INTRODUCTION
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| Spirit of the Age | 1 |
| Theories of the Earth and Geographical Knowledge | 3 |
| Early Life of Columbus | 7 |
| Columbus and the Sovereigns | 9 |
| The Voyage | 11 |
| The New World | 15 |
| Later Career of Columbus | 19 |
| John Cabot | 23 |
| The Naming of America | 25 |
| Other Discoverers and Discoveries | 26 |
| Indian Religion | 28 |
| Home Life | 29 |
| Indian Occupations | 32 |
| Civilization | 35 |
| Nations and Tribes | 38 |
| De Soto | 41 |
| Florida | 42 |
| Wandering in the Wilderness | 44 |
| The Indian Queen | 47 |
| The Batde of Mavila | 49 |
| Discovery of the Great River | 51 |
| Other Explorations | 54 |
| Virginias | 60 |
| Notes Added by Transcriber | 235 |
| Maryland | 75 |
| North Carolina | 83 |
| South Carolina | 88 |
| Georgia | 93 |
| The Pilgrim Fathers | 99 |
| Massachusetts Bay | 108 |
| Connecticut | 111 |
| Rhode Island and Providence Plantations | 115 |
| New Hampshire | 117 |
| The New England Confederation (1643-l684) | 120 |
| King Philip's War | 121 |
| Edmund Andros | 128 |
| Puritan Laws and Character | 127 |
| New Amsterdam | 133 |
| NewYork | 138 |
| New Jersey | 146 |
| Delaware | 149 |
| Pennsylvania | 151 |
| French Explorers | 160 |
| King William's War | 162 |
| Queen Anne's War | 165 |
| King George's War | 168 |
| A View of the Belligerents | 174 |
| Duquesne and Acadia | 178 |
| William Pitt | 186 |
| Fall of Quebec | 188 |
| Conspiracy of Pontiac | 194 |
| Population and Social Rank | 198 |
| Occupations and Customs | 201 |
| Religion Education Medicine | 206 |
| Means of Travel; Mails; Newspapers | 208 |
| Colonial Government | 210 |
| The Navigation Acts | 216 |
| Otis and Henry | 222 |
| The Stamp Act and Other Acts | 224 |
| King George III | 231 |
| The Continental Congress; Lexington | 235 |
| Notes Added by Transcriber | 235 |
| Second Continental Congress | 243 |
| Bunker Hill | 244 |
| Washington and the Army | 247 |
| The Great Declaration | 250 |
| Fort Moultrie and Long Island | 254 |
| New Jersey and Trenton | 258 |
| Notes Added By Transcriber | 235 |
| Struggle for the Hudson Valley | 268 |
| Foreign Aid | 275 |
| From Morristown to Germantown | 280 |
| Valley Forge and Monmouth | 283 |
| Border War in the South and West | 200 |
| The Wyoming Valley and Other Valleys | 292 |
| War on the Sea | 294 |
| The Treason of Arnold | 296 |
| War in the South | 301 |
| Yorktown | 309 |
| Observations | 313 |
| The "Articles" and the Land Cessions | 319 |
| Drifting toward Anarchy | 321 |
| The Annapolis Convention | 324 |
| The Men that made it | 327 |
| Business of the Convention | 328 |
| The Constitution before the People | 334 |
| The First President | 337 |
| The First Congress | 342 |
| Rise of Political Parties | 348 |
| America and France | 351 |
| America and England; the Jay Treaty | 354 |
| Relations with France | 360 |
| Fall of the Federal Party | 367 |
| A View of the People | 376 |
| A View of the Leaders | 380 |
| Louisiana | 388 |
| Burr and Hamilton | 388 |
| Impressment of Seamen | 394 |
| French Decrees and English Orders in Council | 398 |
| The Embargo | 400 |
| Character of Jefferson | 403 |
| Drifting toward War | 409 |
| Hostflities on the Great Lakes | 415 |
| Victories on the Sea | 420 |
| Further Operations on the Lakes | 426 |
| The Washington Canipaign | 434 |
| War in the South | 438 |
| National Finances | 443 |
| Observations | 445 |
| Recuperating | 452 |
| The Missouri Compromise | 456 |
| Monroe's Second Term | 462 |
| John Quincy Adams | 469 |
| Means of Travel and Invention | 472 |
| American Life in 1830 | 478 |
| The People's President | 480 |
| The Civil Service | 484 |
| Jackson and Calhoun | 485 |
| Nullification in South Carolina | 487 |
| The Reelection and the Bank | 492 |
| Foreign Relations and Indian Wars | 496 |
| Character of Jackson | 498 |
| Martin Van Buren | 501 |
| The Panic and the Independent Treasury | 503 |
| The Harrison Campaign | 505 |
| Harrison's Brief Tenure | 513 |
| Tyler and the Whigs | 514 |
| The Story of Texas | 516 |
| Presidential Election of 1844 | 518 |
| Oregon and California | 525 |
| Zachary Taylor in Mexico | 527 |
| The Conquest of California | 529 |
| The Great March upon Mexico | 530 |
| Results of the War | 533 |
| Zachary Taylor | 538 |
| Eighteen Hundred and Fifty | 540 |
| The Fugitive Slave Law in Operation | 548 |
| The Underground Railroad | 553 |
| Slave Life in the South | 556 |
| The Presidential Election of 1852 | 563 |
| Death of Clay and Webster | 566 |
| Fall of the Whig Party | 569 |
| The Kansas-Nebraska Bill | 571 |
| Founding of tbe Republican Party | 578 |
| Presidential Election of 1856 | 582 |
| The Struggle for Kansas | 586 |
| Dred Scott Decision | 595 |
| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | 598 |
| John Brown and Harpers Ferry | 604 |
| The Presidenital Election of 1860 | 608 |
| Inventions and Discoveries | 616 |
| Education and Literature | 619 |
| Population and Immigration | 621 |
| Causes and Preliminaries | 624 |
| Secession | 628 |
| The Winter in Washington | 633 |
| The New Administration | 639 |
| Fort Sumter | 641 |
| A View of the Belligerents | 647 |
| Events of April | 649 |
| Opening of Hostilities in Virginia and Missouri | 653 |
| The Extra Session of Congress | 659 |
| The Trent Affair | 661 |
| The First Naval Expeditions | 670 |
| The Duel of the Ironclads | 673 |
| Operations in the Mississippi Valley | 676 |
| Farragut and New Orieans | 688 |
| The Peninsular Campaign | 691 |
| The Seven Days' Fight before Richmond | 697 |
| The Confederate Government | 704 |
| Pope's Campaign in Virginia | 706 |
| Antietam | 708 |
| Emancipation | 712 |
| Buell, Bragg, and Rosecrans | 716 |
| Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville | 721 |
| Democratic Opposition--Vallandigham | 725 |
| Doings of Congress | 730 |
| Vicksburg | 732 |
| Gettysburg | 739 |
| Chickamauga and Chattanooga | 748 |
| Grant in the Wilderness | 751 |
| The Atlanta Campaign--Mobile | 758 |
| The Presidential Election | 761 |
| The Final Work of the Armies | 765 |
| Death and Character of Lincoln | 773 |
| Foreign Relations--The Alabama | 776 |
| Observations on the War | 780 |
| The New Problem | 786 |
| The New President and the Old Plan | 790 |
| Thirteenth Amendment | 793 |
| Congressional Reconstruction | 795 |
| The Carpetbaggers--The Race Question | 799 |
| Impeachment of President Johnson | 805 |
| The Great Trial | 808 |
| The Election of 1868 | 813 |
| Opening of a New Era | 816 |
| The Treaty of Washington | 819 |
| The Liberal Republican Movement | 822 |
| Horace Greeley | 824 |
| Executive Demoralization | 826 |
| Financial Legislation | 829 |
| Political Reaction | 832 |
| The Centennial | 834 |
| The Disputed Presidential Election | 835 |
| New Conditions | 843 |
| The Fisheries Dispute | 847 |
| The Garfield Trigedy | 849 |
| Civil Service Reform | 854 |
| A Political Revolution | 857 |
| New Conditions | 861 |
| The Tariff Issue | 865 |
| Important Acts of 1890 | 868 |
| The Election of 1892 | 873 |
| Hawaii, Silver, and the Wilson Tariff | 878 |
| The World's Columbian Exposition | 881 |
| Two Unusual Occurrences | 883 |
| The Silver Issue | 885 |
| The War with Spain | 889 |
| Our Island Possessions | 896 |
| Cuba | 900 |
| The Isthmian Canal | 906 |
| INDEX | 913 |
History of the United States
Updated September 29,2000
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