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Friction with English and Swedish
Neighbors 46
Dutch Residues in New York 47
Penn’s Holy Experiment in
Pennsylvania 48
Quaker Pennsylvania and Its
Neighbors 49
The Middle Way in the Middle
Colonies 51
TO LEARN MORE 52
4 AMERICAN LIFE IN THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
1607–1692 53
The Unhealthy Chesapeake 53
CHRONOLOGY 54
The Tobacco Economy 54
Frustrated Freemen and Bacon’s
Rebellion 56
Colonial Slavery 57
Africans in America 60
Southern Society 61
The New England Family 62
Life in the New England Towns 64
The Half-Way Covenant and the Salem
Witch Trials 64
The New England Way of Life 65
The Early Settlers’ Days and Ways 67
TO LEARN MORE 68
THINKING GLOBALLY The Atlantic Slave
Trade, 1500–1860 58
5 COLONIAL SOCIETY
ON THE EVE OF
REVOLUTION 1700–1775 69
Conquest by the Cradle 69
CHRONOLOGY 70
A Mingling of the Races 70
The Structure of Colonial Society 72
Clerics, Physicians, and Jurists 74
Workaday America 74
Horsepower and Sailpower 77
Dominant Denominations 77
The Great Awakening 79
Schools and Colleges 81
A Provincial Culture 83
Pioneer Presses 84
The Great Game of Politics 85
Colonial Folkways 86
TO LEARN MORE 88
6 THE DUEL FOR NORTH
AMERICA 1608–1763 89
France Finds a Foothold in Canada
CHRONOLOGY 90
89
New France Fans Out 91
The Clash of Empires 92
George Washington Inaugurates
War with France 93
Global War and Colonial Disunity
Braddock’s Blundering and Its
95
Aftermath 96
Pitt’s Palms of Victory 97
Restless Colonists 98
War’s Fateful Aftermath
TO LEARN MORE 101
99
7 THE ROAD TO
REVOLUTION 1763–1775 102
The Deep Roots of Revolution 102
CHRONOLOGY 103
Mercantilism and Colonial
Grievances 104
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