A New World -- Before Columbus -- The European background -- English colonization -- Settlement -- Virginia -- Maryland -- The New England colonies -- The Pilgrims -- The Puritans -- Dissension -- The middle colonies -- The Carolinas and Georgia -- Imperial organization -- The growth of provincial power -- Political growth -- Population growth -- Economic growth -- Land, labour, and independence -- Cultural and religious development -- Literature, newspapers, and periodicals -- Visual and performing arts -- Education -- From a city on a hill to the great awakening -- Colonial America, England, and the wider world -- Conflict for territory -- The great war for the empire -- Aftermath -- The Native American response -- British relations with American Indians -- European-Indian alliances -- American Indian leaders -- From Columbus to colonial America.