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Documents Set   OUT OF MANY: A History of the American People   Volume I   By Faragher / Buhle / Czitrom / Armitage   Chapter 1. A continent of Villages, to 1500 The Story of the Creation of the World, Told by a Zuni Priest in 1885 The Discovery of Corn and Tobacco, as Recounted by a Penobscot Elder in 1907 A Cherokee Explains the Origins of Disease and Medicine in the 1890s A Story of the Trickster Rabbit, told by a Micmac Indian in the 1870s Two Nineteenth-Century Archaeologists Provide the First Scientific Description of the      Indian Mounds of the Mississippi Valley 1848 A Jesuit Missionary Reports on the Society of the Natchez of the Lower Mississippi in 1730 The Constitution of the Five nation Confederacy Records the Innovation of an Iroquis Founding Father of the Fifteenth Century   Chapter 2. When Worlds Collide, 1492-1588 Christopher Columbus Writes of His First View of the New World in 1492 An Aztec Remembers the Conquest of Mexico a Quarter Century Afterwards, in 1550 An Early Proponent for the Native Rights Condemns the Torture of the Indians in 1565 A Shipwrecked Spaniard Writes of His Incredible Journey through North America from 1528-1536 A French Captain Describes his First Contact with the Indians in 1534 A French Jesuit Describes the cosmology of the Montagnais Indians in 1534 An English Scientist Writes of the Algonquian Peoples of the Atlantic Coast in 1588 The Governor of Roanoke Describe His Return to the “Lost Coloyn” in 1590   Chapter 3. Planting Colonies in North America, 1588-1700 The Spanish Governor Reports on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 A Pueblo Rebel in 1681 Explains the Reason Behind the Pueblo Revolt John Smith Writes about the Chesapeake Indians of 1608 Roger Williams Argues for Freedom of Conscience in 1644 Two Poems on Family by Anne Bradstreet published in 1650 A “Possessed” Girl Names Her Accuser in 1692 William Penn’s 1681 Plans for the Province of Pennsylvania Iroquois Chiefs Address the Governors of New York and Virginia in 1684   Chapter 4. Slavery and Empire, 1441-1770 EnglandAsserts her Dominion through Legislation in 1660 MarylandAddresses the Status of Slaves in 1664 A Slave Tells of His Capture in Africa in 1798 A Salve Ship Surgeon Writes about the Salve Trade in 1788 An African Captive Tells of the Story of Crossing the Atlantic in a slave ship in 1789 A Virginian Describes the Difference between Servants and Slaves in 1722 The Slaves Revolt in South Carolina in 1739 An Early Abolitionist Speaks Out Against Slavery in 1757 Slave Stories told to a Folklorist in South Carolina in the 1910s   Chapter 5. The Cultures of Colonial North America, 1700-1780 The Rev. John Williams Tells of His Experiences as an Indian Captive, 1707 An Iroquois Chief Argues for His Tribe’s Property Rights in 1742 A Boston Woman Writes About Her Trip to New York in 1704 A colonial Planter Tours the Backcountry in 1728 A Swedish Visitor Tells About Philadelphia, 1748 An Older businessman Advises a Young One in 1748 A Puritan Preacher Admonishes His Flocks in 1741   Chapter 6. From Empire to Independence, 1750-1776 BritainForbids Americans Western Settlement, 1763 An American Colonist Opposes New Taxes and Asserts the Rights of Colonists, 1764 An American Moderate Speaks Against the Stamp Act, 1767 To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, 1768 The First American Congress Meets, 1774 A Colonist Makes an Impassioned Call to Arms, 1775 An Anglican Preacher Denounces the American Rebels, 1775 An American Patriot Denounces the King, 1775 The Colonists Declare Their Independence, 1776   Chapter 7. The Creation of the United States, 1776-1786 An American Patriot Tries to Stir Up the Soldiers of the American Revolution, 1776 A Colonial Woman Argues for Equal Rights, 1776 An African American Petitions the government for Emancipation of All Slaves, 1776 A Common Soldier Tells About the Battle of Yorktown, 1781 Treaty with the Delawares, 1778 Britain signs Treaty Ending Revolutionary War, 1783 Congress Decides What to Do with the Western Lands, 1785 Territorial Governments are Established by Congress, 1787 MassachusettsFarmers Take Up Arms in Revolt Against Taxes, 1786   Chapter 8. The United States of North America, 1787-1800 Constitutional Convention Delegate Blasts Federal government, 1787 The Father of the Constitution Defends Republicanism, 1787 Seneca Chiefs Petition Washington for Return of Their Land, 1790 The Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury Battle about the Constitution, 1791 Farmers Protest the New Whiskey Tax, 1790 A Frenchman Comments on the American Character, 1782 A Post-Revolutionary Woman Argues for Women’s Equality, 1790 An American School Teacher Calls for an American Language, 1789   Chapter 9. The Agrarian Republic, 1800-1824 Two Explorers Meet the Shoshone, 1805 Supreme Court Retains Right to Overrule Legislation, 1803 A Shawnee Argues for a United Indian Resistance, 1810 A War Hawk Speaks about the British, 1811 The President Asks Congress for Declarations of War, 1812 Supreme Court Bolsters Federal Power, 1819 MissouriAdmitted to Statehood, Slavery at Issue, 1820 The President Addresses the Union, 1823 A Seneca Chief Addresses Missionaries, 1805 A Camp Meeting Heats Up, 1829   Chapter 10. The Growth of Democracy, 1824-1840 A Legal Scholar opposes Spreading the Vote, 1821 What shall Be the Role of Government, 1834 The Cherokee are Sent to the Indian Territory, 1835 A Cherokee Speaks for His Tribe, 1826 A Choctaw Chief Bids Farewell, 1832 American Senator Opposes Nullification, 1830 South CarolinaRefuses the Tariff, 1832 A Woman’s rights Advocate Calls for Equality, 1843 Transcendentalist Promotes Individualism, 1841   Chapter 11. The South and Slavery, 1780s-1850s Congress Prohibits Importation of Slaves, 1807 State Laws Govern Slavery, 1824 An Architect Describes African American Music and Instruments in 1818 Slave Culture Documented in Song, 1867 Southern Novel Depicts Slavery, 1832 A Slave Tells of His Sale at Auction, 1848 A Farm Journal Reports on the Care and Feeding of Slaves, 1836 A Slave Girl Tells of Her Life, 1861 A Muslim Slave Speaks Out, 1831   Chapter 12. Industry and the North, 1790s-1850s A German Colonist Writes about the new American Settlements in Illinois in 1819 The Treasure Secretary Reports on the Future of Industry in 1791 Employers Advertise for Help Wanted in the 1820s The Carpenters of Boston Go on Strike in 1825 A New England Factory Issues Regulations for Workers 1825 A Young Woman Writes of the Evils of Factory Life in 1845 A Woman Worker Writes Home to Her Father in 1845 A New England Woman Describes the Responsibilities of American Women in 1847   Chapter 13. Coming to Terms with the New Age, 1820s-1850s A Plan to Equalize Wealth in 1829 Irish Laborers Get an Endorsement in 1833 Women’s Rights Proponents Hold a Convention, 1848 Social Philosopher Advocates Communities, 1840 Noted Educator Speaks on Public Schooling in 1848 An African American Abolitionist Advocates Racial Action in 1829 Abolitionist Demands Immediate End to Slavery, 1831 Southern Belle Denounces Slavery, 1838 A Black Feminist Speaks Out in 1851   Chapter 14. The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1830s-1850s A Tejano Describes the Beginning of the Texas Revolution in 1835-36 The Texans Declare their Independence in 1836 A Newspaper Man Declares the “Manifest Destiny” of the United States in 1845 A Young Pioneer Writes of Her Journey to California in 1846 with the Donner Party The President Asks Congress to Declare Ware on Mexico in 1846 An Illinois Representative Attacks President Polk’s View of the War in 1848 A Californian Describes the “Bear Flag” Insurrection in California An Indian Chief Discusses the differences Between his People and the Americans in 1854 An American Army Officer Describes the Beginning of the California Gold Rush in 1848   Chapter 15. The Coming Crisis, 1848-1861 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858 Northern State Defies Fugitive Slave Act, 1855 A New England Writer Portrays Slavery in 1852 An African American Decries the Fourth of July in 1852 A Slave Sues for Freedome in 1857 A Senatorial Candidate Addresses the Questions of Slavery in 1858 An Abolitionist is Given the Death Sentence in 1859 Lincolnis elected and Southern Secession Begins in 1860 A New President is Sworn In   Chapter 16. The Civil War, 1861-1865 A Civil War Nurse Writes of conditions of Freed Slaves, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 The Working-Men of Manchester, England, Write to President Lincoln on the question of Slavery in 1862 President Lincoln Responds to the Working-Men of Manchester on the Subject of Slavery in 1863 The New York Times Prints Opinion on the New York Draft Riots in 1863 An African American Soldier Writes to the President Appealing for Equality in 1863 A Nurse Writes of the Destruction on the Battlefields of Virginia in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln Delivers the Gettysburg Address in 1863 A Union Captain Describes Sherman’s March to the Sea in 1864 A Southern Lady Recounts the Fall of Richmond in 1865   Chapter 17. Reconstruction, 1863-1877 Charlotte Forten, Life on the Sea Islands, 1864 Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865 The Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, 1865 Black Code of Mississippi, 1865 Frederick Douglass, Speech to the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 President Johnson’s Veto of the Civil Rights Act, 1866 The First Reconstruction Act, 1867 Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan, 1868 Blanche K. Bruce, Speech in the Senate, 1867 A Sharecrop Contract, 1882