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Puritan Women in New England 58 4.4 Clash of Political Cultures 93
Establishing a New Social Order 59 Governing the Colonies: The American
3.2 The Challenge of The Chesapeake Experience 93
Environment 61 Colonial Assemblies 94
Families at Risk 61 4.5 Century of Imperial War 95
The Structure of Planter Society 62 The French Threat 95
3.3 Race and Freedom in British King George’s War and Its
America 63 Aftermath 96
Roots of Slavery 64 EXPLORER: WHAT DID THE GLOBAL SEVEN YEARS’ WAR
MEAN FOR NORTH AMERICA? 98
EXPLORER: IN WHAT WAYS WAS BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
INVOLVED IN THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE? 65 Seven Years’ War 99
Constructing African American Perceptions of War 100
Identities 66 Conclusion: Rule Britannia? 101
3.4 Blueprint For an Empire 69
Response to Economic Competition 70
Regulating Colonial Trade 70
3.5 Colonial Political Revolts 71 The American Revolution, From
Civil War in Virginia: Bacon’s 5 Elite Protest to Popular Revolt,
Rebellion 72 1763–1783 103
The Glorious Revolution in the Bay
Colony 73 MYHISTORYLAB VIDEO SERIES 104
Contagion of Witchcraft 74 5.1 Structure of Colonial Society 105
Conclusion: Foundations of an Atlantic Breakdown of Political Trust 105
Empire 74 No Taxation Without Representation:
The American Perspective 107
Justifying Resistance 108
Experience of Empire: Eighteenth- 5.2 Eroding the Bonds of Empire 109
4 Century America, 1680–1763 77
Paying Off the National Debt 109
The Protest Spreads 111
MYHISTORYLAB VIDEO SERIES 78 Fueling the Crisis 113
4.1 Tensions in the Backcountry 79 Surge of Force 114
Scots-Irish Flee English Oppression 80 The Final Provocation: The Boston Tea
Germans Search for a Better Life 80 Party 116
Native Americans Stake Out a Middle 5.3 Steps Toward Independence 117
Ground 81 Shots Heard Around the World 117
Conquering New Spain’s Northern Beginning “The World Over
Frontier 83 Again” 118
Peoples of the Spanish Borderlands 84 5.4 Fighting for Independence 121
4.2 The Impact of European Ideas on Building a Professional Army 121
American Culture 85
American Enlightenment 85 EXPLORER: HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
UNFOLD? 122
Benjamin Franklin 86 “Times That Try Men’s Souls” 123
Economic Transformation 87 Victory in a Year of Defeat 125
Birth of a Consumer Society 88 The French Alliance 125
4.3 Religious Revivals in Provincial The Final Campaign 127
Societies 89 The Loyalist Dilemma 128
The Great Awakening 89 Conclusion: Preserving
Evangelical Religion 91 Independence 129
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