The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

50 Chapter 1 Alien Encounters: Europe in the Americas Key Terms antinomianism A religious doctrine that affirmed that individual ...

Chapter Review 51 Research and Explore So Why Did Columbus Sail Across the Atlantic Anyway?, p. 21 WatchtheVideo Achievement of ...

The United States is a nation of migratory peoples: Paleo-Indians who ventured from Siberia tens of thou- sands of years ago, Eu ...

American Society in the MakingAmerican Society in the Making 2 Scientists speculate that people with the “risk-taking” gene are ...

54 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making although the government tried to discourage the practice. Fur traders in the norther ...

their hunting bands increased, the Comanche encroached on Apache territory. Soon Comanche warriors, occasionally assisted by Fre ...

56 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making In 1769 several score Jesuits and a detachment of Spanish soldiers established a pre ...

The Chesapeake Colonies 57 ATLANTIC OCEAN Lake Erie LakeO ntario St. La wre nc eR . Oh ioR . La ke Hu ron Hu sd on .R Sav ann ah ...

58 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making to marry and if they became pregnant (as many did in a land where men outnumbered wo ...

“Solving” the Labor Shortage: Slavery 59 In 2009, President Barack Obama visited the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, a fortress that ...

60 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making slaves—roughly five times that of indentured servants—was another disadvantage. In 1 ...

plows, muskets, books, and chinaware, they had to have cash crops—what their English creditors called “merchantable commodities. ...

62 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making the social and economic structure of the colony. But even if the rebelliondid not ch ...

their woolens industry. Parliament quickly placed a bounty—a bonus—on it to stimulate production. Their tobacco, rice, and indig ...

64 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making (masters of several plantations and many slaves) lived in solid, two- story houses o ...

Georgia and the Back Country West of the fall line of the many rivers that irrigated tidewater Chesapeake and Carolina lay the b ...

motherhood, therefore, commonly extended over three decades of a woman’s life. Meanwhile, she also functioned as the chief opera ...

puritan expectations to create a society of nuclear fam- ilies distinct to the region. Visible Puritan Saints and Others When it ...

68 Chapter 2 American Society in the Making were rare. Disputes were adjudicated through an active court system. But puritan civ ...

tongue; Sarah Osborne, a bedridden widow; and the slave Tituba, who had brought suspicion on herself by volunteering to bake a “ ...