US to 1877 HIST-2010

WA#4- Due July 07, 2025

Once you have read this week's chapter in  American Yawp and analyzed the primary sources listed in the links in the  Week 8 Study Unit  , consider again the theme of expectations and outcomes. How do this week's readings shape your understanding of early Americans' expectations versus their lived experiences? Do this week's readings support your earlier argument? Do they make you rethink it? Revise your big argument as necessary (again, underline your thesis statement) and add to your essay using at least 2 images and 2 documents listed under primary sources above. Use your textbook for context.

As you analyze this week's sources and textbook chapter, consider the following:

· Many Americans relished the thought of pushing national boundaries ever further outward.  Every step seemed to open up new opportunities. Yet, not every American was enamored with the idea of westward expansion, and many early supporters soon became discouraged, too.

· The domestic commerce in enslaved people played a critical role in American expansion. 

· Images often tell us one story while documents tell us another. 

Week 8 Study Unit

Read, Think, and Write  

Read  American Yawp  Chapter 11Links to an external site.  and  Chapter 12Links to an external site. . 

  Primary Sources

Images

· American Progress,Links to an external site.  John Gast, 1872

· Lewis Miller's watercolorLinks to an external site.

· Puget Sound & Mt. Rainier, John Mix Stanley, 1854

 

The Death Struggle, Charles Deas, 1854

· Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Free Soiler,Links to an external site.  1856,  Harper's Weekly

· Horse Market in SonoraLinks to an external site. , in Frank Maryatt,  Mountains and Molehills, or Recollections of a Burnt Journal (London, 1855), p. 273

Documents

· Who May be Citizens of the United StatesLinks to an external site. , 15 May 1858,  Harper's Weekl

· Mary Ballou, “ This Muddy Place Links to an external site. ,” 1852 

· Excerpts from the United States vs. Telokite et al, 1851Links to an external site. (original document — see transcription below)

· Transcript of Original Document The United States }  vs } Telokite et al }

Telokite one of the defendants makes oath that a certain Indian named Quishem now in the Cayuse country he thinks will be a material witness for the defendants in this case. That the materiality of said witness was not known in time to have him in attendance at this term of the court. He expects & believes that said witness will prove that the late Dr Whitman administered medi-cines to may of the Cayuse Indians and that afterwards a large number of them died, including amongst them the wives and children of some of these defendants. He expects further to prove by said witness that a certain Joseph Lewis, who resided at Waiilatpu informed these defendants a few days before the 29 November 1847 that the Cayuse Indians were dying in consequence of poison being administered to them by the late Marcus Whitman and he had heard Dr. Whitman say that he would kill off all of the Cayuse Indians by the coming of the ensuing spring-that he would then have their horses and lands. Witness will also prove it is the law of the Cayuse Indians to kill bad medicine men.

· Petition to Sue for FreedomLinks to an external site. , Dred Scott, filed April 6, 1846,  Dred Scott Case Collection 

· Maria Perkins to Richard Perkins, 7 Oct. 1852Links to an external site.