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AMERICAN HISTORY Revised Edition By John A. Garraty Aaron Singer Michael J. Gallagher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Orlando, New York, Chicago, San Diego, Atlanta, Dallas Copyright, 1986 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. All Rights Reserved CONTENTS UNIT One THE AMERICAN COLONIES 1. Three Discoveries of America 2 The Ice Age 2 The Great Migration 3 Early American Cultures 4 Early American Societies 6 Uncovering the Past 10 The Viking Sagas 11 Europe in the Year 1000 12 The Crusades 13 The Commercial Revolution 14 Europe Stirs to New Ideas 17 The Age of Discovery 17 Christopher Columbus 19 Columbus in America 20 Columbus Returns to Spain 22 America: A New World 23 Balboa and Magellan 24 Cortes and Montezuma 27 The Conquistadors 28 The European Invasion 30 The End of Spain’s Golden Age 31 2. English Colonies in America 34 England Challenges Spain 34 False Starts in America 36 Motives of the Colonizers 37 Merchant Adventurers 39 Jamestown: The First Colony 40 Reforms for Virginia 42 A Colony Built Upon Smoke 43 Headrights and Indentures 44 Bloodshed in Jamestown 44 The Pilgrims 45 Plymouth Plantation 46 The French in America 48 Dutch and Swedish Challenges 49 The Puritans 52 Religious Conflicts 54 Maryland 55 The Carolinas 57 New York and New Jersey 58 Pennsylvania and Delaware 58 Georgia 60 3. Life in Colonial America 63 Land and People 63 Rivers Shape Life 64 The Road to America 66 Women in Colonial America 66 Land and Labor 68 Land and the Right to Vote 68 The Origins of Slavery 69 Slave Life 71 Southern Agriculture 73 Northern Products 75 The Triangular Trade 78 Rural Life in America 80 Village and Town Life 80 The Great Awakening 82 Self-Taught Americans 83 The Search for Knowledge 83 Benjamin Franklin 84 East-West Disputes 85 Bacon’s Rebellion 88 4. Governing the American Colonies 92 Royal Grants and Charters 92 English Colonial Government 93 Local Government 94 The Dominion of New England 96 English Colonial Policy 98 The Navigation Acts 98 French and Engli