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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

  1. French Expeditions to North America
    1. Giovanni de Verrazano (1524)
    2. Jacques Cartier (1534, 1536)
    3. Fort Caroline in Florida
    4. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1572)
  2. The Reformation
    1. Germany
      1. Martin Luther
      2. The ninety-five theses (1517)
      3. Lutheranism
    2. Switzerland
      1. John Calvin
      2. Predestination
      3. Calvinism
    3. England
      1. Henry VIII (r. 1509–47)
        1. Catherine of Aragon
        2. Anne Boleyn
        3. Church of England
      2. Edward VI (r. 1547–53)
      3. Mary (r. 1553–58)
        1. England returns to Catholic Church
        2. Philip II of Spain
        3. Marian exiles
      4. Elizabeth I (r. 1558–1603)
  3. English Expansion and Settlement
    1. Foundations of English Expansion
      1. Diplomatic change
      2. Religious change
      3. Economic development
        1. trading companies
        2. mariners
          1. Sir John Hawkins
          2. Sir Francis Drake
        3. seafaring
          1. Drake’s circumnavigation (1580)
          2. defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)
      4. Political consolidation
    2. English Conquest of Ireland
    3. Proponents of Expansion
      1. Richard Hakluyt
      2. Sir Humphrey Gilbert
      3. Sir Walter Raleigh
        1. Roanoke Island (1585–90)
        2. Thomas Hariot’s A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (1588)
  4. Non-English Settlements in North America
    1. New France (1606)
      1. Samuel de Champlain and the founding of Quebec (1608)
      2. Jesuit missionaries and the Jesuit Relations
      3. Montreal (1642)
      4. Cardinal Richelieu and the Company of New France
    2. New Netherland (1624)
      1. Dutch West India Company
      2. Walloons
      3. Fort Orange and New Amsterdam
      4. Patroons
      5. Peter Stuyvesant
    3. New Sweden (1638)
      1. Swedish West India Company
      2. Finnish settlers
      3. Absorption by New Netherland (1655)
  5. Chesapeake Colonies
    1. Virginia (1606)
      1. Sagadahoc, Maine (Virginia Company of Plymouth)
      2. Virginia Company of London
      3. Jamestown (1607)
        1. Captain Christopher Newport
        2. Powhatan Confederacy
        3. Captain John Smith
      4. Charter of 1609
      5. Charter of 1612
      6. "Starving time" (1609–10)
      7. John Rolfe and tobacco culture (1612)
      8. Sir Edwin Sandys
        1. headright system
        2. Virginia Assembly (first representative assembly in British America)
          1. Governor’s Council (appointive)
          2. House of Burgesses (elected)
      9. Indian attack of 1622
      10. Indentured servitude
      11. Revocation of Virginia’s charter and conversion into a royal colony (1624)
    2. Maryland (1632)
      1. George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
      2. Proprietary colony
    3. Colonists
      1. Sex ratio
      2. Mortality (death rate)
      3. Orphans
      4. Individualism
  6. New England Colonies
    1. Puritanism
      1. English Calvinists, or Puritans
        1. Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630)
        2. Governor John Winthrop
      2. Separatists
        1. Leyden, Holland
        2. Plymouth Colony (1620)
    2. The Crown and the Interregnum
      1. James I (r. 1603–25)
      2. Charles I (r. 1625–49)
      3. Commonwealth (1649–53)
      4. The Protectorate
        1. Oliver Cromwell (r. 1649–59)
        2. Richard Cromwell (r. 1659–60)
    3. Colonial Government
      1. Governor
      2. General Court
        1. Assistants (appointed)
        2. Deputies (elected)
      3. Mayflower Compact
      4. Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony
    4. Colonists
      1. Sex ratio
      2. Fertility
      3. Mortality
      4. Literacy
    5. Dissenters
      1. Roger Williams
      2. Anne Hutchinson
      3. Rhode Island
    6. Connecticut
    7. Native Americans
      1. Pequots
      2. West Mystic, Connecticut
    8. Technology
      1. Hammersmith Iron Works
      2. Mills
      3. Construction
      4. Shipyards
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