The thirteen colonies
From Settlements to a New Society, 1620-1763 “Separate colonies became neighboring societiesand slowly discovered what they shared.” THIRTEEN COLONIES, MANY...
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PLYMOUTH: COVENANT, COOPERATION AND CONFLICT
Thirteen years after Jamestown, the Mayflower arrived in present-day Massachusetts. Its passengers included religious Separatists seeking the freedom to build...
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JAMESTOWN: SURVIVAL AT A TERRIBLE PRICE
In 1607, an English expedition established Jamestown in Virginia, the first enduring English settlement in what became the United States....
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EXCHANGE AND CATASTROPHE
The sustained movement of plants, animals, peoples, technologies and diseases between the hemispheres is known as the Columbian Exchange. Foods...
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Encounters and colonies
Europeans Arrive, New Worlds Collide “What one people called discovery, another experienced as arrival-and soon as upheaval." AN OCEAN BECOMES...
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CITIES, GOVERNMENTS AND KNOWLEDGE
Apersistent misconception holds that early Indigenous Americans lived only in small, scattered bands. Communities varied greatly, but some created substantial...
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MANY PEOPLES, MANY WORLDS
There was no single Indigenous culture in North America. The continent contained hundreds of nations, languages, political traditions and ways...
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From Ancient Lands to a New Nation
“America did not begin with independence. It began with people.” A CONTINENT BEFORE A COUNTRY Long before there was a...
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THE MAKING OF AMERICA
From Ancient Lands to a New Nation “America did not begin with independence. It began with people.” Before there was...
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