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Nation of Nations A Concise Narrative of the American Republic Book Cover Image
Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e
James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

The Mosaic of Eighteenth-Century America

Learning Objectives

When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to:

Explain the evolving contest between the Indians, the French, and the British for supremacy and survival in North America.

Describe life on the eighteenth-century American frontier, in cities, and on plantations.

Explain the relationship among population growth, social diversity, and political division and instability in eighteenth-century America.

Explain the impact of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening.

Describe colonial views of England and English views of the colonies in the middle of the eighteenth century.