Colonial America Book

	Preface
1	European Backgrounds	1
2	The Native Americans	13
3	The Spanish Empire in America	27
4	The Portuguese, French, and Dutch Empires in America	37
5	The Background of English Colonization	50
6	The Tobacco Colonies: Virginia and Maryland	62
7	The New England Colonies	74
8	The Completion of Colonization	87
9	Seventeenth-Century Revolts and Eighteenth-Century Stabilization	100
10	Colonial Government	111
11	African-Americans in the English Colonies	122
12	Immigration	136
13	Colonial Agriculture	147
14	Colonial Commerce	155
15	Colonial Industry	166
16	Money and Social Status	177
17	The Colonial Town	187
18	The Colonial Family	199
19	Religion in Colonial America	209
20	Education in Colonial America	224
21	Language and Literature	235
22	Colonial Arts and Sciences	245
23	Everyday Life in Colonial America	255
24	The Second Hundred Years' War	266
25	The Road to Revolution	276
26	The Revolutionary War	293
27	Governments for a New Nation	304
	Index	318