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MILESTONE DOCUMENTS: AME RCA & ITS SOURCES: GUIDED JRNY

U.S. History

History

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<P>This book is an innovative sourcebook designed for non-majors, ESL students, and other students who struggle with large amounts of reading. Through 14 focused units, the editors guide students from important post-1865 documents to major sources from contemporary America. Each unit includes a brief introduction to the era, unit questions, 5 expertly edited primary sources with overviews and guiding questions, and a unit review. This affordable sourcebook offers students the essential tools they need to examine and analyze primary sources without overwhelming them with lengthy and difficult texts.</P>

America and Its Sources

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Duration

Duration Unit Of Measure

Transaction Type

Front Cover.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About the Editors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
How to Read Primary Sources.
1: Early America and the Civil War.
2: Richard Frethorne: Letter to His Parents (1623).
3: Virginia Slave Acts (1660s).
4: Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857).
5: South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession (1860).
6: Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address (1865).
7: Unit 1 Review.
8: Reconstruction and Redemption.
9: The &#x201C;Civil War Amendments&#x201D;: Excerpts from the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
10: Black Code of Mississippi (1865).
11: Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan (1869).
12: Initiation Charge of the Ku Klux Klan (1869).
13: Richard Harvey Cain: &#x201C;All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights&#x201D; (1874).
14: Unit 2 Review.
15: Westward Expansion and American Identity.
16: Letter from Wong Ar Chong (1879).
17: Dawes Severalty Act (1887).
18: Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts (1891).
19: Frederick Jackson Turner: &#x201C;The Significance of the Frontier in American History&#x201D; (1893).
20: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
21: Unit 3 Review.
22: Industrialization and Social Reform.
23: Wendell Phillips: &#x201C;The Foundation of the Labor Movement&#x201D; (1871).
24: Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Pullman Strike (1894).
25: Upton Sinclair: The Jungle (1906).
26: Ida B. Wells: &#x201C;Lynching: Our National Crime&#x201D; (1909).
27: Jane Addams: &#x201C;Why Women Should Vote&#x201D; (1910).
28: Unit 4 Review.
29: World War I and the Turbulent Twenties.
30: Navy Poster from World War I (1917).
31: W.E.B. Du Bois: &#x201C;Returning Soldiers&#x201D; (1919).
32: Walter F. White: &#x201C;The Eruption of Tulsa&#x201D; (1921).
33: Marcus Garvey: &#x201C;The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association&#x201D; (1922).
34: Ellen Welles Page: &#x201C;A Flapper&#x2019;s Appeal to Parents&#x201D; (1922).
35: Unit 5 Review.
36: The Great Depression.
37: Herbert Hoover: &#x201C;Rugged Individualism&#x201D; Campaign Speech (1928).
38: Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address (1933).
39: Wayne W. Parrish: Letter to Harry Hopkins (1934).
40: New Deal Legislation (selected excerpts from 1935 and 1938).
41: John P. Davis: &#x201C;A Black Inventory of the New Deal&#x201D; (1935).
42: Unit 6 Review.
43: World War II and the Home Front.
44: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Four Freedoms Message to Congress (1941).
45: Executive Order 8802: Banning Discrimination in Government and Defense Industries (1941).
46: Order for Internment of Japanese Americans in San Francisco (1942).
47: GI Bill (Servicemen&#x2019;s Readjustment Act of 1944).
48: Harry S. Truman: Statement Announcing the Use of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (1945).
49: Unit 7 Review.
50: The Cold War.
51: George F. Kennan: &#x201C;Long Telegram&#x201D; (1946).
52: Harry S. Truman: Truman Doctrine (1947).
53: Joseph McCarthy: &#x201C;Enemies from Within&#x201D; Speech (1950).
54: Richard M. Nixon: &#x201C;Kitchen&#x201D; Debate with Nikita Khrushchev (1959).
55: John F. Kennedy: Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba (1962).
56: Unit 8 Review.
57: Affluence, Unrest, and Civil Rights.
58: Advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s.
59: Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
60: Southern Manifesto (1956).
61: Martin Luther King Jr.: &#x201C;Letter from Birmingham Jail&#x201D; (1963).
62: Stokely Carmichael: &#x201C;Black Power&#x201D; (1966).
63: Unit 9 Review.
64: Expanding Civil Rights.
65: Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique (1963).
66: Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation (1969).
67: Statement of Cesar E. Chavez before the U.S. Senate (1969).
68: Gay Liberation Front: Program Platform Statement (1970).
69: Roe v. Wade (1973).
70: Unit 10 Review.
71: Vietnam and Counterculture.
72: Bob Dylan: &#x201C;Blowin&#x2019; in the Wind&#x201D; (1963).
73: Martin Luther King Jr.: &#x201C;Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence&#x201D; (1967).
74: Richard M. Nixon: Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia (1970).
75: John Kerry: Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War (1971).
76: Richard M. Nixon: Special Message to Congress about Establishing the EPA and NOAA (1970).
77: Unit 11 Review.
78: The Triumph of Conservatism.
79: Barry Goldwater: Acceptance Speech for the Presidential Nomination of the Republican Party (1964).
80: Ronald Reagan: &#x201C;A Time for Choosing&#x201D; (1964).
81: Richard M. Nixon: &#x201C;Silent Majority&#x201D; Speech (1969).
82: Jerry Falwell: Listen America (1980).
83: Ronald Reagan: First Inaugural Address (1981).
84: Unit 12 Review.
85: Deindustrialization and the Booming Nineties.
86: Bill Tolan: &#x201C;In Desperate 1983, There Was Nowhere for Pittsburgh&#x2019;s Economy to Go but Up: A Tide of Change&#x201D; (2012).
87: George H.W. Bush: &#x201C;Read My Lips&#x201D; Speech (1988).
88: Bill Clinton: Remarks on Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (1993).
89: Republican Contract with America (1994).
90: Bill Clinton: Farewell Address (2001).
91: Unit 13 Review.
92: Twenty-First Century America.
93: George W. Bush: Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001.
94: Robert C. Byrd: &#x201C;The Emperor Has No Clothes&#x201D; Speech (2003).
95: Barack Obama: &#x201C;A More Perfect Union&#x201D; (2008).
96: Sarah Palin: Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention (2010).
97: Donald J. Trump: Inaugural Address (2017).
98: Unit 14 Review.

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