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1. The Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492: Introduction Globalization, the ever-increasing interconnectedness of the world, is not a new phenomenon, but it accelerated when western Europeans discovered the riches of the East. During the Crusades (1095–1291), Europeans developed an appetite for spices, silk, porcelain, sugar, and other luxury items from the East, for which they traded fur, timber, and Slavic people they captured and sold (hence the word slave). But when the Silk Road, the l

Chapters

• 1. The Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492: Introduction
• 1.1 The Americas
• 1.2 Europe on the Brink of Change
• 1.3 West Africa and the Role of Slavery
• Key Terms
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 2. Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650: Introduction
• 2.2 Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
• 2.4 New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 3. Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700: Introduction
• 3.1 Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
• 3.2 Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
• Access the entire text of Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative at the Gutenberg
• Summary
• 4.1 Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• 5. Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763–1774: Introduction
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 6.3 War in the South
• 6.4 Identity during the American Revolution
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 7. Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790: Introduction
• Read more about religion and state governments at the Religion and the Founding
• 7.4 The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 8. Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820: Introduction
• 8.2 The New American Republic
• 8.3 Partisan Politics
• 8.4 The United States Goes Back to War
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 9. Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850: Introduction
• 9.4 A New Social Order: Class Divisions
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 10. Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840: Introduction
• 10.4 Indian Removal
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 11. A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860: Introduction
• Access a collection of primary documents relating to the Missouri Compromise, in
• 11.3 Independence for Texas
• 11.4 The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
• Summary
• Review Questions
• Critical Thinking Questions
• 12.1 The Economics of Cotton
• Read through several narratives at “Born in Slavery,” part of the American Memor
• 12.4 The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
• Key Terms
• 13. Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860: Introduction
• 13.2 Antebellum Communal Experiments
• 13.4 Addressing Slavery
• 13.5 Women’s Rights
• Summary
• 14.1 The Compromise of 1850
• 14.3 The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
• Key Terms
• Summary
• Review Questions
• 15. The Civil War, 1860–1865: Introduction
• 15.3 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
• Critical Thinking Questions

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