How to Complete ARE (Additional Reading Exercise) Scantron Boxes (PDF)

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PART ONE: Exploration, Discovery, and Colonization	PART TWO: The American Revolution and Early National Period
PART THREE: The New Nation Expands	PART FOUR: Sectional Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction

Additional Reading Exercise One


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IMPORTANT NOTE: The language in some of these early documents is very verbose. In other cases, the spelling and punctuation is not the same as that to which you are accustomed. The English language did not reach its modern form until well after the colonial period began and people used words and sometimes spellings that seem strange and sometimes almost unintelligble to us today. For this reason, you may find this first exercise a little more difficult than it would be otherwise, but take heart: as you move forward in time, you will find language and spellings that will be more familiar to you.

• Royal Command to Christopher Columbus (1492)
• Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal (1492)
• Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
• The Act of Supremecy Establishing the Anglican Church (1534)
• A Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas (1542)
• Fox's Book of Martyrs: Persecutions in England during the Reign of Queen Mary
• Regnans Excelsis--Pope Pius V's Bull Against Elizabeth I (1570)
• Thomas Hariot's Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1590)
• Virginia or London Company Royal Charter (1606)
• Mayflower Compact (1620)
• The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles by Captain John Smith (1624)
• "City Upon a Hill," sermon by John Winthrop (1630)
• The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for the Cause of Conscience, Discussed in a Conference Between Truth and Peace by Roger Williams (1644)
• Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649)
• The Navigation Act (1651)
• The First Navigation Act (1660)
• The Second Navigation Act (1663)
• Articles of Capitulation on the Reduction of New Netherland (1664)
• The Third Navigation Act (1672)
• Royal African Company trade (1672)
• Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England (1688)
• An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown (1689)
• Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)
• The Navigation Act (1696)
• Act to Encourage Settlement of North Carolina (1707)
• The Transportation Act (1718)
• Triangular Trade Map (Interactive)
• Royal Charter of Georgia (1732)
• The Molasses Act (1733)
• "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God," sermon by Jonathan Edwards (1741)
• George Washington's Journal (1754)
• Albany Plan of Union (1754)
• Treaty of Paris (1763)
• The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (1794)

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Additional Reading Exercise Two



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• Proclamation of 1763 (1763)
• Revenue Act of 1764 a.k.a. the Molasses or Sugar Act (1764)
• Currency Act of 1764 (1764)
• The Stamp Act (1765)
• The Virginia Resolves (1765)
• The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
• New York Merchants Non-Importation Agreement (1765)
• Repeal of the Stamp Act (1766)
• The Declaratory Act (1766)
• Quartering Act of 1765 (1765)
• Townshend Revenue Act (1767)
• Massachusetts Circular Letter to the Colonial Legislatures (1768)
• Boston Massacre Trials Chronology
• Repeal of the Townshend Acts (1770)
• Tea Act explained (use this to answer question)
• Tea Act (1773)
• Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York (1773)
• The Intolerable or Coercive Acts (1774)
• Boston Port Act
• Massachusetts Govt. Act
• Administration of Justice Act
• Quartering Act of 1774
• Quebec Act
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (1774)
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)
• Olive Branch Petition (1775)
• King George's Proclamation of Rebellion (1775)
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Transcript
• Articles of Confederation (1777)
• Transcript
• Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
• Transcript
• Treaty of Paris (1783)
• Transcript
• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
• Northwest Ordinance (1787)
• Transcript
• Virginia Plan (1787)
• Transcript
• Constitution of the United States (1787)
• Transcript
• President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
• Transcript
• Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, a.k.a. Treaty of London or Jay Treaty, with Additional Documents (1794)
• Text of the Treaty of London, or Jay Treaty
• Bill of Rights (1796)
• Transcript
• President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
• Transcript
• The Barbary Treaties: Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796
• Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
• Transcript

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Additional Reading Exercise Three



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• Thomas Jefferson's Tombstone and Epitaph
• Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
• Instructions to Lewis and Clark from President Jefferson (1803)
• Journals of Lewis and Clark (1803-1805)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Act of Congress ending the Slave Trade (1807)
• James Madison War Message to Congress (1812)
• Treaty of Ghent (1814)
• Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Convention of 1818 (re: Oregon): A Complete List of Documents
• Text of the Convention
• Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• Mexican Colonization Law Decree (1823)
• Mexican Constitution of 1824 (1824)
• Colonization Law of Coahuila y Texas (1825)
• Mier y Teran Inspection of Texas --Letters to President Guadalupe Victoria (1828)
• The Law or Decree of April 6, 1830 (1830)
• President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
• Indian Removal Act (1830)
• South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832)
• President Jackson's Nullification Proclamation (1832)
• A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)
• Stephen F. Austin's Circular of the Committee of Safety (1835)
• Letter from David Crockett to his children (1836)
• Travis' Letter from the Alamo (1836)
• Texas Declaration of Independence (1836)
• Joint Resolution of Congress offering Texas terms of annexation (1845)
• Preliminary to a Treaty of Peace Between Mexico and Texas (1845)
• Proclamtion of President Paredes (1846)
• President Polk's Instructions to John Slidell (1845)
• President James K. Polk's War Message to Congress (1846)
• Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains or, Oregon Treaty (1846)
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
• Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)
• Keynote Address at Seneca Falls Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1848)
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

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Additional Reading Exercise Four



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• Wilmot Provisio (1846)
• The Church and Prejudice by Frederick Douglass (1841)
• The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1849-1881)
• Compromise of 1850 (1850)
• Texas Boundary Compromise and Establishment of Territorial Govt. for New Mexico
• Statehood for California
• Establishment of Territoral Government for Utah
• Fugitive Slave Law
• End of Slave Trade in D. C.
• Constitution of the State of South Carolina
  (contained in Rules of the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
• The American Slave Codes in Theory and Practice by William Goodell (1853)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Republican Party Platform (1856)
• The Impending Crisis by Hinton Rowan Helper (1857)
• Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates Lincoln's Opening Remarks, Quincy, Illinois (Oct. 13, 1858)
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates Douglas' Reply to Lincoln, Quincy, Illinois (Oct. 13, 1858)
• Lincoln's Cooper Union Address, New York (1860)
• "City Intelligence: The Case of Rev. Daniel Worth", New York Times (1860)
• South Carolina Secession Declaration (1860)
• Confederate Constitution (1861)
• Alexander H. Stephens, Cornerstone Address (1861)
• A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union (1861)
• Sam Houston on Secession and Civil War (1861)
• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (1861)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• War Department General Order 143 (1863)
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)
• Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
• President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
• 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865)
• 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868)
• 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870)
• A sampling of Black Codes (Reconstruction Era)
• First Reconstruction Act (1867)
• Second Reconstruction Act (1867)
• Reminiscences of the Civil War by former Confederate Gen. John B. Gordon (1904)

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