American Realities, Volume I,9780321157089

American Realities, Volume I

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Edition: 6th
ISBN13: 9780321157089
ISBN10: 0321157087
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary

American Realities, a best-selling collection of secondary sources, integrates the lives of Americans with their respective time periods, and depicts a diverse American experience that challenges the preconceived notions of students. This edition includes new scholarship and revised writing in existing chapters. The clarity of the author's unique, anecdotal writing style successfully engages students in an exploration of unique historical characters and significant events.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
The Native Americans
October 11, 1492
1(18)
The First Euro-Americans
Norse Settlers in the New World
19(20)
The English Background
A Puritan Death: John and Thomasine Winthrop
39(18)
The British American
William Byrd in Two Worlds
57(20)
Divided Loyalties
Jonathan Boucher and the Pre-Revolutionary Crisis
77(20)
The American Revolution
1776: The Continental Army in the Year of Independence
97(26)
Testing the Constitution
The Alien and Sedition Acts
123(20)
Republican Nationalism
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
143(22)
The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
The Cherokee Removal
165(24)
Abolitionists and Antiabolitionists
William Lloyd Garrison and the Broadcloth Mob
189(22)
The Texas Revolution
Lorenzo de Zavala, Patriot
211(26)
Reform in the Early Republic
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
237(18)
Manifest Destiny
Down the Santa Fe Trail with Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847
255(30)
A Slave's Story
Adb Rahman Ibrahima's Journey from Slavery to Freedom
285(24)
The Civil War
Two Soldiers and Their Worlds
309(22)
Credits 331(2)
Index 333

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