APPENDIX B

OUTLINES FOR TOPICAL REVIEWS

I. THE EUROPEAN BACKGROUND

1. The European background of Early America (1-7). 2. Religion in Europe in the Sixteenth Century (16). 3. The Rise of England in the Sixteenth Century (18-21). 4. Conditions in England at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century (24-30).

5. The Tyranny of Charles I (39, 43).

6. The European Background and the Border Wars (83). 7. The Background of the Immigration of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the Scotch-Irish (83-86).

8. The Seven Years War (95).

9. English Friends of America (116). 10. The French Revolution (197).

II. The Holy Alliance (258).

12. European Conditions and the Immigration of the Forties (314). 13. England and the Civil War (384, 385).

14. The Expansion of Great Britain, France and Germany (528

II. EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY

1. Geographical Exploration (7).

2. The Voyages of the Portuguese (9).

3. Columbus, Cabot and Vespucius (9-12).

4. The Norsemen (11).

5. Spanish Gold Hunters (12).

6. The First Explorations of the French (14-16). 7. Samuel Champlain and Henry Hudson (35-36). 8. Marquette and La Salle (80-81).

9. Daniel Boone (100).

10. The Lewis and Clark Expedition (245).

III. ENGLISH COLONIZATION

1. England's First Efforts at Colonization (21-23).

2. Motives for Colonization (29-30).

3. The First Permanent English Colony: Virginia (31-34).

IV. THE INDIANS

1. The Leading Indian Tribes (58).

2. Indian Civilization (59).

3. The Indians and the Land (60)

4. The Iroquois Alliance (82).

5. The Indians in the French and Indian War (94). 6. Pontiac's Conspiracy (100).

7. The Indians in the Revolution (148).

8. Indians in the Old Northwest (205).

9. The Removal of the Indians (277).

10. The Custer Massacre (440).

11. Indian Problems; The Dawes Bill (408-409).

V. CLAIMS OF DIFFERENT NATIONS AT

DIFFERENT TIMES

1. The New World Claimed by Spain (11).

2. The Claims of Portugal (11).

3. The Claims of England (10-11).

4. The Claims of France (14-15, 36).

5. The Claims of the Dutch (35-36, 40).

6. The Claims of the Swedes (57).

7. French Claims in the Mississippi Valley (91).

8. The Oregon Country Claimed by England and the United States (245).

9. A Part of Texas Claimed by Mexico and the United States (307).

VI. FRANCE AND AMERICA

1. French Fishermen (14).

2. Verrazano, Cartier and Ribault (14-15).
3. The Clash Between Spain and France (14-16).

4. The French in Canada (35, 80-83).

5. The French in the Mississippi Valley (90-94).

6. The French and English Colonial Systems Compared (90).

7. The French and Indian War (94-97)..

8. France Assists the Colonies (143).

9. The United States Neutral as between France and England

(198).

10. The X Y Z Affair (208).

II. The Louisiana Purchase (217-219).

12. The French in Mexico (430).

13. France and America in the Great War (577, 590).

VII. DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNMENT

1. Government in Europe in the Fifteenth Century (2).

2. The Political Institutions of England in the Seventeenth Century (24-25).

3. The Beginning of Representative Government in America (34). 4. Colonial Government (71-77).

5. Local Government in the Colonies (78).

6. The Independence of the Colonial Legislature (108-109). 7. Taxation without Representation (110-114).

8. Steps in the Formation of the Union:

(1) The New England Confederation (73).
(2) The Albany Congress (93).

(3) The Stamp Act Congress (112).
(4) Committees of Correspondence (118).
(5) The First Continental Congress (122).
(6) The Second Continental Congress (125).
(7) The Declaration of Independence (133-136).
(8) The Articles of Confederation (166-169).
(9) The Adoption of the Constitution (182-184).
9. State Constitutions and State Governments (164).
10. The Bill of Rights (165).

II. The Weakness of the Confederation (169).

12. The Work of the Fathers (176-182).

13. Breathing Life into the Constitution (186-189).

14. The Ordinance of 1787 (203-204).

15. Jeffersonian Democracy (213-217).

16. Frontier Life and Democracy (247-249).

17. The Growth of Nationality (250-253).

18. The End of Caucus Rule (262-263).

19. Jacksonian Democracy (268).
20. The Suffrage and the Negro (432).
21. The Note of True Democracy (475).
22. The Rule of the People (554-558).
23. Woman Suffrage (598).

1. Religion in Europe in the Fifteenth Century (3).

2. Protestants and Catholics (15).

3. The Puritans and the Independents (27-28).

4. Religious Persecution (39).

5. Separation of Church and State (41, 47). 6. Religious Toleration (47, 71).

7. Religion in the Colonies (69-72).

8. The Jesuit Missionaries (81).

9. Religion at the Beginning of the National Period (159-160). 10. Religion and the Slavery Question (323).

IX. SLAVERY

1. Serfs (2).

2. The Slave-Trade in the Sixteenth Century (19).

3. Slavery in Virginia (34).

4. Slavery in the Colonies (64).

5. Slavery in 1783 (154).

6. Slavery and the Ordinance of 1787 (204, 239).

7. The Slavery Question in Indiana and Illinois (239). 8. Slavery and the Cotton Gin (244).

9. The Missouri Compromise (254).

10. Slavery and the Panama Mission (267).

II. The Abolition Movement (295-298).

12. Texas and the Slavery Question (302). 13. The Wilmot Proviso (322).

14. Aspects of Slave Life (324-330). 15. The Extension of Slavery (331).

16. The Compromise of 1850 (332-336).

17. The Fugitive Slave Law (336-337).

18. The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise (339-341).

19. Kansas and Slavery (344-345, 351).

20. The Republican Party and Slavery (346-348).

21. The Dred Scott Decision (348-350).

22. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (352-355).

23. Slavery and the Election of Lincoln (370).

24. Emancipation (395-397).

25. The Thirteenth Amendment (423). 26. The Fourteenth Amendment (426). 27. The Fifteenth Amendment (432). 28. The Freedman (435).

X. AGRICULTURE

1. Agriculture in Europe in the Fifteenth Century (2). 2. Tobacco (33).

3. Conditions of Colonial Agriculture about 1700 (60). 4. The Land System in Colonial Times (62).

5. The Products of the Colonial Farm (63).

6. Agriculture at the End of the Colonial Period (103). 7. Agriculture in 1783 (155).

8. Improved Agricultural Implements (311-312).
9. The Heydey of American Agriculture (358).
10. Agriculture During the Civil War (412).
11. Agriculture Between 1865 and 1870 (441).
12. The Granger Movement (445).
13. The Rural Credits Bill (580).

XI. COMMERCE

(For Tariff and Trusts see separate headings)

1. Commerce in Europe in the Fifteenth Century (5). 2. Spain's Monopoly of Trade in the West Indies (19). 3. England a Commercial Nation (29).

The Navigation Laws (45).

5. The Fur Trade (59).

6. Colonial Commerce (64).

7. Trade with the West Indies (65).

8. Commerce at the End of the Colonial Period (105).

9. Commercial Conditions in 1783 (155).

10. Confusion in Matters of Trade Regulation (170).

II. Depredations upon Our Commerce by France and England (199, 220).

12. The Embargo and the Non-Intercourse Act (222).

13. Commercial Freedom (234).

14. Commercial Progress between 1820 and 1840 (289). 15. Trade with the Orient (321).

16. Commerce just before the Civil War (363).

17. Regulation of Interstate Commerce (484, 563, 600).

XII.

MANUFACTURING

(For the Tariff, see separate heading)

1. Manufacturing in Europe in the Fifteenth Century (4).
2. Manufacturing in England in Colonial Times (29-30).
3. Ship-building (66).

4. Colonial Manufactures (66-68).

5. England's Restriction Policy (66).

6. The Mercantile Theory (67).

7. Household Industry (68).

8. Manufacturing at the End of the Colonial Period (104).

9. Manufacturing Conditions in 1783 (156).

10. The Growth of Manufacturing after the War of 1812 (235).

II. The Industrial Revolution in America (289).

12. Cotton, Wool and Iron Manufacturing (290).

13. Manufacturing and the Growth of Cities (288, 360).

14. Industrial Progress During the Civil War (412-414).

15. Conditions Favorable to Manufacture (441).

16. Manufacturing and the New South (465).