Analyzing Primary Sources

US History I Touchstone Primary Sources

Review the primary sources from the following list and choose two for your assignment. The sources you select should come from different time periods.

Settling the Americas, 10,000 BCE - 1700

● Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/15th_century/colum.asp

● Letter of Christopher Columbus on his First Voyage to America: https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/contact/text1/columbusletter. pdf

● Excerpts from Nova Britannia: https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/powhatan-people-and-the-english-at-jamestown /sources/1403

● Richard Frethorne's Letter to his Mother and Father, concerning the experiences of an indentured servant: http://www.virtualjamestown.org/exist/cocoon/jamestown/fha/J1012

● The Mayflower Compact: https://constitutioncenter.org/education/classroom-resource-library/classroom/ma yflower-compact

● John Winthrop Dreams of a City on a Hill: http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/colliding-cultures/john-winthrop-dreams-of- a-city-on-a-hill-1630/

● Map of North America from the Moll Atlas: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/map-north-america-1712

● John Lawson Encounters Native Americans: https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/colliding-cultures/john-lawson-encounters -north-american-indians-1709/

● Examination of Bridget Bishop, as Recorded by Samuel Parris: https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n13.html#n13.1

● Germantown Friends' Protest Against Slavery: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.14000200/?st=text

The Road to Revolution, 1600-1783

● The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5th 1770 by a Party of the 29th Reg: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/bloody-massacre-king-street

● The Bostonian's Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/bostonians-paying-exciseman

● The Battle of Bunker’s Hill: https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/41 ● The Able Doctor, or America Swallowing the Bitter Draught:

https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/able-doctor-draught ● Deposition of Captain John Parker Concerning the Battle at Lexington:

https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/john-parker-lexington ● The Battle of Lexington, April 1775: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.39753/ ● Boston Non-Importation Agreement, August 1, 1768:

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/boston_non_importation_1768.asp ● Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death:

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/patrick.asp ● William Jackson, an Importer; at the Brazen Head:

https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=365 ● Virtual Representation:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-4531 ● By the King, A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition:

https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/by-the-king-a-proclamation-for- suppressing-rebellion-and-sedition

The New Nation, 1776-1840

● George Washington’s First Inaugural Address: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/washington-first-inaugural

● Memorial From the Yearly Meeting of the Quakers: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/1-memorial-yearly-meeting

● Illustrated Family Record: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/illustrated-family-record

● Naturalization Act of 1790: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/naturalization-act-of-1790

● Petition Against the Slave Trade: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/petition-against-the-slave-trade

● Sedition Act of 1798: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=4126

● Congressional Pugilists: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/388906

● Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/act-prohibit-importation-slaves

● Testimony of Deborah Sampson Gannett: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/testimony-deborah-sampson-ga nnett

● President Jefferson's Message About Lewis and Clark's Discoveries: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/discoveries-lewis-clark

● Speech of Captain Meriwether Lewis to the Otto Indians: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/lewis-speech-otto

● Cherokee Petition Protesting Removal: https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/manifest-destiny/cherokee-petition-protes ting-removal-1836/

A Nation Divided, 1800-1877

● Bill of Sale for a Slave Named George: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/bill-of-sale-for-slave-named-geo rge

● The Declaration of Sentiments: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/senecafalls.asp

● Anti-Slavery Petition from the Women of Philadelphia: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/antislavery-petition-women-phil adelphia

● The Way They Go To California: https://www.loc.gov/item/91481165/ ● Westward the Course of Empire Take Its Way:

https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/westward-course-empire-takes-its-way-mural-s tudy-us-capitol-14569

● Declaration of Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/declaration-of-immediate-cause s-which-induce-and-justify-the-secession-of-south-carolina-from-the-federal-unio n

● "To Colored Men!" Broadside: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/to-colored-men

● "Wanted! 200 Negroes" Broadside: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/broadside-titled-wanted-200-ne groes

● “Colored Soldiers! Equal State Rights! And Monthly Pay with White Men!” Circular: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/circular-colored-soldiers

● House Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to Prohibit Congress from Abolishing Slavery: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/amendment-prohibit-abolishing- slavery

● Lincoln's Recommendation for Gradual Emancipation: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/lincoln-gradual-emancipation

● A Petition for Universal Suffrage: https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/petition-prohibit-disfranchiseme nt