Chapter 1. The First Civilizations of North America
An American Story: The Power of a Hidden Past
A Continent of Cultures
A Cultures of Ancient Mexico
Daily Lives: Play Ball
Cultures of the Southwest
Cultures of the Eastern Woodlands
Cultures of the Great Plains
Cultures of the Great Basin
Cultures of the Pacific Northwest
Cultures of the Subarctic and Arctic
Innovations and Limitations
America's Agricultural Gifts
Landscapers
The Shape of a Problem
Animals and Illness
Historian's Toolbox: An Ancient Calendar
Crisis and Transformation
Enduring Cultures
North America on the Eve of Contact
Dueling Documents: How Many People Lived in Hispaniola in 1492?
North America on the Eve of Contact
REVIEW CHART: A CONTINENT OF CULTURES
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING
After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: Tracking the First Americans
Chapter 2. Old Worlds, New Worlds, 1400-1600
An American Story: Fishing Nets and Far Horizons
Eurasia and Africa in the Fifteenth Century
Europe's Place in the World
Historian's Toolbox: A Witch Bottle
Africa and the Portuguese Wave
Sugar and the Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Spain in the Americas
The Spanish Beachhead in the Caribbean
Daily Lives: "Barbaric Dress"--Indian and European
Conquest of the Aztecs
The Columbian Exchange
The Crown Steps In
Dueling Documents: How Did Spaniards and Aztecs Remember First Contact?
The Search for North America's Indian Empires
Religious Reform Divides Europe
The Teachings of Martin Luther
The Contribution of John Calvin
The Birth of Spanish Florida and French Huguenots
The English Reformation
England's Entry into America
The Ambitions of Gilbert, Raleigh, and Wingina
A Second Roanoke--and Croatoan
REVIEW CHART: EUROPEAN EXPLORATIONS
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING
Chapter 3. Colonization and Conflict in the South, 1600-1750
An American Story: Outlandish Strangers
Spain's North American Colonies
The Founding of a "New" Mexico
The Growth of Spanish Florida
Pope and the Pueblo Revolt
English Society on the Chesapeake
Dueling Documents: What Caused the Pueblo Revolt?
The Virginia Company
Reform and a Boom in Tobacco
The Founding of Maryland and the Renewal of Indian Wars
Changes in English Policy in the Chesapeake
Chesapeake Society in Crisis
Bacon's Rebellion and Coode's Rebellion
From Servitude to Slavery
Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Historian's Toolbox: Hip Mask from Benin
A Changing Chesapeake Society
From the Caribbean to the Carolinas
Paradise Lost
Daily Lives: A Taste for Sugar
The Founding of the Carolinas
Carolina, Florida, and the Southeastern Slave Wars
White, Red, and Black: The Search for Order
The Founding of Georgia
REVIEW CHART: SOUTHERN COLONIES
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING
Chapter 4. Colonization and Conflict in the North, 1600-1700
An American Story: Bears on Floating Islands
France in North America
The Origins of New France
New Netherlands, the Iroquois, and the Beaver Wars
The Lure of the Mississippi
Historian's Toolbox: A French Map
The Founding of New England
The Puritan Movement
The Pilgrim Settlement of Plymouth Colony
The Puritan Settlement at Massachusetts Bay
Stability and Order in Early New England
Communities in Conflict
Goodwives and Witches
Daily Lives: A World of Wonders and Witchcraft
The People in the Way
Dueling Documents: Accusations and Defenses in the Salem Witchcraft Trials
Metacom's War
The Mid-Atlantic Colonies
English Rule in New York
The Founding of New Jersey
Quaker Odysseys
Patterns of Growth
Quakers and Politics
Adjustment to Empire
The Dominion of New England
Royal Authority in America in 1700
REVIEW CHART: NORTHERN COLONIES
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING
Chapter 5. The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America, 1689-1768
An American Story: The Tale of a Tattooed Traveler
Crisis and Transformation in Northern New Spain
Defensive Expansion into Texas
Crisis and Rebirth in New Mexico
Spanish California
Women and the Law in New Spain and British North America
Dueling Documents: The Founders of Spanish California
Eighteenth-Century New France
Colonial Compromise
France on the Gulf Coast
Slavery and Colonial Society in French Louisiana
Forces of Division in British North America
Immigration and Natural Increase
Daily Lives: Transatlantic Trials
Moving into the Backcountry
Social Conflict on the Frontier
Eighteenth-Century Seaports
Social Tension in Seaports
Historian's Toolbox: A Woman's Cupboard
Slave Societies in the Eighteenth-Century South
The Slave Family and Community
Slave Resistance in Eighteenth-Century British
North America
Enlightenment and Awakening in America
The Enlightenment in America
The First Great Awakening
The Aftermath of the Great Awakening
Anglo-American Worlds of the Eighteenth Century
English Economic and Social Development
The Consumer Revolution
Inequality in England and America
Politics in England and America
The Imperial System Before 1760
REVIEW CHART: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NORTH AMERICA
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING
Chapter 6. Toward the War for American Independence, 1754-1776
An American Story: The General, the Trader, and the Missing Allies
The Seven Years' War
Origins
Years of Defeat
A Shift in Policy
Years of Victory
Postwar Expectations
Historian's Toolbox: John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark
The Imperial Crisis
Pontiac's Rebellion
George Grenville's New Measures
The Beginning of Colonial Resistance
Riots and Resolves
Repeal of the Stamp Act
The Townshend Acts
The Resistance Organizes
The International Sons of Liberty
Daily Lives: Street Theater
The Boston Massacre
Dueling Documents: Who Was to Blame for the Boston Massacre?
Resistance Revived
The Empire Strikes Back
Toward the Revolution
The First Continental Congress
The Last Days of the British Empire in America
The Fighting Begins
Common Sense
REVIEW CHART: PARLIAMENT AND THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING
Chapter 7. The American People: The American Revolution, 1775-1783
An American Story: "Will He Fight?"
The Decision for Independence
The Second Continental Congress
The Declaration
American Loyalists
Dueling Documents: Abigail and John Adams Spar on Women's Rights
The Fighting in the North
The Two Armies at Bay
Daily Lives: Radical Chic and Revolutionary Women
Laying Strategies
Capturing Philadelphia
Disaster at Saratoga
The Turning Point
The American Revolution Becomes a Global War
Winding Down the War in the North
War in the West
The Home Front in the North
The Struggle in the South
The Siege of Charleston
The Partisan Struggle in the South
Greene Takes Command
African Americans in the Age of Revolution
Historian's Toolbox: Runaways
The World Turned Upside Down
Surrender at Yorktown
REVIEW CHART: BRITISH AND AMERICAN FORCES COMPARED
CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE
CHAPTER SUMMARY
ADDITIONAL READING
Chapter 8. Crisis and Constitution, 1776-1789
An American Story: "These United States"
Republican Experiments
The State Constitutions
From Congress to Confederation
The Temptations of Peace
The Temptations of the West
Foreign Intrigues
Disputes among the States
The More Democratic West
The Northwest Territory
Slavery and Sectionalism
Wartime Economic Disruption
Republican Society
The New Men of the Revolution
