The American people : creating a nation and a society
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The American people : creating a nation and a society
Pearson Longman, c2007
7th ed
Available at 1 libraries
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"Primary source edition"
Accompanied by study card (ISBN: 0321292324, c2005): "American history" ([4] p. of plates)
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
* This Primary Source Edition provides 1 to 2 primary sources per chapter, tied to the chapter's content, with critical thinking questions for each source -- at no additional cost to your students.
* Providing students with a thought-provoking account of America's past, The American People examines how American society assumed its present shape and developed its present forms of government.
* A strong social emphasis underscores the "humanness" of America's history as revealed through the everyday lives of ordinary Americans.
* Recovering the Past essays acquaint students with the work that historians do by introducing them to the fascinating variety of materials that historians use to understand and interpret the past.
* Two new primary source features, "American Voices" and "How Others See Us" enliven the narrative with short passages from both ordinary and extraordinary Americans or from outsiders commenting on the American nation or its people.
Table of Contents
I: A Colonizing People, 1492-1776
1 Ancient America and Africa.
2 Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas.
3 Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century.
4 The Maturing of Colonial Society.
5 The Strains of Empire.
II: A Revolutionary People, 1775-1828.
6 A People in Revolution.
7 Consolidating the Revolution.
8 Creating a Nation.
9 Society and Politics in the Early Republic.
III: An Expanding People, 1820-1877.
10 Economic Transformations in the Northeast and the Old Northwest.
11 Slavery and the Old South.
12 Shaping America in the Antebellum Age.
13 Moving West.
14 The Union in Peril.
15 The Union Severed.
16 The Union Reconstructed.
IV: An Industrializing People, 1865-1900.
17 Rural America: The West and the New South.
18 The Rise of Smokestack America.
19 Politics and Reform.
20 Becoming a World Power.
V: A Modernizing People, 1900-1945.
21 The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism.
22 The Great War.
23 Affluence and Anxiety.
24 The Great Depression and the New Deal.
25 World War II.
VI: A Resilient People, 1945-2005.
26 Postwar America at Home, 1945-1960.
27 Chills and Fever During the Cold War, 1945-1960.
28 Reform and Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960-1969.
29 Disorder and Discontent, 1969-1980.
30 The Revival of Conservatism, 1980-1992.
31 The Post-Cold War World, 1992-2005.
Primary Source Documents
How to Analyze Primary Source
Documents D-3
DOCUMENT 1.1 Pima Creation Story (Traditional-Ancient) D-5
DOCUMENT 1.2 Iroquois Creation Story (Traditional-Ancient) D-5
DOCUMENT 1.3 Ottawa Origins Story (recorded c. 1720) D-6
DOCUMENT 2.1 Christopher Columbus, from the Journal of Christopher Columbus (1492) D-9
DOCUMENT 2.2 Journal extract by Jacques Cartier on meeting the Micmac Indians (1534) D-10
DOCUMENT 3.1 John Smith, "The Starving Time" (1624) D-11
DOCUMENT 3.2 William Penn, Description of Pennsylvania (1681) D-12
DOCUMENT 4.1 Virginia Law on Indentured Servitude (1705) D-13
DOCUMENT 4.2 Benjamin Franklin on George Whitefield (1771) D-13
DOCUMENT 5.1 Benjamin Franklin, Testimony Against the Stamp Act (1766) D-15
DOCUMENT 5.2 BostonGazette, Description of the Boston Massacre (1770) D-16
DOCUMENT 6.1 Joseph Warren, "Account of the Battle of Lexington" (1775) D-19
DOCUMENT 6.2 Proclamation of Lord Dunmore (November 14, 1775) D-20
DOCUMENT 7.1 Publius (James Madison), Federalist Paper #10 (1788) D-21
DOCUMENT 7.2 Patrick Henry Speaks Against Ratification of the Constitution (1788) D-22
DOCUMENT 8.1 George Washington's Farewell Address (1796) D-25
DOCUMENT 8.2 Lewis and Clark Meet the Shoshone, August 17, 1805 D-26
DOCUMENT 9.1 Opinion of the Supreme Court for Marbury v. Madison (1803) D-27
DOCUMENT 9.2 Letter from Dolley Payne Madison to Lucy Payne Todd (1814) D-27
DOCUMENT 10.1 Extract from the Albany Daily Advertiser (1819) D-29
DOCUMENT 10.2 "A Week in the Mill," The Lowell Offering, Vol. V (1845): 217-218 D-29
DOCUMENT 11.1 A Catechism for Slaves (1854) D-31
DOCUMENT 11.2 Poem, "The Slave Auction," by Frances E. W. Harper (1854) D-31
DOCUMENT 12.1 William Lloyd Garrison, First Issue of The Liberator (1831) D-33
DOCUMENT 12.2 Charles G. Finney, What a Revival of Religion Is (1835) D-33
DOCUMENT 13.1 Letter from Marcus Whitman to Rev. David Greene, ABCFM Missionary Board (1844) D-35
DOCUMENT 13.2 Edward Gould Buffum, Six Months in the Gold Mines (1850) D-36
DOCUMENT 14.1 John C. Calhoun, Proposal to Preserve the Union (1850) D-39
DOCUMENT 14.2 Opinion of the Supreme Court for Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) D-39
DOCUMENT 15.1 Clara Barton, Memoirs of Medical Life at the Battlefield (1862) D-41
DOCUMENT 15.2 Letter from H. Ford Douglas to Frederick Douglass's Monthly (January 8, 1863) D-42
DOCUMENT 16.1 Clinton Fisk, "Plain Counsels for Freedman" (1865) D-43
DOCUMENT 16.2 The Nation, "The State of the South" (1872) D-44
DOCUMENT 17.1 Accounts of the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890s) D-47
DOCUMENT 17.2 Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) D-48
DOCUMENT 18.1 Adna Weber, "The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century" (1899) D-51
DOCUMENT 18.2 Samuel Gompers, The American Labor Movement: Its Makeup, Achievements and Aspirations (1914) D-52
DOCUMENT 19.1 Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883) D-55
DOCUMENT 19.2 Mary Elizabeth Lease, from Populist Crusader (1892) D-56
DOCUMENT 20.1 Ernest Howard Crosby, "The Real `White Man's Burden'" (1899) D-57
DOCUMENT 20.2 William McKinley, "Decision on the Philippines" (1900) D-57
DOCUMENT 21.1 Lincoln Steffens, from The Shame of the Cities (1904) (1899) D-59
DOCUMENT 21.2 Herbert Croly, from Progressive Democracy (1914) D-59
DOCUMENT 22.1 Eugene Kennedy, "A `Doughboy' Describes the Fighting Front" (1918) D-61
DOCUMENT 22.2 Henry Cabot Lodge's Objections to Article 10 of the Treaty of Versailles (1919) D-62
DOCUMENT 23.1 1924 Immigration Law D-63
DOCUMENT 23.2 Court Statements by Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1927) D-64
DOCUMENT 24.1 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Radio Address (1933) D-67
DOCUMENT 24.2 Mrs. Henry Weddington, Letter to President Roosevelt (1938) D-68
DOCUMENT 25.1 Albert Einstein, Letter to President Roosevelt (1939) D-71
DOCUMENT 25.2 Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The Four Freedoms" (1941) D-72
DOCUMENT 26.1 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 347 U.S.C. 483 (1954) D-75
DOCUMENT 26.2 Ladies' Home Journal, "Young Mother" (1956) D-76
DOCUMENT 27.1 George Marshall, The Marshall Plan (1947) D-79
DOCUMENT 27.2 Ronald Reagan, Testimony Before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1947) D-79
DOCUMENT 28.1 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) D-81
DOCUMENT 28.2 John Lewis, Address at the March on Washington (1963) D-81
DOCUMENT 29.1 Shirley Chisholm, "Equal Rights for Women" (May 21, 1969) D-83
DOCUMENT 29.2 Watergate Special Prosecution Force Memorandum (August 9, 1974) D-84
DOCUMENT 30.1 T. Boone Pickens, "My Case for Reagan" (1984) D-85
DOCUMENT 30.2 George Bush, Address to the Nation Announcing Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (1991) D-86
DOCUMENT 31.1 President Bill Clinton, First Inaugural Address (1993) D-89
DOCUMENT 31.2 George W. Bush, Address to Congress (September 20, 2001) D-90
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