U.S. History I: United States History 1607-1865 ... - Textbook Equity

Contents
This text is arranged into four chronological sections according to the History 121 syllabus.
The documents for each section are at the end of that section. Additional references and resources
can be found on the course web site, www.academicamerican.com.
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Part 1: Colonial American History, 1607-1763
Introduction to American History 1
Prehistory: The Age of Discovery 5
Prehistory Continued: Native Americans 7
Introduction to Colonial American History 12
Early European Explorations 13
English Colonization of North America 14
The American Colonies. Virginia: The London Company 22
Bacon’s Rebellion 25
The Protestant Reformation 26
The New England Colonies 29
Massachusetts Bay: A Puritan Commonwealth 31
Additional New England Colonies 35
Middle Colonies: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland 37
The Southern Colonies 40
Slavery in the Colonial World 41
Religion and Early American History 43
The Enlightenment and America 46
Women in Colonial America 48
The American Colonies and the British Empire 50
British Mercantilism 51
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 55
Colonial Wars and Wars for Empire 56
Documents of Colonial American History
John Smith on the Virginia Colony 59
Letter from an Indentured Servant 62
John Winthrop “Modell of Christian Charity” 64
William Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation 68
The Mayflower Compact 72
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639 73
Mary Jemison’s “Captivity” Story 76
Gottlieb Mittelberger’s Journey to Pennsylvania 79
Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God 81
Three Poems of Anne Bradstreet 83
Maryland Toleration Act 85
A Letter from New England 87
The Middle Passage from Africa 88
Virginia Slave Statues, 1660-1669 90
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