Chapter 1: �New World Beginnings�
Summary:
����������� 225 million years ago, Earth was one supercontinent (Pangaea)
and ocean.� About 10 million years ago, the North America that we know
today was formed (geographical shape).� The first discoverers of North
America were nomadic Asians who wandered over here by way of an
exposed land bridge from Russia to Alaska during the Ice Age.� Though
they were hunters at first, by 5000 BC, they had become
hunter-gatherers with a diet of basically corn.� Great pre-European
Indian cultures included the Pueblos, the Iroquois, the Mound Builders,
the Mayans, the Incas, the Aztec, and the Sioux, among others (map of
tribes on pg. 8).� The Indians revered nature and land, and didn�t
carelessly destroy it.� Everything was put to use.
����������� In 1000 AD, Vikings discovered Newfoundland, but later
abandoned it due to unfavorable conditions.� Europeans, though, slowly
began to proliferate into non-European worlds starting around the
1400s.� After Marco Polo came back with stories of China and its riches,
Europeans began to explore.� First, they set up settlements in Africa,
near the coast, where they used African slaves to work on plantations.�
In 1498, Vasco da Gama reached India, opening a sea route to the Far
East.�
����������� Complications and dangers of this eastern sea route influenced
Christopher Columbus to sail west.� In doing so, he inadvertently
discovered the Americas, though he never knew it.� The Portuguese
were first to settle in America, but the Spanish later became the
dominant nation in the Americas.� Spanish Conquistadores swept
through Latin and South America, destroying the Aztecs and the Incas.�
Meanwhile, Magellan�s crew sailed around the world in 1519, becoming
the first voyage to do so.� As the chapter ended, Spain was very much in
control of much of the Americas, though other countries were beginning
to challenge the Spanish dominance.
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Chapter 2: �The Planting of English America�
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Chapter 3: �Settling the Northern Colonies�
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Chapter 4: �American Life in the Seventeenth Century�
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Chapter 5: �Colonial Society on the Eve of the Revolution�
~ 1700 � 1775 ~
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Chapter 6: �The Duel for North America�
~ 1608 � 1763 ~
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Chapter 7: �The Road to Revolution�
~ 1763 � 1775 ~
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Chapter 8: �America Secedes from the Empire�
~ 1775 � 1783 ~
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Chapter 9: �The Confederation and the Constitution�
~ 1776 � 1790 ~
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Chapter 10: �Launching of the New Ship of State�
~ 1789 � 1800 ~
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Chapter 11: �The Triumphs and Travails of Jeffersonian Democracy�
~ 1800 � 1812 ~
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Chapter 12: �The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of
Nationalism�
~ 1815 � 1824 ~
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Chapter 13: �The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy�
~ 1824 � 1830 ~
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Chapter 14: �Jacksonian Democracy at Flood Tide�
~ 1830 � 1840 ~
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Chapter 15:� Forging the national Economy (1790-1860)
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Chapter 16: The Ferment of Reform and Culture (1790-1860)
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Chapter 17: �The South and the Slavery Controversy�
~ 1793 � 1860 ~
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Chapter 18: �Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy�
~ 1841 � 1848 ~
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Chapter 19: �Renewing the Sectional Struggle�
~ 1848 � 1854 ~
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Chapter 21: �Girding for War: The North and South�
~ 1861 � 1865 ~
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