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Contents
Special Features xii England’s New World Experiments,
Preface xvii 2 1607–1732 27
A Note to my Fellow Teachers xix
A Note to Students: Tips for Studying MYHISTORYLAB VIDEO SERIES 28
History xx 2.1 Breaking Away: Decisions to Move
About the Authors xxiii to America 29
Acknowledgments xxiv The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth 29
Supplementary Instructional Materials xxv Entrepreneurs in Virginia 30
MyHistoryLab xxvii Threat of Anarchy 31
Tobacco Saves Virginia 33
New World Encounters, Time of Reckoning 34
1 Preconquest–1608 1 Maryland: A Catholic Refuge 34
2.2 A “New” England in America 36
MYHISTORYLAB VIDEO SERIES 2 The Puritan Migration to Massachusetts 37
1.1 Native Americans Before the EXPLORER: HOW DID ENGLISH COLONIZATION
Conquest 3 TRANSFORM EASTERN NORTH AMERICA? 38
The Environmental Challenge: Food, “A City on a Hill” 39
Climate, and Culture 4 Competing Truths in New England 42
Aztec Dominance 6 Mobility and Division 43
Eastern Woodland Cultures 6 2.3 Diversity in the Middle Colonies 44
1.2 Conditions of Conquest 7 Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on the Hudson 44
West Africa: Ancient and Complex Confusion in New Jersey 46
Societies 8 Quakers in America 47
Cultural Negotiations in the Americas 10 Penn’s “Holy Experiment” 47
Threats to Survival: Columbian Exchange 11 2.4 Planting the Southern Colonies 49
1.3 Europe on the Eve of Conquest 12 Founding the Carolinas 49
Spanish Expansion 13 Founding of Georgia 51
The Strange Career of Christopher Conclusion: Living With Diversity 53
Columbus 14
1.4 Spain in the Americas 15
The Conquistadores: Faith and Greed 16 Putting Down Roots, Opportunity
From Plunder to Settlement 16 and Oppression in Colonial Society,
EXPLORER: HOW DID GLOBAL EXPLORATION CHANGE 3 1619–1692 55
THE OLD AND NEW WORLDS? 17
1.5 The French Claim Canada 20 MYHISTORYLAB VIDEO SERIES 56
1.6 The English Take Up the Challenge 21 3.1 Social Stability: New England Colonies
Birth of English Protestantism 22 of the Seventeenth Century 57
Religion, War, and Nationalism 24 Immigrant Families and New Social
Conclusion: Campaign to Sell America 25 Order 57
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