1. The Columbian Discovery and Its Effects.

a. The Motives of Columbus...

b. The Discovery and Its Immediate Effects.

2. Exploration of North America...

a. Spanish

b. The French in the St. Lawrence Region.

c. French Huguenots in Florida..

d. European Claims in North America about 1565.

Questions

References

2-17

4-8

4

9-16

9

11

13

15

16

17

17-34

18-28

SECTION II-THE RISE OF RIVAL COLONIZA-

TIONS, 1566 to about 1620.....

1. English Planting of the Colony of Virginia.

a. Motives of First English Colonization.

b. Settlement at Jamestown...

c. Conversion of Virginia into a Royal Colony.

2. New France and New Netherland...

a. French beginnings of Acadia and Canada.

b. Dutch Settlements on the Hudson River.

Questions

References

SECTION III-BEGINNING OF RELIGIOUS-POLITI-

CAL COLONIZATION OF ENGLISH AMERICA,

1620-1640

24

28-33

34

34-52

1. Pilgrim or Separatist Founding of Plymouth Colony..

2. Puritan Colonization of Massachusetts...

36-39

39

a. Motives of the Puritan Migration of 1628-1640.

b. Early Massachusetts

39

41

b. Connecticut

3. Beginnings of the other New England Colonies.

a. Rhode Island

c. New Haven..

d. New England about 1640.

4. Lord Baltimore's Catholic Colony of Maryland.

Questions

45-49

45

46

48

48

50-51

51

References

52

SECTION IV-THE PURITAN REVOLUTION IN ENG-

LAND AND THE COLONIES, 1640-1660..

1. The Puritan Revolution in England..

2. Effects of the Puritan Revolution upon the New England

Colonies

a.. Attitude of New England towards Puritan Govern-

ment in old England

b. The New England Confederation..

c. The Presbyterian Appeal, and its Suppression.

3. Effects of Puritan Revolution upon the Colony of Vir-

ginia

a. Expulsion of the Puritans from Virginia.

b. Virginia's Defiance of Parliament, 1649-1652..

c. Surrender of Virginia to the Parliamentary Commis-

sion

4. Effects of Puritan Revolution upon the Colony of Mary-

land

a. Puritan Seizures of the Government of Maryland...

b. Restoration of Maryland to its Proprietor..

Questions

References

65-68

68-72

53-72

55-59

59-64

SECTION V-REACTION AND REBELLION, 1660-1689 73-99

1. Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia..

75-80

a. Reactionary Policy of Virginia Assembly and Gov-

ernor after the Restoration, 1660-1676.

b. Rebellion Led by Nathaniel Bacon, 1676.

c. Outcome of the Rebellion.

2. Royal Attack on New England.

80-84

a. Overthrow of the Massachusetts Charter, 1660-1685..

b. The "Dominion of New England" under Governor

Andros, 1686-1689...

3. Colonial Expansion During the Restoration Period.

a. Conquest of Dutch Netherland, 1664...

84-92

b. Royalist Founding of Carolina Colony, 1663-1680..

c. Quaker Beginnings in New Jersey and Pennsylvania,

1676-1690

4. Effects of the English Revolution of 1688.

92-97

a. New England's Overthrow of Andros and his "Do-

minion"

b. Leisler's Rebellion in New York.

Questions

References

99

ABOUT 1700....

SECTION VI-COLONIAL INSTITUTIONS AND LIFE

1. Government

a. Relation with the Mother Country.

b. The Three Types of Colonial Government.

c. The Two Types of Local Government..

2. Life and Manners.

99-123

.100-107

100

103

106

107-122

a. The Southern Colonies.

107

b. New England

c. The Middle Colonies.

113

118

Questions

References

122

123

22

SECTION VII-EXTERNAL CONFLICT AND INTER-

NAL DEVELOPMENT, 1689-1763...

123-163

1. French-English Struggle for Supremacy in America....125-138

a. Causes and Character of the French-English Conflict

b. The Three Preliminary Conflicts, 1689-1748.

125

126

c. The French and Indian War, 1754-1763..

2. English Colonial Expansion During the French-English

Struggle

a. Beginning of Non-English Immigration.

b. Colonization of Georgia, 1732-1751..

c. Westward Movement across the Mountains, 1730-1755

3. Colonial Constitutional Development, 1689-1763.... 146-163

a. British Establishment of New Imperial Organ for

b. Increased Parliamentary Regulation of Colonial Af-

fairs

129

139-146

139

141

144

148

c. British Endeavors to Reduce Colonies to One Uni-

form Type ("Royal Colony").

154

d. British Attempts to Bring about Union.

156

e. British Proposal of an Episcopal Bishopric for the

Colonies

1. The "Stamp Act" Controversy-1764-1766.

a. British "Change of Colonial Policy," 1764-1765.

b. Colonial Opposition to the New Policy, 1765-1766..

c. British Reception of Colonial Protests, 1766.....

2. The "Townshend Act" Controversy, 1767-1770.

a. Renewal of British Attempt to enforce its "Change

of Policy," 1767..

166-202

. 167-176

167

169

171

.176-183

176

b. Colonial Opposition to the "Townshend Acts," 1768-

1769

178

c. British Response to Colonial Opposition, 1769-1770..

3. The "Tea Tax" Controversy, 1773-1774.

182

.183-187

a. Third British Attempt to Tax the Colonists, 1773.. 183

b. Colonial Resistance

183

c. British Attempt to compel Colonial Obedience, 1774

184

4. Revolution, 1774-1775

188-198

a. Colonial Resistance to "Intolerable Acts," 1774....

b. British Retaliation for Continued Colonial Resist-

ance, Jan.-Mar., 1775...

c. Colonial Resort to Arms, April-July, 1775.

5. Independence, 1775-1776

188

190

194

.198-201

a. British Reply to Colonial Armed Resistance, 1775..

b. Colonial Declaration of Independence, 1775-1776....

c. Establishment of New, Independent State Govern-

ments, 1776-1777

198

198

201

201

202

Questions

References

SECTION II-THE MILITARY STRUGGLE-1776-1783.203-231

1. The War in the North, 1776-1778....

a. The Campaign of 1776.

b. The Campaign of 1777-1778..

.204-208

204

205

2. Aid from Europe-The French Alliance..

.208-214

a. American Request for European Assistance; Re-

sponse up to 1778...

208

b. The French Treaty of Alliance, and its Effect in

England and America....

210

c. European Attitude towards America from 1778 to

the close of the War..

212

3. Confederation and the Western Lands Claims.

.214-219

a. Virginia's Claim to the Western Lands, 1776.

214

b. Congress Making the Confederation..

214

c. The Western Lands Question Delays Confederation,

1778-1781

b. Dispute with Spain over the Western Lands.

c. Negotiations at Paris.

c. Lack of Power in the Confederation Congress.

2. Proposals of Remedy for the Defects of the Confedera-

235

tion

.237-239

a. Congressional Recommendation for the Defects of the

Confederation

b. Proposals for a Constitutional Convention..

237

238

3. Organization of the National Domain..

a. Virginia's Cession of Western Land Claims..

.239-244

239

b. First Attempts to organize the New National Domain 240

c. Ordinances of 1787-1788..

241

244

245

255

258

260

264

264

b. An English Opinion.

2. Sectional Characteristics

c. A French Interpretation

a. New England

b. The Middle States (Pennsylvania, New York, New

Jersey)

c. The South..

d. The Trans-Alleghany West.

Questions

References

CHAPTER III

THE MAKING OF A DEMOCRATIC NATION, 1787-1841

SECTION I-FORMATION OF THE CONSTITUTION-

1786-1789

.266-284

1. Preliminaries to the Constitutional Convention.

a. The Annapolis Convention...

.267-270

267

b. Instructions of State Delegates to the Constitutional

Convention

a. Congress Recommends to the States...

b. Individual Opinions of the New Constitution.

c. Ratification by State Conventions..

Questions

References

SECTION II-HAMILTONIAN FEDERALISM-1789-

1801

285-306

1. Development of Federalist Domestic Policy, 1789-1793..286-294

a. Organization of Government under the Constitution 286

b. Establishment of Hamiltonian Financial Policy.... 289

278

279

282

284

284