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Making America: A History of the United States, Brief Second Edition
Carol Berkin, Christopher L. Miller, Robert W. Cherny, James L. Gormly, W. Thomas Mainwaring
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Chapter 1: Making a "New" World, to 1558

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Describe the evolution and achievements of American Indian cultures from the period of the Archaic Age to the eve of Columbus’s discovery of America.

  2. Explain why Europeans turned to overseas exploration and how they dealt with the many geographical and political constraints that stood in their way.

  3. Describe how the meeting of American Indian, Europeans, and Africans in the aftermath of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the Western Hemisphere affected and changed each.



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