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Major Problems in American
History, Volume I: To 1877,
Documents and Essays,
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Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman,
Edward J. Blum, Jon Gjerde
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EDITED BY
ELIZABETH COBBS HOFFMAN
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
EDWARD J. BLUM
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
JON GJERDE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , BERKELEY
Major Problems in
American History
Volume I
To 1877
Documents and Essays
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For Jon Gjerde
Fine historian, fine editor,
fine friend —gone too soon
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Contents
PREFACE xvii
INTRODUCTION: HOW TO READ PRIMARY AND
SECONDARY SOURCES xxi
Chapter 1 Conquest and Colliding Worlds 1
QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT 2
DOCUMENTS 2
1. The Iroquois Describe the Beginning of the World, n.d. 3
2. The Portuguese Describe Battles with West Africans, 1448 5
3. Christopher Columbus Recounts His First Encounters with
Native People, 1493 6
4. Fray Bernardino de Sahagun Relates an Aztec Chronicler’s
Account of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs, 1519 8
5. A European Artist Illustrates a Smallpox Outbreak among
Nahua Indians, 1585 10
6. English Artist John White Depicts Indian Land Use, 1619 10
7. Reverend John Heckewelder Records a Native Oral
Tradition of the First Arrival of Europeans on Manhattan
Island (1610), 1818 11
8. William Wood Describes Indian Responses to the
English, 1634 13
ESSAYS 15
James H. Merrell
The Indians’ New World 16
Neal Salisbury
The Indians’ Old World 24
FURTHER READING 32
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Chapter 2 The Southern Colonies in British America 34
QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT 35
DOCUMENTS 35
1. Edward Waterhouse, a British Official, Recounts an Indian
Attack on Early Virginia Settlement, 1622 36
2. Indentured Servant Richard Frethorne Laments His Condition
in Virginia, 1623 36
3. George Alsop, a Resident of Maryland, Argues That Servants in
Maryland Profit from Life in the Colonies, 1666 38
4. Nathaniel Bacon, Leader of a Rebellion, Recounts the
Misdeeds of the Virginia Governor, 1676 40
5. Virginia’s Statutes Illustrate the Declining Status of African
American Slaves, 1660–1705 41
6. Southern Planter William Byrd Describes His Views Toward
Learning and His Slaves, 1709–1710 44
7. Illustration of Slaves Cultivating Tobacco, 1738 45
8. African Olaudah Equiano Recounts the Horrors of
Enslavement, 1757 46
ESSAYS 48
Kathleen M. Brown
The Anxious World of the Slaveowning
Patriarch 49
Philip D. Morgan
The Effects of Paternalism Among Whites and
Blacks 58
FURTHER READING 68
Chapter 3 Colonial New England and the Middle Colonies
in British America 69
QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT 70
DOCUMENTS 70
1. Puritan Leader John Winthrop Provides a Model of Christian
Charity, 1630 71
2. Anne Bradstreet Discusses Her Children in the Colonies,
1656 72
3. Mary Rowlandson, a New England Woman, Recounts Her
Experience of Captivity and Escape from the Wampanoag During
King Philip’s War, 1675 73
4. Proprietor William Penn Promotes His Colony, 1681 74
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5. Examination and Testimony of Tituba, a Servant-Slave in
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692 76
6. A Slave, Phillis Wheatley, Laments the Death of Revivalist
George Whitefield, 1770 78
7. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Depicts the Material Acquisitions of
Northern Colonists, 1744 79
8. Gottlieb Mittelberger, a German Immigrant, Portrays the
Difficulties of Immigration, 1750 80
ESSAYS 82
David D. Hall
Worlds of Wonder in the Northern Colonies 82
T. H. Breen
Worlds of Goods in the Northern Colonies 93
FURTHER READING 100
Chapter 4 The American Revolution 102
QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT 103
DOCUMENTS 103
1. The Stamp Act Congress Condemns the Stamp Act,
1765 104
2. Virginian Patrick Henry Warns the British to Maintain
American Liberties, 1775 105
3. Pamphleteer Thomas Paine Advocates the “Common Sense” of
Independence, 1776 106
4. Abigail and John Adams Debate Women’s Rights,
1776 109
5. A Song to Inspire Revolution, 1776 110
6. Mohawk Leader Joseph Brant Commits the Loyalty of His
People to Britain, 1776 111
7. African Americans Petition for Freedom, 1777 112
8. General Washington Argues for Greater Military Funding by
Portraying the Plight of Soldiers at Valley Forge, 1778 113
ESSAYS 114
Gordon S. Wood
Radical Possibilities of the American
Revolution 115
Gary B. Nash
The Radical Revolution from the “Bottom
Up” 122
FURTHER READING 133
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Chapter 5 The Making of the Constitution 134
QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT 135
DOCUMENTS 135
1. The Articles of Confederation Stress the Rights of States,
1781 136
2. Cato, an African American, Pleads for the Abolition of Slavery
in Pennsylvania, 1781 137
3. Slaveholders in Virginia Argue Against the Abolition of Slavery,
1784–1785 138
4. Thomas Jefferson Proposes the Protection of Religious
Freedom in Virginia, 1786 139
5. Daniel Shays and Followers Declare Their Intent to Protect
Themselves Against “Tyranny,” 1787 140
6. Generals William Shepard and Benjamin Lincoln Regret the
Disorder That Characterized Shays’s Rebellion, 1787 141
7. The Federalist Papers Illustrate the Advantages of Ratification of
the Constitution, 1787–1788 142
8. Patrick Henry Condemns the Centralization of Government If
the Constitution Is Ratified, 1788 145
9. George Washington Promises Freedom of Religion for Jewish
People, 1790 146
ESSAYS 147
Alfred F. Young
The Pressure of the People on the Framers of the
Constitution 147
Jack N. Rakove
The Hope of the Framers to Recruit Citizens to
Enter Public Life 154
FURTHER READING 162
Chapter 6 Competing Visions of National Development
in the Early National Period 164
QUESTIONS TO THINK ABOUT 165
DOCUMENTS 165
1. Republican Thomas Jefferson Celebrates the Virtue of the
Yeoman Farmer, 1785 166
2. Judith Sargent Murray Argues for the “Equality of the Sexes,”
1790 167
3. Federalist Alexander Hamilton Envisions a Developed American
Economy, 1791 168
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