America's History, Value Edition, Volume 1

Please note:
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-15
Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, source feature quizzes, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, all of the documents from the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 1 LaunchPad

Document P1-1: Meal of Maize and Beans, the Sixth Month of the Aztec Solar Calendar (c. 1585)

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Document P1-2: THEODORE DE BRY, The Natives of Florida Worship the Column Erected by Commander on His First Voyage (1591)

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Document P1-3: THOMAS MORTON, Manners and Customs of the Indians (of New England) (1637)

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Document P1-4: THOMAS PHILLIPS, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693–1694)

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Document P1-5: RICHARD HAKLUYT, A Discourse of Western Planting (1584)

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The First Americans

American Empires

Chiefdoms and Confederacies

Patterns of Trade

Sacred Power

Hierarchy and Authority

Peasant Society

Expanding Trade Networks

Myths, Religions, and Holy Warriors

Empires, Kingdoms, and Ministates

Trans-Saharan and Coastal Trade

The Spirit World

Portuguese Expansion

The African Slave Trade

Sixteenth-Century Incursions

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America in Global Context Altered Landscapes LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Colliding Cultures LaunchPad

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Interpretations How Connected Were Native American Communities Before 1492? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices A Spanish Priest Criticizes His Fellow Colonists LaunchPad

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1. Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 1 LaunchPad
Document 1-1: THOMAS HARIOT, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)

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Document 1-2: De Soto Encounters Incans in Peru ARTIST UNKNOWN (SPANISH SCHOOL), Construction of the First Christian Church in San Miguel de Piura, and the Battle of Hernando de Soto with the Indians (1726)

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Document 1-3: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Journal of the First Voyage (1492)

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Document 1-4: BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552)

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Document 1-5: COUNCIL OF HUEJOTZINGO, Letter to the King of Spain (1560)

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Document 1-6: BROTHER LUIS BRANDAON, Letter to Father Sandoval (1610)

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A New American World

The Columbian Exchange

The Protestant Challenge to Spain

Brazil’s Sugar Plantations

England’s Tobacco Colonies

The Caribbean Islands

Plantation Life

New France

New Netherland

The Rise of the Iroquois

New England

Instability, War, and Rebellion

Native American Resistance

Bacon’s Rebellion

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America in Global Context Plantation Colonies Versus Neo-Europes LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Who Was Pocahontas? LaunchPad

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Interpretations What Role Did Climate Play in American Colonization? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices 　Susanna Martin, Accused Witch LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 2 LaunchPad
Document 2-1: Testimony of Acoma Indians (1599)

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Document 2-2: JOHN WINTHROP, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)

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Document 2-3: CARELl ALLARD, English Quakers Planting Tobacco on Barbados (1680)

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Document 2-4: Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649)

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Document 2-5: EDMUND WHITE, Letter to Joseph Morton (1687)

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Document 2-6: REV. FATHER LOUIS CELLOT, Letter to Father François Le Mercier (1656)

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 2 LaunchPad

Document P2-1: OLAUDAH EQUIANO, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1794)

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Document P2-2: Letter from Christen Janzen to His Family (1711)

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Document P2-3: The Vain Prodigal Life and Tragical Penitent Death of Thomas Hellier (1680)

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Document P2-4 : GREGOIRE HURET, The Death of Some Jesuit Fathers in Nouvelle-France (1664)

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Document P2-5: Journal of James Kenny (1761–1763)

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Self-Governing Colonies and New Elites, 1607–1660

The Restoration Colonies and Imperial Expansion

From Mercantilism to Imperial Dominion

The Glorious Revolution in England and America

Tribalization

Indian Goals

The South Atlantic System

Africa, Africans, and the Slave Trade

Slavery in the Chesapeake and South Carolina

An African American Community Emerges

The Rise of the Southern Gentry

The Urban Economy

Urban Society

The Rise of Colonial Assemblies

Salutary Neglect

Protecting the Mercantile System

Mercantilism and the American Colonies

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America in Global Context Olaudah Equiano: The Brutal "Middle Passage" LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Servitude and Slavery LaunchPad

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Interpretations Why Did Americans Adopt Slavery? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices Native Americans and European Empires LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 3 LaunchPad

Document 3-1: At the Town-House in Boston: April 18th, 1689. A Letter to Sir Edmond Andros Knight (1689)

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Document 3-2: CANASSATEGO, Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New York (1742)

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Document 3-3: THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA, An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves (1691)

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Document 3-4: WILLIAM BYRD II, Diary Entries (1709–1712)

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Document 3-5: JOHN BARNARD, The Autobiography of the Rev. John Barnard (1766)

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Document 3-6: LORD CORNBURY, Letter to the Lords of Trade (1704)

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Farm Families: Women in the Household Economy

Farm Property: Inheritance

Freehold Society in Crisis

Economic Growth, Opportunity, and Conflict

Cultural Diversity

Religion and Politics

Transportation and the Print Revolution

The Enlightenment in America

American Pietism and the Great Awakening

Religious Upheaval in the North

Social and Religious Conflict in the South

The French and Indian War

The Great War for Empire

British Industrial Growth and the Consumer Revolution

The Struggle for Land in the East

Western Rebels and Regulators

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America in Global Context Transatlantic Migration, 1500–1760 LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Women’s Labor LaunchPad

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Interpretations Did Diversity Lead to Toleration? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices Evangelical Religion and Enlightenment Rationalism LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 4 LaunchPad

Document 4-1: Benjamin Franklin’s Experiments with Electricity (Turned into an 18th Century Parlor Game) (c. 18th century)

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Document 4-2: SARAH OSBORN, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn (1814)

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Document 4-3: CHARLES WOODMASON, Journal (1766–1768)

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Document 4-4: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Albany Plan of Union (1754)

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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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Document P3-1: RICHARD ALLEN, Eulogy for Washington (1799)

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Document P3-2: J. HECTOR ST. JOHN DE CRÈVECOEUR, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)

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Document P3-3: JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY, On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)

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Document P3-4: George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)

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Document P3-5: EDWARD SAVAGE, Liberty. In the Form of the Goddess of Youth, Giving Support to the Bald Eagle (1796)

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The Costs of Empire

George Grenville and the Reform Impulse

An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act

Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd

The Ideological Roots of Resistance

Another Kind of Freedom

Parliament and Patriots Square Off Again

The Problem of the West

Parliament Wavers

A Compromise Repudiated

The Continental Congress Responds

The Rising of the Countryside

Loyalists and Neutrals

Lord Dunmore’s War

Armed Resistance in Massachusetts

The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Independence Declared

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America in Global Context Britain’s Atlantic and Asian Empires LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Beyond the Proclamation Line LaunchPad

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Interpretations Did British Administrators Try to Protect or Exploit Native Americans? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices The Debate over Representation and Sovereignty LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 5 LaunchPad

Document 5-1: RICHARD BLAND, Inquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies (1766)

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Document 5-2: STAMP ACT CONGRESS, Declaration of Rights (1765)

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Document 5-3: PETER OLIVER, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1781)

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Document 5-4: A Protest by the Worcester, Massachusetts, Selectmen (1774)

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Document 5-5: THOMAS HUTCHINSON, Letter to Thomas Whately (1769)

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Document 5-6: THOMAS PAINE, Common Sense (1776)

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War in the North

Armies and Strategies

Victory at Saratoga

The Perils of War

Financial Crisis

Valley Forge

The French Alliance

War in the South

The Patriot Advantage

Diplomatic Triumph

The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?

Women Seek a Public Voice

The War’s Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans, and Slaves

The Articles of Confederation

Shays’s Rebellion

The Rise of a Nationalist Faction

The Philadelphia Convention

The People Debate Ratification

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America in Global Context China’s Growing Empire LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian The Black Soldier’s Dilemma LaunchPad

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Interpretations Was the Constitution Necessary? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices The First National Debate over Slavery LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 6 LaunchPad

Document 6-1: Instructions to the Delegates from Mecklenburg to the Provincial Congress at Halifax in November (1776)

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Document 6-2: ABIGAIL AND JOHN ADAMS, Correspondence (1776)

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Document 6-3: PRINCE HALL, Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Council and the House of Representatives (1777)

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Document 6-4: JAMES PEALE, General George Washington at Yorktown (c. 1782)

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Document 6-5: DANIEL GRAY, Address to the People of Several Towns (1786)

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Document 6-6: JAMES MADISON, Federalist No. 10 and Federalist No. 51 (1787)

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The Federalists Implement the Constitution

Hamilton’s Financial Program

Jefferson’s Agrarian Vision

The French Revolution Divides Americans

The Rise of Political Parties

Sham Treaties and Indian Lands

Migration and the Changing Farm Economy

The Jefferson Presidency

Jefferson and the West

Conflict in the Atlantic and the West

The War of 1812

The Federalist Legacy

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America in Global Context The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Race LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian The Social Life of Alcohol LaunchPad

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Interpretations Did Hamilton’s Economic System Endanger the Legacy of the Revolution? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices Factional Politics and the War of 1812 LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 7 LaunchPad

Document 7-1: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Letter to Edward Carrington (1792)

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Document 7-2: THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781)

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Document 7-3: THE PROVIDENTIAL DETECTION (c. 1790s)

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Document 7-4: THE PANOPLIST AND MISSIONARY HERALD, Retrograde Movement of National Character (1818)

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Document 7-5: TECUMSEH, "Sleep Not Longer, O’ Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811)

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Document 7-6: Report of the Hartford Convention (1815)

Documents from Sources for America’s History, Part 4 LaunchPad

Document P4-1: Process of Excavation, Erie Canal, Lockport (c. 1820s)

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Document P4-2: JOSEPH STORY, Address Delivered on the Dedication of the Cemetery at Mount Auburn (1831)

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Document P4-3: EMMELINE B. WELLS, Diary (1846)

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Document P4-4: GEORGE CAITLIN, Letters and Notes (1841) and Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon’s Egg Head (The Light) Going to and Returning from Washington (c. 1837-1839)

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Document P4-5: ALBERT BRISBANE, A Concise Exposition of the Doctrine of Association (1843)

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Credit and Banking

Transportation and the Market Revolution

The American Industrial Revolution

Origins of the Cotton South

The Cotton Boom and Slavery

The Spread of Innovation

Wageworkers and the Labor Movement

The Growth of Cities and Towns

Planters, Yeomen, and Slaves

The Northern Business Elite

The Middle Class

Urban Workers and the Poor

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America in Global Context The Fate of the American and Indian Textile Industries LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian The Entrepreneur and the Community LaunchPad

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Interpretations Did the Market Revolution Expand Opportunities for Women? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices The Debate over Free and Slave Labor LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 8 LaunchPad

Document 8-1: J. HILL, Junction of Erie and Northern Canal (c. 1830–1832)

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Document 8-2: THE WEEKLY REGISTER, Home Influence (1813)

Document 8-3: LUCY LARCOM, Among Lowell Mill-Girls: A Reminiscence (1881)

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Document 8-4: Ethan Andrews, Slavery and the Domestic Slave-Trade (1836)

Document 8-5: Ely moore, Address Delivered Before the General Trades’ Union of the City of New-York (1833)

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The Decline of the Notables and the Rise of Parties

Racial Exclusion and Republican Motherhood

The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821

The Election of 1824

The Last Notable President: John Quincy Adams

"The Democracy" and the Election of 1828

Jackson’s Agenda: Rotation and Decentralization

The Tariff and Nullification

The Bank War

Indian Removal

Jackson’s Impact

The Whig Worldview

Labor Politics and the Depression of 1837–1843

"Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!"

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America in Global Context Alexis de Tocqueville: Letter to Louis de Kergorlay, June 29, 1831 LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Becoming Literate: Public Education and Democracy LaunchPad

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Interpretations Was Indian Removal Humanitarian or Racist? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices The Character and Goals of Andrew Jackson LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 9 LaunchPad

Document 9-1: MARTIN VAN BUREN, The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren (1854)

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Document 9-2: FITZWILLIAM BYRDSALL, The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party (1842)

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Document 9-3: ANDREW JACKSON, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States (1832)

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Document 9-4: Henry Clay, Speech on the Presidential Election (1840)

Document 9-5: Capitol Fashions for 1837 (1837)

Document 9-6: CHEROKEE WOMEN, Petition (1821 [1831?])

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The Second Great Awakening

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism

Utopian Experiments

Sex in the City

Popular Fiction and the Penny Press

Urban Entertainments

Free Black Communities, North and South

The Rise of Abolitionism

Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement

From Antislavery to Seneca Falls

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America in Global Context Women’s Rights in France and the United States, 1848 LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Dance and Social Identity in Antebellum America LaunchPad

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Interpretations What Motivated Antebellum Reformers? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices Saving the Nation from Drink LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 10 LaunchPad

Document 10-1: MARGARET FULLER, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

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Document 10-2: JOSEPH SMITH, History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet (c. 1830s)

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Document 10-3: Advertisement for the American Museum (1845)

Document 10-4: SARAH GRIMKÉ, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

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Document 10-5: DAVID WALKER, Preamble to Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles (1830)

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Document 10-6: CALVIN COLTON, Abolition a Sedition (1839)

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Planters, Small Freeholders, and Poor Freemen

The Settlement of Texas

The Politics of Democracy

Evangelical Black Protestantism

Forging Families and Communities

Negotiating Rights

The Push to the Pacific

The Plains Indians

The Fateful Election of 1844

The "War of a Thousand Deserts"

Polk’s Expansionist Program

American Military Successes

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America in Global Context Financing War LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Childhood in Black and White LaunchPad

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Interpretations What Explains American Enthusiasm for Manifest Destiny? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices The U.S.-Mexico War: Expansion and Slavery LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 11 LaunchPad

Document 11-1: SUSAN DABNEY SMEDES, Memorials of a Southern Planter (1887)

Document 11-2: Slave Songs of the United States (1867) and Slaves Dance to Their Own Music on a Southern Plantation (c. 1852)

Document 11-3: LANSFORD HASTINGS, The Emigrant’s Guide to Oregon and California (1845)

Document 11-4: JOHN D. SLOAT, To the Inhabitants of California (1846) and GENERAL FRANCISCO MEJIA, A Proclamation at Matamoros (1846)

Document 11-5: Richard Doyle, The Land of Liberty (1847)

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Document P5-1: ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1848)

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Document P5-2: STATUTES OF CALIFORNIA, An Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (1850)

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Document P5-3: SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States (1855)

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Document P5-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Cooper Union Address (1860)

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Document P5-5: ALEXANDER STEPHENS, "Cornerstone" Speech (1861)

Document P5-6: THOMAS NAST, "This is a White Man’s Government" (1868)

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"Free Soil" in Politics

California Gold and Racial Warfare

1850: Crisis and Compromise

The Abolitionist Movement Grows

The Whig Party’s Demise

Immigrants and Know-Nothings

The West and the Fate of the Union

Lincoln’s Political Career

The Union Under Siege

The Election of 1860

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America in Global Context The Gold Rush: California and Australia LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian The Irish in America LaunchPad

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Interpretations Did Slavery Have a Future in the West? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices To Secede or Not to Secede? LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 12 LaunchPad

Document 12-1: Susan Shelby Magoffin, Diary (1846)

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Document 12-2: John l. Magee, Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler (1856)

Document 12-3: JOHN C. CALHOUN, Speech on the Slavery Question (1850)

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Document 12-4: CHARLES SUMNER, The Crime of Kansas (1856)

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Document 12-5: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

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Document 12-6: KEZIAH GOODWIN HOPKINS BREVARD, Diary (1860–1861)

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Early Expectations

Campaigns East and West

Antietam and Its Consequences

Politics North and South

The Impact of Emancipation

Citizens and the Work of War

Vicksburg and Gettysburg

Grant and Sherman Take Command

The Election of 1864 and Sherman’s March

The Confederacy Collapses

The World the War Made

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America in Global Context War Debt: Britain and the United States, 1830–1900 LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Military Deaths — and Lives Saved — During the Civil War LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 13 LaunchPad

Document 13-1: Sowing and Reaping (1863)

Document 13-2: Ambrose Bierce, What I Saw of Shiloh (1881)

Document 13-3: CORNELIA HANCOCK, Letters of a Civil War Nurse (1863)

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Document 13-4: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and JEFFERSON DAVIS, President’s Message (1863)

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Document 13-5: HARRY SMITH, Fifty Years of Slavery (1891)

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Document 13-6: WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)

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Presidential Approaches: From Lincoln to Johnson

Congress Versus the President

Radical Reconstruction

Women’s Rights Denied

The Quest for Land

Republican Governments in the South

Building Black Communities

The Republicans Unravel

Counterrevolution in the South

Reconstruction Rolled Back

The Political Crisis of 1877

Lasting Legacies

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America in Global Context Labor Laws After Emancipation: Haiti and the United States LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian The South’s "Lost Cause" LaunchPad

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Interpretations How Free Were Freedwomen in Reconstruction? LaunchPad

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Analyzing Voices The Impact of Terror LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 14 LaunchPad

Document 14-1: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Last Public Address (1865)

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Document 14-2: BETTY POWERS, Federal Writers’ Project Interview (c. 1936)

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Document 14-3: FRANCES BUTLER LEIGH, Letter to a Friend in England (1867)

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Document 14-4: CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS JR., The Protection of the Ballot in National Elections (1869)

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Document 14-5: THOMAS NAST, Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State (1874)

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Document 14-6: ROBERT BROWNE ELLIOTT, Speech to Congress (1874)

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The New Union and the World

Integrating the National Economy

Mining Empires

Cattlemen on the Plains

Homesteaders

The First National Park

The Civil War and Indians on the Plains

Grant’s Peace Policy

The End of Armed Resistance

Strategies of Survival

Western Myths and Realities

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America in Global Context The Santa Fe Railroad in Mexico and the United States LaunchPad

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Thinking Like a Historian Representing Indians LaunchPad

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Interpretations What Factors Motivated America’s Indian Policies? LaunchPad

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Documents from Sources for America’s History, Chapter 15 LaunchPad

Document 15-1: Indian Territory, That Garden of the World (c. 1880)

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Document 15-2: CURRIER & IVES, Across the Continent (1868)

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Document 15-3: J. WRIGHT MOOAR, Buffalo Days (1933)

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Document 15-4: FRANCIS A. WALKER, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1872)

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Document 15-5: MOURNING DOVE, A Salishan Autobiography (1990)