U.S. HISTORY I:  SOURCES FOR NOTECARDS BY CHAPTER

 

Chapter 1:  Ancient America and Africa.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 9-11 [Iroquois and Penobscot].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 9-12.

            AMDOCS:  Documents for the Study of American History, http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

            The University of Oklahoma College of Law:  A Chronology of US Historical Documents, http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/

            Yale University Law School: Avalon Project, http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/

 

Chapter 2:  Europeans and Africans Reach the Americas.

            Roark, American Promise, 38-39 [“Justifying Conquest”].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 12-28.

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Chapter 3:  Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 27-30 [Bacon’s Manifesto].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 14-64, 71-122.

            Roark, American Promise, 74-75 [King Philip Considers Christianity].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 28-60.

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Chapter 4:  The Maturing of Colonial Society.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 44-47 [Poor Richard’s Almanac].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 124-186.

            Tindall/Shi, America, 63-102.

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Chapter 5:  The Strains of Empire.

            Grimsted, American Visions, 202-224.

            Roark, American Promise, 134-135 [The Destruction of the Tea].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 105-159.

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Chapter 6:  A People in Revolution.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 80-84 [Militia].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 187-198 [What is an American?], 225-232, 311-314 [Jefferson describes Virginia in 1785 and 1787].

            Roark, American Promise, 148-149 [Muskets and rifles].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 169-205.

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Chapter 7:  Consolidating the Revolution.

            Grimsted, American Visions, 233-240, 251-293.

            Roark, American Promise, 182-183 [Was the U.S. a Christian Country?].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 207-238.

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Chapter 8:  Creating a Nation.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 100-101 [Jefferson vs. Hamilton].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 315-327 [Education].

            Roark, American Promise, 204-206 [Crises of 1798].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 238-264.

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Chapter 9:  Society and Politics in the Early Republic.

            Grimsted, American Visions, 294-308.

            Roark, American Promise, 220-221 [Aaron Burr].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 267-319.

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Chapter 10:  Economic Transformations in the Northeast and the Old Northwest.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 128-130 [Girl Mill Worker].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 344-349, 521-529.

            Roark, American Promise, 238-239 [Early Steamboats].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 362-395.

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Chapter 11:  Slavery and the Old South.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 149 [Slave Childhood].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 530-535, 614-634.

            Roark, American Promise, 304-305 [How Often Were Slaves Whipped?].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 473-496, 503-504.

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Chapter 12:  Shaping America in the Antebellum Age.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 158-160 [Finney], 160-162 [Stanton].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 328-343, 351-449, 499-520, 537-591.

            Roark, American Promise, 336-337 [Women’s Rights].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 329-360, 397-428, 496-504.

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Chapter 13:  Moving West.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 170-172 [Mexican War], 181-184 [California Gold Rush].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 601-605, 652-659.

            Roark, American Promise, 286-287 [California Gold Rush].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 431-463, 511-513.

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Chapter 14:  The Union in Peril.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 185-186 [Compromise of 1850], 193-194 [Fugitive Slave Act of 1850], 203-206 [Lincoln-Douglas Debates], 206-207 [John Brown’s Trial], 215-216 [Fort Sumter].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 592-600, 606-613, 635-665.

            Tindall/Shi, America, 507-547.

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Chapter 15:  The Union Severed.

            Alfers, Shaping America, 231 [Gettysburg Address].

            Grimsted, American Visions, 666-713.

            Roark, American Promise, 378-380 [Civil War Death Toll], 392-393 [Slaves’ Views].

            Tindall/Shi, America, 546-590.

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Chapter 16:  The Union Reconstructed.

            Tindall/Shi, America, 593-630.

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