liberty Song (1768)
Document P3-2: J. Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Document P3-3: Judith Sargent Murray, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)
Document P3-4: George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
Document P3-5:
Document P3-6: James Flint, Letters from America (1820)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document 9-1: Lucy Larcom, Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence (1881)
Document 9-2: Hon. P. B. Porter, Speech on Internal Improvements (1810)
Document 9-3: Repeating Fire-Arms. A Day at the Armory of Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (1857)
Document 9-4: Frontispiece from Sunshine and Shadow in New York (1868)
Document 9-5: Preface to The Temperance Manual of the American Temperance Society for the Young Men of the United States (1836)
Document 9-6: Charles Grandison Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion (1835)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document 10-1: Martin Van Buren, The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren (1854)
Document 10-2: Fitzwilliam Byrdsall, The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party (1842)
Document 10-3: Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States (1832)
Document 10-4: Henry Carey, The Harmony of Interests (1851)
Document 10-5: King Andrew the First (c. 1833)
Document 10-6: Cherokee Women, Petition (1821 [1831?])
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Introduction to the Documents
Document 11-1: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Document 11-2: Joseph Smith, History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet (c. 1830s)
Document 11-3: Abram C. Dayton, Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York (1882)
Document 11-4: Sarah Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Document 11-5: David Walker, Preamble to Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles (1830)
Document 11-6: Calvin Colton, Abolition a Sedition (1839)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 11
Introduction to the Documents
Document 12-1: Ethan Andrews, Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade (1836)
Document 12-2: Levi Coffin, Reminiscences of Levi Coffin (1876)
Document 12-3: Proceedings of the Charleston City Council (1856)
Document 12-4: Slave Songs of the United States (1867)
Document 12-5: Susan Dabney Smedes, Memorials of a Southern Planter (1887)
Document 12-6: Proceedings of the Colored National Convention (1848)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document P4-1: Canal Commissioners of Ohio Contract (c. 1820s)
Document P4-2: Joseph Story, Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cemetery at Mount Auburn (1831)
Document P4-3: Emmeline B.Wells, Diary (1846)
Document P4-4: Asher Brown Durand, Kindred Spirits (1849)
Document P4-5: Frederick Law Olmsted, A Journey Through Texas (1854)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Part 4
Introduction to the Documents
Document 13-1: Lansford Hastings, The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845)
Document 13-2: John D. Sloat, To the Inhabitants of California (1846) and General Francisco Mejia, A Proclamation at Matamoros (1846)
Document 13-3: John C. Calhoun,Speech on the Slavery Question (1850)
Document 13-4: Charles Sumner, The Crime of Kansas (1856)
Document 13-5: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Document 13-6: Keziah Goodwin HOPKINS Brevardm, Diary (1860–1861)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document 14-1: Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford, Letter to John Minor (1861)
Document 14-2: Staunton Spectator, The Uses of Economy (1862)
Document 14-3: Cornelia Hancock, Letters of a Civil War Nurse (1863)
Document 14-4: Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and Jefferson Davis, President’s Message (1863)
Document 14-5: Harry Smith, Fifty Years of Slavery (1891)
Document 14-6: William T. Sherman, Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 14
Introduction to the Documents
Document 15-1: Abraham Lincoln, Last Public Address (1865)
Document 15-2: Betty Powers, Federal Writers’ Project Interview (c. 1936)
Document 15-3: Frances Butler Leigh, Letter to a Friend in England (1867)
Document 15-4: Charles Francis Adams Jr., The Protection of the Ballot in National Elections (1869)
Document 15-5: Thomas Nast, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State (1874)
Document 15-6: Robert Browne Elliott, Speech to Congress (1874)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document 16-1: The Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Document 16-2: Currier & Ives, Across the Continent (1868)
Document 16-3: J. Wright Mooar, Buffalo Days (1933)
Document 16-4: Francis A. Walker, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1872)
Document 16-5: Mourning Dove, A Salishan Autobiography (1990)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 16
Introduction to the Documents
Document P5-1: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1848)
Document P5-2: Statutes Of California, An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (1850)
Document P5-3: Samuel F. B. Morse, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States (1855)
Document P5-4: Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address (1860)
Document P5-5: Alexander Stephens, “Cornerstone” Speech (1861)
Document P5-6: Rev. Henry Mcneal Turner, Speech Before the Georgia State Legislature (1868)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document 17-1: Andrew Carnegie, Wealth (1889)
Document 17-2: Terence Powderly, Thirty Years of Labor (1889)
Document 17-3: Antanas Kaztauskis, Life Story of a Lithuanian (c. 1906)
Document 17-4: Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Document 17-5: Joseph Keppler, Looking Backward (1893)
Document 17-6: Arthur Twining Hadley, The Good and the Evil of Industrial Combination (1897)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 17
Introduction to the Documents
Document 18-1: Theodore Roosevelt, Professionalism in Sports (1890)
Document 18-2: Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Educated for What? (1916)
Document 18-3: Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition Speech (1895)
Document 18-4: Mary White Ovington, Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder (1932–1933)
Document 18-5: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document 19-1: Luna Park at Night (c. 1913)
Document 19-2: Jane Addams, Why the Ward Boss Rules (1898)
Document 19-3: Marie Ganz And Nat J. Ferber, Rebels: Into Anarchy, and Out Again (1920)
Document 19-4: New York World, New York Negroes Stage Silent Parade of Protest (1916)
Document 19-5: Mary Brown Sumner, The Spirit of the Strikers (1910)
Document 19-6: Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 19
Introduction to the Documents
Document 20-1: Omaha Platform (1892)
Document 20-2: Frederic Howe, The City: The Hope of Democracy (1909)
Document 20-3: Josephine Conger-Kaneko, What a Socialist Alderman Would Do (1914)
Document 20-4: The Southern Mercury, The Colored Brother: A Spicy Letter from J. B. Rayner (1895)
Document 20-5: Theodore Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress (1907)
Document 20-6: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Talented Tenth (1903)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 20
Introduction to the Documents
Document P6-1: William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
Document P6-2: William Dean Howells, Pernicious Fiction: Tests of the Poison (1887)
Document P6-3: Caroline Ticknor, The Steel-Engraving Lady and the Gibson Girl (1901)
Document P6-4: Franz Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man (1911)
Document P6-5: Royal Cortissoz, A Memorable Exhibition (1913)
Document P6-6: Carlos Montezuma, What Indians Must Do (1914)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Part 6
Introduction to the Documents
Document 21-1: Albert Beveridge, “The March of the Flag” Speech (1898)
Document 21-2: Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen (1898)
Document 21-3: SEMPER VIGILANS,Aguinaldo’s Case Against the United States(1899)
Document 21-4: Alfred Bryan And Al Piantadosi, “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (1915)
Document 21-5: The Liberator, Tulsa, November 9th (1918)
Document 21-6: Woodrow Wilson, War Aims and Peace Terms (1918)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 21
Introduction to the Documents
Document 22-1: Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Last Statement to the Court of Massachusetts (1927)
Document 22-2: Carrie Chapman Catt, Passing the Federal Suffrage Amendment (1918)
Document 22-3: Platform of the Conference for Progressive Political Action (1924)
Document 22-4: Billy Sunday, Get on the Water Wagon (1915)
Document 22-5: Langston Hughes, Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain (1926)
Document 22-6: Westinghouse Advertisement (1924) and Chevrolet Advertisement (1927)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 22
Introduction to the Documents
Document 23-1: Herbert Hoover, Letter to Simeon Fess (1933)
Document 23-2: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (1933)
Document 23-3: Huey Long, “Every Man a King” (1934)
Document 23-4: Michigan Artist Alfred Castagne Sketching WPA Construction Workers (1939)
Document 23-5: John L. Lewis, The Battle for Industrial Democracy (1936)
Document 23-6: Martha Gellhorn, Field Report to Harry Hopkins (1934)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 23
Introduction to the Documents
Document 24-1: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union (1941)
Document 24-2: Interviews With The Library Of Congress Veterans History Project (2001, 2003)
Document 24-3: Gordon Hirabayashi, Why I Refused to Register for Evacuation (1942)
Document 24-4: Lulac News, Editorial (1945)
Document 24-5: Life Magazine, Atrocities (1945)
Document 24-6: Harry Truman, Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima (1945)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 24
Introduction to the Documents
Document P7-1: Citizens Committee Of Orchard, Rivington, and East Houston Streets, New York City to William Howard Taft (1912)
Document P7-2: Horace Kallen, Democracy Versus the Melting Pot (1915)
Document P7-3: Woman Suffrage In Washington, District of Columbia (c. 1917–1918)
Document P7-4: W. B. Riley, The Faith of the Fundamentalists (1927)
Document P7-5: Private Charles F. Wilson to Franklin D. Roosevelt (1944)
Document P7-6: Luisa Moreno, Caravans of Sorrow (1940)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Part 7
Introduction to the Documents
Document 25-1: George Kennan, “Long Telegram” to James Byrnes (1946)
Document 25-2: Walter Lippmann, Cold War: A Study in U.S. Foreign Policy (1947)
Document 25-3: U.S. Senate, Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government (1950)
Document 25-4: Charlotte Oram, Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Investigations (1954)
Document 25-5: John Foster Dulles, The Evolution of Foreign Policy (1954)
Document 25-6: Michigan Office Of Civil Defense, The Family Fallout Shelter: Your One Defense Against Fallout (1959)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 25
Introduction to the Documents
Document 26-1: Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (1944)
Document 26-2: Doreen Spooner, Soda Fountain (1950)
Document 26-3: Billy Graham, Our Right to Require Belief (1956)
Document 26-4: Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care (1946)
Document 26-5: Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency: Interim Report of the Committee on the Judiciary (1955)
Document 26-6: PAUL GOODMAN,Growing Up Absurd (1960)
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Introduction to the Documents
Document 27-1: Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream (1949)
Document 27-2: Declaration of Constitutional Principles (1956)
Document 27-3: Fannie Lou Hamer, Testimony Before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention (1964)
Document 27-4: Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet(1964)
Document 27-5: Indians of All Tribes, Proclamation: To the Great White Father and All His People (1970)
Document 27-6: Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, I Am Joaquín (1967)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 27
Introduction to the Documents
Document 28-1: Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Great Society (1964)
Document 28-2: John Kerry, Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1971)
Document 28-3: Redstockings Manifesto (1969)
Document 28-4: Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano (1969)
Document 28-5: Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention (1964)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 28
Introduction to the Documents
Document 29-1: Warren Leffle, Long Lines of Cars Waiting for Fuel at a Gas Station, Maryland (1979)
Document 29-2: Robert Howard, Youngstown Fights Back (1979)
Document 29-3: Supreme Court Decision in Roe v. Wade (1973)
Document 29-4: Phyllis Schlafly, Statement Opposing the ERA (1977)
Document 29-5: Jimmy Carter, The Crisis of Confidence (1979)
Document 29-6: Mary Murphy, Next Billy Graham (1978)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 29
Introduction to the Documents
Document P8-1: NSC-68 (1950)
Document P8-2: John D. Peurifoy, Letter to John M. Cabot, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (1953)
Document P8-3: John F. Kennedy, Address to the United Nations General Assembly (1961)
Document P8-4: Letters Between Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh (1967)
Document P8-5: Charles Sanders, Kissinger in Africa (1976)
Document P8-6: Demonstrators Supporting Captors of U.S. Embassy Hostages March on the Besieged Compound (1979)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Part 8
Introduction to the Documents
Document 30-1: Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference Dinner (1981)
Document 30-2: David Stockman, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed (1986)
Document 30-3: Wall Street (1987)
Document 30-4: Robert J. Henle, The Great Deception: What We Are Told About Central America (1986)
Document 30-5: Jesse Jackson, Common Ground and Common Sense (1988)
Document 30-6: Najlah Feanny-Hicks, Over Two Million People Watched Troops March in the Operation Welcome Home Ticker Tape Parade (1991)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 30
Introduction to the Documents
Document 31-1: Alesha Daughtrey, Interview by April Eaton (2000)
Document 31-2: California Proposition 187 (1994)
Document 31-3: David Horsey, Character (1996)
Document 31-4: Madeleine Albright, Realism and Idealism in American Foreign Policy Today (1994)
Document 31-5: George W. Bush, Address to Congress (2001)
Document 31-6: Barack Obama, A More Perfect Union (2008)
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Quiz for Sources for America’s History, Chapter 31
Introduction to the Documents
Document P9-1: Irving Kristol, Two Cheers for Capitalism (1978)
Document P9-2: Leroy Mcclelland Sr., Interview with Bill Barry (2006)
Document P9-3: Bill Clinton, Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act (1993)
Document P9-4: Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know (2003)
Document P9-5: Kevin Clarke, Outsourcing Around (2004)
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PREFACE
Introduction for Students
Acknowledgements