Title page
Copyright page
Preface for Instructors
Credits
Introduction for Students
FLAWS OF MEMORY
DOCUMENTS AS HISTORICAL SNAPSHOTS
DOCUMENTS CAPTURE DIVERSE VOICES AND EXPERIENCES
DOCUMENTS BRING YOU FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE PAST
READING AND UNDERSTANDING DOCUMENTS
ESTABLISH THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
THE VALUE OF DOCUMENTS
Ancient America Before 1492
DOCUMENT 1–1: A Taino Origin Story
DOCUMENT 1–2: A Penobscot Origin Narrative
DOCUMENT 1–3: Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative
DOCUMENT 1–4: Aristotle on Masters and Slaves
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 1
Europeans Encounter the New World 1492-1600
DOCUMENT 2-1: The King of the Congo Writes to the King of Portugal
DOCUMENT 2-2: Columbus Describes His First Encounter with “Indians”
DOCUMENT 2-3: A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico 1519-1520
DOCUMENT 2-4: A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico
DOCUMENT 2-5: Cabeza de Vaca Describes His Captivity among Native Americans in Texas and the Southwest, 1528-1536
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 2
The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century 1601-1700
DOCUMENT 3-1: Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia
DOCUMENT 3-2: Opechancanough’s 1622 Uprising in Virginia
DOCUMENT 3-3: Sex and Race Relations
DOCUMENT 3-4: Bacon’s Rebellion
DOCUMENT 3-5: Pedro Naranjo Describes Pueblo Revolt
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 3
The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century 1601-1700
DOCUMENT 4-1: The Arbella Sermon
DOCUMENT 4-2: Observations of New England Indians
DOCUMENT 4-3: Wampanoag Grievances at the Outset of King Philip’s War
DOCUMENT 4-4: A Provincial Government Enacts Legislation
DOCUMENT 4-5: Words of the Bewitched
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 4
Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century 1701-1770
DOCUMENT 5-1: Elizabeth Ashbridge Becomes an Indentured Servant in New York
DOCUMENT 5-2: Poor Richard’s Advice
DOCUMENT 5-3: An Anglican Criticizes New Light Baptists and Presbyterians in the South Carolina Backcountry
DOCUMENT 5-4: Advertisements for Runaway Slaves
DOCUMENT 5-5: A Moravian Missionary Interviews Slaves in the West Indies, 1767-1768
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 5
The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis 1754–1775
DOCUMENT 6-1: Mary Jemison Is Captured by Seneca Indians during the Seven Years’ War
DOCUMENT 6-2: An Oration on the Second Anniversary of the Boston Massacre
DOCUMENT 6-3: A Boston Shoemaker Recalls British Arrogance and the Boston Tea Party
DOCUMENT 6-4: Daniel Leonard Argues for Loyalty to the British Empire
DOCUMENT 6-5: Edmund Burke Urges Reconciliation with the Colonies
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 6
The War for America 1775-1783
DOCUMENT 7-1: Thomas Paine Makes the Case for Independence
DOCUMENT 7-2: Letters of John and Abigail Adams
DOCUMENT 7-3: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Describes the Distresses of a Frontier Farmer during the Revolution
DOCUMENT 7-4: Boston King Seeks Freedom by Running Away to the British Army
DOCUMENT 7-5: Joseph Brant Appeals to British Allies to Keep Promises
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 7
Building a Republic 1775-1789
DOCUMENT 8-1: Richard Allen Founds the First African Methodist Church
DOCUMENT 8-2: Thomas Jefferson on Slavery and Race
DOCUMENT 8-3: Benjamin Rush Proposes a Proper Education for a Republic
DOCUMENT 8-4: Making the Case for the Constitution
DOCUMENT 8-5: Mercy Otis Warren Opposes the Constitution
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 8
The New Nation Takes Form 1789-1800
DOCUMENT 9-1: Alexander Hamilton on the Economy
DOCUMENT 9-2: Mary Dewees Moves West to Kentucky
DOCUMENT 9-3: Judith Sargent Murray Insists on the Equality of the Sexes
DOCUMENT 9-4: A French Sugar Planter Describes the French and Saint Domingue Revolutions
DOCUMENT 9-5: President George Washington’s Parting Advice to the Nation
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 9
Republicans in Power 1800-1824
DOCUMENT 10-1: President Thomas Jefferson’s Private and Public Indian Policy
DOCUMENT 10-2: Meriwether Lewis Describes the Shoshone
DOCUMENT 10-3: A Slave Demands That Thomas Jefferson Abolish Slavery
DOCUMENT 10-4: James Forten Protests Pennsylvania Law Threatening Enslavement of Free African Americans
DOCUMENT 10-5: James Hamilton’s Path to Enlistment during the War of 1812
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 10
The Expanding Republic 1815-1840
DOCUMENT 11-1: President Andrew Jackson’s Parting Words to the Nation
DOCUMENT 11-2: Cherokees Debate Removal
DOCUMENT 11-3: Alexis de Toqueville Describes the Three Races in the United States
DOCUMENT 11-4: David Walker Demands Emancipation
DOCUMENT 11-5: Sarah Grimké on the Status of Women
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 11
The New West and the Free North 1840-1860
DOCUMENT 12-1: Abraham Lincoln Explains the Free-Labor System
DOCUMENT 12-2: The Anxiety of Gain: Henry W. Bellows on Commerce and Morality
DOCUMENT 12-3: Gold Fever
DOCUMENT 12-4: That Woman Is Man’s Equal: The Seneca Falls Declaration
DOCUMENT 12-5: A Farmer’s View of His Wife
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 12
The Slave South 1820-1860
DOCUMENT 13-1: Madison Hemings Recalls Life as Thomas Jefferson’s Enslaved Son
DOCUMENT 13-2: Plantation Rules
DOCUMENT 13-3: Fanny Kemble Learns about Abuses of Slave Women
DOCUMENT 13-4: Nat Turner Explains Why He Became an Insurrectionist
DOCUMENT 13-5: The Proslavery Argument
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 13
The House Divided 1846-1861
DOCUMENT 14-1: The Kansas-Nebraska Act
DOCUMENT 14-2: The Antislavery Constitution
DOCUMENT 14-3: The Proslavery Constitution
DOCUMENT 14-4: Levi Coffin Describes Margaret Garner's Attempt to Escape Slavery
DOCUMENT 14-5: Abolitionist Lydia Maria Child Defends John Brown and Attacks the Slave Power
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 14
The Crucible of War 1861-1865
DOCUMENT 15-1: President Lincoln’s War Aims
DOCUMENT 15-2: A Former Slave’s War Aims
DOCUMENT 15-3: The New York Draft Riots
DOCUMENT 15-4: Susie King Taylor Describes Her Wartime Experiences
DOCUMENT 15-5: General William T. Sherman Explains the Hard Hand of War
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 15
Reconstruction 1863-1877
DOCUMENT 16-1: Carl Schurz Reports on the Condition of the Defeated South
DOCUMENT 16-2: Black Codes Enacted in the South
DOCUMENT 16-3: Former Slaves Seek to Reunite Their Families
DOCUMENT 16-4: Planter Louis Manigault Visits His Plantations and Former Slaves
DOCUMENT 16-5: Klan Violence against Blacks
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 16
The Contested West 1865-1900
DOCUMENT 17-1: Pun Chi Appeals to Congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants in California
DOCUMENT 17-2: Mattie Oblinger Describes Life on a Nebraska Homestead
DOCUMENT 17-3: Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border
DOCUMENT 17-4: In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat Describes White Encroachment
DOCUMENT 17-5: A Plea to “Citizenize” Indians
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 17
Business and Politics in the Gilded Age 1870-1895
DOCUMENT 18-1: Marshall Kirkman Likens Railroad Corporations to Armies
DOCUMENT 18-2: William Graham Sumner on Social Obligations
DOCUMENT 18-3: Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies
DOCUMENT 18-4: Andrew Carnegie Explains the Gospel of Wealth
DOCUMENT 18-5: Henry George Explains Why Poverty Is a Crime
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 18
The City and Its Workers 1870-1900
DOCUMENT 19-1: A Textile Worker Explains the Labor Market
DOCUMENT 19-2: Domestic Servants on Household Work
DOCUMENT 19-3: Jacob Riis Describes Abandoned Babies in New York City’s Slums
DOCUMENT 19-4: Walter Wyckoff Listens to Revolutionary Workers in Chicago
DOCUMENT 19-5: George Washington Plunkitt Explains Politics
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 19
Dissent, Depression, and War 1890-1900
DOCUMENT 20-1: Mary Elizabeth Lease Reports on Women in the Farmers’ Alliance
DOCUMENT 20-2: White Supremacy in Wilmington, North Carolina
DOCUMENT 20-3: Pinkertons Defeated at Homestead
DOCUMENT 20-4: Conflicting Views about Labor Unions
DOCUMENT 20-5: Emilio Aguinaldo Criticizes American Imperialism in the Philippines
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 20
Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House 1890-1916
DOCUMENT 21-1: Jane Addams on Settlement Houses
DOCUMENT 21-2: A Sociologist Studies Working-Class Saloons in Chicago
DOCUMENT 21-3: Mother Jones on the Futility of Class Harmony
DOCUMENT 21-4: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage
DOCUMENT 21-5: Booker T. Washington on Racial Accommodation
DOCUMENT 21-6: W. E. B. Du Bois on Racial Equality
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 21
World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad 1914-1920
DOCUMENT 22-1: The North American Review Considers War a Blessing, Not a Curse
DOCUMENT 22-2: Eugene V. Debs Attacks Capitalist Warmongers
DOCUMENT 22-3: A Doughboy’s Letter from the Front
DOCUMENT 22-4: Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Defends America from Communists
DOCUMENT 22-5: An African American Responds to the Chicago Race Riot
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 22
From New Era to Great Depression 1920-1932
DOCUMENT 23-1: Edward Earle Purinton Celebrates American Business as the Salvation of the World
DOCUMENT 23-2: Reinhold Niebuhr on Christianity in Detroit
DOCUMENT 23-3: The Ku Klux Klan Defends Americanism
DOCUMENT 23-4: Mothers Seek Freedom from Unwanted Pregnancies
DOCUMENT 23-5: Marcus Garvey Explains the Goals of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 23
The New Deal Experiment 1932-1939
DOCUMENT 24-1: Martha Gellhorn Reports on Conditions in North Carolina in 1934
DOCUMENT 24-2: Working People’s Letters to New Dealers
DOCUMENT 24-3: Huey Long Proposes Redistribution of Wealth
DOCUMENT 24-4: A Mexican American Farmworker Describes the Importance of Sticking Together
DOCUMENT 24-5: Conservatives Criticize the New Deal
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 24
The United States and the Second World War 1939-1945
DOCUMENT 25-1: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Requests Declaration of War on Japan
DOCUMENT 25-2: A Japanese American War Hero Recalls Pearl Harbor
DOCUMENT 25-3: The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres of Jews
DOCUMENT 25-4: Soldiers Send Messages Home
DOCUMENT 25-5: Rosies the Riveter Recall Working in War Industries
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 25
Cold War Politics in the Truman Years 1945-1953
DOCUMENT 26-1: General Marshall Summarizes the Lessons of World War II
DOCUMENT 26-2: George F. Kennan Outlines Containment
DOCUMENT 26-3: Cold War Blueprint
DOCUMENT 26-4: Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communists
DOCUMENT 26-5: A Veteran Recalls Combat in the Korean War
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 26
The Politics and Culture of Abundance 1952-1960
DOCUMENT 27-1: Edith M. Stern Attacks the Domestic Bondage of Women
DOCUMENT 27-2: Vance Packard Analyzes the Age of Affluence
DOCUMENT 27-3: George E. McMillan Reports on Racial Conditions in the South in 1960
DOCUMENT 27-4: Civil Defense in the Nuclear Shadow
DOCUMENT 27-5: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 27
Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction 1960-1974
DOCUMENT 28-1: New Left Students Seek Democratic Social Change
DOCUMENT 28-2: Martin Luther King Jr. Explains Nonviolent Resistance
DOCUMENT 28-3: George C. Wallace Denounces the Civil Rights Movement
DOCUMENT 28-4: Black Power
DOCUMENT 28-5: Equal Rights for Women
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 28
Vietnam and the End of the Cold War Consensus 1961-1975
DOCUMENT 29-1: President Kennedy Explains Why We Are in Vietnam
DOCUMENT 29-2: A Secret Government Assessment of the Vietnam War
DOCUMENT 29-3: Military Discipline in an Unpopular War
DOCUMENT 29-4: An American Soldier in Vietnam
DOCUMENT 29-5: John Kerry Denounces the Vietnam War
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 29
America Moves to the Right 1969-1989
DOCUMENT 30-1: The Watergate Tapes: Nixon, Dean, and Haldeman Discuss the Cancer within the Presidency
DOCUMENT 30-2: Roe v. Wade and Abortion Rights
DOCUMENT 30-3: Norma McCorvey Explains How She Became “Roe” of Roe v. Wade
DOCUMENT 30-4: President Ronald Reagan Defends American Morality
DOCUMENT 30-5: A Vietnamese Immigrant on the West Coast
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 30
The Promises and Challenges of Globalization Since 1989
DOCUMENT 31-1: National Security of the United States Requires Preemptive War
DOCUMENT 31-2: A Captured 9/11 Terrorist Confesses
DOCUMENT 31-3: A Christian Leader Argues That Evangelical Christianity Has Been Hijacked
DOCUMENT 31-4: Joseph Stiglitz Describes Capitalist Fools’ Responsibility for the Economic Crisis
DOCUMENT 31-5: President Barack Obama Declares a New Beginning in U.S. Relations with the Muslim World
Comparative Questions
Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 31