Honors American History
The Primary Sources for each chapter are located on the disk in the front cover of the text. At
the end of each document is a series of questions that must be answered in complete sentences.
Answers must include evidence/support from the document and text. Be sure to keep each of
these documents in your binder because some questions for later document(s) will require you
to refer back to a previous document(s) for comparison.
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I will occasionally change the documents required. These will be handed out in place of
those listed below.
Chapter 1: Continent of Villages
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Introduction of Primary Sources and Analysis of Documents
Readings
o “Jesuit Missionary Reports on the Society of the Natchez of the Lower Mississippi in 1730”
o “The Constitution of the Five Nation Confederacy Records the Innovations of an Iroquois Founding
Father of the Fifteenth Century”
Chapter 2: When Worlds Collide
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Readings
o “An Aztec Remembers the Conquest of Mexico a Quarter Century Afterwards, in 1550”
o “Shipwrecked Spaniard Writes of His Incredible Journey through North America from 1528-1536”
Chapter3: Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1701
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Readings
o “John Winthrop Defines the Puritan Ideal of Community 1630”
o “Selections from the New England Primer of 1683”
o “William Penn’s 1681 Plans for the Province of Pennsylvania”
Chapter 4: Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770
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Readings
o “A Slave Ship Surgeon Writes about the Slave Trade in 1788”
o “A Virginian Describes the Difference between Servants and Slaves in 1722”
o “An Early Abolitionist Speaks out Against Slavery in 1757”
Chapter 5: The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780
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Readings
o “An Iroquois Chief Argues for his Tribe’s Property Rights in 1742”
o “A Swedish Visitor Tells about Philadelphia, 1748”
o Jonathan Edwards: “A Puritan Preacher Admonishes His Flocks in 1741”
Chapter 6: From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776
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Readings
o “Britain Forbids Americans Western Settlement, 1763”
o James Otis: “An American Colonist Opposes New Taxes and Asserts the Rights of the Colonists,
1764”
o Patrick Henry: “A Colonist Makes an Impassioned Call to Arms, 1775”
o “An Anglican Preacher Denounces the American Rebels, 1775”
Chapter 7: The American Revolution, 1776-1786
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Readings
o Abigail Adams: “A Colonial Woman Argues for Equal Rights, 1776”
o Land Ordinance of 1785: “Congress Decides What to Do with the Western Lands, 1785”
o Northwest Ordinance: “Territorial Governments Are Established by Congress, 1787”
o Shay’s Rebellion: “Massachusetts Farmers Take Up Arms in Revolt Against Taxes, 1786”
Chapter 8: The New Nation, 1786-1800
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Readings
o Jefferson and Hamilton: “The Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury Battle about
the Constitution, 1791”
o Whiskey Rebellion: “Farmers Protest the New Whiskey Tax, 1790”
o John De Crevecoeur: “A Frenchman Comments on the American Character, 1782”
o Noah Webster: “An American School Teacher Calls for an American Language, 1789”
Chapter 9: An Agrarian Republic, 1790-1824
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Readings
o Court Case ruling for “Marbury vs. Madison”, McCulloch vs. Maryland”
o Missouri Compromise: “Missouri Admitted to Statehood, Slavery at Issue, 1820”
o Monroe Doctrine: “The President Addresses the Union, 1823”
Chapter 10: The South and Slavery, 1790-1850s
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Readings
o Novel “Swallow Barn”: “Southern Novel Depicts Slavery, 1832”
o “A Slave Tells of His Sale at Auction, 1848”
o “A Farm Journal Reports on the Care and Feeding of Slaves, 1836”
Chapter 11: The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840
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Readings
o “What Shall be the Role of Government, 1834”
o Daniel Webster: “American Senator Opposes Nullification, 1830”
o 1832 Tariff Crisis: “South Carolina Refuses the Tariff, 1832”
o Women Suffrage Movement: “A Staunch Feminist Advocates Equality, 1843”
Chapter 12: Industry and the North, 1790-1840s
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Readings
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“A New England Factory Issues Regulations for Workers in 1825”
“A Young woman Writes of the Evils of Factory Life in 1845”
“A New England woman Describes the Responsibilities of American Women in 1847”
Chapter 13: Coming to Terms with the New Age, 1820-1850s
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Readings
o Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Feminists Hold a Convention, 1848”
o Angelina Grimke: “Southern Bell Denounces Slavery, 1838”
o Sojourner Truth: “A Black Feminists Speaks Out in 1851”
Chapter 14: The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s
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Readings
o “A Tejano Describes the Beginning of the Texas Revolution in 1836-36”
o John L. O’Sullivan: “A Newspaper Man Declares the “Manifest Destiny” of the United States in
1845”
o “An American Army Officer Describes the Beginning of the California Gold Rush in 1848”
Chapter 15: The Coming Crisis, the 1850s
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Readings
o Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act of 1855: “Northern State Defies Fugitive Salve Act, 1855”
o Fredrick Douglass: “An African American Abolitionists Decries the Fourth of July in 1852”
o John Brown: “An Abolitionist Is Given the Death Sentence in 1859”
o Lincoln Inaugural Address: “A New President is Sworn In, 1861”
Chapter 16: The Civil War, 1861-1865
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Readings
o Cornelia Hancock: “A Civil War Nurse Writes of Conditions of Freed Slaves, 1864”
o English Letter: “The Working-Men of Manchester, England, Write to President Lincoln on the
Question of Slavery in 1862”
o James Henry Gooding: “An African American Soldier Writes to the President Appealing for
Equality in 1863”
Chapter 17: Reconstruction, 1863-1877
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Readings
o “Black Code of Mississippi, 1865”
o “Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, 1876”
o “A Sharecrop Contract, 1882”
Chapter 18: Conquest and Survival, 1860-1900
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Readings
o “D.W.C. Duncan, How Allotment Impoverishes the Indian, 1906”
o “Charles and Nellie Wooster, Letters from the Frontier, 1872”
o “Helen Hunt Jackson, The Thrill of Western Railroading, 1878”
Chapter 19: The Incorporation of America, 1865-1900
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Readings
o Andrew Carnegie: “Wealth, 1889”
o “Lee Chew, Experiences of a Chinese Immigrant, 1903”
o “H. Carey Thomas, Higher Education for Women, 1901”
Chapter 20: Commonwealth and Empire, 1870-1900
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Readings
o Roscoe Conkling: “Offense of the Spoils System, 1877”
o “Populist Party Platform, 1892”
o “Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power, 1890”
o “E.L. Godkin, A Great National Disgrace, 1877”
Chapter 21: Urban America and the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
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Readings
o Upton Sinclair: “The Jungle, 1906”
o Booker T. Washington: “The Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895”
o W.E.B. DuBois: “The Niagara Movement, Declaration of Principles, 1905”
Chapter 22: World War 1, 1914-1920
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Readings
o George Creel: “How We Advertised America, 1920”
o National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA): “Anna Howard Shaw, Woman’s
Committee of the Council of National Defense, 1917”
o “Letters on the Great Migration, 1916-1917”
Chapter 23: The Twenties, 1920-1929
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Readings
o “Robert and Helen Lynd, The Automobile comes to Middletown, 1924”
o “Bruce Barton, Jesus Christ ass Businessman, 1925”
o Moral Revolution: “Eleanor Wembridge, Petting and Necking, 1925”
o “Speakeasies in New York, 1929”
Chapter 24: The Great Depression And The New Deal, 1929-1939
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Readings
o Franklin D. Roosevelt: “First Inaugural Address, 1933”
o Huey Long: “Share Our Wealth, 1935”
o “Carey McWilliams, Okies in California, 1939”
o Dorothea Lange Photographs
Chapter 25: World War II, 1941-1945
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Readings
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The Four Freedoms, 1941”
“Virginia Snow Wilkinson, From Housewife to Shipfitter, 1943”
Court Case: “Korematsu v. United States, 1944”
Harry S. Truman: “Statement on the Atomic Bomb, 1945”
Chapter 26: The Cold War, 1945-1952
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Readings
o Henry Wallace: “Letter to President Truman, 1946”
o “The Truman Doctrine, 1947”
o Joseph McCarthy: “Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950”
Chapter 26: America At Midcentury, 1952
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Readings
o “The Teenage Consumer, 1959”
o “John K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society, 1958”
o Betty Friedan (Feminine Mystique): “The Problem That Has No Name, 1963”
Chapter 27: The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1966
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Readings
o Jo Ann Gibson Robinson: “The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955”
o “Brown v. Board of Education, 1954”
o “Southern Manifesto on Integration, 1956”
o Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963”
Chapter 29: War Abroad, War at Home, 1965-1974
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Readings
o Lyndon B. Johnson: “Why We Are In Vietnam, 1965”
o “Stokely Carmichael, Black Power, 1966”
o John Kerry: “Vietnam Veterans Against the war, 1971”
o “Articles of Impeachment against Richard M. Nixon, 1974”