Two worlds discover each other -- The colonizing impulse" promise and reality -- The Chesapeake: England's first successful colonization -- New England: the settlement of the Puritan colonies -- Challenges to the New England way: sects and witches -- The Chesapeake: Bacon's rebellion and the creation of a Creole society -- New directions in family life and labor -- The middle colonies: ethnicity, competition, and economic success -- The proprietary colonies of the lower south -- The great awakening: religious upheaval across the colonies -- Mature societies in colonial America -- Settling the backcountry -- The impact of the European wars for empire on America -- The sum of the colonial experience.
