Great Issues in American History, Vol. I

Name: Great Issues in American History, Vol. I | From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776
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From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776

Richard Hofstadter Clarence L. Ver Steeg(Herausgeber*in)

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Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Contents
Part I: The Colonizing Impulse
Introduction
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1. Adam Smith, "Of Colonies" from The Wealth of Nations, 1776
2. Christopher Columbus, Letter to the King and Queen of Spain (undated, probably 1694)
3. Samuel de Champlain, Voyages, 1604
4. Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of Western Planting, 1584
5. Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
6. Letters from Don Pedro de Zuniga, the Spanish Ambassador to England, to the King of Spain, 1607
7. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1630-1650
8. Disagreements Within the Virginia Company, 1623
9. John White, The Planters' Plea, 1630
10. Complaints Against New England, 1632-1638
11. The King Overrides Virginia's Objections to the Grant Given Lord Baltimore, 1629-1633
Part II: The Establishment of Self-Government
Introduction
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1. The Third Virginia Charter, 1612
2. An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England for a Council of State and General Assembly, 24 July 1621
3. The Mayflower Compact, 11 November 1620
4. Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
5. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 14 January 1638
6. The Early Establishment of Local Government: County, Town, Legal System, Seventeenth Century
7. Robert Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
8. Governor William Berkeley on Bacon's Rebellion, 19 May 1676
9. Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People, 30 July 1676
10. Royal Commission in Virginia on Bacon's Rebellion, 27 February 1677
11. Massachusetts Bay Asserts Its Right to Govern, 10 June 1661
12. Edward Randolph Condemns Massachusetts Bay Before the Lords of Trade, 12 June 1683
13. The Glorious Revolution in New England, 18 April 1689
14. John Wise, Vindication of the Government of the New England Churches, 1717
Part III: The Economic Regulation of the Empire
Introduction
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1. Josiah Child, A New Discourse of Trade (undated, Fourth Edition)
2. John Bland, Remonstrance Against the Enumeration Act, London (?), 1661
3. A Short Answer to an Elaborate Pamphlet Entitled "The Importance of Sugar Plantations," 1731
4. Joshua Gee, The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Considered, London, 1729
5. Reasons Offered Against Encouraging Making Iron in America, ca. 1750
6. Reasons for Making Bar, As Well As Pig or Sow-Iron in His Majesty's Plantations, ca. 1750
7. Reason Against a General Prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in His Majesty's Plantations, ca. 1750
8. Benjamin Franklin, A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency, 1729
9. Dr. William Douglass, A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America, 1740
10. Petition of the Merchants of London to Parliament, 1751
11. Adam Smith, "Conclusion of the Mercantile System" from The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Part IV: The Politics of Internal Controversy
Introduction
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1. John Cotton, Certain Proposals Made by Lord Say, Lord Brooke, and Other Persons of Quality, as Conditions of Their Removing to New England, with Answers Thereto, 1636
2. Roger Williams, The Bloody Tenet, 1644
3. Nathaniel Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, 1647
4. The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
5. Samuel Davies, Letter to Reverend Doctor Doddridge, 2 October 1750
6. Connecticut's Act to Regulate Abuses and to Correct Disorders in Ecclesiastical Affairs, 1742
7. A Memorial of Several Aggrievances and Oppressions of His Majesty's Subjects in the Colony of New York in America, Undated, ca. 1750
8. A Petition from Inhabitants of Philadelphia, 14 February 1752
9. Royal Instructions to the Governors of the Colonies Forbidding Alteration in Representation, 24 July 1767
10. Remonstrance of John Daniell, John Yerworth, George Heskett, John Scott, and David Brown.Ship Carpenters, 25 January 1744
11. [Anthony Benezet], Instructions Regarding Negro Slaves Issued by the Society of Friends in its Monthly Meeting, 1754
12. Thomas Bacon's Sermon to Negro Slaves, 1743
13. The Secretary of Virginia Reports on Self-Regulation Without Benefit of Legislation, 8 May 1682
14. Lieutenant-Governor Spotswood and the Internal Regulation of Tobacco, 29 December 1713
15. Response to the Tobacco Act, 1729
16. [Dr. William Douglass], A Letter to Merchant in London Concerning a Late Combination in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.to Impose or Force a Private-Currency Called Land-Bank Money, 21 February 1740
17. (Anonymous), A Letter to the Merchant in London to Whom Is Directed a Printed Letter Relating to the Manufactory Undertaking, 27 February 1740
18. The Petition of London Merchants to Parliament, 11 February 1741
Part V: Constitutional Contest between Colony and Crown
Introduction
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1. Massachusetts House of Representatives on the Governor's Salary, 11 September 1728
2. Governor Burnet of Massachusetts on the Governor's Salary, 17 September 1728
3. The North Carolina Biennial Act, 1715
4. Governor Gabriel Johnston's Request to Repeal the Biennial Act, 18 October 1736
5. Disposition of the Biennial Act, 1737
6. The Prerogatives of the Assembly in Choosing a Speaker, 10 January 1748
7. The Governor's Prerogatives in Choosing a Speaker, 15 February 1748
8. The Pennsylvania Assembly Opposes the Governor on Defense Measures, July 1740
9. Governor Thomas of Pennsylvania Replies to the Assembly, 2 August 1740
10. An Act to Impose Duties on the Importation of Slaves, 1740
11. Malachy Postlethwayt, The Advantages of the African Trade, 1772
12. Resolution of the Virginia House of Burgesses on Colonial Authority, 14 November 1764
Part VI: The Politics of International Rivalry
Introduction
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1. Memoir for the Marquis de Seignelay Regarding the Dangers That Threaten Canada and the Means to Remedy Them, January 1687
2. King William of England Addresses Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701
3. Governor Alexander Spotswood to the Board of Trade, 14 August 1718
4. The Governors of New York and Canada Explore Their Differences, 1721
5. Arredondo's Proof of Spain's Title to Georgia, 1742
6. Introduction to the Report on General Oglethorpe's Expedition to St. Augustine, 1741
7. The Duke of Newcastle Addresses the House of Lords on the Spanish Question, 1738
8. Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761
9. Memoir on English Aggression, October 1750
10. Marquis de la Galissoniere, Memoir on the French Colonies in North America, December 1750
11. George Washington's Journal of a Tour over the Allegheny Mountains, 1753-1754
12. Remarks of the British Ministry on the Letter of the King of France, January 1756
13. Duc de Choiseul, Secret Memorandum on a Peace Settlement, 17 June 1761
14. Peter Kalm, Travels into North America, 1748-1749
15. French Diplomatic Correspondence on the Degree of Dissatisfaction of the North American Colonies, 1776
Part VII: Revolution and Independence
Introduction
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1. Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
2. Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the Taxation.consider'd, 1765
3. Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765
4. William Pitt, Speech on the Stamp Act, January 14, 1766
5. John Dickinson, Letters II and IV from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768
6. First Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolves, October 14, 1774
7. Daniel Leonard, Massachusettensis, January 9, 1775
8. John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
9. Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775
10. Adam Smith, The Cost of Empire, 1776
11. Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6, 1775
12. Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
13. Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776
14. The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
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