<p>Preface</p> <p>Acknowledgments</p> <p>About the Authors</p> <p>Community and Diversity</p> <p> </p> <p>CHAPTER 1 A CONTINENT OF VILLAGES </p> <p>AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Cahokia: Thirteenth-Century Life on the Mississippi</p> <p>The First American Settlers </p> <p>COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Origins of Foodways</p> <p>The Development of Farming </p> <p>Farming in Early North America </p> <p>SEEING HISTORY An Early European Image of Native Americans</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Chronology</p> <p>Review Questions</p> <p>Recommended Readings</p> <p>MyHistoryLab Connections</p> <p> </p> <p>CHAPTER 2 WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE 1492–1590</p> <p>AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The English at Roanoke</p> <p>The Expansion of Europe </p> <p>The Spanish in the Americas </p> <p>Northern Explorations and Encounters </p> <p>COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Debate over the Justice of the Conquest</p> <p>SEEING HISTORY A Watercolor from the First Algonquian-English Encounter</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Chronology</p> <p>Review Questions</p> <p>Recommended Readings</p> <p>MyHistoryLab Connections</p> <p> </p> <p>CHAPTER 3 PLANTING COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA 1588-1701</p> <p>AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Communities and Diversity in Seventeenth Century Santa Fe</p> <p>The Spanish, The French, and the Dutch in North America</p> <p>The Chesapeake: Virginia and Maryland</p> <p>SEEING HISTORY John Smith’s Cartoon History of His Adventures in Virginia</p> <p>The New England Colonies</p> <p>COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Maypole at Merrymount</p> <p>The Proprietary Colonies</p> <p>Conflict and War</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Chronology</p> <p>Review Questions</p> <p>Recommended Readings</p> <p>MyHistoryLab Connections</p> <p> </p> <p>CHAPTER 4 SLAVERY AND EMPIRE 1441–1770</p> <p>AMERICAN COMMUNITIES Rebellion In Stono, South Carolina</p> <p>The Beginnings of African Slavery</p> <p>The African Slave Trade</p> <p>COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Two Views of The Middle Passage</p> <p>The Development of North American Slave Societies</p> <p>African to African American</p> <p>SEEING HISTORY A Musical Celebration In The Slave Quarters</p> <p>Slavery and the Economics of Empire</p> <p>Slavery, Prosperity, and Freedom</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Chronology</p> <p>Review Questions</p> <p>Recommended Readings</p> <p>MyHistoryLab Connections</p> <p> </p> <p>CHAPTER 5 THE CULTURES OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA 1700–1780</p> <p>AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The Revival of Religion and Community in Northampton</p> <p>North American Regions </p> <p>SEEING HISTORY A Plan of an American New Cleared Farm</p> <p>Social and Political Patterns </p> <p>The Cultural Transformation of British North America </p> <p>COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Inoculation Controversy in Boston, 1721</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Chronology</p> <p>Review Questions</p> <p>Recommended Readings</p> <p>MyHistoryLab Connections</p> <p> </p> <p>CHAPTER 6 FROM EMPIRE TO INDEPENDENCE 1750–1776</p> <p>AMERICAN COMMUNITIES The First Continental Congress Begins to Shape a National Political Community</p> <p>The Seven Years’ War in America </p> <p>The Emergence of American Nationalism </p> <p> “Save Your Money and Save Your Country” </p> <p>From Resistance to Rebellion </p> <p>SEEING HISTORY The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring and Feathering</p> <p>Deciding for Independence </p> <p>COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT The Debate over Independence</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Chronology</p> <p>Review Questions</p> <p>Recommended Readings</p> <p>MyHistoryLab Connections</p> <p> </p> <p>CHAPTER 7 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1776–1786</p> <p>AMERICAN COMMUNITIES A National Community Evolves at Valley Forge</p> <p>The War for Independence</p> <p>The United Sates in Congress Assembled</p> <p>SEEING HISTORY The Surrender of Lord Cornwallis</p> <p>COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy</</p>