American Journey, The: Teaching and Learning Classroom Update Edition, Volume 1

by Goldfield, David; Abbott, Carl E.; Anderson, Virginia DeJohn; Argersinger, Jo Ann E.; Argersinger, Peter H.; Barney, William; Weir, Robert M.

• ISBN13: 9780205739240
• ISBN10: 0205739245
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This highly visual survey of U.S. History introduces students to the key features of American political, social, and economic history in an exciting format designed to ignite students passion to know history . TheTeaching & Learning Classroom Editionof the highly successfulThe American Journeyprovides students with the most help available in reading, thinking, and applying the material they are learning in the text and in lecture. A series of pedagogical aids, in text and out of class study companions, as well as complete instructor presentational and assessment support make this text the perfect choice for those looking to make history come alive for their students. The path that led the authors toThe American Journeybegan in the classroom with their students. The goal of this text is to make American history accessible to students. The key to that goal--the core of the book--is a strong, clear narrative and a positive theme of The American "Journey." American history is a compelling story that the authors tell in an engaging, forthright way, while providing students with an abundance of tools to help them absorb that story and put it into context. This text combines political and social history, to fit the experience of particular groups into the broader perspective of the American past, to give voice to minor and major players alike, because the history of America is in the stories of its people.

Table of Contents

Worlds Apart

Native American Societies before 1492

Paleo-Indians and the Archaic Period

The Development of Agriculture

Nonfarming Societies

Mesoamerican Civilizations

North Americarsquo;s Diverse Cultures

The Caribbean Islanders

West African Societies

Geographical and Political Differences

Family Structure and Religion

European Merchants in West Africa and theSlave Trade

Western Europe on the Eve of Exploration

The Consolidation of Political and MilitaryAuthority

Religious Conflict and the Protestant

Reformation Contact

The Lure of Discovery

Christopher Columbus and the Westward Routeto Asia

The Spanish Conquest and Colonization

The Columbian Exchange

Cultural Perceptions and Misperceptions

Competition for a Continent

Early French Efforts in North America

English Attempts in the New World

Transplantation, 1600-1685

The French in North America

The Quest for Furs and Converts

The Development of New France

The Dutch Overseas Empire

The Dutch East India Company

The West India Company and New Netherland

English Settlement in the Chesapeake

The Ordeal of Early Virginia

The Importance of Tobacco

Maryland: A Refuge for Catholics Life in the Chesapeake Colonies

The Founding of New England

The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony

Massachusetts Bay Colony and Its Offshoots

Families, Farms, and Communities in Early New England

Competition in the Caribbean Sugar and Slaves

A Biracial Society

The Restoration Colonies

Early Carolina: Colonial Aristocracy and Slave

Labor Pennsylvania: The Dream of Toleration andPeace

New Netherland Becomes New York

The Creation of New Worlds

Indians and Europeans

Indian Workers in the Spanish Borderlands

The Web of Trade

Displacing Native Americans in the English Colonies

Bringing Christianity to Native Peoples

After the First Hundred Years: Conflict and War

Africans and Europeans Labor Needs and the Turn to Slavery

The Shock of Enslavement

African Slaves in the New World

African American Families and Communities

Resistance and Rebellion

European Laborers in Early America

A Spectrum of Control

New European Immigrants

Convergence and Conflict

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