History of the American People

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Allyn and Bacon, 1922 - 811 pages

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Contents

Queen Elizabeth knighting Drake
9
Jamestown in 1622
11
Proclamation of the Virginia Lottery of 1615
13
Facsimile of first page of King James Counterblaste to Tobacco 15 Charles I
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11
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Facsimile of Baltimores Instructions regarding Protestants
17
Sixteenthcentury English map of the New World
18
The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor
19
a facsimile from Bradfords Plimouth
20
Edward Winslow at the age of
21
Edward Winslow at fiftyseven
22
John Winthrop
23
A kettle said to be the first iron casting made in America
24
Virginia in 16061608
25
Settlement in Virginia in 1624
36
VI
44
VII
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75
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X
78
John Cotton
80
XI
87
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN NEW ENGLAND
93
NUMBER PAGE 31 Statue of Roger Williams at Providence
99
Sir Harry Vane
101
An old grist mill 1645 in Connecticut
106
Virginia and New England in 1620
107
THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION
111
Signatures of the Commissioners of the New England Confed eration in 1653
112
English America 16601690
114
An English schooner of colonial times
117
A Pinetree shilling
120
Bostons summons to Andros
125
Sir William Berkeley
128
Ruins of the Jamestown church
130
The Half Moon of Henry Hudson
135
William Penn at twentytwo
136
Penns treaty with the Indians
138
The watercourse fall line
143
COLONIAL AMERICANS 16901763
144
European possessions in America at different dates Full page
146
Facsimile of a petition of Simon Bradstreets heirs for back pay
152
Lexington Green
155
COLONIAL LIFE
156
The Witch House in Salem
161
Franklins printing press
164
Facsimile from the New England Primer
165
Facsimile of Now I lay me down to sleep from the New England Primer
166
Advertisement for a runaway White servant in 1755
169
A colonial footstove
172
Massachusetts paper money of 1690
173
Mount Vernon
174
The OldShip Meeting House at Hingham
175
Fort Steuben
176
SEPARATION FROM ENGLAND
178
XX
185
reception of a bishop in New England
186
CHAPTER PAGE XXI TEN YEARS OF AGITATION
196
Handbill of the New York Sons of Liberty We Dare
198
Facsimile of the Pennsylvania Journal announcing its discon tinuance on account of the Stamp Act
199
Paul Reveres engraving of the landing of British troops
203
Carpenters Hall Philadelphia
209
FROM COLONIES TO COMMONWEALTHS
211
The Concord Minute Man
212
The Washington Elm at Cambridge
213
The Concord Fight
216
Facsimile of the opening of Jeffersons draft of the Declaration of Independence
220
THE NEW STATE CONSTITUTIONS
223
The Bunker Hill Flag
225
The first Flag of the United Colonies
226
CONGRESS AND THE WAR
230
facing 115
232
The United States in 1783 nominal and actual
241
FEDERALIST ORGANIZATION 17891801
313
HAMILTONS FINANCE
322
NORTH AND SOUTH
327
RISE OF POLITICAL PARTIES
330
FOREIGN RELATIONS
335
DOMESTIC TROUBLES 17971800
343
EXPIRING FEDERALISM
348
JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANISM 18001830
354
THE REVOLUTION OF 1800
369
The National Road
381
TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
385
WAR OF 1812
395
NEW ENGLAND AND THE UNION
402
A NEW AMERICANISM 18151830
409
Distribution of population in 1820
418
XLVI
429
House vote on the tariff of 1816
432
Presidential election of 1825 in the House of Representatives
439
A NEW DEMOCRACY 18301850
442
An AntiFugitiveSlaveLaw handbill of 1851
447
Distribution of industrial plants in 1833
451
INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS
466
THE REVOLUTION OF 1828
476
LI
485
Presidential election of 1828
486
SLAVERY
504
Territorial growth 18001853
519
WAR WITH MEXICO
520
LV
527
Vote on the KansasNebraska bill
531
Lincoln from the statue by French
537
Railway extension 18301860
540
LVI
541
Distribution of population in 1860
545
Presidential election of 1860
550
NATIONALISM VICTORIOUS 18601876
551
THE CIVIL
558
President Lincoln and General McClellan at Antietam
560
Union and Confederacy after Gettysburg
564
Winter quarters of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1862
579
A BUSINESS AGE 18761914
600
Future Americans
604
after
604
LXII
612
740
617
A modern steel plant at Pittsburgh
623
LXIII
624
William Jennings Bryan
629
LXIV
631
A sixteeninch gun for the Panama Canal
643
LXV
646
The biggest electric locomotive
654
LXVI
667
The Arrow Rock Dam in Idaho
696
Building the Pacific Highway through Oregon
705
HOW THE WAR CAME
708
LXVIII
718
facing
728
General John J Pershing
734
WAR TIMES AWAY FROM THE TRENCHES
745
The Big Four
751
Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes
761
APPENDIX
1
A SELECT LIBRARY ON AMERICAN HISTORY
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718
25
Explorations of Lewis and Clark Full page Colored
26
Standish House at Duxbury 85
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Facsimile from the Body of Liberties 90
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66
30
Marks of Indian chieftains of a covenant with Massa chusetts
31
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