What Happened? An Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever : an Encyclopedia of Events That Changed America Forever

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Cover; VOLUME I: THROUGH THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; Contents; Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. FIRST ENCOUNTERS, ca. 40,000 BCE-CE 1492; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; Algonquin; Anasazi Culture; Christopher Columbus (1451-1506); Hopewell Culture; Mississippian Culture; Document: Journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492; 2. THE FRENCH IN NORTH AMERICA, 1534-1701; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; Jacques Cartier (1491-1557); Samuel de Champlain (ca. 1567-1635); French Fur Trade, Environmental Consequences of; Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac (1622-1698). Louis Joliet (ca. 1645-1700)Jacques Marquette (1637-1675); 3. THE EXPEDITION OF CORONADO, 1540-1542; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (ca. 1490-1556/64); Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1510-1554); Esteban (ca. 1503-1539); Hopi; Spanish Colonization of the Americas; Zuni; 4. THE FOUNDING OF ST. AUGUSTINE, 1565; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; Castillo de San Marcos; Hernando de Soto (ca. 1497-1542); Florida; Juan Ponce de León (ca. 1470-1521); 5. EARLY ENGLISH COLONIZATION EFFORTS, ca. 1584-1630; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; John Cabot (ca. 1450-1498). Jamestown, Founding of (1607)Pilgrims; Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552-1618); Roanoke Colonies (1585, 1587); Document: Excerpt from Arthur Barlowe's ""First Voyage to Roanoke, "" 1584; 6. EARLY EUROPEAN-NATIVE AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS, 1607-1637; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; North American Smallpox Epidemic; Opechancanough (1545/56-ca. 1644); Pequot War (1636-1637); Pocahontas (ca. 1595-1617); John Smith (ca. 1580-1631); Squanto (1580-1622); 7. THE INTRODUCTION OF SLAVERY INTO NORTH AMERICA, 1619; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; African Slave Trade; Runaway Servants; Slavery. Slavery in Mid-18th-Century Colonial VirginiaDocument: Excerpt from Samuel Sewall's The Selling of Joseph, 1700; 8. RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN ENGLISH NORTH AMERICA, 1636-1701; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; Cecil Calvert (1605-1675); Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643); Society of Friends (Quakers); Roger Williams (1603-1683); Document: Excerpt from Roger Williams's Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, 1644; Document: Maryland Act of Toleration, 1649; Document: Excerpt from the Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges, 1701; 9. THE SURRENDER OF NEW AMSTERDAM, 1664; Introduction; Interpretive Essay. Anglo-Dutch WarsDutch East India Company; Dutch Reformed Church; Dutch West India Company; Peter Minuit (1580-1638); Peter Stuyvesant (1610-1672); 10. KING PHILIP'S WAR, 1675-1676; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; Benjamin Church (1639-1718); Metacom (ca. 1638-1676); Narragansetts; Mary Rowlandson (ca. 1635-ca. 1678); Wampanoags; Document: Massasoit Peace Treaty, 1621; 11. THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION IN AMERICA, 1688-1689; Introduction; Interpretive Essay; Sir Edmund Andros (1637-1714); Bacon's Rebellion (1676); King William's War (1689-1697); Jacob Leisler (1640-1691)