NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book - including guided reading activities, assessment tools, Reflections activities, What''s Your Question? activities, Chronological Reasoning activities, and all of the documents from Reading the American Past - has been indicated on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, videos, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, timeline activities, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.Preface Versions and Supplements Contents Maps, Figures, and Tables Special Features 1. ANCIENT AMERICA, BEFORE 1492 Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad Archaeology and History Reflections on Archaeology and History LaunchPad The First Americans African and Asian Origins HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Who Were the First Americans?"Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad Paleo-Indian Hunters Reflections on The First Americans LaunchPad Archaic Hunters and Gatherers Great Plains Bison Hunters Great Basin CulturesPacific Coast CulturesEastern Woodland Cultures Reflections on Archaic Hunters and Gatherers LaunchPad Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms Southwestern Cultures BEYOND AMERICA''S BORDERS: "Corn: An Ancient American Legacy" Quiz for Beyond America''s Borders LaunchPad VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Daily Life in Chaco Canyon"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad Woodland Burial Mounds and Chiefdoms Reflections on Agricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms LaunchPad Native Americans in the 1490s Eastern and Great Plains PeoplesSouthwestern and Western PeoplesCultural Similarities Reflections on Native Americans in the 1490s LaunchPad The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture Reflections on The Mexica: A Mesoamerican Culture LaunchPad Conclusion: The World of Ancient Americans Chapter Review [[]] LearningCurve LaunchPad What''s Your Question? LaunchPad Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 1 LaunchPad Document 1-1: A Taino Origin Story: Ramón Pané, On Taino Religious Practices LaunchPad Document 1-2: A Penobscot Origin Narrative: Joseph Nicolar, The Life and Traditions of the Red Men , 1893 LaunchPad Document 1-3: Genesis: The Christian Origin Narrative: "In the Beginning" LaunchPad Document 1-4: Aristotle on Masters and Slaves: The Politics , ca. 300 B.C. LaunchPad COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 1 LaunchPad Chapter 1 Summative Quiz LaunchPad 2. EUROPEANS ENCOUNTER THE NEW WORLD, 1492-1600 Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad Europe in the Age of Exploration Mediterranean Trade and European ExpansionA Century of Portuguese Exploration Reflections on Europe in the Age of Exploration LaunchPad A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic The Explorations of ColumbusThe Geographic Revolution and the Columbian Exchange Reflections on A Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic LaunchPad Spanish Exploration and Conquest The Conquest of MexicoThe Search for Other MexicosSpanish Outposts in Florida and New MexicoNew Spain in the Sixteenth Century VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Weapons of Conquest"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Justifying Conquest"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Spreading Christianity in New Spain"Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad The Toll of Spanish Conquest and Colonization Reflections on Spanish Exploration and Conquest LaunchPad The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe The Protestant Reformation and the Spanish ResponseEurope and The Spanish Example Reflections on The New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe LaunchPad Conclusion: The promise of the new world for europeans Chapter Review [[]] LearningCurve LaunchPad What''s Your Question? LaunchPad Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 2 LaunchPad Document 2-1: The King of the Congo Writes to the King of Portugal: King Afonso and King João III, Correspondence , 1526 LaunchPad Document 2-2: Columbus Describes His First Encounter with "Indians": The Diario of Christopher Columbus''s First Voyage to America , 1492-1493 LaunchPad Document 2-3: A Conquistador Arrives in Mexico, 1519-1520: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain , 1632 LaunchPad Document 2-4: A Mexican Description of the Conquest of Mexico: Mexican Accounts of Conquest from the Florentine Codex LaunchPad Document 2-5: Cabeza de Vaca Describes His Captivity Among Native Americans in Texas and the Southwest, 1528-1536: Narrative , 1542 LaunchPad COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 2 LaunchPad Chapter 2 Summative Quiz LaunchPad 3.

THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601-1700 Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay The Fragile Jamestown SettlementCooperation and Conflict between Natives and NewcomersFrom Private Company to Royal Government Reflections on An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay LaunchPad A Tobacco Society BEYOND AMERICA''S BORDERS: "American Tobacco and European Consumers"Quiz for Beyond America''s Borders LaunchPad SEEKING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Gamble of Indentured Servitude" Quiz for Seeking the American Promise LaunchPad Tobacco AgricultureA Servant Labor SystemThe Rigors of ServitudeCultivating Land and Faith Reflections on A Tobacco Society LaunchPad Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake Social and Economic PolarizationGovernment Policies and Political ConflictBacon''s Rebellion HISTORICAL QUESTION: "Why Did English Colonists Consider Themselves Superior to Indians and Africans?"Quiz for Historical Question LaunchPad Reflections on Hierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake LaunchPad Toward a Slave Labor System Religion and Revolt in the Spanish BorderlandThe West Indies: Sugar and SlaveryCarolina: A West Indian FrontierSlave Labor Emerges in the Chesapeake Reflections on Toward a Slave Labor System LaunchPad Conclusion: The Growth of English Colonies Based on Export Crops and Slave Labor Chapter Review [[]] LearningCurve LaunchPad What''s Your Question? LaunchPad Chronological Reasoning LaunchPad Documents from Reading the American Past, Chapter 3 LaunchPad Document 3-1: Richard Frethorne Describes Indentured Servitude in Virginia: Letter to Father and Mother , March 20, April 2, 3, 1623 LaunchPad Document 3-2: Opechancanough''s 1622 Uprising in Virginia: Edward Waterhouse, Declaration , 1622 LaunchPad Document 3-3: Sex and Race Relations: Testimony from Virginia Court Records , 1681 LaunchPad Document 3-4: Bacon''s Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, Declaration , 1676 LaunchPad Document 3-5: Pedro Naranjo Describes Pueblo Revolt: Declaration of Pedro Naranjo of the Queres Nation , December 19, 1681 LaunchPad COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS LaunchPad Quiz for Reading the American Past, Chapter 3 LaunchPad Chapter 3 Summative Quiz LaunchPad 4. THE NORTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, 1601-1700 Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad Puritans and the Settlement of New England Puritan Origins: The English ReformationThe Pilgrims and Plymouth ColonyThe Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony Reflections on Puritans and the Settlement of New England LaunchPad The Evolution of New England Society Church, Covenant, and ConformityGovernment by Puritans for PuritanismThe Splintering of PuritanismReligious Controversies and Economic Changes VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Seats of Power"Quiz for Visualizing History LaunchPad DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Hunting Witches in Salem, Massachusetts"Quiz for Documenting the American Promise LaunchPad Reflections on The Evolution of New England Society LaunchPad.