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America Before Columbus
2 pp.
ca. 1520: Aztec Portents and Prophecies
2 pp.
ca. 1600: The Founding of the Iroquois League
Europe Looks Westward
2 pp.
1492, 1503: Christopher Columbus, the Persistent Vision
1 pp.
ca. 1518: An Aztec Account of the Spanish Invasion
The Arrival of the English
2 pp.
1595: Raleigh Probes “the Empire of Guiana”
2 pp.
1622: The Puritan Logic of Migration
The Early Chesapeake
3 pp.
1609: The Virginia Company Charter
2 pp.
1623: A Letter from an Indentured Servant in Virginia
2 pp.
1676: Nathaniel Bacon’s Manifesto
2 pp.
1677: A Royal Commission’s Report on Bacon‘s Rebellion
The Growth of New England
1 pp.
November 11, 1620: The Mayflower Compact
4 pp.
1630: John Winthrop’s Model of Christian Charity
1 pp.
1639: The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
1 pp.
1655: Roger Williams on Liberty of Conscience
The Restoration Colonies
2 pp.
ca. 1680: Dutchman and Native American Debate Theology
2 pp.
1698: A Quaker’s Account of Pennsylvania
The Development of Empire
3 pp.
May 1689: Two Versions of Leisler’s Rebellion
The Colonial Population
3 pp.
1750: Gottlieb Mittleberger on Indentured Servitude
1 pp.
1678: Anne Bradstreet, “To Her Loving Husband”
4 pp.
1780, 1791: Two Africans Recall Their Enslavement
Patterns of Economy and Society
2 pp.
1732, 1736: A Planter’s Anxiety about Questions of Class and Race
1 pp.
1806: “Gentle” and ‘’Simple’‘ Folk in the South
3 pp.
1654: Founding a New England Town
2 pp.
1692: The Examination of a Salem “Witch”
The Colonial Mind
3 pp.
1771—788: Benjamin Franklin, “A Bold and Arduous Project”
1 pp.
1700s: A New England Headstone Rhyme
2 pp.
ca. 1740: Jonathan Edwards, “The Punishment of the Wicked”
A Loosening of Ties
1 pp.
1736: A Virginian Promises to Protect the Burgesses’ “Privileges”
3 pp.
1754: The Albany Plan of Union
The Struggle for the Continent
2 pp.
1755: Benjamin Franklin Meets General Edward Braddock
2 pp.
1755: His Officers Explain Braddock’s Defeat
3 pp.
ca. 1755: Mary Jemison’s “Captivity” with the Senecas and Delawares
The New Imperialism
2 pp.
1763: The Proclamation of 1763
2 pp.
1763: A Protest from the Pennsylvania Frontier
Stirrings of Revolt
2 pp.
1765: Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress
2 pp.
1768: The Massachusetts Circular Letter of 1768
5 pp.
March 5, 1770: Two Accounts of the Boston Massacre
Cooperation and War
2 pp.
October 14, 1774: Resolves of the Continental Congress
3 pp.
April 1775: British and American Versions of the Battle of Lexington
The States United
2 pp.
July 6, 1775: Congress Declares the “Neccessity of Taking Up Arms”
2 pp.
January 10, 1776: Thomas Paine, from Common Sense
1 pp.
June 2, 1776: The Resolution for Independence
The War for Independence
2 pp.
1776: Joseph P. Martin in the Battle of Long Island
1 pp.
December 1777: Albigence Waldo at Valley Forge
2 pp.
February 1778: The Treaty of Alliance with France
2 pp.
February 1781: Guerrilla Warfare in the South
2 pp.
October 19, 1781: Surrender at Yorktown
War and Society
1 pp.
December 28, 1775: The Forcible “Conversion” of a Loyalist in New Jersey
The Creation of State Governments
2 pp.
ca. 1780: The Virginia Bill of Rights
1 pp.
March 14, 1780: Blacks Petition Against Taxation Without Representation
1 pp.
1780: Cushing in Quock Walker Case
The Search for a National Government
6 pp.
November 15, 1777: The Articles of Confederation
Toward a New Government
2 pp.
September 1786: Proceedings of The Annapolis Convention
1 pp.
October 31, 1786: Letter from George Washington to Henry Lee
2 pp.
September 17, 1787: B. Franklin’s Final Speech in the Constitutional Convention
Adoption and Adaptation
4 pp.
1787: James Madison, from The Federalist Number 10
3 pp.
1787: From The Federalist Number 14
2 pp.
October 16, 1787: Letter from Richard Henry Lee to Edmund Randolph
2 pp.
1788: Patrick Henry on the Proposed Constitution
Federalists and Republicans
3 pp.
1791: Letter from Jefferson to Washington on Constitutionality of the Bank
3 pp.
1791: Alexander Hamilton’s “Report on Manufactures”
Asserting National Sovereignty
1 pp.
April 22, 1793: Proclamation of Neutrality, Issued by President Washington
The Downfall of the Federalists
2 pp.
June 25 and July 14, 1798: The Alien Act; The Sedition Act
2 pp.
November 16, 1798: The Kentucky Resolutions
The Rise of Cultural Nationalism
1 pp.
1791: A Plan for the General Establishment of Schools
3 pp.
1789: Noah Webster, “The Reforming of Spelling”
3 pp.
1801—1805: Autobiography of Peter Cartwright, the Backwoods Preacher
2 pp.
1785: Excerpts on Education, from Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia
Stirrings of Industrialism
2 pp.
1793: Tench Coxe, Industries of the United States
Jefferson the President
3 pp.
March 1, 1801: Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address
3 pp.
February 24, 1803: Marbury v. Madison: Chief Justice Marshall for Supreme Court
Doubling the National Domain
2 pp.
April 18, 1802: Jefferson to Livingston on France’s Acquisition of Louisiana
2 pp.
August 12, 1803: Jefferson to Breckenridge on the Louisiana Purchase
2 pp.
1803: Senator White, Speech Opposing the Louisiana Purchase
2 pp.
1804—1806: Selection from Original Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Causes of Conflict
3 pp.
November 1808: Senator Giles, Speech Supporting the Embargo
1 pp.
January 8, 1809: Letter of Timothy Pickering on the Embargo Act
2 pp.
June 14, 1812: James Madison, War Message to Congress
2 pp.
June 1812: Sen. O. German, Speech Against the Adoption of a War Resolution
The War of 1812
1 pp.
September 14, 1814: “The Star-Spangled Banner”
2 pp.
January 1815: Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention
3 pp.
1815: J.Q. Adams, “Reply to the Appeal of the Massachusetts Federalists”
Postwar Expansion
2 pp.
1816: John Randolph, Objections to a Protective Tariff
3 pp.
1817: John Calhoun on Internal Improvements
2 pp.
March 3, 1817: Madison’s Veto of Calhoun‘s Internal Improvements Bill
3 pp.
December 30, 1818: James Flint, Letters from America, Excerpts on Panic of 1819
America’s Economic Revolution
2 pp.
1898: Harriet Hanson Robinson, from Loom and Spindle
Sectionalism and Nationalism
1 pp.
February 13, 1819: The Tallmadge Amendment
1 pp.
1820: Thomas Jefferson on the Missouri Question
1 pp.
February 17, 1820: The Thomas Amendment
2 pp.
February 2, 1819: John Marshall, Dartmouth College v. Woodward
3 pp.
March 7, 1819: John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland
2 pp.
March 2, 1824: John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden
2 pp.
December 2, 1823: James Monroe, Message to Congress
The Revival of Opposition
2 pp.
March 4, 1825: John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address
2 pp.
December 6, 1825: John Quincy Adams, First Annual Message
2 pp.
January 16, 1826: Sen. Macon on American Participation in Panama Congress
The Advent of Mass Politics
2 pp.
1821: Chancellor Kent on the Question of Expanding the Suffrage
1 pp.
May 3, 1842: Thomas Dorr, Speech to the Rhode Island Constitutional Assembly
Our Federal Union
3 pp.
January 26, 1830: Daniel Webster, Second Reply to Hayne
2 pp.
July 26, 1831: John Calhoun, Fort Hill Address
3 pp.
December 10, 1832: Andrew Jackson, Proclamation to People of South Carolina
2 pp.
May 27, 1830: Andrew Jackson, Veto of Maysville Road Bill
3 pp.
1830: Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message
3 pp.
June 22, 1836: Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation
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