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Full Description
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 students' preconceived notions of history. This edition includes new scholarship and revised, more streamlined writing in existing chapters. The clarity of the author's unique, anecdotal writing style successfully engages students in an exploration of memorable historical characters and significant events.
Contents
From First Settlements to the Civil War Preface 1. The Native Americans October 11, 1492 2. The English Background A Puritan Death: John and Thomasine Winthrop 3. The British American William Byrd in Two Worlds 4. Reform in Early Colonial America John Woolman on Goodness versus Greed 5. Divided Loyalties Jonathan Boucher and the Pre-Revolutionary Crisis 6. The American Revolution 1776: The Continental Army in the Year of Independence 7. Testing the Constitution The Alien and Sedition Acts 8. Republican Nationalism The Lewis and Clark Expedition 9. The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy The Cherokee Removal 10. Abolitionists and Antiabolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and the Broadcloth Mob 11. The Texas Revolution Lorenzo de Zavala and Sam Houston 12. Reform in the Early Republic The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 13. Manifest Destiny Down the Santa Fe Trail with Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 14. A Slave's Story Adb Rahman Ibrahima's Journey from Slavery to Freedom 15. The Civil War Two Soldiers and Their Worlds
