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CONTENTS
PART 1 - THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA, TO 1660
CHAPTER
PAGE
1
14
.
1. What THE ENGLISH FOUND
Geographical influences; the natives; Spain in America ; France
and her failure.
II. VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND TO 1660
III. New ENGLAND AND THE PILGRIMS
IV. MASSACHUSETTS BAY
V. OTHER NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
Rhode Island (religious freedom); Connecticut (political democ-
racy); the New England Confederation.
47
62
98
PART II – COLONIAL AMERICA (1660-1763)
107
VI. THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE SELF-GOVERNMENT (1660–1690)
VII. “COLONIAL AMERICANS” FROM 1690 to 1763
VIII. COLONIAL LIFE
133
145
PART III – SEPARATION FROM ENGLAND (1763–1783)
168
IX. THE CAUSES
How the French Wars prepared the way; causes inherent in Ameri-
can development; relation of the struggle to English history; the
social uprising in America.
X. TEN YEARS OF AGITATION, 1765-1774
XI. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
From colonies to commonwealths; the new state constitutions;
Congress and the war; the peace treaty.
189
206
PART IV — THE MAKING OF THE SECOND “WEST”
237
XII. THE SOUTHWEST: SELF-DEVELOPED
XIII. THE NORTHWEST: A National DOMAIN
249
PART V - THE CONSTITUTION AND THE FEDERALISTS
260
XIV. THE “LEAGUE OF FRIENDSHIP"
The“Critical Period," 1783-1788; the evils, and their source
in the Articles of Confederation.
272
300
XV. THE FEDERAL CONVENTION AND THE CONSTITUTION
XVI. FEDERALIST ORGANIZATION
Making the Constitution move; Hamilton's financial policy.
XVII. DECLINE OF THE FEDERALISTS
Rise of political parties; foreign relations, 1795-1800 ;
domestic troubles, 1797-1800 (Alien and Sedition laws and
Kentucky Resolutions); expiring Federalism.
316
393
PART VII — A NEW AMERICANISM, 1815-1830
XXII. A THIRD “West”.
Immigration; new lands and the steamboat; internal im-
provements; rapid growth.
XXIIL FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1815-1830
XXIV. NATIONALISM AND REACTION
Protective tariffs; extension of Federal power by the courts;
the Missouri Compromise; rise of new political parties.
405
411
421
PART VIII - A NEW DEMOCRACY, 1830–1850
XXV. THE AMERICA OF 1830
The three sections (the West and optimistic democracy); the
awakening of labor, 1825-1837; intellectual and social
progress.
XXVI. THE “REVOLUTION OF 1828”.
XXVII. THE "Reign" OF ANDREW JACKSON, 1829-1841
453
462
XXVIII. SLAVERY TO 1844
XXIX. SLAVERY AND EXPANSION
XXX. THE STRUGGLE TO CONTROL THE NEW TERRITORY
XXXI. THE BREAKDOWN OF COMPROMISE
XXXII. ON THE EVE OF THE FINAL STRUGGLE
America in 1860; the political campaign of 1860.
503
. 516
526
534
PART X — NATIONALISM VICTORIOUS, 1860–1876
XXXIII. THE Call to ARMS
XXXIV. THE CIVIL WAR
Campaigns; finances; slavery abolished; European relations.
XXXV. RECONSTRUCTION
XXXVI. THE CLOSE OF AN ERA
555
567
578
591
603
610
XXXVII. NATIONAL GROWTH
XXXVIII. THE POLITICAL STORY, 1876-1896
Civil service and the tariff.
XXXIX. ANOTHER PHASE OF THE POLITICAL STORY
Greenbacks and free silver.
XL. AMERICA A WORLD POWER
The war with Spain and the aftermath.
XLI. THE PEOPLE vs. PRIVILEGE
Railroads (the Grangers); “big business"; public service
corporations.
XLII. FORWARD-LOOKING MOVEMENTS
The labor movement; the farmer movement; socialists and
single taxers; the "progressive” movement in politics;
Woodrow Wilson's first administration.
625
646
PART XII -- THE WORLD WAR
684
703
XLIII. How THE WAR CAME
The heaped materials; the Balkan fuse; and the hand to
light the fuse.
XLIV. AMERICA AND THE WAR
XLV. THE PEACE CONGRESS AND THE PROPOSED WORLD LEAGUE
XLVI. THE NEW AGE .
731
748
APPENDIX: THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION
INDEX
15 134
ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
1. George Washington
Frontispiece
8
23
2. Lines of equal temperature in America and Europe.
2.
3. An Algonkin village (from Beverly's Virginia, 1701)
5
4. Columbus at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella (Brozik)
5. Champlain's fight with the Iroquois (from Champlain's Les Voyages) 10
6. French posts and Indian portages. Colored .
facing 10
7. Queen Elizabeth knighting Francis Drake (from Gilbert's drawing) 15
8. Facsimile of the title page of Hakluyt’s Voyages
18
9. Virginia in 1606-1608
10. Facsimile of the London Company's Proclamation of the Virginia Lottery, 1615
25
11. Captain John Smith (from Smith's Generall Historie)
28
12. The two possible Virginias of 1609 (the “west and northwest" clause) 29
13. Facsimile of the first page of King James' Counterblaste to Tobacco
35
14. Facsimile of Baltimore's instructions to the first Maryland governor
regarding Protestants .
45
15. Virginia and New England in 1620
48
16. Facsimile of the Mayflower Compact, as given in the Bradford manu-
script
53
17. Pilgrims going to meeting (Boughton)
56
18. Governor Edward Winslow (from the portrait in Pilgrim Hall)
60
19. “Marks” of Indian chieftains to a covenant with Massachusetts in 1644
(Massachusetts State Archives)
70
20. The Cradock House at Medford
71
21. Kettle (said to be first iron casting in America; Lynn Library).
72
22. John Cotton (Drake's History and Antiquities of Boston)
79
23. Colonial fireplace and utensils
84
24: Facsimile from the “Body of Liberties"
85
25. New England in 1640
99
26. Old grist mill (1645) at New London, Connecticut
103
27. English America, 1660-1690. Colored
facing 107
28. Pine Tree Shilling (Massachusetts Historical Society Collections). 113
29. Boston's summons to Andros (Massachusetts Archives)
117
30. William Penn at twenty-two (Lely)
129
31. The Appalachian “Fall Line”
32. A page from the earliest known edition of the New England Primer 154
xi
216
33. A page from the Paisley edition of same (“evening prayer”)
155
34. Advertisement for a runaway white “servant" (Boston News Letter,
Sept. 18, 1755).
158
35. The Baltic (American-built English schooner, 1765. Water color in
Essex Institute).
160
36. An American “deep-sea-going” ship
161
37. Massachusetts paper money of 1690
162
38. Mount Vernon (from a photograph)
164
39. Lexington Green (from a photograph)
165
40. Boone's Fort .
166
41. Colonial cartoon - reception of a bishop in New England
177
42. Handbill of New York Sons of Liberty — “We Dare"
191
43. Facsimile of Pennsylvania Journal 8 announcement of suspension due to
Stamp Act .
192
44. Paul Revere's engraving of the landing of British regiments
194
45. The Concord Minute Man (French)
207
46. The Concord Fight (Simmons in Boston State House)
208
47. The Washington Elm at Cambridge (photo) .
209
48. Facsimile of the first of Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence
49. A continental bill (Massachusetts Historical Society)
227
50. Boundaries proposed by France in 1782. Colored
facing 233
51. Crossed swords, American and English (Massachusetts Historical Society) 235
52. The United States in 1783; nominal and actual territory. Colored facing 237
53. Western settlement, 1769-1784
239
54. A “Boone tree"
242
55. Daniel Boone at eighty-five (the Harding portrait)
243
56. The United States in 1783. State claims and cessions. Colored facing 251
57. Manasseh Cutler
256
58. An old Ohio mill
257
59. Frontier lines, 1774, 1790, and 1820. Colored
facing 258
60. George Washington (Stuart)
275
61. Benjamin Franklin (Duplessis)
278
62. “Eighth Federal pillar reared” (Boston Chronicle, June 12, 1788)
297
63. John Adams (Stuart)
302
64. Harvard in 1770 (Paul Revere's engraving)
315
65. Alexander Hamilton (Trumbull)
335
66. Physical map of the United States .
340
67. California redwoods
341
68. Sectional elevation of the United States (after Draper)
342
69. Movement of centers of population and of manufactures
343
70. An early cotton gin
345
71. Farm tools in 1800
346
72. Modern plowing
347
73. A colonial spinning wheel
352