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America: A Narrative History, Brief 9e
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Chapter 1: The Collision of Cultures
Chapter 2: Britain and Its Colonies
Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
Chapter 4: From Colonies to States
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution
Chapter 6: Shaping a Federal Union
Chapter 7: The Federalist Era
Chapter 8: The Early Republic
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Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Growth
Chapter 10: Nationalism and Sectionalism
Chapter 11: The Jacksonian Era
Chapter 12: The Old South
Chapter 13: Religion, Romanticism, and Reform
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Chapter 14: An Empire in the West
Chapter 15: The Gathering Storm
Chapter 16: The War of the Union
Chapter 17: Reconstruction: North and South
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Chapter 18: Big Business and Organized Labor
Chapter 19: The South and the West Transformed
Chapter 20: The Emergence of Urban America
Chapter 21: Gilded Age Politics and Agrarian Reform
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Chapter 22: Seizing an American Empire
Chapter 23: "Making the World Over": The Progressive Era
Chapter 24: America and the Great War
Chapter 25: An "Epoch of Confusion": the 1920s
Chapter 26: Republican Resurgence and Decline
Chapter 27: The New Deal America
Chapter 28: The Second World War
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Chapter 29: The Fair Deal and Containment
Chapter 30: The 1950s: Affluence and the Atomic Age
Chapter 31: New Frontiers: Political and Social Change in the 1960s
Chapter 32: Rebellion and Reaction: the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 33: A Conservative Realignment: 1977-1990
Chapter 34: America in a New Millenium
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Chapter 1
The Collision of Cultures
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I. Paleo-Indian civilizations
A. Possible origins of the American Indian
1. Siberia
a. Bering Land Bridge
2. Southwestern Europe
B. Basic stages of development in Middle America
1. Early stages
2. Permanent towns emerged about 2000 bc in Mexico
3. Farming of classical Middle American culture (Mayans) from ad 300 to 900
4. Aztecs followed and developed the culture that was present when the Spanish arrived
5. South American cultures: Chibchas and Incas
C. Indians in the present United States reached three minor cultural climaxes
1. Indians of the Pacific Northwest stretched from Alaska to California
2. Adena-Hopewell peoples of the Ohio Valley (800 bc–ad 600) had great earthworks
3. Mississippian culture of the Mississippi Valley (ad 600–1500) climaxed about the time of the European discovery and influenced many tribes
a. Cahokia was dominant cultural center (AD 1050–1250)
(1) Pueblo-Hohokam-Anasazi cultures of the Southwest (400 bc–present) had looser class structure
D. Native Americans in 1500
1. Shared attributes and assumptions
2. Eastern Woodlands peoples
a. Algonquian
b. Iroquoian
c. Muskogean
3. Plains nomads
a. Blackfoot
b. Cheyenne
c. Arapaho
4. Pacific coast tribes
a. Tillamook
b. Chinook
c. Pomo
d. Chumash
5. Trauma and resilience when Europeans arrive
II. Viking arrival
A. Greenland settlement
1. Erik the Red
B. Brief settlement of Newfoundland
1. Leif Eriksson
III. Expansion of Europe
A. The Renaissance brought an intense interest in knowledge of the world
1. Knowledge that the earth was round
2. Improved navigational aids
3. Development of urban commerce and global trade
a. Merchant class
b. Corporations that shared risk
4. Barriers to trade with the Orient
5. Rise of centralized nation-states
IV. Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America
A. Explorations of the Portuguese
1. Bartholomeu Dias
2. Vasco de Gama
B. Columbus’ early life and efforts to gain support for a voyage west
C. First voyage
1. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
D. Later voyages
E. America named for Amerigo Vespucci
V. The great biological exchange
A. Animals
B. Plants
C. Worldwide population boom
D. Native American devices and place names adopted
E. Diseases unleashed
VI. Other early professional explorers
A. John Cabot
B. Ferdinand Magellan
VII. Spanish conquest and settlement of the new lands
A. Initial Caribbean settlements
B. Motives of the Spaniards
C. European advantages
1. Division and disease among Indians
2. Superior Spanish weapons
3. Animals for food and battle
D. Hernán Cortés and conquest of the Aztecs
1. Aztec culture
2. Aztec religion
E. Patterns of Spanish conquest
1.
Encomienda
system
2. Introduction of African slavery
3. Catholic missionary efforts
F. Development of New Spain
1. Governance by the Council of the Indies
2. Advantages over European rivals
3. Lasting imprint of Spanish culture
4. Interchanges with the native culture
G. Spanish exploration of North America
1. Ponce de León
2. Narváez and Cabeza de Vaca
3. Hernando de Soto
4. Francisco Coronado
H. Early Spanish settlements
1. Nature of Spanish settlements
2. St. Augustine, first European town in United States
3. The Spanish Southwest
a. Importance of Catholic missions
b. Oñate’s founding of New Mexico
c. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
d. Spain regained control of New Mexico
4. Horses and the Great Plains
VIII. Impact of Protestant Reformation in Europe
A. Early causes and spread of the movement
B. Martin Luther
C. Impact of John Calvin
D. Reformation in England
1. An initial political revolt
2. Periods of conflict
3. Elizabethan settlement
IX. Challenge to the Spanish Empire
A. French efforts
1. Giovanni de Verrazano explored coast in 1524
2. Jacques Cartier led three voyages
B. Dutch opposition to Spain
1. Rebellion of the Netherlands against Spanish rule, 1567–1648
C. British effort
1. Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588
2. Promotion of British colonization
3. Sir Humphrey Gilbert lost at sea
4. Sir Walter Raleigh and the Roanoke “lost colonists“