U.S. History Documents CD-ROM

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Below is a list of documents that are on the U.S. History Documents CD-ROM that came with your text The American Journey, Third Edition. You can click on a link below to answer questions about each document. Results of this assessment can be e-mailed to your instructor.

Colonial America

3-12 Alexander Falconbridge, The African Slave Trade (1788)
3-13 Olaudah Equiano, The Middle Passage (1788)

Forging a Constitution

6-2 A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1780)
6-3 George Washington, The Newburgh Address (1783)
6-4 Henry Knox, Letter to George Washington (1786)
6-6 Shays's Rebellion: Letters of Generals William Shepard and Benjamin Lincoln to Governor James Bowdoin of Massachusetts (1787)
6-7 Divergent Reactions to Shays’s Rebellion
6-8 The "Distracting Question" in Philadelphia (1787)
6-9 Patrick Henry Speaks Against Ratification of the Constitution (1788)

The Federalist Era

7-1 James Madison Defends the Constitution (1788)

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