The American Vision: Chapter 1, A Nation is Born

The following is a selection of articles that will relate to information in Chapter 1. These are just starting points. For the curious, each article leads to additional articles. Occasionally, an article will be listed in more than one category. Next Chapter

1. Section 1: Converging Cultures
   • The Earliest Americans
     • Early Civilizations in America
       • Eastern Woodland Culture
     • Native American Cultural Diversity
       • Cherokee Indians
       • Northwest Culture
       • Arctic Culture
   • European Explorations
     • Columbus`s Voyages
     • Continuing Expeditions
       • Treaty of Tordesillas
       • Ponce de León
       • Coronado
     • Cultural Changes
       • The Legacy of Christopher Columbus
       • Influenza
   • Early French and English Settlement
     • New France
       • Fur Trade
       • Jacques Marquette
       • Robert de La Salle
     • Jamestown
     • Plymouth Colony
       • Puritans
       • Mayflower Compact
   • The Thirteen Colonies
     • The Growth of New England
       • Massachusetts Bay Colony
       • Roger Williams
       • Anne Hutchinson
       • King Philip`s War
     • The Middle Colonies
       • Henry Hudson
       • William Penn
       • New Netherland
       • Hudson River
     • The Southern Colonies
       • Maryland
       • Charles Towne
       • Indentured Servitude
     • Crisis over Land
       • Bacon`s Rebellion
2. Section 2: A Diverse Society
   • Growth of Colonial America
     • Trade and the Rise of Cities
       • Triangular Slave Trade
     • Immigrants
       • Philadelphia
       • New York City
   • New Ideas
     • The Glorious Revolution
     • The Enlightenment
     • The Great Awakening
       • Jonathan Edwards
3. Section 3: The American Revolution
   • Growing Rebelliousness
     • The French and Indian War
       • King George`s War
       • Results of the French and Indian War
     • Unpopular Regulations
       • Proclamation Act 0f 1763
       • Stamp Act
     • The Townshend Acts
       • Boston Massacre
   • The Road to War
     • The Colonists Defy Britain
       • Committees of Correspondence
       • Boston Tea Party
       • Thomas Gage
       • The Coercive Acts
       • First Continental Congress
     • The Revolution Begins
       • Minutemen
       • Battle of Lexington and Concord
       • Second Continental Congress
       • George Washington
     • Decision for Independence
       • Olive Branch Petition
       • Thomas Paine
       • John Dickinson
       • Declaration of Independence
   • War for Independence
     • The Northern Campaign
       • Continental Army
       • William Howe
       • Battle of Trenton
       • French Alliance
     • Fighting on Other Fronts
       • Surrender at Saratoga
       • George Rogers Clark
       • John Paul Jones
     • The American Victory
       • The Surrender at Yorktown
       • Treaty of Paris (1783)
4. Section 4: The Constitution
   • The Young Nation
     • New State Constitutions
     • Changes in Society
       • Women`s Rights
       • Separation of Church and State
     • A Weak National Government
       • Articles of Confederation
       • Northwest Ordinance of 1787
       • Shays` Rebellion
   • A New Constitution
     • Debate and Compromise
       • The Constitutional Convention
       • Connecticut Compromise
     • Checks and Balances
   • Ratification
     • Debating the Constitution
       • The Federalist Papers
       • Anti-Federalists
     • Massachusetts
       • Samuel Adams
     • Virginia and New York
       • Patrick Henry
       • Alexander Hamilton