US History

Student Study Guide for the American Pageant Chapter 8 America Secedes from the Empire? seq NL1 \r 0 \h chapter summary Even after Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress did not at first pursue independence. The Congress?s most important action was selecting George Washington as military commander.

Student Study Guide for the American Pageant CHAPTER 6 The Duel for North America, 1608?1763 seq NL1 \r 0 \h Chapter Summary ? Like Britain, France entered late into the American colonial scramble, eventually developing an extensive though thinly settled empire economically based on the fur trade. During much of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain and France engaged in a bitter power struggle that frequently erupted into worldwide wars. In North America these wars constituted an extended military duel for imperial control of the continent.

Student Study Guide for the American Pageant CHAPTER 4 American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607?1692 seq NL1 \r 0 \h Chapter Summary ? Life was hard in the seventeenth-century southern colonies. Disease drastically shortened life spans in the Chesapeake region, even for the young single men who made up the majority of settlers. Families were few and fragile, with men greatly outnumbering women, who were much in demand and seldom remained single for long. The tobacco economy first thrived on the labor of white indentured servants, who hoped to work their way up to become landowners and perhaps even become wealthy. But by the late seventeenth century, this hope was increasingly frustrated, and the discontent of the poor whites exploded in Bacon?s Rebellion.