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✵ Contending Voices Biographical Explorations of the American Past Volume I: To 1877 THIRD EDITION JOHN HOLLITZ CollegeofSouthernNevada Australia•Brazil•Japan•Korea•Mexico•Singapore•Spain•UnitedKingdom•UnitedStates Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. This is an electronic version of the print textbook. Due to electronic rights restrictions, some third party content may be suppressed. Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. 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Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. ✵ Contents VOLUME I PREFACE ix 1 The Cross and the Sword in Spain’s New World: Bartolomé de Las Casas and Hernán Cortés 1 SOURCE 1: Cortés Describes the Aztecs (1519, 1520) 11 SOURCE 2: An Aztec View of the Temple Massacre (ca. 1550) 13 SOURCE 3: Cortés Defends Encomiendas (1522) 14 SOURCE 4: Las Casas Attacks Conversion by Conquest (1537) 15 SOURCE 5: Las Casas Attacks Encomiendas (1542) 16 2 Revolt on the Virginia Frontier: Nathaniel Bacon and William Berkeley 18 SOURCE 1: Frontier Planters Appeal to Governor William Berkeley (Spring 1676) 28 SOURCE 2: William Berkeley, “Declaration and Remonstrance” (May 1676) 29 SOURCE 3: A Summary of the June Assembly’s Laws (1676) 30 SOURCE 4: Bacon’s Manifesto (July 1676) 30 SOURCE 5: Grievances Submitted to the King’s Commissioners (1677) 31 3 Enthusiasm,Authority,andtheGreatAwakening:James Davenport and Charles Chauncy 34 SOURCE 1: “A Song of Praise” (1742) 44 SOURCE 2: Charles Chauncy, Enthusiasm Described and Caution’d Against (1742) 45 iii Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. 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Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. iv CONTENTS SOURCE 3: “A Report on Religious Excess at New London” (1743) 47 SOURCE 4: James Davenport, Confession and Retractions (1744) 48 SOURCE 5: Charles Chauncy, Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New-England (1743) 49 4 The Price of Patriotism: Jonathan Sewall and John Adams 51 SOURCE 1: “Instructions of the Town of Braintree to the Representative” (1765) 61 SOURCE 2: Jonathan Sewall Offers a Defense of British Authority (1771) 62 SOURCE 3: Jonathan Sewall on the Revolutionary Threat (1775) 63 SOURCE 4: John Adams, “Novanglus” (1775) 64 5 The Conflict over the Constitution: Patrick Henry and James Madison 67 SOURCE 1: Mercy Otis Warren, “Observations on the New Constitution” (1788) 76 SOURCE 2: James Madison, “The Federalist No. 10” (1788) 77 SOURCE 3: Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 4, 1788) 78 SOURCE 4: Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Convention (June 5, 1788) 79 SOURCE 5: James Madison, “The Federalist No. 39” (1788) 80 6 Political Conflict in the Early Republic: Benjamin Franklin Bache and Alexander Hamilton 83 SOURCE 1: Alexander Hamilton, “To the People of the United States” (1794) 93 SOURCE 2: Benjamin Bache on Hamilton and the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) 95 SOURCE 3: Alexander Hamilton, “The French Revolution” (1794) 96 SOURCE 4: Resolutions of the Pennsylvania Democratic Society (1794) 97 SOURCE 5: Hamilton Defends Jay’s Treaty (1795) 98 SOURCE 6: Benjamin Bache Assaults Jay’s Treaty (1795) 100 Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. 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CONTENTS v 7 Resistance and Western Expansion: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison 103 SOURCE 1: Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Henry Harrison (1803) 111 SOURCE 2: William Henry Harrison, Letter to William Eustis, Secretary of War (1809) 112 SOURCE 3: William Henry Harrison, A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley (1839) 113 SOURCE 4: Tecumseh,SpeechtoHarrisonatVincennes(1810) 113 SOURCE 5: Tecumseh, “Sleep Not Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws” (1811) 114 8 The Fruits of the Factory System: Sarah Bagley and Nathan Appleton 117 SOURCE 1: Nathan Appleton, “The Introduction of the Power Loom, and Origin of Lowell” (1858) 128 SOURCE 2: Regulations of the Appleton Company (1833) 129 SOURCE 3: Sarah Bagley, “The Pleasures of Factory Life” (1840) 130 SOURCE 4: Sarah Bagley, “Voluntary?” (1845) 131 SOURCE 5: Nathan Appleton, “Labor, Its Relations, in Europe and the United States, Compared” (1844) 131 9 Politics, Morality, and Race in the Abolitionist Crusade: William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass 134 SOURCE 1: Detail of Liberator Masthead (1831) 145 SOURCE 2:Garrison Announces His New Reform Policy (1837) 146 SOURCE 3: Douglass Recounts His Life as a Slave (1845) 147 SOURCE 4:Garrison Announces “No Union with Slaveholders” (1844) 148 SOURCE 5: Frederick Douglass Responds to William Lloyd Garrison (1853) 149 SOURCE 6: Frederick Douglass, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852) 150 10 The Feminine Sphere in Antebellum Society: Catharine Beecher and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 153 SOURCE 1: “Differences Between the Sexes” (1835) 165 SOURCE 2: Catharine Beecher on Women’s Proper Place (1837) 166 Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. 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Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it. vi CONTENTS SOURCE 3: Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy (1841) 168 SOURCE 4: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Addresses the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) 169 SOURCE 5: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Answers the Critics of Woman’s Rights (1848) 170 11 Manifest Destiny and Conquest: Thomas Larkin and Juan Bautista Alvarado 173 SOURCE 1: Richard Henry Dana Assesses the Californios (1840) 183 SOURCE 2: Thomas Larkin on the Situation in California (1845) 184 SOURCE 3: Juan Bautista Alvarado on the Conquest of California (1876) 185 SOURCE 4: Vigilante Justice in Los Angeles (1857) 186 12 The South and the Slavery Debate: Hinton Rowan Helper and George Fitzhugh 189 SOURCE 1: George Fitzhugh, Slavery Justified (1850) 198 SOURCE 2: George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! (1857) 199 SOURCE 3: Hinton Rowan Helper on Chinese Immigrants (1855) 201 SOURCE 4: Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis of the South (1857) 202 SOURCE 5: Emily Burke, Reminiscences of Georgia (1850) 203 13 Yankees and “Border Ruffians” in “Bleeding Kansas”: Sara Robinson and David Atchison 207 SOURCE 1: John C. Calhoun, “Address to the People of the Southern States” (1849) 218 SOURCE 2: Report of the Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas (1856) 219 SOURCE 3: Sara Robinson on “Bleeding Kansas” (1856) 220 SOURCE 4: Sara Robinson on the “Sack” of Lawrence (1856) 221 SOURCE 5: David Atchison on the “Abolitionist” Threat (1856) 222 Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s). Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. 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CONTENTS vii 14 Mr. Lincoln’s War: Clement Vallandigham and Benjamin Wade 225 SOURCE 1: Benjamin Wade Assaults a Southern Colleague (1854) 235 SOURCE 2: Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley (1862) 236 SOURCE 3: Benjamin Wade and Henry Davis, The Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864) 237 SOURCE 4: Clement Vallandigham, “The Great Civil War in America” (1863) 238 SOURCE 5: Clement Vallandigham Attacks Benjamin Wade (1862) 239 15 Race and Redemption in the Reconstructed South: Robert Smalls and Wade Hampton 242 SOURCE 1: Zion Presbyterian Church, “Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives” (1865) 254 SOURCE 2: Wade Hampton Protests to the President (1866) 255 SOURCE 3: A Northerner Assesses Southern Attitudes (1866) 257 SOURCE 4: Wade Hampton Testifies before a Congressional Committee (1871) 259 SOURCE 5: Representative Robert Smalls Protests the Withdrawal of Federal Troops (1876) 263 SOURCE 6: Instructions to Red Shirts (1876) 265 Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. 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