Preface Part I The Creation of American Society, 1450-1763 Chapter 1 Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, and America 1450-1620 Native American Societies 1-1 Indian and Non-Indian Population Charts, 1492-1980 1-2 Bernard Diaz del Castillo, The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico (1517-1521) 1-3 Cortes and the Requerimiento (1519-1521) 1-4 Pierre de Charlevoix, The Role of Women in Huron Society (1721) Europe Encounters Africa and the Americas, 1450-1550 1-5 Father Pierre Biard, Indian Populations of New France (1611) 1-6 Gomes Eannes de Azurara, Prince Henry and the Slave Trade (1444) 1-7 Bartolome de las Casas, Columbus''s Landfall (1552) The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of England 1-8 John Hales, Objections against Enclosure (1548) 1-9 Richard Hakluyt, A Discourse to Promote Colonization (1584) 1-10 Thomas Harriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588) 1-11 John White and Theodor de Bry, Images of Native Americans from Roanoke Island (1585, 1590) Chapter 2 The Invasion and Settlement of North America 1550-1700 The Rival Imperial Models of Spain, France, and Holland 2-1 Bartolome de las Casas, History of the Indies (1552) 2-2 John Smith, A True Relation of Virginia (1608) 2-3 Pocahontas and John Smith (1624) 2-4 John Smith, Checklist for Virginia-Bound Colonists (1624) The English Arrive: The Chesapeake Experience 2-5 Notes on Indentured Servitude in Virginia (1640) 2-6 John Hammond, Two Fruitfull Sisters (1656) Puritan New England 2-7 John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity (1630) 2-8 Puritan Family Law: The Case of John Porter Jr. (1646, 1664) 2-9 The Ordeal of Cotton Mather''s Family (1713) The Eastern Indians'' New World 2-10 John Winthrop, But What Warrant Have We to Take That Land? (1629) 2-11 Puritan Attack on the Pequots at Mystic River (1637) 2-12 Jerome Lalemant, Persecutions Excited Among Us (1640) Chapter 3 The British Empire in America 1660-1750 The Politics of Empire, 1660-1713 3-1 Edward Littleton, The Groans of the Plantations (1689) 3-2 Thomas Danforth, The Glorious Revolution in Massachusetts (1689) The Imperial Slave Economy 3-3 Thomas Phillips, A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal (1693-1694) 3-4 Slavery and Prejudice: An Act for the Better Order and Government of Negroes and Slaves, South Carolina (1712) 3-5 Conflicts between Masters and Slaves: Maryland in the Mid-Seventeenth Century (1658) 3-6 An Early Slave Narrative: Ayubah Suleiman Diallo, or "Job" (1734) 3-7 William Byrd II, The Secret Diary of William Byrd II (1709-1711) 3-8 Benjamin Latrobe and Anonymous, Plantation Life in the Eighteenth Century The New Politics of Empire, 1713-1750 3-9 Martin Bladen, A Plantation Parliament (1739) 3-10 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina (1739) Chapter 4 Growth and Crisis in Colonial Society 1720-1765 Freehold Society in New England 4-1 Nicholas Dudley, A New Hampshire Will (1763) 4-2 Benjamin Wadsworth, The Obligations of a Wife (1712) The Middle Atlantic: Toward a New Society, 1720-1765 4-3 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, What is an American? (1782) 4-4 Peter Kalm, A Description of Philadelphia (1748) 4-5 Job Johnson, Letter from a Scots-Irish Immigrant (1767) 4-6 An Abolitionist in Pennsylvania in the 1730''s The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, 1740-1765 4-7 Benjamin Franklin, On Education during the American Enlightenment (1749) 4-8 The Reverend James Ireland, An Evangelical Preacher''s Trials (1760s) 4-9 Charles Woodmason, Fighting Revivalism in the Carolina Backcountry (1768) The Midcentury Challenge: War, Trade, and Social Conflict, 1750-1765 4-10 Christian Frederick Post, Negotiating Peace with the Ohio Indians (1758) 4-11 Protests on the Frontier: The Paxton Riots (1764) 4-12 Olaudah Equiano, Middle Passage (c. 1754) Part II The New Republic, 1763-1820 Chapter 5 Toward Independence: Years of Decision 1763-1776 Imperial Reform, 1763-1765 5-1 James Otis, Jr., Rights of the Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764) 5-2 Jared Ingersoll, Report on the Debates in Parliament (1765) 5-3 Thomas Whately, Virtual Representation, (1765) 5-4 Daniel Dulany, Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes (1765) 5-5 Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765-1770 5-6 Francis Bernard, The Stamp Act Riot (1765) 5-7 John Dickinson, Letter VII from a Farmer (1768) 5-8 The Boycott Agreements of Women in Boston (1770) 5-9 Peter Oliver, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion (1780s) 5-10 Captain Thomas Preston, An Account of the Boston Massacre (1770) The Road to Independence, 1771-1776 5-11 George R. T. Hewes, An Account of the Boston Tea Party of 1773 5-12 Philip Dawe, A British View of Rebellion in Boston (1774) 5-13 The Edenton, North Carolina, Boycott Agreement (1774) 5-14 Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) 5-15 James Wilson, The Nature and Extent of the Authority of Parliament (1774) 5-16 The Continental Congress Creates the Association (1774) 5-17 Joseph Galloway, A Plan of Union (1774) Chapter 6 Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789 The Trials of War, 1776-1778 6-1 Gouverneur Morris, The Poor Reptiles (1774) 6-2 Lord Dunmore, A Proclamation (1775) 6-3 Samuel Johnson, On Liberty and Slavery (1775) 6-4 William Smith, Jr.

, Rule for My Own Conduct (1776) 6-5 Continental Congress to the Iroquois Confederacy (1775) 6-6 Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Number I (December 1776) The Path to Victory, 1778-1783 6-7 Sarah Osborn, An Account of Life with the Army (1780-1783) 6-8 Jacob Francis, An African American Recounts His War Service (1775-1777) 6-9 John Struthers, An Account of War on the Frontier (1777-1782) 6-10 Civil War in the Southern Backcountry (1781) 6-11 British Perceptions of the War of Independence (1776, 1778) Creating Republican Institutions, 1776-1787 6-12 The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) 6-13 Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom (1786) 6-14 Abigail Adams, Boston Women Support Price Control (1777) 6-15 John Heckewelder, Pachgantschihilas Warns about the Long Knives (1781) 6-16 Proslavery Petitions in Virginia (1785) The Constitution of 1787 6-17 James Madison, Vices of the Political System of the United States (1787) 6-18 Elbridge Gerry, A Warning to the Delegates about Leveling (1787) 6-19 George Clinton, An Attack on the Proposed Federal Constitution (1787) 6-20 James Madison, The Federalist, No. 10 (1787) 6-21 James Madison, The Federalist, No. 54 (1787) Chapter 7 Politics and Society in the New Republic, 1787-1820 The Political Crisis of the 1790s 7-1 Alexander Hamilton, Report on Public Credit (1790) 7-2 George Washington, Farewell Address (1796) 7-3 Alexander Lawson, David Edwin, George Washington and Resisting Tyranny (1799, 1800) 7-4 The Sedition Act (1798) 7-5 Thomas Jefferson, The Kentucky Resolutions (1798) 7-6 Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) Westward Movement and the Jeffersonian Revolution 7-7 Congressional Resolution on Western Lands (1800) 7-8 Henry Knox, Proposed Indian Policy for the New Republic (1789) 7-9 Thomas Jefferson, Message to Congress (January 18, 1803) 7-10 Jane Stevenson, A Pioneer Woman in Post-Revolutionary Kentucky (1840s) The War of 1812 and the Transformation of Politics 7-11 John Marshall, Decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803) 7-12 Meriwether Lewis, The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) 7-13 George Cruikshank, Peter Pencil, Jefferson and the Embargo (1808, 1809) 7-14 William Henry Harrison, Speech to Tecumseh and the Prophet (1811), and Report to the Secretary of War (1814) 7-15 Hartford Convention Resolutions (1814) Chapter 8 Creating a Republican Culture, 1790-1820 The Capitalist Commonwealth 8-1 John Marshall, Decision in Fletcher v. Peck (1810) 8-2 Daniel Webster, Argument for the Plaintiff in Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1818) 8-3 John Marshall, Decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Toward a Democratic Republican Culture 8-4 Pierre Charles L''Enfant, The Plan for the City of Washington (1791) 8-5 Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry (1792) 8-6 Congressional Pugilists: Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold (1798) 8-7 Benjamin Rush, The Education of Republican Women (1798) Aristocratic Republicanism and.