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Table
of Contents
Historical Perspectives:
A Reader and Study Guide, Vol. 1
Detailed Table of Contents
| Chapter 1
 Catalog
|
Discovery
of the Americas
|
Identification
|
2 |
|
Think About
|
5 |
| "Explaining
the Reputation of Christopher Columbus" By
Jack Weatherford |
5 |
| "The
Christopher Columbus Controversy: Western Civilization
vs Primitivism," By Michael S. Berliner |
7 |
| "Parris
Island's First European Visitors" |
8 |
| Excerpt
from Tears of the Indians, By Bartolome de
Las Casas |
10 |
| "The
Mississippi Period" By Sylvia Flowers |
13 |
| "Chaco
Culture" |
15 |
| Europeans
React to the Cultures They Encountered in North
America |
17 |
|
Self Test
|
24 |
|
Essays
|
26 |
|
Optional Activities
|
26 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
26 |
|
1
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| Chapter 2
Catalog
|
Colonization
|
Identification
|
28 |
|
Think About
|
31 |
|
"Of the Nature and Manners
of the People" the English Encountered on Roanoke
Island, By Thomas Hariot
|
31 |
| "Powhatan
Indian Lifeways," By Lee Cotton, Park Ranger, Colonial
National Historical Park |
34 |
| "Some Account of the
Province of Pennsylvania" By William Penn |
37 |
| "The Indispensable
Role of Women in Virginia" By Sandy Groves, Park
Ranger |
39 |
| New England's Annoyance"
(c. 1630) |
42 |
| "The Question of Servant
or Slave" |
44 |
| "The Tryals of Bridget
Bishop, Alias Oliver, at the Court of Oyser and Terminer |
46 |
|
Self Test
|
50 |
|
Essays
|
51 |
|
Optional Activities
|
51 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
51 |
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| Chapter 3
Catalog
|
Colonial Society
|
Identification
|
53 |
|
Think About
|
55 |
|
Francisco de Vitoria's Principles
|
55 |
| Lessons
of the Massacre at Jamestown |
56 |
| "The Salem Witch Trials
of 1692" and "Frequently Asked Questions About
the Salem Witch Trials" by Alison D' Amario, Director
of Education, Salem Witch Museum |
58 |
| Treaty Negotiations Between
Canassatego and George Thomas, 1742 |
60 |
| The Choice Between the
English or the French |
61 |
| The Enforcement of God's
Law |
62 |
| Women's Roles |
65 |
|
A diary entry of Judge Sewell of
Massachusetts
|
65 |
|
A letter to Eliza Pinckney of South Carolina to her
father
|
65 |
|
To a friend she writes of how she spend her day
|
65 |
|
Thomas Jefferson's letter of advice to his daughter
concerning how she spends her day
|
65 |
|
A letter from Benjamin Franklin concerning a printer's
wife who took charge of her husband's business after
his death
|
66 |
|
A poem by Anne Bradstreet, one of the first women
poets in America
|
66 |
| Popular Wisdom: Quotes
By Benjamin Franklin |
67 |
| News Accounts From Wenham,
Massachusetts |
68 |
| News Accounts From Deerfield,
Massachusetts |
70 |
|
Self Test
|
72 |
|
Essays
|
73 |
|
Optional Activities
|
73 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
73 |
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| Chapter 4
Catalog
|
Toward Revolution
|
Identification
|
74 |
|
Think About
|
78 |
| Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards (1735) |
78 |
| Of the Religion of Deism
Compared with the Christian Religion By Jonathan Edwards |
80 |
| The Poems of Phillis Wheatley |
82 |
|
On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitfield, 1770
|
82 |
|
To His Excellency George Washington
|
85 |
| Andrew Hamilton's Arguments
in Defense of John Zenger |
85 |
| Declaration of the Stamp
Act Congress, 1765 |
86 |
| "Common Sense,"
By Thomas Paine, January 1776 |
88 |
|
Self Test
|
90 |
|
Essays
|
92 |
|
Optional Activities
|
92 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
92 |
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| Chapter 5
Catalog
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The New Nation Is Created
|
Identification
|
94 |
|
Think About
|
95 |
| A Woman at the Front (1775-1776) |
96 |
| "The Game is Pretty
Near Up" By George Washington |
98 |
| The Crisis Papers---Number
1, By Thomas Paine |
99 |
| Battalions of Negroes By
Alexander Hamilton |
101 |
| The Articles of Confederation |
103 |
| The Constitutional Convention:
Checks and Balances |
106 |
| The Constitutional Convention:
The Issue of Slavery |
109 |
|
Self Test
|
114 |
|
Essays
|
115 |
|
Optional Activities
|
115 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
116 |
|
| Chapter 6
Catalog
|
The Early Republic
|
Identification
|
118 |
|
Think About
|
120 |
| The Proclamation of Neutrality
(1793) By the President of the United States |
121 |
| A Memorial to the South
Carolina Senate |
122 |
| The Treaty of Greenville |
123 |
| Thomas Jefferson's First
Inaugural Address |
127 |
| Knife River Indian Village;
the People |
129 |
| Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion |
132 |
| Discrimination in Ohio During
the Early Republic By Thomas Matijasic |
133 |
| President James Madison's
War Message to Congress |
138 |
| The Battle of New Orleans
(January 8, 1815) |
139 |
|
Self Test
|
141 |
|
Essays
|
142 |
|
Optional Activities
|
142 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
142 |
|
| Chapter 7
Catalog
|
Claiming the Commons: Constructing
an American Identity
|
Identification
|
144 |
|
Think About
|
146 |
| Jackson's Veto Message
on Maysville Road Bill, 1830 |
147 |
| Indian Removal: Two Sides
of the Story |
148 |
|
Andrew Jackson's 2nd Annual Message
to Congress, December 7, 1830
|
148 |
|
Memorial and Protest of The Cherokee
Nation, June 22, 1836
|
149 |
| Henry Clay's Speech on
the Compromise Tariff, February 12, 1833 |
150 |
| How to Treat Your Constituents
and be a Popular Party Hero, from The Life of Davy
Crockett, 1834 |
152 |
| Seth Luther on Wage Slavery
in New England, 1832 |
153 |
| A Manifesto, Lowell, MA:
"Daughters of Freemen Still," 1834 |
155 |
| An Account of Jackson's
Inauguration, March 1829 1836 |
156 |
| U.S. Transportation Revolution
as Perceived By a European Traveler in 1832 |
159 |
| "The American Scholar."
By Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1837 |
161 |
|
Self Test
|
163 |
|
Essays
|
164 |
|
Optional Activities
|
164 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
165 |
|
| Chapter 8
Catalog
|
Age of Reform
|
Identification
|
168 |
|
Think About
|
170 |
|
Abolitionism in the Midwest
|
170 |
|
Protesting Censorship of the U.S. Mail and the "Gag"
Rule in the U.S. House of Representatives
|
172
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| The Call for the First
National Convention for Women's Rights, Worchester, Mass.,
1850 |
174 |
|
The President elect, Paulina Davis,
took the Chair and offered the following Address
|
175 |
| Shaker Millennialism |
180 |
| Origin of
The Book of Mormon |
181 |
| On the Way to Liberia,
a Letter to a Former Mistress (1833) |
184 |
| The Protest of Lucy Stone
and Henry Blackwell Upon Their Marriage on May 2, 1855 |
185 |
|
Self Test
|
186 |
|
Essays
|
188 |
|
Optional Activities
|
188 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
188 |
|
| Chapter 9
Catalog
|
American Life 1840-1860
|
Identification
|
190 |
|
Think About
|
192 |
| Plantation Song: "My
Old Kentucky Home, Good Night!" 1853 |
193 |
| African-American Spirituals |
195 |
|
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had
|
195 |
|
Deep River
|
195 |
|
Go Down, Moses
|
196 |
| Slavery as a "Positive
Good" Speech by John C. Calhoun in the U.S. Senate,
February 6, 1837 |
198 |
| Spiritualism and Cora L.
V. Scott of New York, 1851 |
200 |
| From a Broken Sawmill Blade
to a Steel Plow: The Story of John Deere's Invention,
1837 |
202 |
| A Muslim Enslaved in North
Carolina Told His Own Story, 1831 |
204 |
| True Womanhood in Antebellum
America: Two Perspectives |
206 |
|
Social Expectations of White
Women (Charleston Mercury, October 10, 1837)
|
206 |
|
A Reply form Sojourner Truth (1795-1883)
|
206 |
|
Self Test
|
207 |
|
Essays
|
208 |
|
Optional Activities
|
209 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
209 |
|
| Chapter 10
Catalog
|
The Road to War
|
Identification
|
211 |
|
Think About
|
214 |
|
Fall of the Alamo and Expansion
|
214 |
|
The Mexican War By President James K. Polk
|
216 |
| The Mexican War is on Behalf
of Slavery By James Russell Lowell |
218 |
|
The Know-Nothing Movement
|
220 |
| Southern Reactions to the
Caning of Senator Sumner |
222 |
| Letters from the Conflict
in Kansas |
223 |
|
Letter from John Lawrie: A Northerner's
View
|
223 |
|
Letters from Axalla John Hoole: A Southern
View
|
224 |
| Lincoln and Douglas Debate |
226 |
|
July 1858 Gustave Koerner
|
226 |
|
Some of the Debate
|
226 |
| John Brown's Raid: Two
Views of African Americans |
228 |
| Fort Sumter is Attacked |
229 |
| Slavery is the Cornerstone
of the Confederacy By Alexander H. Stephens |
231 |
|
Self Test
|
233 |
|
Essays
|
234 |
|
Optional Activities
|
235 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
235 |
|
| Chapter 11
Catalog
|
The Civil War
|
Identification
|
237 |
|
Think About
|
240 |
| First Battle of Bull Run |
240 |
| The Significance of Slavery |
242 |
|
A Union General on the Significance
of Slaves
|
242 |
|
A Southern Newspaper on the "Advantages"
of Slavery
|
242 |
|
A Northern General on Slavery as
a Military Question
|
243 |
| The Struggle to Allow Black
Troops in the Union Army |
244 |
|
Newspaper Editorial by Freederick Douglass
|
244 |
|
Public Opposition to the Use of Black
Troops
|
244 |
| The Emancipation Proclamation
(1863) by Abraham Lincoln |
245 |
| The Gettysburg Address
(1863) by Abraham Lincoln |
247 |
| Black Troops in Combat |
248 |
|
Reminiscence of a Former Black Soldier
in the Union Army
|
248 |
|
Letter Written by an Unnamed Soldier
in the Massachusetts Fifty-fifth Infantry
|
248 |
|
Black Soldiers Triumph at Battle of
Petersburg, July 1864
|
248 |
| The Home Fronts |
249 |
|
The New York City Draft Riots
|
249 |
|
Response of a Rioter
|
250 |
|
Problems in the South
|
205 |
|
Diary of a Georgia Girl (1864) by Eliza
Andrews
|
250 |
| The Dispute Over Using
Black Troops in the South |
252 |
|
Opposition to the Idea
|
252 |
|
A Woman Favors the Idea
|
252 |
|
Confederate Congress Approves Use of
Black Troops
|
252 |
| Recollections of the War's
Horrors: 1875 By Walt Whitman |
253 |
| Second Inaugural Address
(1865) By Abraham Lincoln |
253 |
|
Self Test
|
256 |
|
Essays
|
257 |
|
Optional Activities
|
258 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
258 |
|
| Chapter 12
Catalog
|
Reconstruction: The Turning
Point That Never Turned
|
Identification
|
259 |
|
Think About
|
262 |
| A Letter "To My Old
Master," c. 1865 |
262 |
| The Black Codes |
264 |
|
The Black Code of St. Landry's Parish,
1865
|
264 |
| The Issue of Land for the
Freed Slaves |
266 |
|
From a Speech By Thaddeus Stevens,
1865
|
266 |
|
New York Times, July 9, 1867Republican
Rule in the South
|
266 |
|
A Conversation between a Freedmen and
a General at Fort Smith, Arkansas
|
266 |
| Educating the Freed People |
268 |
|
Dedicated Teachers, Determined Students,
1869
|
268 |
|
Sydney Andrews quoted in the Joint
Report on Reconstruction
|
269 |
|
Captain C. M. Hamilton in a letter
to the Office of Adjutant General
|
268 |
| The Split Between Advocates
of Women's Rights and Black Rights |
269 |
|
A Petition Drafted after the Civil
War by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
|
269 |
|
Letter to Susan B. Anthony from abolitionist
and advocate of suffrage for ex-slaves Gerritt Smith
|
269 |
|
A Response By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
|
270 |
|
"Being Persons, Then, Women are
Citizens"
|
270 |
| Differing Views About Blacks
in Reconstruction in the South |
271 |
|
From the Novel, A Fool's Errand By
the carpetbagger, Albion Tourgee (1879)
|
271 |
|
From the Novel, The Clansman By Thomas
Dixon, Jr.
|
272 |
|
From---The Autobiography of John
Roy Lynch, an ex-salve appointed justice-of-the-peace.
|
272 |
| Retreat from Reconstruction |
274 |
|
An Excerpt From the Speech of Black
Congressman Richard Harvey Cain of South Carolina
|
274 |
|
Political Terrorism by the Ku Klux
Klan Testimony by Harriet Hernandez
|
274 |
|
Excerpts from the Original Draft of
the South Carolina 1876 Democratic Party Campaign Plan
|
275 |
| After Reconstruction |
276 |
|
Address to the Louisville Convention
(1883) by Frederick Douglass
|
276 |
|
Self Test
|
279 |
|
Essays
|
281 |
|
Optional Activities
|
281 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
281 |
|
| Chapter 13
Catalog
|
Industrialization
|
Identification
|
283 |
|
Think About
|
285 |
|
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
|
285 |
| Excerpts from Andrew Carnegie,
The Gospel of Wealth |
287 |
| A Selection from the Constitution
of the Knights of Labor |
288 |
| Excerpts from John Morrison's
Testimony Before the United States Senate |
290 |
| Anti-Imperialism: The Views
of Grover Cleveland |
293 |
| The Wizard of Oz: Industrial
Themes in a Child's Story, By Doug Cantrell |
294 |
| Forced Labor in West Virginia
By Gino C. Speranza |
289 |
| The Awakening of the Negro,
By Booker T. Washington |
302 |
| "Of the Training of
Black Men", By W.E.B. DuBois |
306 |
|
Self Test
|
312 |
|
Essays
|
313 |
|
Optional Activities
|
313 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
314 |
|
| Chapter 14
Catalog
|
The Trans-Missouri West: The
Last Frontier
|
Identification
|
317 |
|
Think About
|
319 |
|
The Homestead Act
|
319 |
| The Pacific Railway Act |
321 |
| Red Cloud's Speech at Cooper
Union, New York |
322 |
| The Dawes Act |
324 |
| D.W.C. Duncan's Testimony |
326 |
| Report
on Wounded Knee Massacre, By Benjamin Harrison |
328 |
| Bryan's
Cross of Gold Speech |
329 |
| The
Page Law |
333 |
| Chinese
Exclusion Act |
334 |
| Republican
Party Platform |
335 |
| Populist
Platform |
340 |
|
Self Test
|
343 |
|
Essays
|
344 |
|
Optional Activities
|
344 |
|
Web Site Listings
|
345 |
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