Contents Maps Features Preface About the Authors Chapter 1: Worlds in Motion, 1450-1550 American Portrait: Malinche, Cultural Translator 1.1 The Worlds of Indigenous Peoples Great Migrations The Emergence of Farming The Cradle of the Americas The Northern World Takes Shape American Landscape: Tenochtitlan: a City on a Lake 1.2 The Worlds of Christopher Columbus The Reconquista The Age of Exploration New Ideas Take Root 1.3 Collision in the Caribbean Columbus''s First Voyage The Origins of a New World Political and Economic Order The Division of the World 1.4 Onto The Mainland The First Florida Ventures The Conquest of Mexico Struggles For Democracy: Native Americans Debate the Question of the Europeans The Establishment of a Spanish Empire The Return to North America 1.5 The Consequences of Conquest Demographic Disaster The Columbian Exchange Men''s and Women''s Lives Conclusion Chapter 1 Primary Sources 1.1 Aztec Stories 1.2 Visual Documents: Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Pueblo Bonito 1.

3 King Fernando and Queen Isabella of Spain, "Granada Capitulations" (1492) 1.4 Aztec Priests, Statement to the Franciscan Friars (1520s) 1.5 Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Describing North America (1535) Chapter 2: Colonial Outposts, 1550-1650 American Portrait: Paquiquineo Finds His Way Home 2.1 Pursuing Wealth and Glory Along the North American Shore European Objectives The Huge Geographical Barrier Spanish Outposts 2.2 New France: An Outpost in Global Politics and Economics The Five Nations of Iroquois and the Political Landscape Champlain Encounters the Hurons Creating a Middle Ground in New France Struggles For Democracy: The Settlers and the Indigenous Learn to Compromise An Outpost in a Global Political Economy 2.3 New Netherland: The Empire of a Trading Nation Colonization by a Private Company Slavery and Freedom in New Netherland The Dutch-Indigenous Trading Partnership The Beaver Wars 2.4 England Attempts an Empire Competition with Spain Rehearsal in Ireland American Landscape: Terra Nova The Roanoke Venture The Abandoned Colony Conclusion Chapter 2 Primary Sources 2.1 Letter from Fray Pedro de Feria to Phillip II, King of Spain, about Paquiquineo (1563) 2.

2 Richard Hakluyt, Excerpt from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589-1600) 2.3 The Beaver Trade Takes Hold (1634) 2.4 John Heckewelder, Account of the Arrival of the Dutch at Manhattan Chapter 3: The English Come to Stay, 1600-1660 American Portrait: The Predicament of Pocahontas, Alias Rebecca 3.1 The First Chesapeake Colonies Founding Virginia Starving Times Troubled Relations with the Powhatans Toward a New Economic Order and the Rise of Democracy Toward the Destruction of the Powhatans A New Colony in Maryland 3.2 The Economy Based on Slavery Emerges The Insatiable Demand for Cheap Labor The Origins of African Slavery in the Chesapeake Gender and the Social Order in the Chesapeake American Landscape: The Forest 3.3 A Bible Commonwealth in the New England Wilderness The English Origins of the Puritan Movement Struggles For Democracy: The First African Arrivals Exercise Some Rights What Did the Puritans Believe? The Pilgrim Colony at Plymouth The Puritan Colony at Massachusetts Bay The New England Way Changing the Landscape to Fit the Economic Needs of the Commonwealth The Puritan Family 3.4 Dissension in The Puritan Ranks Roger Williams and Toleration Anne Hutchinson and the Equality of Believers Puritan Indian Policy and the Pequot War Conclusion Chapter 3 Primary Sources 3.1 Edward Waterhouse''s Report on the Uprising of 1622 3.

2 Letter from Richard Frethorne to His Parents About Life in Virginia (1623) 3.3 Excerpts from Anne Hutchinson''s Trial Transcript (1637) 3.4 Letter from Anne Bradstreet to Her Children (Undated) Chapter 4: Continental Empires, 1660-1720 American Portrait: Mercy Lewis Learns to Fear the Devil 4.1 The Plan of Empire Turmoil in England The Meaning of Mercantilism 4.2 New Colonies, New Patterns New Netherland Becomes New York American Landscape: New Amsterdam/New York Diversity and Prosperity in Pennsylvania Indigenous and Africans in the Political Economy of Carolina The Barbados Connection 4.3 The Transformation of Virginia Social Change in Virginia Bacon''s Rebellion and the Abandonment of the Middle Ground Virginia Becomes a Slave Society 4.4 New England Under Assault Social Prosperity and the Fear of Religious Decline King Philip''s War Indians and the Empire 4.5 The Empire Strikes The Dominion of New England The Glorious Revolution in Britain and America Struggles For Democracy: Maryland''s Colonists Demand a New Government The Rights of Englishmen Conflict in the Empire 4.

6 Massachusetts in Crisis The Social and Cultural Contexts of Witchcraft Witchcraft at Salem The End of Witchcraft 4.7 Empires in Collision France Attempts an Empire The Spanish Outpost in Florida Conquest, Revolt, and Reconquest in New Mexico Native Americans and the Country Between Conclusion Chapter 4 Primary Sources 4.1 The Dutch Lose Power in America: A Meeting with Indians on the Delaware (1670) 4.2 Letter from William Penn to His Backers (1683) 4.3 Hannah Dustan, excerpted from Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana (1702) 4.4 Declaration of a Pueblo Indian Captured by the Spaniards (1680) 4.5 Robert Calef, Excerpts from More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700) Chapter 5: The Eighteenth-Century World, 1700-1775 American Portrait: Young Alexander Hamilton: One Immigrant''s Story 5.1 The Population Explosion of the Eighteenth Century The Dimensions of Population Growth Bound for America: European Immigrants Bound for America: Enslaved Africans 5.

2 The Transatlantic Economy: Producing and Consuming The Nature of Colonial Economic Growth The Transformation of the Family Economy Sources of Regional Prosperity Merchants and Dependent Laborers in the Transatlantic Economy Consumer Choices and the Creation of Gentility 5.3 The Varieties of Colonial Experience Creating an Urban Public Sphere The Diversity of Urban Life The Maturing of Rural Society The World That Slavery Made Georgia: From Frontier Outpost to Plantation Society 5.4 The Head and The Heart in America: The Enlightenment and Religious Awakening The Ideas of the Enlightenment The Economic and Social Foundations of Democracy Struggles For Democracy: Books Become More Accessible Enlightened Institutions Origins of the Great Awakening The Grand Itinerant Cultural Conflict and Challenges to Authority What the Awakening Wrought Conclusion Chapter 5 Primary Sources 5.1 Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771-1790) 5.2 Joseph Johnson, Letter to "All Our Indian Brethren" (1773) 5.3 Olaudah Equiano, Excerpts from The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (1789) 5.4 George Whitefield, Account of a Visit to Carolina (1740) 5.5 Phillis Wheatley, "To the University of Cambridge, In New England" (1773) Chapter 6: Conflict in the Empire, 1713-1774 American Portrait: Susannah Willard Johnson Experiences the Empire 6.

1 The Victory of the British Empire New War, Old Pattern The Local Impact of Global War The French Empire Crumbles from Within The Virginians Ignite a War From Local to Imperial War Problems with British-Colonial Cooperation The British Gain the Advantage 6.2 Enforcing the Empire Pontiac''s Rebellion and Its Aftermath American Landscape: Conestoga Indian Town Paying for the Empire: Sugar and Stamps 6.3 The British Empire in Crisis An Argument About Constitutional Government The Theory and Practice of Resistance Contesting the Townshend Duties 6.4 A Revolution in the Empire "Massacre" in Boston Struggles For Democracy: The Boston Massacre The Boston Tea Party and Its Effects The First Continental Congress Conclusion Chapter 6 Primary Sources 6.1 Letters between Sir Jeffrey Amherst and Henry Bouquet (1763) 6.2 Benjamin Franklin, Excerpts from "A Narrative of the Late Massacres" (1764) 6.3 A Visiting Frenchman''s Account of Patrick Henry''s Caesar-Brutus Speech (1765) 6.4 The Stamp Act Riots: The Destruction of Thomas Hutchinson''s House (1765) 6.

5 The Intolerable Acts (1774) Chapter 7: Creating a New Nation, 1775-1788 American Portrait: Abigail Adams and the Wartime Economy 7.1 The War Begins The First Battles Congress Takes the Lead Military Ardor Declaring Independence Creating a National Government Creating State Governments 7.2 Winning the Revolution Competing Strategies The British on the Offensive: 1776 A Slow War: 1777-1781 American Landscape: The South Carolina Backcountry Securing a Place in the World 7.3 The Challe.