A TOPICAL SYLLABUS
As a result of a wholesome reaction against the purely chronological treatment of history, there is now a marked tendency in the direction of a purely topical handling of the subject. The topical method, however, may also be pushed too far. Each successive stage of any topic can be understood only in relation to the forces of the time. For that reason, the best results are reached when there is a combination of the chronological and the topical methods. It is therefore suggested that the teacher first follow the text closely and then review the subject with the aid of this topical syllabus. The references are to pages.
I. Causes: religious ([1]-[2], [4]-[11], [302]), economic ([12]-[17], [302]-[303]), and political ([302]-[303]).
II. Colonial immigration.
1. Diversified character: English, Scotch-Irish, Irish, Jews, Germans and other peoples ([6]-[12]).
2. Assimilation to an American type; influence of the land system ([23]-[25], [411]).
3. Enforced immigration: indentured servitude, slavery, etc. ([13]-[17]).
III. Immigration between 1789-1890
1. Nationalities: English, Irish, Germans, and Scandinavians ([278], [302]-[303]).
2. Relations to American life ([432]-[433], [445]).
IV. Immigration and immigration questions after 1890.
1. Change in nationalities ([410]-[411]).
2. Changes in economic opportunities ([411]).
3. Problems of congestion and assimilation ([410]).
4. Relations to labor and illiteracy ([582]-[586]).
5. Oriental immigration ([583]).
6. The restriction of immigration ([583]-[585]).
Expansion of the United States
I. Territorial growth.
1. Territory of the United States in 1783 ([134] and [color map]).
2. Louisiana purchase, 1803 ([188]-[193] and [color map]).
3. Florida purchase, 1819 ([204]).
4. Annexation of Texas, 1845 ([278]-[281]).
5. Acquisition of Arizona, New Mexico, California, and other territory at close of Mexican War, 1848 ([282]-[283]).
6. The Gadsden purchase, 1853 ([283]).
7. Settlement of the Oregon boundary question, 1846 ([284]-[286]).
8. Purchase of Alaska from Russia, 1867 ([479]).
9. Acquisition of Tutuila in Samoan group, 1899 ([481]-[482]).
10. Annexation of Hawaii, 1898 ([484]).
11. Acquisition of Porto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam at close of Spanish War, 1898 ([493]-[494]).
12. Acquisition of Panama Canal strip, 1904 ([508]-[510]).
13. Purchase of Danish West Indies, 1917 ([593]).
14. Extension of protectorate over Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Nicaragua ([593]-[594]).
II. Development of colonial self-government.
1. Hawaii ([485]).
III. Sea power.
1. In American Revolution ([118]).
2. In the War of 1812 ([193]-[201]).
3. In the Civil War ([353]-[354]).
4. In the Spanish-American War ([492]).
5. In the Caribbean region ([512]-[519]).
6. In the Pacific ([447]-[448], [481]).
7. The rôle of the American navy ([515]).
The Westward Advance of the People
I. Beyond the Appalachians.
1. Government and land system ([217]-[231]).
3. The settlers ([221]-[223], [228]-[230]).
4. Relations with the East ([230]-[236]).
II. Beyond the Mississippi.
1. The lower valley ([271]-[273]).
2. The upper valley ([275]-[276]).
III. Prairies, plains, and desert.
1. Cattle ranges and cowboys ([276]-[278], [431]-[432]).
2. The free homesteads ([432]-[433]).
3. Irrigation ([434]-[436], [523]-[525]).
IV. The Far West.
1. Peculiarities of the West ([433]-[440]).
2. The railways ([425]-[431]).
3. Relations to the East and Europe ([443]-[447]).
4. American power in the Pacific ([447]-[449]).
The Wars of American History
II. Early colonial wars: King William's, Queen Anne's, and King George's ([59]).
III. French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), 1754-1763 ([59]-[61]).
IV. Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 ([99]-[135]).
V. The War of 1812, 1812-1815 ([193]-[201]).
VI. The Mexican War, 1845-1848 ([276]-[284]).
VII. The Civil War, 1861-1865 ([344]-[375]).
VIII. The Spanish War, 1898 ([485]-[497]).
IX. The World War, 1914-1918 [American participation, 1917-1918] ([596]-[625]).
Government
I. Development of the American system of government.
1. Origin and growth of state government.
a. The trading corporation ([2]-[4]), religious congregation ([4]-[5]), and proprietary system ([5]-[6]).
b. Government of the colonies ([48]-[53]).
c. Formation of the first state constitutions ([108]-[110]).
d. The admission of new states (see [Index] under each state).
e. Influence of Jacksonian Democracy ([238]-[247]).
f. Growth of manhood suffrage ([238]-[244]).
g. Nullification and state sovereignty ([180]-[182], [251]-[257]).
h. The doctrine of secession ([345]-[346]).
i. Effects of the Civil War on position of states ([366], [369]-[375]).
j. Political reform—direct government—initiative, referendum, and recall ([540]-[544]).
2. Origin and growth of national government.
a. British imperial control over the colonies ([64]-[72]).
b. Attempts at intercolonial union—New England Confederation, Albany plan ([61]-[62]).
c. The Stamp Act Congress ([85]-[86]).
d. The Continental Congresses ([99]-[101]).
e. The Articles of Confederation ([110]-[111], [139]-[143]).
f. The formation of the federal Constitution ([143]-[160]).
g. Development of the federal Constitution.
(1) Amendments 1-11—rights of persons and states ([163]).
(2) Twelfth amendment—election of President ([184], [note]).
(3) Amendments 13-15—Civil War settlement ([358], [366], [369], [370], [374], [375]).
(4) Sixteenth amendment—income tax ([528]-[529]).
(5) Seventeenth amendment—election of Senators ([541]-[542]).
(6) Eighteenth amendment—prohibition ([591]-[592]).
(7) Nineteenth amendment—woman suffrage ([563]-[568]).
3. Development of the suffrage.
a. Colonial restrictions ([51]-[52]).
b. Provisions of the first state constitutions ([110], [238]-[240]).
c. Position under federal Constitution of 1787([149]).
d. Extension of manhood suffrage ([241]-[244]).
e. Extension and limitation of negro suffrage ([373]-[375], [382]-[387]).
f. Woman suffrage ([560]-[568]).
II. Relation of government to economic and social welfare.
1. Debt and currency.
a. Colonial paper money ([80]).
b. Revolutionary currency and debt ([125]-[127]).
c. Disorders under Articles of Confederation ([140]-[141]).
d. Powers of Congress under the Constitution to coin money (see [Constitution] in the [Appendix]).
e. First United States bank notes ([167]).
f. Second United States bank notes ([257]).
g. State bank notes ([258]).
h. Civil War greenbacks and specie payment ([352]-[353], [454]).
i. The Civil War debt ([252]).
j. Notes of National Banks under act of 1864 ([369]).
k. Demonetization of silver and silver legislation ([452]-[458]).
l. The gold standard ([472]).
m. The federal reserve notes ([589]).
n. Liberty bonds ([606]).
2. Banking systems.
a. The first United States bank ([167]).
b. The second United States bank—origin and destruction ([203], [257]-[259]).
c. United States treasury system ([263]).
d. State banks ([258]).
e. The national banking system of 1864 ([369]).
f. Services of banks ([407]-[409]).
g. Federal reserve system ([589]).
a. British colonial system ([69]-[72]).
b. Disorders under Articles of Confederation ([140]).
c. The first tariff under the Constitution ([150], [167]-[168]).
d. Development of the tariff, 1816-1832 ([252]-[254]).
f. Tariff and nullification ([254]-[256]).
g. Development to the Civil War—attitude of South and West ([264], [309]-[314], [357]).
h. Republicans and Civil War tariffs ([352], [367]).
i. Revival of the tariff controversy under Cleveland ([422]).
j. Tariff legislation after 1890—McKinley bill ([422]), Wilson bill ([459]), Dingley bill ([472]), Payne-Aldrich bill ([528]), Underwood bill ([588]).
4. Foreign and domestic commerce and transportation (see [Tariff], [Immigration], and [Foreign Relations]).
a. British imperial regulations ([69]-[72]).
b. Confusion under Articles of Confederation ([140]).
c. Provisions of federal Constitution ([150]).
d. Internal improvements—aid to roads, canals, etc. ([230]-[236]).
e. Aid to railways ([403]).
f. Service of railways ([402]).
g. Regulation of railways ([460]-[461], [547]-[548]).
h. Control of trusts and corporations ([461]-[462], [589]-[590]).
5. Land and natural resources.
a. British control over lands ([80]).
b. Early federal land measures ([219]-[221]).
c. The Homestead act ([368], [432]-[445]).
d. Irrigation and reclamation ([434]-[436], [523]-[525]).
e. Conservation of natural resources ([523]-[526]).
6. Legislation advancing human rights and general welfare (see [Suffrage]).
a. Abolition of slavery: civil and political rights of negroes ([357]-[358], [373]-[375]).
b. Extension of civil and political rights to women ([554]-[568]).
c. Legislation relative to labor conditions ([549]-[551], [579]-[581], [590]-[591]).
d. Control of public utilities ([547]-[549]).
e. Social reform and the war on poverty ([549]-[551]).
f. Taxation and equality of opportunity ([551]-[552]).
Political Parties and Political Issues
I. The Federalists versus the Anti-Federalists [Jeffersonian Republicans] from about 1790 to about 1816 ([168]-[208], [201]-[203]).
1. Federalist leaders: Hamilton, John Adams, John Marshall, Robert Morris.
2. Anti-Federalist leaders: Jefferson, Madison, Monroe.
3. Issues: funding the debt, assumption of state debts, first United States bank, taxation, tariff, strong central government versus states' rights, and the Alien and Sedition acts.
II. Era of "Good Feeling" from about 1816 to about 1824, a period of no organized party opposition ([248]).
III. The Democrats [former Jeffersonian Republicans] versus the Whigs [or National Republicans] from about 1832 to 1856 ([238]-[265], [276]-[290], [324]-[334]).
1. Democratic leaders: Jackson, Van Buren, Calhoun, Benton.
2. Whig leaders: Webster and Clay.
3. Issues: second United States bank, tariff, nullification, Texas, internal improvements, and disposition of Western lands.
IV. The Democrats versus the Republicans from about 1856 to the present time ([334]-[377], [388]-[389], [412]-[422], [451]-[475], [489]-[534], [588]-[620]).
1. Democratic leaders: Jefferson Davis, Tilden, Cleveland, Bryan, and Wilson.
2. Republican leaders: Lincoln, Blaine, McKinley, Roosevelt.
3. Issues: Civil War and reconstruction, currency, tariff, taxation, trusts, railways, foreign policies, imperialism, labor questions, and policies with regard to land and conservation.
V. Minor political parties.
1. Before the Civil War: Free Soil ([319]) and Labor Parties ([306]-[307]).
2. Since the Civil War: Greenback ([463]-[464]), Populist ([464]), Liberal Republican ([420]), Socialistic ([577]-[579]), Progressive ([531]-[534], [602]-[603]).
The Economic Development of the United States
I. The land and natural resources.
1. The colonial land system: freehold, plantation, and manor ([20]-[25]).
2. Development of the freehold in the West ([220]-[221], [228]-[230]).
3. The Homestead act and its results ([368], [432]-[433]).
4. The cattle range and cowboy ([431]-[432]).
5. Disappearance of free land ([443]-[445]).
6. Irrigation and reclamation ([434]-[436]).
7. Movement for the conservation of resources ([523]-[526]).
II. Industry.
1. The rise of local and domestic industries ([28]-[32]).
2. British restrictions on American enterprise ([67]-[69], [70]-[72]).
3. Protective tariffs (see above, [648]-[649]).
4. Development of industry previous to the Civil War ([295]-[307]).
5. Great progress of industry after the war ([401]-[406]).
6. Rise and growth of trusts and combinations ([406]-[412], [472]-[474]).
III. Commerce and transportation.
1. Extent of colonial trade and commerce ([32]-[35]).
2. British regulation ([69]-[70]).
3. Effects of the Revolution and the Constitution ([139]-[140], [154]).
4. Growth of American shipping ([195]-[196]).
5. Waterways and canals ([230]-[236]).
6. Rise and extension of the railway system ([298]-[300]).
7. Growth of American foreign trade ([445]-[449]).
IV. Rise of organized labor.
1. Early phases before the Civil War: local unions, city federations, and national unions in specific trades ([304]-[307]).
2. The National Trade Union, 1866-1872 ([574]-[575]).
3. The Knights of Labor ([575]-[576]).
4. The American Federation of Labor ([573]-[574]).
a. Policies of the Federation ([576]-[577]).
b. Relations to politics ([579]-[581]).
c. Contests with socialists and radicals ([577]-[579]).
d. Problems of immigration ([582]-[585]).
5. The relations of capital and labor.
a. The corporation and labor ([410], [570]-[571]).
b. Company unions and profit-sharing ([571]-[572]).
c. Welfare work ([573]).
d. Strikes ([465], [526], [580]-[581]).
I. Colonial period.
1. Indian relations ([57]-[59]).
2. French relations ([59]-[61]).
II. Period of conflict and independence.
1. Relations with Great Britain ([77]-[108], [116]-[125], [132]-[135]).
2. Establishment of connections with European powers ([128]).
3. The French alliance of 1778 ([128]-[130]).
4. Assistance of Holland and Spain ([130]).
III. Relations with Great Britain since 1783.
1. Commercial settlement in Jay treaty of 1794 ([177]-[178]).
2. Questions arising out of European wars [1793-1801] ([176]-[177], [180]).
3. Blockade and embargo problems ([193]-[199]).
5. Monroe Doctrine and Holy Alliance ([205]-[207]).
6. Maine boundary—Webster-Ashburton treaty ([265]).
7. Oregon boundary ([284]-[286]).
8. Attitude of Great Britain during Civil War ([354]-[355]).
9. Arbitration of Alabama claims ([480]-[481]).
10. The Samoan question ([481]-[482])
11. The Venezuelan question ([482]-[484]).
12. British policy during Spanish-American War ([496]-[497]).
13. Controversy over blockade, 1914-1917 ([598]-[600]).
14. The World War ([603]-[620]).
IV. Relations with France.
1. The colonial wars ([59]-[61]).
2. The French alliance of 1778 ([128]-[130]).
3. Controversies over the French Revolution ([128]-[130]).
4. Commercial questions arising out of the European wars ([176]-[177], [180], [193]-[199]).
5. Attitude of Napoleon III toward the Civil War ([354]-[355]).
6. The Mexican entanglement ([478]-[479]).
7. The World War ([596]-[620]).
V. Relations with Germany.
1. Negotiations with Frederick, king of Prussia ([128]).
2. The Samoan controversy ([481]-[482]).
3. Spanish-American War ([491]).
4. The Venezuelan controversy ([512]).
5. The World War ([596]-[620]).
VI. Relations with the Orient.
1. Early trading connections ([486]-[487]).
2. The opening of China ([447]).
3. The opening of Japan ([448]).
4. The Boxer rebellion and the "open door" policy ([499]-[502]).
5. Roosevelt and the close of the Russo-Japanese War ([511]).
6. The Oriental immigration question ([583]-[584]).
VII. The United States and Latin America.
1. Mexican relations.
a. Mexican independence and the Monroe Doctrine ([205]-[207]).
b. Mexico and French intervention—policy of the United States ([478]-[479]).
c. The overthrow of Diaz (1911) and recent questions ([594]-[596]).
2. Cuban relations.
a. Slavery and the "Ostend Manifesto" ([485]-[486]).
b. The revolutionary period, 1867-1877 ([487]).
c. The revival of revolution ([487]-[491]).
d. American intervention and the Spanish War ([491]-[496]).
e. The Platt amendment and American protection ([518]-[519]).
3. Caribbean and other relations.
a. Acquisition of Porto Rico ([493]).
b. The acquisition of the Panama Canal strip ([508]-[510]).
c. Purchase of Danish West Indies ([593]).
d. Venezuelan controversies ([482]-[484], [512]).
e. Extension of protectorate over Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Nicaragua ([513]-[514], [592]-[594]).
INDEX
Abolition, [318], [331]
Adams, Abigail, [556]
Adams, John, [97], [128], [179]f.
Adams, J.Q., [247], [319]
Adams, Samuel, [90], [99], [108]
Adamson law, [590]
Aguinaldo, [497]
Alabama, admission, [227]
Alabama claims, [480]
Alamance, battle, [92]
Alamo, [280]
Alaska, purchase, [479]
Albany, plan of union, [62]
Algonquins, [57]
Alien law, [180]
Amendment, method of, [156]
Amendments to federal Constitution: first eleven, [163]
twelfth, [184] note
thirteenth, [358]
fourteenth, [366], [369], [387]
fifteenth, [358]
sixteenth, [528]
seventeenth, [542]
eighteenth, [591]
nineteenth, [563]f.
American expeditionary force, [610]
American Federation of Labor, [573], [608]
Americanization, [585]
Amnesty, for Confederates, [383]
Andros, [65]
Annapolis, convention, [144]
Antietam, [357]
Anti-Federalists, [169]
Anti-slavery. See [Abolition]
Anthony, Susan, [564]
Appomattox, [363]
Arbitration: international, [480] [514], [617]
labor disputes, [582]
Arizona, admission, [443]
Arkansas, admission, [272]
Arnold, Benedict, [114], [120]
Articles of Confederation, [110], [139]ff., [146]
Ashburton, treaty, [265]
Assembly, colonial, [49]f., [89]f.
Assumption, [164]f.
Atlanta, [361]
Australian ballot, [540]
Bacon, Nathaniel, [58]
Ballot: Australian, [540]
short, [544]
Baltimore, Lord, [6]
Bank: first U.S., [167]
second, [203], [257]ff.
Banking system: state, [300]
U.S. national, [369]
services of, [407]
See also [Federal reserve]
Barry, John, [118]
Bastille, [172]
Bell, John, [341]
Belleau Wood, [611]
Berlin decree, [194]
Blockade: by England and France, [193]f.
Southern ports, [353]
law and practice in 1914, [598]f.
Bond servants, [13]f.
Boone, Daniel, [28], [218]
Boston: massacre, [91]
evacuation, [116]
port bill, [94]
Bowdoin, Governor, [142]
Boxer rebellion, [499]
Brandywine, [129]
Breckinridge, J.C., [340]
Bright, John, [355]
Brown, John, [338]
Brown University, [45]
Bryan, W.J., [468]f., [495], [502], [503], [527]
Buchanan, James, [335], [368]
Budget system, [529]
Bull Run, [350]
Bunker Hill, [102]
Burgoyne, General, [116], [118], [130]
Burke, Edmund, [87], [96]ff., [132], [175]
Burr, Aaron, [183], [231]
Business. See [Industry]
Calhoun, J.C., [198]f., [203], [208], [281], [321], [328]
California, [286]f.
Canada, [61], [114], [530]
Canals, [233], [298], [508]
Canning, British premier, [206]
Cannon, J.G., [530]
Cantigny, [611]
Caribbean, [479]
Carpet baggers, [373]
Cattle ranger, [431]f.
Caucus, [245]
Censorship. See [Newspapers]
Charles I, [3]
Charles II, [65]
Charleston, [36], [116]
Charters, colonial, [2]ff., [41]
Chase, Justice, [187]
Château-Thierry, [611]
Checks and balances, [153]
Chesapeake, the, [195]
Chickamauga, [361]
Child labor law, [591]
China, [447], [499]ff.
Chinese labor, [583]
Churches, colonial, [39]f., [42], [43]
Cities, [35], [36], [300]f., [395], [410], [544]
City manager plan, [545]
Civil liberty, [358]f., [561]
Civil service, [419], [536], [538]f.
Clarendon, Lord, [6]
Clark, G.R., [116], [218]
Clay, Henry, [198], [203], [248], [261], [328]
Clayton anti-trust act, [489]
Clergy. See [Churches]
Cleveland, Grover, [421], [465], [482], [484], [489], [582]
Clinton, Sir Henry, [119]
Colorado, admission, [441]
Combination. See [Trusts]
Commerce, colonial, [33]f.
disorders after 1781, [140]
Constitutional provisions on, [154]
Napoleonic wars, [176], [193]ff.
domestic growth of, [307]
congressional regulation of, [460]f., [547]
See also [Trusts] and [Railways]
Commission government, [544]
Committees of correspondence, [108]
Commonsense, pamphlet, [103]
Communism, colonial, [20].
Company, trading, [2]f.
Compromises: of Constitution, [148], [150], [151]
Missouri, [325], [332]
of 1850, [328]f.
Crittenden, [350]
Conciliation, with England, [131]
Concord, battle, [100]
Confederacy, Southern, [346]f.
Confederation: New England, [61].
See also [Articles of]
Congregation, religious, [4]
Congress: stamp act, [85]
continental, [99]f.
under Articles, [139].
under Constitution, [152]
powers of, [153]
Connecticut: founded, [4]ff.
self-government, [49]
See also [Suffrage], [constitutions, state]
Conservation, [523]f.
Constitution: formation of, [143]f.
See also [Amendment]
Constitution, the, [200]
Constitutions, state, [109]f., [238]f., [385]f.
Constitutional union party, [340]
Contract labor law, [584]
Convention: 1787, [144]f.
nominating, [405]
Convicts, colonial, [15]
Conway Cabal, [120]
Cornwallis, General, [116], [119], [131]
Corporation and labor, [571] See also [Trusts]
Cotton. See [Planting system]
Cowboy, [431]f.
Cowpens, battle, [116]
Cox, J.M., [619]
Crisis, The, pamphlet, [115]
Crittenden Compromise, [350]
Cuba, [485]f., [518]
Cumberland Gap, [223]
Currency. See [Banking]
Danish West Indies, purchased, [593]
Dartmouth College, [45]
Daughters of liberty, [84]
Davis, Jefferson, [346]f.
Deane, Silas, [128]
Debs, E.V., [465], [534]
Debt, national, [164]f.
Decatur, Commodore, [477]
Declaration of Independence, [101]f.
Defense, national, [154]
De Kalb, [121]
Delaware, [3], [49]
De Lome affair, [490]
Democratic party, name assumed, [260]
See also [Anti-Federalists]
Dewey, Admiral, [492]
Diplomacy: of the Revolution, [127]f.
Civil War, [354]
Domestic industry, [28]
Donelson, Fort, [361]
Dorr Rebellion, [243]
Douglas, Stephen A., [333], [337], [368]
Draft: Civil War, [351]
World War, [605]
Draft riots, [351]
Dred Scott case, [335], [338]
Drug act, [523]
Duquesne, Fort, [60]
Dutch, [3], [12]
East India Company, [93]
Education, [43]f., [557], [591]
Electors, popular election of, [245]
Elkins law, [547]
Emancipation, [357]f.
Embargo acts, [186]f.
England: Colonial policy of, [64]f.
Revolutionary War, [99]f.
Jay treaty, [177]
War of 1812, [198]f.
Monroe Doctrine, [206]
Ashburton treaty, [265]
Civil War, [354]
Alabama claims, [480]
Samoa, [481]
Venezuela question, [482]
Spanish War, [496]
World War, [596]f.
Erie Canal, [233]
Esch-Cummins bill, [582]
Espionage act, [607]
Excess profits tax, [606]
Executive, federal, plans for, [151]
Expunging resolution, [260]
Farm loan act, [589]
Federal reserve act, [589]
Federal trade commission, [590]
Federalist, the, [158]
Federalists, [168]f., [201]f.
Feudal elements in colonies, [21].
Filipino revolt. See [Philippines]
Fillmore, President, [485]
Finances: colonial, [64]
revolutionary, [125]f.
disorders, [140]
Civil War, [347], [352]ff.
World War, [606]
See also [Banking]
Fishing industry, [31]
Fleet, world tour, [515]
Florida, [134], [204]
Foch, General, [611]
Food and fuel law, [607]
Force bills, [384]ff., [375]
Forests, national, [525]f.
Fourteen points, [605]
Fox, C.J., [132]
France: colonization, [59]f.
French and Indian War, [60]f.
American Revolution, [116], [123], [128]f.
French Revolution, [165]f.
Quarrel with, [180]
Napoleonic wars, [193]f.
Louisiana purchase, [190]
French Revolution of 1830, [266]
Civil War, [354]
Mexican affair, [478]
World War, [596]f.
Franchises, utility, [548]
Franklin, Benjamin, [45], [62], [82], [86], [128], [134]
Freedmen. See [Negro]
Freehold. See [Land]
Free-soil party, [319]
Frémont, J.C., [288], [334]
French. See [France]
Friends, the, [5]
Frontier. See [Land]
Fugitive slave act, [329]
Fulton, Robert, [231], [234]
Fundamental articles, [5]
Fundamental orders, [5]
Gage, General, [95], [100]
Garfield, President, [416]
Garrison, William Lloyd, [318]
Gaspee, the, [92]
Gates, General, [116], [120], [131]
Genêt, [177]
George I, [66]
George II, [4], [66], [82]
George III, [77]f.
Georgia: founded, [4]
royal province, [49]
state constitution, [109]
See also [Secession]
Germans: colonial immigration, [9]ff.
in Revolutionary War, [102]f.
later immigration, [303]
Germany: Samoa, [481]
Venezuela affair, [512]
World War, [596]
Gerry, Elbridge, [148]
Gettysburg, [362]
Gibbon, Edward, [133]
Gold: discovery, [288]
standard, [466], [472]
Gompers, Samuel, [573], [608]
Governor, royal, [49]f.
Grandfather clause, [386].
Grangers, [460]f.
Grant, General, [361], [416], [480], [487]
Great Britain. See [England]
Greeley, Horace, [420]
Greenbacks, [454]f.
Greenbackers, [462]f.
Greene, General, [117], [120]
Grenville, [79]f.
Guilford, battle, [117]
Habeas corpus, [358]
Hague conferences, [514]
Haiti, [593]
Hamilton, Alexander, [95], [143], [158], [162], [168]f., [231]
Harding, W.G., [389], [619]
Harlem Heights, battle, [114]
Harper's Ferry, [339]
Harrison, Benjamin, [422], [484]
Harrison, W.H., [198], [263]f.
Hartford convention, [201]f., [238]
Harvard, [44]
Hawaii, [484].
Hay, John, [477], [500]ff.
Hayne, Robert, [256]
Hays, President, [416].
Henry, Patrick, [85]
Hepburn act, [523]
Hill, James J., [429]
Holland, [130]
Holy Alliance, [205]
Homestead act, [368], [432]
Hooker, Thomas, [5]
Houston, Sam, [279]f.
Howe, General, [118]
Hughes, Charles E., [602]
Huguenots, [10]
Hume, David, [132]
Hutchinson, Anne, [5]
Idaho, admission, [442]
Income tax, [459], [466], [528], [588], [606]
Inheritance tax, [606]
Illinois, admission, [226]
Illiteracy, [585]
Immigration: colonial, [1]-[17]
before Civil War, [302], [367]
after Civil War, [410]f.
problems of, [582]f.
Imperialism, [494]f., [498]., [502]f.
Implied powers, [212]
Impressment of seamen, [194]
Indentured servants, [13].
Independence, Declaration of, [107]
Indiana, admission, [226]
Indians, [57]f., [81], [431]
Industry: colonial, [28]f.
growth of, [296]f.
during Civil War, [366]
after 1865, [390]f., [401]f., [436]f., [559]
See also [Trusts]
Initiative, the, [543]
Injunction, [465], [580]
Internal improvements, [260], [368]
Interstate commerce act, [461], [529]
Intolerable acts, [93]
Invisible government, [537]
Iowa, admission, [275]
Irish, [11], [302]
Iron. See [Industry]
Irrigation, [434]f., [523]f.
Jackson, Andrew, [201], [204], [246], [280]
Jacobins, [174]
James I, [3]
James II, [65]
Jamestown, [3], [21]
Japan, relations with, [447], [511], [583]
Jay, John, [128], [158], [177]
Jefferson, Thomas: Declaration of Independence, [107]
Secretary of State, [162]f.
political leader, [169]
as President, [183]f.
Monroe Doctrine, [206], [231]
Jews, migration of, [11]
Johnson, Andrew, [365], [368], [371].
Johnson, Samuel, [132]
Joliet, [59]
Jones, John Paul, [118]
Judiciary: British system, [67]
federal, [152]
Kansas, admission, [441]
Kansas-Nebraska bill, [333]
Kentucky: admission, [224]
Resolutions, [182]
King George's War, [59]
King Philip's War, [57]
King William's War, [59]
King's College (Columbia), [45]
Knights of Labor, [575]f.
Kosciusko, [121]
Ku Klux Klan, [382]
Labor: rise of organized, [304]
parties, [462]f.
question, [521]
American Federation, [573]f.
legislation, [590]
World War, [608]f.
Lafayette, [121]
La Follette, Senator, [531]
Land: tenure[20]f.
sales restricted, [80]
Western survey, [219]
federal sales policy, [220]
Western tenure, [228]
disappearance of free, [445]
new problems, [449]
See also [Homestead act]
La Salle, [59]
Lawrence, Captain, [200]
League of Nations, [616]f.
Le Bœuf, Fort, [59]
Lee, General Charles, [131]
Lee, R.E., [357]
Lewis and Clark expedition, [193]
Lexington, battle, [100]
Liberal Republicans, [420]
Liberty loan, [606]
Lincoln: Mexican War, [282]
Douglas debates, [336].
election, [341]
Civil War, [344]f.
reconstruction, [371]
Literacy test, [585]
Livingston, R.R., [191]
Locke, John, [95]
London Company, [3]
Long Island, battle, [114]
Lords of trade, [67]f.
Louis XVI, [171]f.
Louisiana: ceded to Spain, [61]
purchase, [190]f.
admission, [227]
Loyalists, See [Tories]
Lusitania, the, [601]f.
McClellan, General, [362], [365]
McCulloch vs. Maryland, [211]
McKinley, William, [422], [467]ff., [489]f.
Macaulay, Catherine, [132]
Madison, James, [158], [197]ff.
Maine, [325]
Maine, the, [490]
Manila Bay, battle, [492]
Manors, colonial, [22]
Manufactures, See [Industry]
Marbury vs. Madison, [209]
Marietta, [220]
Marion, Francis, [117], [120]
Marquette, [59]
Marshall, John, [208]f.
Martineau, Harriet, [267]
Maryland, founded, [6], [49], [109], [239], [242]
Massachusetts: founded, [3]ff.
See also [Immigration], [Royal province], [Industry], [Revolutionary War], [Constitutions, state], [Suffrage], [Commerce], and [Industry]
Massachusetts Bay Company, [3]
founded, [3]ff.
See also [Immigration], [Royal province]
Mayflower compact, [4]
Mercantile theory, [69]
Merchants. See [Commerce]
Merrimac, the, [353]
Meuse-Argonne, battle, [612]
Mexico: and Texas, [278]f.
later relations, [594].
Michigan, admission, [273]
Midnight appointees, [187]
Milan Decree, [194]
Militia, Revolutionary War, [122]
Minimum wages, [551]
Minnesota, admission, [275]
Mississippi River, and West, [189].
Missouri Compromise, [207], [227], [271], [325], [332]
Molasses act, [71]
Money, paper, [80], [126], [155], [369]
Monitor, the, [353]
Monroe, James, [204]f., [191]
Monroe Doctrine, [205], [512]
Montana, admission, [442]
Montgomery, General, [114]
Morris, Robert, [127]
Mothers' pensions, [551]
Mohawks, [57]
Muckraking, [536].
Mugwumps, [420]
Municipal ownership, [549]
Napoleon I, [190]
Napoleon III: Civil War, [354].
Mexico, [477]
National Labor Union, [574]
National road, [232]
Nationalism, colonial, [56]f.
Natural rights, [95]
Navigation acts, [69]
Navy: in Revolution, [188]
War of 1812, [195]
Civil War, [353]
World War, [610]
See also [Sea Power]
Nebraska, admission, [441]
Negro: Civil rights, [370]f.
in agriculture, [393]f.
status of, [396]ff.
See also [Slavery]
New England: colonial times, [6]ff., [35], [40]ff.
See also [Industry], [Suffrage], [Commerce], and [Wars]
New Hampshire: founded, [4]ff.
See also [Immigration], [Royal province], [Suffrage], and [Constitutions, state]
New Jersey, founded, [6]
See also [Immigration], [Royal province], [Suffrage], and [Constitutions, state]
Newlands, Senator, [524]
New Mexico, admission, [443]
New Orleans, [59], [190]
battle, [201]
Newspapers, colonial, [46]f.
New York: founded by Dutch, [3]
transferred to English, [49]
See also [Dutch], [Immigration], [Royal province], [Commerce], [Suffrage], and [Constitutions, state]
New York City, colonial, [36]
Niagara, Fort, [59]
Nicaragua protectorate, [594]
Non-intercourse act, [196]f.
Non-importation, [84]f., [99]
North, Lord, [100], [131], [133]
North Carolina: founded, [6]
See also [Royal province], [Immigration], [Suffrage], and [Constitutions, state]
North Dakota, admission, [442]
Northwest Ordinance, [219]
Nullification, [182], [251]ff.
Oglethorpe, James, [3]
Ohio, admission, [225]
Oklahoma, admission, [443]
Open door policy, [500]
Oregon, [284]f.
Ostend Manifesto, [486]
Otis, James, [88], [95]f.
Pacific, American influence, [447]
Paine, Thomas, [103], [115], [175]
Panama Canal, [508]f.
Panics: 1837, [262]
1857, [336]
1873, [464]
1893, [465]
Parcel post, [529]
Parker, A.B., [527]
Parties: rise of, [168]f.
Federalists, [169]f.
Anti-Federalists (Jeffersonian Republicans), [169]f.
Democrats, [260]
Whigs, [260]f.
Republicans, [334]f.
Liberal Republicans, [420]
Constitutional union, [340]
minor parties, [462]f.
Paterson, William, [196]f.
Penn, William, [6]
Pennsylvania: founded, [6]
See also [Penn], [Germans], [Immigration], [Industry], [Revolutionary War], [Constitutions, state], [Suffrage]
Pennsylvania University, [45]
Pensions, soldiers and sailors, [413], [607]
mothers', [551]
Pequots, [57]
Perry, O.H., [200]
Pershing, General, [610]
Philadelphia, [36], [116]
Philippines, [492]f., [516]f., [592]
Phillips, Wendell, [320]
Pierce, Franklin, [295], [330]
Pike, Z., [193], [287]
Pilgrims, [4]
Pinckney, Charles, [148]
Pitt, William, [61], [79], [87], [132]
Planting system, [22]., [25], [149], [389], [393]ff.
Plymouth, [4], [21]
Polk, J.K., [265], [285]f.
Polygamy, [290].
Populist party, [464]
Porto Rico, [515], [592]
Postal savings bank, [529]
Preble, Commodore, [196]
Press. See [Newspapers]
Primary, direct, [541]
Princeton, battle, [129]
University, [45]
Profit sharing, [572]
Progressive party, [531]
Prohibition, [591]
Proprietary colonies, [3], [6]
Provinces, royal, [49]f.
Public service, [538]f.
Pulaski, [121]
Pullman strike, [465]
Pure food act, [523]
Puritans, [3], [7], [40]f.
Quakers, [6]ff.
Quartering act, [83]
Quebec act, [94]
Queen Anne's War, [59]
Quit rents, [21]
Radicals, [579]
Railways, [298], [402], [425], [460]ff., [547], [621]
Randolph, Edmund, [146], [147], [162]
Ratification, of Constitution, [156]f.
Recall, [543]
Reclamation, [523]f.
Reconstruction, [370]f.
Referendum, the, [543]
Reign of terror, [174]
Republicans: Jeffersonian, [179]
rise of present party, [334]f.
supremacy of, [412]f.
See also [McKinley], [Roosevelt], and [Taft]
Resumption, [454]
Revolution: American, [99]f.
French, [171]f.
Russian, [619]
Rhode Island: founded, [4]ff.
self-government, [49]
See also [Suffrage]
Roosevelt, Theodore, [492], [500]ff., [531], [570]
Royal province, [49]f.
Russia, [205], [207], [355], [479], [619]
Russo-Japanese War, [511]
Saint Mihiel, [612]
Samoa, [481]
San Jacinto, [280]
Santa Fé trail, [287]
Santo Domingo, [480], [513], [592]
Saratoga, battle, [116], [130]
Savannah, [116], [131]
Scandinavians, [278]
Schools. See [Education]
Scott, General, [283], [330]
Scotch-Irish, [7]ff.
Seamen's act, [590]
Sea power: American Revolution, [118]
Napoleonic wars, [193]f.
Civil War, [353]
Caribbean, [593]
Pacific, [447]
World War, [610]f.
Secession, [344]f.
Sedition: act of 1798, [180]f., [187]
of 1918, [608]
Senators, popular election, [527], [541]ff.
Seven Years' War, [60]f.
Sevier, John, [218]
Seward, W.H., [322], [342]
Shafter, General, [492]
Shays's rebellion, [142]
Sherman, General, [361]
Sherman: anti-trust law, [461]
silver act, [458]
Shiloh, [361]
Shipping. See [Commerce]
Shipping act, [607]
Silver, free, [455]f.
Slavery: colonial, [16].
trade, [150]
in Northwest, [219]
decline in North, [316].
growth in South, [320]f.
and the Constitution, [324]
and territories, [325]f.
compromises, [350]
abolished, [357]f.
Smith, Joseph, [290]
Socialism, [577]f.
Solid South, [388]
Solomon, Hayn, [126]
Sons of liberty, [82]
South: economic and political views, [309]f.
See also [Slavery] and [Planting system], and [Reconstruction]
South Carolina: founded, [6]
nullification, [253]f.
See also [Constitutions, state], [Suffrage], [Slavery], and [Secession]
South Dakota, [442]
Spain: and Revolution, [130]
Louisiana, [190]
Monroe Doctrine, [205]
Spanish War, [490]f.
Spoils system, [244], [250], [418], [536]ff.
Stamp act, [82]f.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, [564]
States: disorders under Articles of Confederation, [141]
constitutions, federal limits on, [155]
position after Civil War, [366]f.
See also [Suffrage], [Nullification], and [Secession]
Steamboat, [234]
Stowe, H.B., [332]
Strikes: of 1877, [581]
Pullman, [581]
coal, [526]
See also [Labor]
Submarine campaign, [600]f.
Suffrage: colonial, [42], [51]
first state constitutions, [239]
White manhood, [242]
Negro, [374]f., [385].
Woman, [110], [562]ff.
Sugar act, [81]
Sumner, Charles, [319]
Sumter, Fort, [350]
Swedes, [3], [13]
Taft, W.H., [527]f.
Tammany Hall, [306], [418]
Taney, Chief Justice, [357]
Tariff: first, [167]
of 1816, [203]
development of, [251]f.
abominations, [249], [253]
nullification, [251]
of 1842, [264]
Southern views of, [309]f.
of 1857, [337]
Civil War, [367]
Wilson bill, [459]
McKinley bill, [422]
Dingley bill, [472]
Payne-Aldrich, [528]
Underwood, [588]
Taxation: and representation, [149]
and Constitution, [154]
Civil War, [353]
and wealth, [522], [551]
and World War, [606]
Tea act, [88]
Tea party, [92]
Tenement house reform, [549]
Tennessee, [28], [224]
Territories, Northwest, [219]
South of the Ohio, [219]
See also [Slavery and Compromise]
Texas, [278]f.
Tippecanoe, battle, [198]
Tocqueville, [267]
Toleration, religious, [42]
Tories, colonial, [84]
in Revolution, [112]
Townshend acts, [80], [87]
Trade, colonial, [70]
legislation, [70] See [Commerce]
Transylvania company, [28]
Treasury, independent, [263]
Treaties, of 1763, [61]
alliance with France, [177]
of 1783 with England, [134]
Jay, [177], [218]
Louisiana purchase, [191].
of 1815, [201]
Ashburton, [265]
of 1848 with Mexico, [283]
Washington with England, [481]
with Spain, [492]
Versailles (1919), [612]f.
Trenton, battle, [116]
Trollope, Mrs., [268]
Trusts, [405]f., [461], [472]ff., [521], [526], [530]
Tweed, W.M., [418]
Tyler, President, [264]f., [281], [349]
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," [332]
Union party, [365]
Unions. See [Labor]
Utah, [290]f., [329], [442]
Utilities, municipal, [548]
Vallandigham, [360]
Valley Forge, [116], [129]
Van Buren, Martin, [262]
Venango, Fort, [59]
Venezuela, [482]f., [512]
Vermont, [223]
Vicksburg, [361]
Virginia: founded, [6]
See also [Royal province], [Constitutions, state], [Planting system], [Slavery], [Secession], and [Immigration]
Walpole, Sir Robert, [66]
Wars: colonial, [57]f.
Revolutionary, [99]f.
of 1812, [199]f.
Mexican, [282]f.
Civil, [344]f.
Spanish, [490]f.
World, [596]f.
Washington: warns French, [60]
in French war, [63]
commander-in-chief, [101]f.
and movement for Constitution, [142]f.
as President, [166]f.
Farewell Address, [178]
Washington City, [166]
Washington State, [442]
Webster, [256], [265], [328]
Welfare work, [573]
Whigs: English, [78]
colonial, [83]
rise of party, [260]f., [334], [340]
Whisky Rebellion, [171]
White Camelia, [382]
White Plains, battle, [114]
Whitman, Marcus, [284]
William and Mary College, [45]
Williams, Roger, [5], [42]
Wilmot Proviso, [326]
Wilson, James, [147]
Wilson, Woodrow, election, [533].
administrations, [588]f.
Winthrop, John, [3]
Wisconsin, admission, [274]
Witchcraft, [41]
Wollstonecraft, Mary, [556]
Women: colonial, [28]
Revolutionary War, [124]
labor, [305]
education and civil rights, [554]f.
suffrage, [562]f.
Workmen's compensation, [549]
Writs of assistance, [88]
Wyoming, admission, [442]
X, Y, Z affair, [180]
Yale, [44]
Young, Brigham, [290]
Zenger, Peter, [48]
Printed in the United States of America.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] North Carolina ratified in November, 1789, and Rhode Island in May, 1790.
[2] To prevent a repetition of such an unfortunate affair, the twelfth amendment of the Constitution was adopted in 1804, changing slightly the method of electing the President.
[3] Partly superseded by the 14th Amendment, p. [639].
[4] See the 17th Amendment, p. [641].
[6] See the 16th Amendment, p. [640].
[7] The following paragraph was in force only from 1788 to 1803.
[8] Superseded by the 12th Amendment, p. [638].
[9] See the 11th Amendment, p. [638].
[10] First ten amendments proposed by Congress, Sept. 25, 1789. Proclaimed to be in force Dec. 15, 1791.
[11] Proposed Sept. 5, 1794. Declared in force January 8, 1798.
[12] Adopted in 1804.
[13] Adopted in 1865.
[14] Adopted in 1868.
[15] Proposed February 27, 1869. Declared in force March 30, 1870.
[16] Passed July, 1909; proclaimed February 25, 1913.
[17] Passed May, 1912, in lieu of paragraph one, Section 3, Article I, of the Constitution and so much of paragraph two of the same Section as relates to the filling of vacancies; proclaimed May 31, 1913.
[18] Ratified January 16, 1919.
[19] Ratified August 26, 1920.
[20] Promoted from the vice-presidency on the death of the president.
[21] Population in 1912.
[22] Population in 1918.
[23] Population in 1903.
[24] Population in 1917.
[25] Population in 1911.
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