1. Before Columbus
Cultural Evolution
Regional Cultures
The Iroquois
Precontact Population
The Native American Worldview
2. Europeans Reach North America
Spanish and Portuguese Expansion into the Americas
EnglandEnters the Colonial Race
Early Spanish Incursions in North America
The French Penetration of North America
English Images of the Native Americans
3. Cultures Meet on the Chesapeake
The Failed Colony at Roanoke
The Reestablishment of Virginia
Reorganization and Tobacco
English-Indian Relations
The War of 1622 and Its Aftermath
4. Cultures Meet in the Northeast
The Dutch in the Northeast
Puritanism
The Elusive Utopia
Puritans and Indians
The Question of Land
The Pequot War
5. The Coastal Societies: Resistance, Accommodation, and Defeat
Metacom's War
Bacon's Rebellion
The Colonization of South Carolina
Carolina-Indian Relations
The Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars
Quaker-Indian Relations in Penn's "Holy Experiment"
6. Europe, Africa, and the Americas
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Capture and Transport of Slaves
The Development of Slavery in the North American Colonies
Slavery in North and South America
7. The African Ordeal Under Slavery
Coping with Enslavement
Regional Variations of North American Slavery
Slave Resistance and Rebellion
Black Culture in Colonial America
8. The Transformation of Euro-American Society
Eighteenth-Century European Immigrants
Land, Growth, and Changing Values
The Cities
Changing Social Structure
The Great Awakening
9. Wars for Empire and Indian Strategies for Survival
Iroquois Diplomacy
Creek Diplomacy
Cherokee Diplomacy
Transformations in Indian Society
Cultural Persistence
10. The Seven Years' War and Its Aftermath
Population Increase
The Seven Years' War
Indian Strategies in the Seven Years' War
Indian-White Relations After 1763
The Colonizers' Society After 1763
11. The Tricolored American Revolution
The Abolitionist Impulse
Struggling for Liberty
Exodus of Pro-British Slaves
The War Comes to an End
Leaders of the Free Blacks
The Red Revolution
12. The Mixing of Peoples
Indian-European Contact
White-Black Intermixture
African-Indian Contact
Cultural Interaction of Red, White, and Black
Index