A Big History Of North America PDF Download

Native North America -- Huron creation story -- Coronado visits a pueblo town in the Southwest -- Hernando De Soto describes the American southeast -- Marco Polo describes the riches of Asia -- Columbus reaches the New World -- William Bradford describes an outbreak of smallpox -- The requisition -- A soldier recalls the Spanish entrance into Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) -- An Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico -- A Spanish priest condemns cruelty toward the Indians -- Cabeza De Vaca's southwestern odyssey -- Pueblo Indians discuss the Pueblo revolt -- French explorer Jacques Cartier encounters an Iroquoian village -- Champlain describes the introduction of firearms into Indian warfare -- Jesuit Jean De Brebeuf discusses life among the Hurons -- A plan for English colonization of North America -- The first colonists arrive at Jamestown -- Captain John Smith describes Virginia Indian society -- Frontier planters appeal for protection from Indian attacks -- Virginia's governor accuses his enemies of treason -- Nathaniel Bacon justifies rebellion -- The Virginia Slave Code of 1705 -- A Virginia planter's dairy -- Winthrop's vision of New England -- Anne Hutchinson challenges Massachusetts orthodoxy -- Cotton Mather wrestles with witchcraft -- English and Indians establish an alliance -- A minister discusses the dilemmas confronting Christian Indians -- An English woman recounts her captivity -- A portrait of Barbados -- Pirates of the Caribbean -- A colonial leader discusses the geopolitics of Carolina in a time of war -- A missionary discusses Christianity and slavery -- A description of eighteenth-century South Carolina -- Dutch ministers discuss New Netherland -- Stuyvesant explains the fall of New Netherland -- William Penn promotes Pennsylvania -- Welsh immigrant life.