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Chapter 1 - 'Men Prone to Wonder': America Before 1600 Chapter 2 - The European Settlement of North America: The Atlantic Coast to 1660 Chapter 3 - Empires: 1660-1702 Chapter 4 - Benjamin Franklin's World: Colonial North America, 1702-1763 Chapter 5 - Toward Independence, 1764-1783 Chapter 6 - Inventing the American Republic: The States Chapter 7 - Inventing the American Republic: The Nation Chapter 8 - Establishing the New Nation Chapter 9 - The Fabric of Change, 1800-1815 Chapter 10 - A New Epoch: 1815-1828 Chapter 11 - Political Innovation in a Mechanical Age: 1828-1840 Chapter 12 - Worker Worlds in Antebellum America Chapter 13 - The Benevolent Empire: Religion and Reform, 1825-1846 Chapter 14 - National Expansion, Sectional Division: 1839-1850 Chapter 15 - A House Dividing: 1851-1860 Chapter 16 - Civil War: 1861-1865 Chapter 17 - Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Chapter 18 - The Rise of Big Business and the Triumph of Industry: 1870-1900 Chapter 19 - An Industrial Society: 1870-1910 Chapter 20 - Politics, Industrialism, and the State: 1876-1900 Chapter 21 - A New Place in the World: 1865-1914 Chapter 22 - The Progressive Era Chapter 23 - War, Prosperity, and the Metropolis: 1914-1929 Chapter 24 - The New Deal Chapter 25 - Whirlpool of War Chapter 26 - Fighting for Freedom Chapter 27 - From Hot War to Cold War Chapter 28 - Korea, Eisenhower, and Affluence Chapter 29 - Renewal of Reform Chapter 30 - Years of Rage Chapter 31 - Conservative Revival Chapter 32 - The Reagan Revolution Chapter 33 - Inventing a New Order
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CHAPTER OUTLINE

CHAPTER OUTLINE

  1. The Peoples of Ancient America
    1. Origins of Native Americans in the Western Hemisphere
      1. Native American creation stories
      2. Beringia
    2. Mesoamerican Societies and Cultures
      1. Tehuacán Valley of Mexico
        1. invention of agriculture
        2. sedentary societies/pottery (2300 B.C.)
        3. Teotihuacán
      2. Yucatan Peninsula: the Mayans
      3. Arrival of the Aztecs in the Valley of Mexico (thirteenth century)
    3. North America
      1. Clovis culture (c. 10,000 B.C.)
      2. Folsom culture (c. 8000 B.C.)
      3. Hopewell people (100 B.C.– A.D. 400)
      4. Eskimos and Aleuts
      5. Southwestern cultures
        1. Hohokam people
        2. Mogollon people (ancestral Zunis)
        3. Anasazis (ancestral Pueblos)
      6. Cahokia (Mississippian culture)
      7. Northeastern cultures
        1. Algonquians
        2. Iroquoians
  2. European Discovery and Conquest
    1. Viking Exploration of North America (c. 986)
    2. Mediterranean Cultures
      1. Crusades
      2. Reconquista
      3. Portugal
        1. Prince Henry the Navigator
        2. Sagres
        3. Madeira, Cape Verde Islands, Azores in Atlantic Ocean
        4. Bartholmeu Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope (1487–88)
        5. Vasco da Gama reaches India (1497–99)
    3. Fifteenth-Century Navigation
      1. Navigation methods and tools
        1. dead reckoning
        2. compass
        3. quadrant
        4. astrolabe
        5. cross staff
      2. Ships
        1. caravel
        2. lateen sail
      3. Maps
        1. portolan, or sea chart
        2. world maps
          1. Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography
          2. latitude and longitude
    4. Spain and Christopher Columbus
      1. Queen Isabel of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon
      2. Unification of Spain (1469)
      3. Expulsion of Moors and Jews from Spain (1492)
      4. Adelantados
      5. Columbus’s first voyage to America (1492–93)
        1. Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria
        2. San Salvador, Cuba, and Hispaniola
      6. Papal bulls (1493)
      7. Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
      8. Columbus’s second voyage (1493–96)
      9. Columbus’s third voyage (1498–1500)
      10. Columbus’s fourth voyage (1502–4)
      11. Death of Columbus (1506)
    5. England
      1. John Cabot (1497, 1498)
      2. Sebastian Cabot (1504, 1508–9)
      3. Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1583)
    6. France
      1. Giovanni de Verrazano (1524)
      2. Jacques Cartier (1534, 1536)
    7. Spain
      1. Amerigo Vespucci
      2. Joan Ponce de León
      3. Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
      4. Fernando Magellan
    8. Conquest of Mexico
      1. Encomiendas
      2. Hernando Cortés
        1. death of Montezuma II
        2. conquest of Tenochtitlán and creation of Mexico City
      3. New Spain
    9. Creation of the Spanish Empire in America
      1. Conquistadores
        1. Franciso Pizarro and the Incas (Peru)
        2. Vásquez de Coronado (New Mexico)
        3. Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (California)
        4. founding of St. Augustine (Florida)
      2. Spanish imperial government
        1. Council of the Indies (1524)
        2. viceroys
          1. New Spain (1535)
          2. New Castile (1544)
    10. The Columbian Exchange
      1. European technology
      2. Disease
        1. Native American depopulation
        2. European seasoning
      3. Animals
      4. Plants
    11. Intellectual Impact of Exploration
      1. Geography—Gerhardus Mercator’s geographical projection
      2. Botany
      3. Birth of "science"
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