Description
This narrative Introduction to the evolution of Colonial America explores themes of globalism, migration and the interactions of culturally diffuse peoples, and the opportunities and obstacles people faced.
Table of Contents
Preface
PART ONE: THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN COLONIZATION ON EARLY AMERICA
Chapter One The Regions and Peoples of North America
Mexico to the Arctic
The Eastern Woodlands and the Mississippians
Chapter Two Spain in America: The Sixteenth Century
Early Exploration and Conquest
Explorers and Conquistadors in the American Southeast
and Southwest
The Importance of Florida
Spanish and Indians
Chapter Three Early Stages of English Overseas Expansion, 1508-1622
English Political Culture
England on the Seas
Ralegh and Roanoke
Virginia: The First Permanent English Colony in America
Chapter Four Europeans and Indians in the Northeast, 1620-1670
European Settlements in the Northeast
Massachusetts Bay: Creating a Christian Commonwealth
Indian and English in New England
French, Dutch, and Swedish Settlements
Chapter Five Africans and the African Slave Trade
Slavery in Historical Perspective
West Africa and the Slave Trade
Contours of the African Slave Trade
West Africans and their Cultures in Diaspora
Chapter Six Bound Labor in Early America
European Bound Labor
Bound Labor in the Chesapeake Colonies
Africans and English
Slavery and the Law: Creating a Racialized Society
PART TWO: EVOLUTION AND ADAPTATION OF EARLY AMERICAN SOCIETIES AND PEOPLES, 1670-1730
Chapter Seven The Evolution of New England, 1670-1730
Transforming the Environment
New England Society
Chapter Eight Indians, Africans, and English in New England, 1670-1730
Cultural Transformation: Conversion and Adaptation
Debasing Others: Indian and African Slavery in New England
Indian-Puritan Warfare
Chapter Nine The Middle Colonies and the Wars for Empire, 1670-1730
From New Netherland to New York
William Penn and the Society of Friends
France and England: Imperial Conflicts in an American Context
Chapter Ten On the Periphery of Empires:
The Southeast and the Southwest, 1670-1730
The Southeast: The English in Carolina
France in the Mississippi Valley
The Spanish Southwest
PART THREE: COLONIES, EMPIRES, AND PEOPLES
IN A TRANSFOMATIVE AGE, 1730-1783
Chapter Eleven Problems and Solutions in an Era of Growth, 1730-1770
Population Growth and Prosperity
Georgia: Social Experimentation and Failure
Growth and Societal Problems in the Carolinas
Fixing Societal Problems: Awakening and Enlightenment
Chapter Twelve Colonists, Indians, and the Contests for Empire, 1730-1763
Imperial Wars and Native America, 1730-1755
The Seven Years’ War:
From Colonial to Global to Colonial Conflict
Chapter Thirteen Politics and Politicization in Early America, 1761-1774
Colonial Government and Politics
The Stamp Act and Politicization of American Colonials
Britain’s Last Attempt to Tax Americans
Chapter Fourteen From Colonists to Revolutionaries, 1775-1776
The First Continental Congress
Towards Independence
Chapter Fifteen A Revolution and a Civil War, 1776-1783
Parrying the British Offensive
A War of Attrition
War’s Legacies
Documents:
Chapter 1
John Mandeville, Marco Polo, Artistic depiction of Cahokia
Chapter 2
An eyewitness account of the de Soto expedition
Pedro Menendez De Aviles explains to King Philip II why he put the French in Florida to death
Chapter 3
Richard Hakluyt on the usefulness of colonies to solve employment problems in England
Lady Mary Wyatt writes her sister from Jamestown, Virginia
Chapter 4
John Winthrop’s concern for Puritan settlement of New England
Anne Hutchinson’s Trial for Heresy
A Puritan view of the Pequot War
Chapter 5
Journal of the Slave Ship St. Jan begun on the 4th of March of the year 1659
Customs at Whydah (1767)
The Voyage of the Little George, 1730
Chapter 6
Virginia laws of servitude and slavery (1643-1691)
A British act of parliament forcing the shipment of criminals to the colonies
Chapter 7
Cotton Mather on one of the condemned witches in Salem
A New England colonist’s view of Indian rights to the land
Chapter 8
The Background for King Philip’s War
Mary Rowlandson’s captivity among the Narragansett
Chapter 9
William Penn on religions toleration
The aftermath of Jacob Leisler’s death
Chapter 10
The Pueblo Revolt of 1696
Andre Pénicaut’s adventures in Louisiana
Chapter 11
George Whitefield on slavery
An anonymous supporter of the ban on slavery in Georgia
Chapter 12
The Marquis de Duquesne on the prospects for war between France and Britain
The meeting of the governors of the southern colonies with the Southern Indians in 1763
Chapter 13
John Peter Zenger’s Trial for Libel
A New Yorker fears the leveling unleashed by opposition to the Stamp Act
Chapter 14
A British view of American colonists’ assertions of rights
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation
Thomas Paine appeals to Americans to overthrow the shackles of monarchy
Chapter 15
Abigail and John Adams on women in the new nation
A Continental Army soldier explains why the soldiers mutinied
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