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The names "Jamestown" and "Plymouth" have become synonymous for most students of American history with "founding," and "birth"—both, of the American nation, and of freedom and democracy themselves. In this book, author Ted Lamont asks us to reconsider our country's formative years, and explore the stories, lives, achievements, and failures of America's earliest founding fathers: those who paved the way for the Colonial Era, and the American Revolution. They were explorers, investors, passionate religious leaders, and determined developers who struggled for generations to successfully plant the English flag in this strange new soil. Lamont deftly details the ways in which the stories and struggles of figures like Sir Walter Raleigh, Bartholomew Gosnold, Richard Hakluyt, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and Captain John Smith were not just related, but connected in ways that help us better understand the colonies and culture born of their efforts. The infancy of America— from Roanoke's founding in 1585 through the firm establishment of Jamestown and Plymouth in 1625—is where we first see planted the seeds of the rest of America's colonial, economic, political, and cultural history, that was the immensely difficult, and often overlooked, first step toward the New World we are still working to perfect.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1Treasure, Cod, and the Northwest Passage
Chapter 2The Elizabethan Age
Chapter 3Probing the Forbidden Shores
Chapter 4The English Are Coming
Chapter 5Soldier of Fortune
Chapter 6The First English Colony
Chapter 7The King and His Princess
Chapter 8Exploring the Chesapeake
Chapter 9Captain Newport Returns
Chapter 10Troubles for the President
Chapter 11Under New Management
Chapter 12Northern Virginia becomes New England
Chapter 13Indian Partners
Chapter 14The Leiden Separatists
Chapter 15The Plymouth Plantation
Chapter 16 Indian Summer
Chapter 17Emerging Conflicts
Chapter 18John Winthrop and the Puritans
Chapter 19King Philip's War
Chapter 20Virginia and Massachusetts
