American Spirit Volume I

The ^American Spirit
United States History as Seen by Contemporaries
Ninth Edition
Volume I: To 1877
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston New YorkContents
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Preface xxi
New World Beginnings,
33,000 B.C.-A.D.1769 1
A. The Native Americans 1
1. Visualizing the New World (1505, 1509) 1
2. Juan Gines de Sepulveda Belittles the Indians (1547) 3
3. Bartoleme de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552) 4
B. The Spanish in America 6
1. Hernan Cortes Conquers Mexico (1519-1526) 6
2. Aztec Chroniclers Describe the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1519)
3- Francisco Coronado Explores the American Southwest (1541) 13
4. Don Juan de Onate Conquers New Mexico (1599) 14
C. The African Slave Trade 17
1. Mungo Park Describes Slavers in the African Interior (c. 1790) 17
2. A Slave Is Taken to Barbados (c. 1750) 19
D. New Worlds for the Taking 23
1. John Cabot Voyages for England (1497) 23
2. Richard Hakluyt Calls for an Empire (1582) 24
3. An English Landlord Describes a Troubled England (1623) 25
4. Hakluyt Sees England's Salvation in America (1584) 26
The Planting of English America,
1500-1733 28
A. Precarious Beginnings in Virginia 28
1. The Starving Time (1609) '"-.28
2. Governor William Berkeley Reports (1671) 29
B. The Mix of Cultures in English America 31
1. The Great Indian Uprising (1622) 31
2. A West Indian Planter Reflects on Slavery in Barbados (1673) 32
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3- A Missionary Denounces the Treatment of the Indians in South
Carolina (1708) 34
C. Religious Strife in Maryland 35
1. The Intolerant Act of Toleration (1649) • 35
2. Persecutions of the Catholics (1656) 36
Settling the Northern Colonies,
1619-1700 38
A. The Planting of Plymouth 38
•1. The Pilgrims Leave Holland (1620) 38
2. Framing the Mayflower Compact (1620) 40
3- Abandoning Communism at Plymouth (1632) 41
B. Conformity in the Bay Colony 42
1. John Cotton Describes New England's "Theocracy" (1636) 42
2. Anne Hutchinson Is Banished (1637) 45
3. John Winthrop's Concept of Liberty (1645) 46
4. Puritan Mistreatment