America's Beginnings

Tony Williams is the author of Hurricanes of Independence: The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution and The Pox and the Covenant: Franklin, Mather, and the Epidemic that Changed America’s Destiny. He resides in Williamsburg. Virginia.

Preface
Chapter 1: Lost Colony
Chapter 2: Jamestown
Chapter 3: Starving Time
Chapter 4:First Representative Legislature in Britain's New World
Chapter 5: First Africans
Chapter 6:Mayflower Compact
Chapter 7:City Upon a Hill
Chapter 8:Indian Uprising of 1622
Chapter 9: Dissents of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams
Chapter 10: Pequot War
Chapter 11: King Philip's War
Chapter 12: Bacon's Rebellion
Chapter 13:Glorious Revolution in America
Chapter 14:Salem Witch Trials
Chapter 15: Boston Smallpox Epidemic of 1721
Chapter 16: Great Awakening
Chapter 17: Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod
Chapter 18: Albany Plan of Union
Chapter 19: Great Meadows
Chapter 20: Braddock's March
Chapter 21: Royal Proclamation of 1763
Chapter 22: Stamp Act
Chapter 23: Townshend Acts
Chapter 24: Boston Massacre
Chapter 25: Boston Tea Party
Chapter 26: Continental Congress
Chapter 27: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Chapter 28: Lexington and Concord
Chapter 29: Bunker Hill
Chapter 30: Fort Ticonderoga
Chapter 31: Common Sense
Chapter 32: Declaration of Rights
Chapter 33: Declaration of Independence
Chapter 34: Crossing the Delaware
Chapter 35: Saratoga
Chapter 36: French Alliance
Chapter 37: Valley Forge
Chapter 38: Guilford Courthouse
Chapter 39: Yorktown
Chapter 40: Newburgh Conspiracy
Chapter 41: Peace Treaty of 1783
Chapter 42: Washington Surrenders His Commission
Chapter 43: Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Chapter 44: Annapolis Convention
Chapter 45: Shays' Rebellion
Chapter 46: Constitutional Convention
Chapter 47: Ratifying Conventions
Chapter 48: The Federalist
Chapter 49: Inauguration of George Washington
Chapter 50: Bill of Rights
Bibliography
Index