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of Adelphi College, two years his associate in American
History, for his scholarly and invaluable services. The proof
of the entire work has profited by the critical readings of
P. P. Claxton, Professor of the Science and Art of Teaching in
the University of Tennessee; F. D. Losey, Associate Professor
of English in Syracuse University; W. H. Scott, Principal of
the Porter Grammar School, Syracuse, New York; General
H. V. Boynton, of Washington, D. C.; Franklin L. Riley,
Professor of History in the University of Mississippi; John
Spencer Bassett, Professor of History in Trinity College,
Durham, North Carolina; Maurice Francis Egan, Professor
of English Language and Literature and Dean of the Faculty
of Philosophy, of the Catholic University of America, Wash-
ington, D. C.; William MacDonald, Professor of History in
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; F. W. Shep-
hardson, Associate Professor of American History in the Uni-
versity of Chicago; and A. R. Sabin, Principal of the Audubon
School, Chicago.
WILLIAM H. MACE,
Syracuse University,
Europe Needs a New Route to India
Columbus Seeks a New Route and Finds a New World
WHERE EUROPE PLANTED INSTITUTIONS
The Foundation of Claims to Territory
The Indians
The Period of Colonization (1607-1760)
THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA.
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The Great Puritan Migration Founds the Bay Colony (1630-1640) 57
NEW YORK (1609-1700).
Holland Plants a Colony in America (1613)
The People of New Netherland Want Self-Government
(1630-1664)
Progress Toward Self-Government (1664–1691)
THE OTHER MIDDLE COLONIES
Delaware (1638)
New Jersey (1664) .
Pennsylvania Becomes a Home for the Persecuted (1681)
COLONIAL LIFE (1700–1750)
The People
Home Life and Pastimes
Schools, Books, and Newspapers
Religious Belief and Customs
Industry and Travel. .
THE STRUGGLE For North AMERICA
The Growth of French Power
Preparatory Struggles (1689–1748)
The Final Struggle (1754-1763)
The Results of the War.
The Period of the Revolution (1760-1789)
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SEPARATION FROM ENGLAND AND UNION AMONG the Colonies (1760-1789) 136
General Causes of the Conflict
THE STRUGGLe for the RigHTS OF ENGLISHMEN (1760-1776)
The Question of Taxation (1765-1774) .
Parliament Punishes the Colonies (1774)
THE STRUGGLE for the RIGHTS OF MAN (1776-1783)
The Campaigns for the Possession of the Middle States (1776-1778) 165
The Fighting Begins (1775) . .
The Movement for Independence (1775-1776)
Winning Our First Western Boundary (1778-1779)
Irregular Warfare on Land and Sea (1778-1779)
Overrunning the Far South (1778-1780)
Winning Back the South (1780–1781) .
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THE STRUGGLE for a PermanenT UNION (1775-1789)
The Country Tries State Sovereignty (1781-1785)
Working for a Stronger Government (1785-1787).
The Constitutional Convention (1787).
The People Endorse the Constitution (1787-1788)
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The Period of National Growth (1789-1860)
THE RULE OF THE FEDERALIST PARTY (1789-1800)
Our Country when Washington Became President (1789)
Origin of Political Parties (1789-1794). ..
Beginnings of Our Foreign Policy (1793-1796)
The Decline of the Federalists (1796-1800)
THE RULE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY (1801-1824)
Jefferson's New Policy (1800-1806).
A Struggle for Commercial Freedom (1801-1812)
The Second War for Independence (1812-1815)
Immediate Results of the War
A NEW ERA (1815-1850)
The Signs of a New National Life (1815-1830)
The Beginnings of a National Literature
Foreign Relations
Old Parties with New Names (1824-1840)
Industrial and Social Development
The Period of Sectional Dispute and War (1830-1865)
THE GROWTH OF SECTIONAL FEELING (1830-1861)
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Shall the New Territory be Slave or Free? (1846-1854)
Drifting Rapidly Apart (1854-1860)
Secession and Conciliation (1861)
The Struggle for More Slave Territory (1835-1848): War with
Mexico (1840-1848)
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THE WAR FOR THE UNION (1861-1865)
The Beginnings of the War (1861)
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Foreign Nations and the Blockade of Southern Ports (1861-1863) 344
Campaigns for the Western Border States and the Mississippi
(1861-1862) ..
Blow and Counter Blow in the East (1862-1863)
Grant Opens the Mississippi and Relieves Chattanooga
1862-1863) . .
The Effect of the War on Politics (1861-1864)
The Final Campaigns (1864-1865)
The Period of Consolidation and Expansion (1865-1915)
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SECeded States (1865-1872)
Lincoln and Johnson's Ideas of Reconstruction
The Congressional Plan of Reconstruction
NEW POLITICAL PROBLEMS (1872-1900)
Foreign Relations (1865-1872)
Old Parties Divide and New Ones Rise (1872-1896)
A NEW INDUSTRIAL ERA (1870-1904)
The New Northwest (1870-1890)
The New South (1872-1904)
New Inventions and Industrial Problems (1860-1904)
Growth in the Means of Education (1860-1904)
THE BEGINNINGS OF EXPANSION (1898-1915)
The War With Spain (1898)
Recent Events (1899-1915).
THE APPENDIX
I. STUDY QUESTIONS AND COLLATERAL READING
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XI. SOME STAtistics of the United States AND TERRITORIES
Representation in Congress, School Statistics, etc.
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