ASH 3002y Reading Assignment
March 29, 1999
Jefferson and the Fateful Turn West
Reading:
- Frederick Jackson Turner, 'The Significance of the Frontier in American History,"
[1893] (chapter 1 of The Frontier in American History)
- The Lewis & Clark Expedition as Viewed from Jefferson's Monticello:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html
- Andrew Jackson on Indian Removal in his second
annual message to Congress (December 6, 1830), and on A Permanent Habitation for the
American Indians in his seventh annual message to Congress (December 7, 1835).
- The Removal Act of 1830
- Statements by James
Monroe and Edward Everett on United States Indian Policy
- "The Cherokee Memorials" (Norton Anthology,
pages 996-1005)
- Cherokee Nation v. The State
of Georgia, 1831 (This is a concise
edited version. For full texts of the various legal materials, see Cherokee
Nation v. The State of Georgia, 1831.)
- Worcester v. The State
of Georgia, 1832. (Again, this is a concise edited
version. For full texts of the various legal materials, see Worcester
v. The State of Georgia, 1832.)
Note that the reading assignment is relatively large, but is smaller than it looks,
since most of these texts are quite short.
Further reading:
