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Events that changed America through the seventeenth century /

Ten essays offer academic interpretations of the significance of ten events shaping early US history. Appends a glossary and a timeline from the First peoples' migration to the New World to the 1692 Salem witch trials. Illustrations include a replica of Columbus' /Santa Maria/, a period sk...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Findling, John E., Thackeray, Frank W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Colección:Greenwood Press "Events that changed America" series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • First encounters, c. 40,000 B.C.E.-1492 C.E. / Andrew Frank
  • The expedition of Coronado, 1540-1542 / Thomas Clarkin
  • The founding of St. Augustine, 1565 / Blake Beattie
  • Early English colonization efforts, c. 1584-1630 / Rick Kennedy
  • Early European-Native American encounters, 1607-1637 / Kathleen Perdisatt and Rick Kennedy
  • The introduction of slavery into North America, 1619 / Julia A. Woods
  • The surrender of New Amsterdam, 1664 / Thomas A. Mackey
  • King Philip's War, 1675-1676 / Steven E. Siry
  • The Glorious Revolution in America, 1688-1689 / P.D. Swiney
  • The Salem witch trials, 1692 / Frederick M. Stowell.