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 The New Women of the Revolution Mary Wollstonecraft''s Vindication Republican Motherhood and Education Historian''s Toolbox: A Woman''s Compass The Attack on Aristocracy From Confederation to Constitutions The Jay-Gardoqui Treaty Shays''s Rebellion Daily Lives: The Spirits of Independence Framing a Federal Constitution The Virginia and New Jersey Plans The Deadlock Broken Ratification Dueling Documents: Republican Remedy? REVIEW CHART: CRISES OF THE 1780S--AND CONSEQUENCES CONCLUSION: THE WORLD AT LARGE SIGNIFICANT EVENTS TIMELINE CHAPTER SUMMARY ADDITIONAL READING After the Fact: Historians Reconstruct the Past: White and Black Southerners Worshiping Together Chapter 9. The Early Republic, 1789-1824 An American Story: "I Felt Myself Mad with Passion" 1789: A Social and Political Portrait of the New Republic Semisubsistence and Commercial Economies The.