A History of America in 100 Maps

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84 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS Having established control over the Great Lakes in the early eighteenth century, the French ...

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86 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The previous map captured the trek of young George Washington into the West, where he witnes ...

IMPERIALISM AND INDEPENDENCE 87 America. Yet this too was a strategic decision, for the British considered the lands of the Five ...

88 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS July 1776 is enshrined as a moment of unrivaled importance in American history, when the Dec ...

IMPERIALISM AND INDEPENDENCE 89 ethnographic interest in the mysterious native tribes that were rumored to live in this area. Th ...

90 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS After the British victory over the French in 1763, the colonists expected a reprieve from wa ...

IMPERIALISM AND INDEPENDENCE 91 of rebels had taken up positions along the North Bridge. This map—among the earliest records of ...

92 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The rebellion around Boston shown on the previous page quickly turned into a civil war, and ...

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94 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS The eighteenth-century geopolitical contest between the French and the British in North Amer ...

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IMPERIALISM AND INDEPENDENCE 97 Oswald heavily annotated his copy of the map to make sense of the competing claims of the Britis ...

T he Declaration of Independence remains one of the most powerful political documents in human history, an assertion of rights a ...

ubiquitous feature of representative democracy that has only grown over time (page 254). Though the Articles of Confederation la ...

100 A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN 100 MAPS After declaring independence, the American patriots faced the more difficult task of establ ...