Week 7 Reading Questions

• Textbook reading: Chapters 5-7

• Thomas Jefferson, excerpt from Query VI, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-82). Merrill D. Peterson, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States (New York, 1984), 182-90.
  
• Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801. Merrill D. Peterson, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States (New York, 1984), 492-96.
• Lewis & Clark Documents:
  • Thomas Jefferson, "Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress", 18 January 1803."
    
  • Thomas Jefferson, "Jefferson's Instructions to Lewis, 20 June 1803."
    
  • James Ronda, Jefferson's West: A Journey with Lewis and Clark, "Picturing Empire: The Days of May 25, 1805," and Bernard DeVoto, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Chapter IX: "From the Musselshell to Maria's River."
    
  • James Ronda, Jefferson's West: A Journey with Lewis and Clark, "Duties of Empire: The Days of August 17, 1805," and Bernard DeVoto, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Chapter XV: "Crossing the Great Divide."
    
  • James Ronda, Jefferson's West: A Journey with Lewis and Clark, "Talking for Empire: The Days of January 4, 1806," and Bernard DeVoto, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Chapter XXI: "At Fort Clatsop."
    
  • Bernard DeVoto, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Appendix II: "Personnel of the Expedition"
    
  • Bernard DeVoto, The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Appendix III: "Itemized List of Specimens and Artifacts Sent to Jefferson from Fort Mandan"
    
• Thomas Jefferson, To the Wolf and People of the Mandan Nation, Washington, December 30, 1806. Merrill D. Peterson, Library of America, Literary Classics of the United States (New York, 1984), 564-66.

Week 8 Reading Questions

• Textbook reading: Chpaters 8-10

• Thomas Hart Benton, "The Destiny of the Race," The Congressional Globe, 3 June 1846.
• John Calhoun and John Dix, "Congressional Debate over Incorporating Mexico, 1848," in William F. Deverell and Anne F. Hyde ed., The West: In the History of the Nation (New York: Bedford, 2000), 235-9.
• James K. Polk, "Fourth Annual Message," 5 December 1848.
• Map: 1848 Mexican Cession.
• "An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, 1854" United States Statutes at Large, vol. 10, 33rd Cong., 1st sess., 1854, 277-90.
• John Lawrie and Axalla John Hoole, "Letters from Kansas, 1856," in William F. Deverell and Anne F. Hyde ed., The West: In the History of the Nation (New York: Bedford, 2000), 273-81.
• Jesse A. Gove, "Letters from Utah, 1857-58," in William F. Deverell and Anne F. Hyde ed., The West: In the History of the Nation (New York: Bedford, 2000), 287-91.
• Chief John Ross letters:
  • "To Henry M. Rector," 22 February 1861.
  • "To Benjamin McCulloch," 17 June 1861.
  • "Address to the Cherokees," 21 August 1861.
  • "To the Chiefs and Headmen of the Creek Nation," 24 August 1861.
  • "To Thomas C. Hindman," 25 June 1862.
  • "To Abraham Lincoln," 16 September 1862.
• Robert Bent on the Sand Creek Atrocities, 1864.
• "The Grandest Military Display In the World," New York Herald, 24 May 1865.
• Report of the Commisioner of Indian Affairs, Excerpts from a report to the 40th Congress, 13 July 1867.
• Photo: Menominee Indian Union War veterans
• Photo: P. Sheridan, U. Grant, W. Sherman & Grenville Dodge
• Map: U.S. Military Forts, 1819-95
• Map: Battles Between Indian Forces and the U.S. Army

Week 9 Reading Questions

• Textbook reading: Chpaters 11-12

• Albert D. Richardson, "Through to the Pacific." New York Tribune, May-June, 1869.
• Frederick Goddard, Where to Emigrate, and Why: Homes and Fortunes in the Boundless West and Sunny South with a Complete History and Description of the Pacific Railroad (Philadelphia, 1869).
• Southern Pacific Railroad Timetable and Map in Travelers' Official Railway Guide, June 1893, (Alpha, NJ: Sheridan, 1972), 460-4.
• Union Pacific Railroad Timetable and Map in Travelers' Official Railway Guide, June 1893, (Alpha, NJ: Sheridan, 1972), 524-30.
• Maps: Rates of travel (3)
• "Railway Mileage Map," in The American Railway (Secaucus, NJ: Castle, 1988), 429.
• Slide Show: Railroad
• Excerpts from three Polygamy Cases
  
  • U.S. Supreme Court, REYNOLDS v. UNITED STATES, 98 U.S. 145 (1878)
  • U.S. Supreme Court, DAVIS v. BEASON, 133 U.S. 333 (1890)
  • U.S. Supreme Court, LATE CORPORATION OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS et al. v.UNITED STATES, 136 U.S. 1 (1890)
• Excerpt from the Constitution of the State of Utah (1896)
• Excerpts from two "Insular Cases"
  • U.S. Supreme Court, DOWNES v. BIDWELL, 182 U.S. 244 (1901)
  • U.S. Supreme Court, TERRITORY OF HAWAII v. MANKICHI, 190 U.S. 197 (1903)

• Assignment (due Thursday 10/24 at lecture):
  • Book Analysis #2, Mark Twain, Roughing It & Web Analysis #1, HarpWeek combined assignment.

Week 10 Reading Questions

• Forty-Seventh Congress. Session I (1882), Chinese Exclusion Act
• John Gast, "Westward Ho (American Progress)," (1872).
• The General Allotment Act (Dawes Act), 8 February 1887.
• Film clip: Allotment
• Film clip: Boarding Schools
• Luther Standing Bear, "Luther Standing Bear (Lakota) Recalls His Experiences at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879," from Land of the Spotted Eagle, (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1933), 230-34.
• Thomas J. Morgan, "Indian Commissioner Thomas J. Morgan on the Need for Compulsory Education, 1892."