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CHAPTER
CONTENTS
PART I THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA, TO 1660
I. 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.
PART II-COLONIAL AMERICA (1660-1763)
PAGE
1
14
47
62
98
VI. THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE SELF-GOVERNMENT (1660-1690)
VII. "COLONIAL AMERICANS" FROM 1690 TO 1763
107
133
VIII. COLONIAL LIFE
145
PART III - SEPARATION FROM ENGLAND (1763-1783)
IX. THE CAUSES
168
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 com
ommonwealths; the new state constitutions;
Congress and the war; the peace treaty.
PART IV THE MAKING OF THE SECOND "WEST"
-
XII. THE SOUTHWEST: Self-developed
XIII. THE NORTHWEST: A NATIONAL DOMAIN
237
249
PART V
THE CONSTITUTION AND THE FEDERALISTS
XIV. THE "LEAGUE OF FRIENDSHIP"
The "Critical Period," 1783-1788; the evils, and their source
in the Articles of Confederation.
XV.
XVI.
THE FEDERAL CONVENTION AND THE CONSTITUTION
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.
PART VI- JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANISM, 1800-1830
260
272
300
316
Louisiana Purchase; West Florida; Lewis and Clark
Expedition.
Immigration; new lands and the steamboat; internal im-
provements; rapid growth.
XXIII. FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1815-1830
405
XXIV.
NATIONALISM AND REACTION
411
Protective tariffs; extension of Federal power by the courts;
the Missouri Compromise; rise of new political parties.
PART VIII-A NEW DEMOCRACY, 1830-1850
XXV. THE AMERICA OF 1830
421
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
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.
PART X-NATIONALISM VICTORIOUS, 1860-1876
XXXIII. THE CALL TO ARMS
526
XXXIV. THE CIVIL WAR
534
Campaigns; finances; slavery abolished; European relations.
Railroads (the Grangers); "big business"; public service
corporations.
XLII. FORWARD-LOOKING MOVEMENTS
646
The labor movement; the farmer movement; socialists and single taxers; the "progressive" movement in politics; Woodrow Wilson's first administration.
PART XII- THE WORLD WAR
XLIII. HOW THE WAR CAME
684
The heaped materials; the Balkan fuse; and the hand to
light the fuse.
XLIV.
AMERICA AND THE WAR
703
XLV. THE PEACE CONGRESS AND THE PROPOSED WORLD LEAGUE
XLVI. THE NEW AGE.
ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
1. George Washington
2. Lines of equal temperature in America and Europe.
3. An Algonkin village (from Beverly's Virginia, 1701)
4. Columbus at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella (Brozik)
Frontispiece
2
5
8
5. Champlain's fight with the Iroquois (from Champlain's Les Voyages)
6. French posts and Indian portages. Colored
facing
7. Queen Elizabeth knighting Francis Drake (from Gilbert's drawing)
8. Facsimile of the title page of Hakluyt's Voyages
9. Virginia in 1606-1608
10. Facsimile of the London Company's Proclamation of the Virginia Lottery,
1615
11. Captain John Smith (from Smith's Generall Historie)
25
28
12. The two possible Virginias of 1609 (the “west and northwest" clause)
13. Facsimile of the first page of King James' Counterblaste to Tobacco
14. Facsimile of Baltimore's instructions to the first Maryland governor
regarding Protestants.
29
35
45
(Massachusetts State Archives)
22. John Cotton (Drake's History and Antiquities of Boston)
15. Virginia and New England in 1620
16. Facsimile of the Mayflower Compact, as given in the Bradford manu-
script
17. Pilgrims going to meeting (Boughton)
18. Governor Edward Winslow (from the portrait in Pilgrim Hall)
19. "Marks" of Indian chieftains to a covenant with Massachusetts in 1644
20. The Cradock House at Medford
21. Kettle (said to be first iron casting in America; Lynn Library).
23. Colonial fireplace and utensils
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84
85
99
103
27. English America, 1660-1690. Colored
28. Pine Tree Shilling (Massachusetts Historical Society Collections).
29. Boston's summons to Andros (Massachusetts Archives)
30. William Penn at twenty-two (Lely)
31. The Appalachian "Fall Line"
32. A page from the earliest known edition of the New England Primer
33. A page from the Paisley edition of same (“evening prayer")
34. Advertisement for a runaway white "servant" (Boston News Letter,
Sept. 18, 1755) .
35. The Baltic (American-built. English schooner, 1765. Water color in
Essex Institute).
36. An American "deep-sea-going" ship
37. Massachusetts paper money of 1690
38. Mount Vernon (from a photograph)
39. Lexington Green (from a photograph)
40. Boone's Fort
42. Handbill of New York Sons of Liberty - "We Dare"
43. Facsimile of Pennsylvania Journal's announcement of suspension due to
Stamp Act.
44. Paul Revere's engraving of the landing of British regiments
45. The Concord Minute Man (French)
46. The Concord Fight (Simmons in Boston State House)
47. The Washington Elm at Cambridge (photo)
48. Facsimile of the first of Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Inde-
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158
160
161
facing 233
235
239
242
243
51. Crossed swords, American and English (Massachusetts Historical Society)
52. The United States in 1783; nominal and actual territory. Colored facing
53. Western settlement, 1769–1784
55. Daniel Boone at eighty-five (the Harding portrait)
56. The United States in 1783. State claims and cessions. Colored facing 251
57. Manasseh Cutler
62. “Eighth Federal pillar reared” (Boston Chronicle, June 12, 1788)
68. Sectional elevation of the United States (after Draper)