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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 3
Colonial Ways of Life
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I. The shape of early America
A. Early American settlers
B. British folkways brought to New World
C. Seaboard ecology
1. Indian modifications
2. European attitudes toward nature
3. Transplanted animals transform the environment
D. Population patterns
1. Rapid population growth
2. Earlier marriage age in the colonies
3. Lower death rates in the colonies
4. Family patterns in New England compared with those in the southern colonies
E. Role of women in the British colonies
1. Assumptions of female inferiority
2. Eliza Lucas Pinckney’s journey beyond the traditional role
3. Women’s restricted role in churches
4. Farm and town labor
5. Prostitution
6. Women’s slightly higher colonial status
II. Sectional differences among the colonies
A. Southern colonies
1. Religious diversity
2. Advantages of the warm climate
3. Tobacco, rice, and naval stores became chief exports
4. Effects of plentiful land and scarce labor
5. Use of indentured servants to solve some labor problems
6. Development of slavery in the southern colonies
a. First arrival of Africans in 1619
b. Slavery in the Western Hemisphere
c. Racial prejudice
d. Characteristics of West African culture
e. Enslavement and the Middle Passage
f. Geographical distribution of colonial slavery
g. New York City slave revolt of 1741
h. Emergence of an African American culture
i. Varieties of slave labor
j. Color prejudice and slavery
B. The New England colonies
1. Transformation of the British village into the New England town
2. Puritan houses
3. New England agriculture
4. Success of the fishing industry
5. Shipbuilding a vital part of the economy
6. Rise of triangular trade
7. Solutions to the chronic shortage of hard currency
8. Puritans and worldly pleasures
9. Puritan religion
a. Congregational organization of churches
b. Covenant theory of government
c. Nature of church–state relationship
10. Evidence of strain within the Puritan community in the late seventeenth century
a. Development of economic and social strains
b. Frequent challenges to authority
c. Development of the “Half-Way Covenant“
d. Witchcraft hysteria
C. The middle colonies
1. Reflection of elements of both southern and New England colonies
2. Products for export
3. Use of land system
4. Ethnic elements in the population
III. Other social and intellectual features of the colonies
A. The rise of cities
B. Urban class groupings and stratification
C. Urban problems
D. Means of transportation
E. Drinking and taverns
F. Early newspapers and the Zenger trial
G. Impact of the Enlightenment
1. Importance of reason and science
2. God as master clockmaker
3. America’s receptivity to the Enlightenment
4. Ben Franklin as prime example of enlightened American
H. Developments in education
I. Impact of the Great Awakening
1. Causes for the development of the movement
2. Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
3. Women and the revival movement
4. Impact of the movement on churches and schools
5. Long-range impact of the Great Awakening and the Enlightenment