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1 | ID # | Title | Author/Artist | Date Published | Theme | Region | Hyperlink | Level of Difficulty | Student Reviews | Must Read? | ||||||||||||||||||||
2 | 1 | The School of Manners, or Rules for Children's Behaviour | Garretson, John | 1701 | Children's Roles | no specific region | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHNkytyLgAU3lqQVdfcUxScFE/view?usp=sharing | https://docs.google.com/document/d/10KjV2zYkFZ6wJDrAkk5hvhSpphZd1ibKC7KIehSsSLY/edit?usp=sharing | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 2 | Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation | multiple authors, transcribed by George Washington | 1595, originally | Children's Roles | no specific region | http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents_gw/civility/civility_transcript.html | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aMLktCdBazKdBzLlmFKX4YSh9UaCLLbWEMIbTiLubHs/edit?usp=sharing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 2.1 | New England Primer | unknown | Children's Roles | New England | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHNkytyLgAcnkwR1RpUGtEbWM/view?usp=sharing | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 2.2 | Portraits of Children, Colonial New England | multiple | Children's Roles | New England | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHNkytyLgAOTBZVFhsZVBwSVE/view?usp=sharing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 3 | "When I Say Such an Union is Impossible, I Mean Without the Most Grievous Tyranny and Oppression:: Observation on the disunity of the American Colonies | multiple authors' excerpts | 1722-1764 | Colonial Self-Rule | no specific region | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/american/text4/unionofcolonies.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | 4 | "This is Charles-town, How Do You Like It" | Captain Martin | 1769 | Daily Life | The South (VA) | https://docs.google.com/document/d/14H9f5Yy5KBAPhcTTO9d9nJBfL3I7SOxvw6fPwp3PJ2g/edit?usp=sharing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | 5 | A Proclamation: Printed Broadsides in the British American Colonies: An Assortment | no one author | 1700-1760 | Daily Life | New England (MA) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/ideas/text5/printedbroadsides.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | 6 | New York Considered and Improved | Miller, Re. John | 1695 | Daily Life | Middle Colonies (NY) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text1/newyorkmiller.pdf | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yEoy7j4oErkpOnpWQ0jPs-6FQetLRiSbeUvdQhEK3A8/edit?usp=sharing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 7 | Remarks on "This Whole Colony of Connecticut" | Knight, Sarah Kemble | 1704-1705 | Daily Life | New England (CT) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text1/connecticutknight.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | 8 | The History and Present State of Virginia, Book IV, Part 1 | Beverly, Jr., Robert | 1705 | Daily Life | The South (VA) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text1/virginiabeverley.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | 9 | Two Views of Carolina: 1699 & 1712 | Randolph, Edward; Freeman, James; and Question, Simon | 1699 and 1712 | Daily Life | The South (Carolinas) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text1/carolinarandolphnorris.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | 10 | "I will not priase much nor complain": Continental Europeans in British America | multiple authors' excerpts | 1687-1758 | Ethnic Diversity | no specific region | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | 11 | "Mingled Like Fish at Sea": On the Ethnic and Religious Diversity of the European Inhabitants of the BRitish Atlantic Colonies | multiple authors' excerpts | 1698-1769 | Ethnic Diversity | no specific region | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text6/diversity.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | 12 | Van Bergen Overmantel (painting) | Heaten, John | 1730-1750 | Ethnic Diversity | Middle Colonies (NY) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text6/vanbergenovermantel.pdf | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xUWOiZIyY1QRM00tkzfLzf-8sGP0higUlA0j2kgkbG8/edit?usp=sharing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 13 | The Letters Exchanged by George Washington and the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island | Washington, George and Seixas, Moses | 1790 | Ethnic Diversity | New England (RI) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHNkytyLgAU3lqQVdfcUxScFE/view?usp=sharing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | 14 | "The Unhappy Account of Our Misfortune": Failed Colonies | multiple authors' excerpts | 1698-1763 | First Arrival | no specific region | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text6/failedcolonies.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | 15 | "We had a great deal of trouble and hardships in our first settling": Memoir of Robert Witherspoon | The Family of Robert Witherspoon | 1730's | First Arrival | The South (Carolinas) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | 16 | Ebenezer: A Refuge for German Protestants in Georgia, founded 1734 | Von Reck, P.G.F, & Bolzius, Rev. J. M | 1734 | First Arrival | The South (GA) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/germansgeorgia.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 17 | German & Swiss Refugees in North Carolina: Accounts of the first settlers of New Bern, 1711 and Bethabara, 1753-55 | multiple authors' excerpts | 1700's | First Arrival | The South (Carolinas) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/germansswissnc.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | 18 | Manakin Town: The French Huguenot Settlement in Virginia | multiple authors' excerpts | 1700-1750 | First Arrival | The South (VA) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/frenchvirginia.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | 19 | The Capital and the Bay: Narratives on Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region | Force, Peter | 1600-1776 | First Arrival | The South (GA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | 20 | Trustees' Rules for the New Colony of Gerorgia, 1735 | Martyn, Benjamin | 1735 | First Arrival | The South (GA) | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FJFNsIgSuxOBnmGXjBxXdt2FcgsOuGfzsqvEDUQP8eQ/edit?usp=sharing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | 21 | "The best country for working folk and tradesmen of any in the world": Two Irish Settlers in America | Parker, Robert and Cample, Francis | 1720's-1740's | First Arrival | Middle Colonies (PA) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text4/irishpennsylvania.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | 22 | "Warn Them of Their Danger; Press them to Unite" | Jones, Benjamin | 1754 | French vs. British competiton | Middle Colonies (PA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | 23 | The European Competition for North America: The British and American Colonial Perspective | No one author, compiled excerpts | 1699-1763 | French vs. British competiton | no specific region | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | 24 | "We Have Given You a Great Deal of Fine Land": The Taking of Indian Lands; Perspectives of Native Americans and European Americans, 1707-1765 | multiple authors' excerpts | 1707-1765 | Native Americans | no specific region | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text7/indianlands.pdf | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | 24.1 | A Micmac Indian Replies to the French | Christian Leclerq | 1677 | Native American | New Brunswick/Nova Scotia | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f8c98dacmNnvfDJMo9LDBLqsKKGdLb-7tV3gVm7eb8Q/edit?usp=sharing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | 25 | "You know, we are different nations and have different ways": European Americans and Native Americans View Each Other | multiple authors' excerpts | 1700-1775 | Native Americans | No specific region | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/peoples/text3/indianscolonists.pdf | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lFqcFvUld2YpbBC_4GTYgAOJPlJ4bS0yveKMu48pNgc/edit?usp=sharing | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | 26 | The Animals, Plants, and Resources of the British Atlantic Colonies (Images and Commentary) | multiple authors | 1692-1760 | Physical Geography of the Colonies | multiple colonies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | 27 | "A Glorious Market Wholly in the Power of Britain": Two Americans on Trade and the Colonies' Value to Great Britain | Clarke, William and Franklin, Benjamin | 1750's | Relationship with England | no specific region | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/text1/americanperspectives.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | 28 | "How Far the Colonies Have Served the Trade of the Mother Country": Europeans view the commercial ties between Britain and the American Colonies, 1699-1760 | multiple authors' excerpts | 1699-1760 | Relationship with England | no specific region | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/text1/europeanperspectives.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | 29 | Is the Governor Corrupt? A Pamphlet War in Boston 1707 | Mather, Rev. Cotton and Dudley, Gov. Joseph | 1707 | Relationship with England | New England (MA) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/growth/text1/pamphletdebate.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | 30 | European Americans and African Americans View Each Other | No one author, compiled excerpts | 1696-1792 | Slavery | No specific region | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | 30.1 | Equiano's Travels | Oulaudah Equiano | 1789 | Slavery | -- | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tuM-LU0_LKoHCHWfVM3KKlb9D2OumGwXhRHitiK8XQ0/edit?usp=sharing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | 31 | Is Slavery Christian?: A Pamphlet Debate in Boston, 1700-1706 | Sewall, Samuel and Saffin, John | 1700-1706 | Slavery | New England (MA) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/ideas/text3/slaverychristian.pdf | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | 32 | Slaves for Life, and Servants for a Time | Beverly, Robert; Norris, John; Jones, Rev. Hugh; Moraley, William; Bolzius, & Johann Martin | 1705-1750 | Slavery/Indentured Servitude | The South (variety) | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/economies/text6/servitude.pdf | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | 33 | Testimony: What About Slavery is unChristian; American Protestant Views | multiple authors' excerpts | 1690-1760 | Slavery | no specific region | http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/ideas/text3/slaveryunchristian.pdf | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | 34 | Two Views of the Stono Slave Rebellion | unidentified | 1739, 1937 | Slavery | The South (Carolinas) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | 35 | Paintings, assorted | multiple artists | 1710, 1748, 1761 | Slavery | multiple colonies | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IACv2DKRSCBTVmIShF0Bdc9BpC_KylBock0AQwpsI30/edit?usp=sharing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | 35.1 | Slave Advertisement Images | multiple | Slavery | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1AHNkytyLgASE40Z3Q4Qzc5Ymc/view?usp=sharing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | 35.2 | Gottlieb Mittelberger's Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1750 and Return to Germany in the Year 1754 | Mittelberger, Gottlieb | 1754 | Indentured Servitude | Middle Colonies (PA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | 35.3 | The First Slaves: three Documents on Slave Revolts | assorted | assorted | Slavery (Revolts) | The South | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | 36 | "That woman still shall sure his equal be": The Rights of Colonial Women | Wright, Susanna | 1700's | Women's Roles | Middle Colonies (PA) | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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