Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History
Editor: Ciment, James
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
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ISBN: 978-0-7656-8065-5
Category: History - United States -- History
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History captures it all: the people, institutions, ideas, events, and the creation of the first three hundred years of American history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Studying the Colonial Era
- Maps
- Abenaki
- Acadia, Nova Scotia
- Acadians
- Acapulco
- Adams, Abigail (1744–1818)
- Adams, John (1735–1826)
- Adams, Samuel (1722–1803)
- African Americans
- Agriculture
- Albany Congress (1754)
- Alcohol
- Alexander, Mary Spratt Provoost (1693–1760)
- American Philosophical Society
- Anabaptists
- Andros, Sir Edmund (1637–1714)
- Anglican Church
- Anne, Queen (1665–1714)
- Antigua
- Appalachia
- Arawak
- Armada, Spanish
- Army, British
- Art, Cartoons, and Broadsides
- Art, Fine
- Art, Folk
- Artisans
- Arts, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Assemblies, Colonial
- Atlantic Ocean
- Azores and Madeira
- Aztec
- Bacon, Nathaniel (1647–1676)
- Bacon's Rebellion
- Baltimore
- Banks and Banking
- Baptists
- Barbados
- Bartram Family
- Bathing and Hygiene
- Beaver Wars
- Berkeley, Sir William (c. 1605–1677)
- Bermuda
- Bible
- Board of Trade
- Boone, Daniel (1734–1820)
- Borderlands, Spanish
- Bostonnnnnnn
- Boston Massacre
- Boston Port Bill
- Boston Tea Party
- Braddock, Edward (1695–1755)
- Bradford, William (1590–1657)
- Bradstreet, Anne (1612–1672)
- Brant, Joseph (1743–1807)
- Brant, Mary Molly (c. 1736–1796)
- Brent, Margaret (c. 1601–c. 1671)
- Bunker Hill, Battle of
- Cabot, John (c. 1450–c. 1498)
- Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez (c. 1498–c. 1543)
- California
- Calvert, Cecilius (1605–1675)
- Calvert, George (First Lord Baltimore; c. 1580–1632)
- Calvinism
- Canada
- Canary Islands
- Cape Cod
- Captivity (by Native Americans)
- Carib
- Caribbean Sea
- Carteret, Sir George (d. 1680)
- Cartier, Jacques (1491–1557)
- Catholic Church
- Cayuga
- Champlain, Samuel de (c. 1570–1635)
- Charles I (1600–1649)
- Charles II (1630–1685)
- Charles V (1500–1558)
- Charleston
- Cherokee
- Chesapeake
- Chickasaw
- Child Rearing
- Children
- Choctaw
- Christ and Christianity
- Cities
- Class
- Clocks and Timekeeping
- Clothing
- Coercive Acts (1774)
- Coffee
- Columbian Exchange
- Columbus, Christopher (1451–1506)
- Committees of Correspondence
- Common Sense (1776)
- Connecticut
- Connecticut River
- Constantinople, Fall of
- Continental Congress, First
- Continental Congress, Second
- Coode's Rebellion
- Copley, John Singleton (1738–1815)
- Corn
- Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de (1510–1554)
- Cortéz, Hernando (1485–1547)
- Cotton
- Cotton, John (1584–1652)
- Covenants
- Creek
- Crime
- Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658)
- Cuba
- Cumberland Gap
- Currency
- Currency Act (1764)
- Dartmouth, Lord (1731–1801)
- Daughters of Liberty
- Death and Dying
- Debt and Debtor's Prison
- Deism
- Delaware
- Delaware River
- De Soto, Hernando (c. 1500–1542)
- Detroit
- Dickinson, John (1732–1808)
- Diplomacy (Foreign Affairs)
- Disease
- Dominicans
- Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596)
- Dulany, Daniel, Jr. (1722–1797)
- Dulany, Daniel, Sr. (1685–1753)
- Dunmore, Lord (1732–1809)
- Dutch
- Dutch West India Company
- East India Company
- Economy, Business, and Labor
- Edict of Nantes, Revocation of
- Education
- Education, Higher
- Edwards, Jonathan (1703–1758)
- Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
- English
- English Civil War
- Enlightenment
- Environment and Nature
- Equiano, Olaudah (1745–1797)
- Erie
- Exploration
- Family
- Ferdinand (1452–1516) and Isabella (1451–1504)
- Fish and Fisheries
- Florida
- Food and Diet
- Fort Duquesne
- Fort Orange
- Fortifications
- Franciscans
- Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)
- Franklin, William (c. 1730–1814)
- Free Blacks
- French
- French and Indian War
- Furnishings
- Furs
- Gage, Thomas (c. 1719–1787)
- Gambling
- Gender Issues
- George I (1660–1727)
- George II (1683–1760)
- George III (1738–1820)
- Georgia
- Germans
- Glorious Revolution
- God
- Gorges, Ferdinando (1566–1647)
- Government, Spanish Colonial
- Grain
- Great Awakening
- Great Lakes
- Green Mountain Boys
- Grenville, George (1712–1770)
- Hakluyt, Richard (c. 1551–1616)
- Halifax
- Hamilton, Alexander (c. 1755–1804)
- Hancock, John (1737–1793)
- Harriot, Thomas (1560–1621)
- Harvard College
- Henry, Patrick (1736–1799)
- Hispaniola
- Hooker, Thomas (1586–1647)
- Hopi
- Horses
- House of Burgesses
- Housing
- Hudson, Henry (c. 1560–c. 1611)
- Hudson River
- Huguenots
- Humboldt, Alexander von (1769–1859)
- Huron
- Hutchinson, Anne (1591–1643)
- Hutchinson, Thomas (1711–1780)
- Immigration
- Indentured Servitude
- Indigo
- Inheritance
- Inns and Taverns (Public Houses)
- Iron
- Iroquois Confederacy
- Jamaica
- James I (1566–1625)
- James II (1633–1701)
- Jamestown
- Jay, John (1745–1829)
- Jefferson, Thomas (1743–1826)
- Jesuits
- Jews
- Johnson, Sir William (1715–1774)
- Joint-Stock Companies
- Jolliet, Louis (1645–1700)
- Kentucky
- Kieft's War
- King George's War
- King Philip's War
- King's College
- Kitchens, Colonial
- Laborers, Rural
- Laborers, Urban
- Land and Real Estate
- Landlords
- Language
- La Salle, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de (1643–1687)
- Las Casas, Bartolomé de (1474–1566)
- Law and Courts
- Lee, Richard Henry (1732–1794)
- Leisler, Jacob (1640–1691)
- Lenni Lenape (Delaware)
- Lexington and Concord, Battles of
- Libraries
- Literature
- Livestock
- Locke, John (1632–1704)
- Long Island
- Louis XIV (1638–1715)
- Louisiana
- Loyalists
- Maine
- Malaria
- Manufacturing
- Maps and Surveys
- Marquette, Jacques (1637–1675)
- Marriage and Divorce
- Mary I (1516–1558)
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Bay
- Massachusetts Bay Charter
- Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Massasoit (d. 1661)
- Mather, Cotton (1663–1728)
- Mather, Increase (1639–1723)
- Maya
- Mayflower Compact
- Menéndez de Avilés, Pedro (1519–1574)
- Mercantilism
- Merchants
- Methodist Church
- Mexico City
- Military and Diplomatic Affairs
- Militias
- Ministers and the Ministry
- Missions
- Mississippi River
- Mohawk
- Mohegan
- Montcalm, Louis-Joseph (1712–1759)
- Montezuma II (1466–1520)
- Montreal
- Murray, Judith Sargent (1751–1820)
- Music
- Natchez
- Native American-African American Relations
- Native American-European Conflict
- Native American-European Relations
- Native Americans
- Native Americans and Slavery
- Navajo
- Navigation Acts (1651–1733)
- Navy, British
- Negro Election Day
- New Amsterdam
- New Bern
- New England, Dominion of
- New Hampshire
- New Haven
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New Netherland
- New Orleans
- New Spain
- New York
- New York City
- Newfoundland
- Newport
- Newspapers and Journals
- North, Lord (1732–1792)
- North Carolina
- Northwest Passage
- Of Plymouth Plantation
- Oglethorpe, James (1696–1785)
- Ohio Country
- Oliver, Andrew (1706–1774)
- Oñate, Juan de (c. 1552–1626)
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Opechancanough (c. 1545–c. 1646)
- Orphans
- Otis, James (1725–1783)
- Ottawa
- Paine, Thomas (1737–1809)
- Patriots
- Patroons
- Paxton Boys
- Peddlers
- Penn, William (1644–1718)
- Pennsylvania
- Pequot
- Philadelphia
- Philip, King (Metacom; c. 1638–1676)
- Philip II (1527–1598)
- Piedmont
- Pietism
- Pilgrims
- Piracy
- Pitt, William (1708–1778)
- Plantations
- Planters
- Plymouth
- Pocahontas (c. 1594–1616)
- Politics and Government
- Ponce de Léon, Juan (1460–1521)
- Pontiac (c. 1720–1769)
- Poor Richard's Almanack
- Population and Demographics
- Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- Potomac River
- Powhatan (c. 1540–1618)
- Powhatan Confederacy
- Praying Towns
- Precious Metals
- Presbyterianism
- Prisons and Punishment
- Proclamation of 1763
- Property and Property Rights
- Prostitution
- Providence
- Pueblo
- Puerto Rico
- Puritanism
- Quakers
- Quebec Act (1774)
- Quebec City
- Queen Anne's War
- Quincy, Josiah, Jr. (1744–1775)
- Race and Ethnicity
- Raleigh, Sir Walter (1554–1618)
- Reading and Literacy
- Reformation
- Regulators
- Religion
- Religions, African
- Religions, Native American
- Revere, Paul (1735–1818)
- Revolutionary War
- Rhode Island
- Rice
- Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, The (1764)
- Riots
- Roanoke Colony
- Rolfe, John (1585–1623)
- Rowlandson, Mary (1637–1711)
- Royal African Company
- Rush, Benjamin (1745–1813)
- Saint-Domingue
- Salem
- Santa Fe
- Savannah
- Science
- Scots-Irish
- Seminole
- Seneca
- Sermons
- Serra, Fray Junípero (1713–1784)
- Servants, Domestic
- Sex
- Shakers
- Ship's Stores
- Sint Eustatius
- Slave Communities and Culture
- Slave Rebellions
- Slave Trade
- Slavery, African American
- Slavery, Caribbean
- Smallpox
- Smith, John (1580–1631)
- Sons of Liberty
- South Carolina
- Sports and Recreation
- Squanto (c. 1590–1622)
- St. Augustine
- St. Kitts
- St. Lawrence River
- St. Louis
- Stamp Act (1765)
- Stuyvesant, Peter (c. 1610–1672)
- Sugar
- Sugar Act (1764)
- Susquehanna
- Swedes
- Syphilis
- Taino
- Taylor, Edward (c. 1644–1729)
- Tea
- Tea Act (1773)
- Technology
- Tenant Farming
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Theater
- Tidewater
- Tobacco
- Tools
- Tordesillas, Treaty of (1494)
- Townshend, Charles (1725–1767)
- Townshend Acts (1767)
- Trade
- Transportation, Land
- Transportation, Water
- Triangle Trade
- Tuscarora
- Tuscarora War
- Vermont
- Verrazano, Giovanni da (c. 1480–c. 1528)
- Vespucci, Amerigo (1454–1512)
- Vikings
- Virginia
- Virginia Company
- War
- War of Jenkins' Ear
- Warren, Mercy Otis (1728–1814)
- Washington, George (1732–1799)
- Weaponry
- West, Benjamin (1738–1820)
- Wheatley, Phillis (c. 1754–1784)
- Whitefield, George (1714–1770)
- Widows and Widowers
- Wilkes, John (1725–1797)
- William and Mary, College of
- William III of Orange (1650–1702) and Mary II (1662–1694)
- Williams, Roger (c. 1602–1683)
- Williamsburg
- Winslow, Josiah (1629–1680)
- Winthrop, John (1588–1649)
- Witchcraft and Witch Trials
- Wolfe, James (1727–1759)
- Women
- Wright, Susanna (1697–1784)
- Yale College
- Yamasee
- Yamasee War
- Yeomanry
- Zenger, John Peter (1697–1746)
- Zuni
- Chronologies
- Thematic
- Arts, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Economy, Business, and Labor
- Gender Issues
- Military and Diplomatic Affairs
- Politics and Government
- Race and Ethnicity
- Religion
- Science and Technology
- Geographic
- Caribbean
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- French Colonies on Mainland North America
- Georgia
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New York and New Netherland
- North Carolina
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Spanish Colonies on Mainland North America
- Virginia
- Primary Documents
- Columbus's Letter Announcing His Discoveries in the New World (1493)
- John Cabot's Discovery of North America (1497)
- The Founding of St. Augustine (1565)
- The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (c. 1570)
- A Call for English Colonization of America (1584)
- The Jamestown Settlement (1607–1609)
- The Mayflower Compact (1620)
- Rights and Privileges of Patroons (1629)
- A Modell of Christian Charity (1630)
- The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
- Psalm 23 from The Bay Psalm Book (1640)
- Maryland Toleration Act (1649)
- Connecticut Blue Laws (1650)
- Virginia Slave Laws (1660s)
- Upon the Burning of Our House (1666)
- John Eliot and His Work with Native Americans (1670)
- Probate Inventory of a Plymouth Colony Estate (1672)
- Marquette's Travels on the Mississippi (1673)
- Governor William Berkeley on Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
- Protest of German Quakers Against Slavery (1688)
- John Clayton's Report on Virginia (1688)
- Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England (1688)
- The Salem Witch Trial of Susanna Martin (1692)
- Thomas Brattle on the Salem Trials (1692)
- A Poem Recalling the Hanging of a Relative due to the Salem Witch Trials (in 1692; pub. 1857)
- Raising Colonial Children (1699)
- Founding of New Sweden (1700s)
- Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (1701)
- The Journal of Sarah Kemble Knight (1704)
- The French and the Fur Trade (1724)
- A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency (1729)
- Oglethorpe's Vision for the Founding of Georgia (1733)
- The Trial of Peter Zenger (1735)
- Maxims from Poor Richard's Almanack (1739)
- The Demand for Slavery in Georgia (1743)
- Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation (c. 1744)
- Advice to a Young Tradesman (1748)
- Gottlieb Mittelberger on Immigration to the Colonies (c. 1750)
- Captivity Narrative of Mary Jemison in the 1750s (pub. 1824)
- A Report on the Kite Experiment (1752)
- Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin (1752, 1753, 1769)
- Founding Colleges in America (1754)
- Colonial Recipe for Apple Tansey (1754)
- Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (in 1755; pub. 1847)
- Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)
- Townshend Revenue Act (1767)
- Newspaper Account of the Boston Massacre (1770)
- On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (1770)
- On Being Brought from Africa to America (early 1770s)
- A Tutor and his Pupils (1773–1774)
- The Boston Port Act (1774)
- Slave Petition to the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts (1774)
- A Case for Non-Interference by Parliament (1775)
- Petition of London Merchants for Reconciliation with the Colonies (1775)
- Tobacco Growing (1775)
- Common Sense (1776)
- Letters between Abigail Adams and John Adams (1776)
- The Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Glossary
- Master Bibliography
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources