American History Primary Document Bundle

Help your students fully engage with history! This collection of 19 primary source documents provides historical context, vocabulary support, and scaffolded comprehension questions that helps students to do real history and learn from historical documents.

INCLUDES ANSWER KEYS!

$40 VALUE!

INCLUDED ALSO: A document-based question (DBQ) with planning support that makes the writing process much easier!

The documents are selected from throughout American History:

• Bartolome de las Casas, Spanish Treatment of the Indians (1528)
• Letter from an Indentured Servant (1623)
• John Winthrop, General Observations (1629-1630)
• Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
• George Washington, Farwell Address (1797)
• James Madison, War Message to Congress (1812)
• John L. O'Sullivan, Manifest Destiny (1845)
• Rules of Highland Plantation (1838)
• Nat Turner, Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)
• David Walker, Appeal to Colored Citizens (1829)
• Frederick Douglass, Speech on the Fourth of July (1852)
• Declaration of Rights and Sentiments (1848)
• Dorothea Dix, Petition to Massachusetts Legislature (1848)
• Horace Mann, Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education (1848)
• DBQ: Mid-1800s Reform Movements
• Chief Joseph, An Indian's Perspective (1879)
• Woodrow Wilson, Safe for Democracy Speech (1917)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address (1933)
• Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1960)
• Lyndon B. Johnson, The Great Society (1964)