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Title Essential documents of American history. Volume 1 : from colonial times to the Civil War / edited by Bob Blaisdell.

Publication Info. Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 2016.
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 Manchester, Main Library - Reference Material  R 973 ESSENTIAL VOL. 1    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 497 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 497).
Contents Colonial America : King James I, First Charter of Virginia (April 10, 1606) -- Powhatan, Wahunsonacock, speech to Captain John Smith at Jamestown (c.1609) -- The Pilgrims of Cape Cod, Mayflower Compact (November 11, 1620) -- Captain John Underhill, narrative of the Pequot War (1637) -- Nathaniel Ward, the liberties of the Massachusetts Collonie in New England (December 1641) -- Massachusetts School of Laws of April 14, 1642, and November 11, 1647 -- The Germantown Mennonite protest against slavery (February 18, 1688) -- Reverend Deodat Lawson, statement on the Salem witches and witches' testimony (1692) -- Benjamin Franklin, Plan of Union (1754) -- The Stamp Act (March 22, 1765) -- Declarations of the Rights and Grievances of the Colonists (October 19, 1765) -- Benjamin Franklin and a committee of the House of Commons, examination on the state of the colonies during the Stamp Act controversy (1766). The fight for independence : First Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolves (October 14, 1774) -- Patrick Henry, speech, "Give me liberty of give me death" (March 23, 1775) -- Continental Congress, Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms (July 6, 1775) -- Thomas Paine, selections from Common Sense (February 14, 1776) -- Virginia Bill of Rights (June 12, 1776) -- Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) -- Samuel Adams, speech, American independence (August 1, 1776) -- Thomas Paine, essay from The American Crisis, "These are the times that try men's souls" (December 23, 1776) -- Articles of Confederation (November 15, 1777) -- Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown (October 19, 1781) -- Hector de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American farmer, "What is an American?" (1782) -- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, "Thoughts on the peace, and the probable advantages thereof" (April 19, 1783) -- The United States and Great Britain, Treaty of Peace (1783). The early Republic and the Constitution : James Madison, memoranda on "vices of the political system of the United States" (April 1787) -- Edmund Randolph, the "Virginia Plan" offered to the Federal Convention (May 29, 1787) -- Gunning Bedford of Delaware, speech in debate in the Constitutional Convention on small states versus the large states (June 30, 1787) -- Northwest ordinance (July 13, 1787) -- Luther Martin, John Rutledge, George Mason, Charles Pinchney and others, debate in the Constitutional Convention on the slave trade (August 21-22, 1787) -- Benjamin Franklin, address to the Constitutional Convention (September 17, 1787) -- The Constitution of the United States of America (September 17, 1787) -- George Mason, notes, objections to the Constitution (October 1787) -- James Madison, The Federalist, No. 10, "The union as a safeguard against domestic faction and insurrection" (November 22, 1787) -- James Madison, The Federalist, no. 51, "checks and balances" (February 6, 1788) -- John Jay, address to the people of the state of New York by "a citizen of New York" (March-April 1788) -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, no. 85, "concluding remarks" (May 28, 1788) -- Patrick Henry, speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention on "altering our government" (June 4, 1788). The new nation : President George Washington, first inaugural address (April 30, 1789) -- Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, report on the subject of a national bank (December 13, 1790) -- Seneca chiefs Cornplanter, HalfTown and Big Tree, address to President Washington, "the land we live on our fathers received from God" (December 1790) -- The Bill of Rights, amendments I-X to the Constitution (December 15, 1791) -- The United States and the Six Nations, treaty (November 11, 1794) -- President George Washington, farewell address (September 19, 1796) -- Alien and sedition laws (June 25 and July 14, 1798) -- President Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address (March 4, 1801) -- President Thomas Jefferson, instructions to Meriwether Lewis (June 20, 1803) -- The Louisiana Purchase, treaty with France (October 21, 1803) -- Red Jacket, Sagoyewatha, speech, "the Great Spirit" (1805) -- Act to prohibit the importation of slaves (March 2, 1807) -- Tecumseh, speech to the Choctaws and Chickasaws (September 1811) -- House Speaker Henry Clay, debate on the continuance of the War of 1812 (December 29, 1812-January 14, 1813) -- The Missouri Compromise (March 6, 1820) -- President James Monroe, The Monroe Doctrine (December 2, 1823) -- Senator Daniel Webster, speech in reply to Senator Robert Hayne, "the United States a nation" (January 26, 1830) -- William Lloyd Garrison, prospectus for The Liberator (January 1, 1831) -- President Andrew Jackson, veto of the bank bill (July 10, 1832) -- President Andrew Jackson, seventh annual message to Congress, "Indian removal" (December 7, 1835) -- Senator John C. Calhoun, speech on the reception of abolitionist petitions (February 6, 1837) -- Horace Mann, lecture, "the necessity of education in a Republican government" (1845) -- President James K. Polk, annual message to Congress, reasons for the war in Mexico (May 11, 1846) -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions, Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls (July 20, 1848). Into the Civil War : Senator John C. Calhoun, speech on the Compromise of 1850, "the slavery question" (March 4, 1850) -- Senator Daniel Webster, speech, "seventh of March" (March 7, 1850) -- The Fugitive Slave Act (September 18, 1850) -- Frederick Douglass, speech, "what to the slave is the Fourth of July?" (July 5, 1852) -- Senator Charles Sumner, speech, "the crime against Kansas" (May 19-20, 1856) -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney et al., papers and decision on Dred Scott v. Sandford (March 6, 1857) -- Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Dred Scott Decision (March 6, 1857) -- John Brown, interrogation concerning his actions at Harpers Ferry (October 18, 1859) -- The state of South Carolina, Ordinance of Secession and Declaration of Independence (December 20, 1860) -- Senator Jefferson Davis, farewell address to the Senate, "on withdrawal from the Union" (January 21, 1861) -- President Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address (March 4, 1861) -- Major-General Benjamin Butler, query regarding "contraband" to the Secretary of War Simon Cameron (July 30, 1861) -- President Abraham Lincoln, preliminary emancipation proclamation (September 22, 1862) -- President Abraham Lincoln, final emancipation proclamation (January 1, 1863) -- President Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address," delivered at the dedication to the cemetery at Gettysburg (November 19, 1863) -- Major-General William T. Sherman, letter to the Mayor and City Council of Atlanta (September 12, 1864) -- President Abraham Lincoln, second inaugural address (March 4, 1865) -- Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant of the Army of the Potomac and Commander of the Confederate States General Robert E. Lee, correspondence regarding surrender (April 9, 1865) -- General Robert E. Lee, farewell address to the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (April 10, 1865) -- The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution (December 6, 1865). Source and author guide -- Bibliography.
Summary "This compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation as well as presidential speeches, Supreme Court decisions, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and much more. The compilation of more than 80 documents, dating from 1606 to 1865, starts with the First Charter of Virginia, issued by King James I, and concludes with the abolition of slavery, as stated in the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Many of the selections recapture the voices of great Americans, from Powhatan's speech to Captain John Smith at Jamestown and the Pilgrim's Mayflower Compact to Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union, Tecumseh's address to the Choctaws and Chickasaws, Frederick Douglass' 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?', and several orations by Abraham Lincoln. Brief introductions to each document place the work in historical contexts." -- Page 4 of cover.
Subject United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Sources.
United States -- Politics and government -- Sources.
American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
American Revolution (1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1600-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Added Author Blaisdell, Robert, editor.
ISBN 0486797309
9780486797304
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