TABLE OF CONTENTS
[I]
DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION, 1000-1600.
[1. The European Discovery of America.]
[2. Spanish and French Pioneers in the United States.]
[3. Pioneers of England.]
[II]
COLONIZATION, 1600-1660.
[4. French Colonists, Missionaries, and Explorers.]
[5. Virginia and Maryland.]
[6. New England.]
[7. New Netherland and New Sweden.]
[III]
A CENTURY OF COLONIAL HISTORY, 1660-1760.
[8. The Colonies under Charles II.]
[9. Colonial Development, 1688-1760.]
[10. Expulsion of the French.]
[IV]
COLONIAL UNION, 1760-1774.
[11. Britain's Colonial System.]
[12. Taxation without Representation.]
[13. Revolution impending.]
[V]
THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE, 1775-1783.
[14. Bunker Hill to Trenton.]
[15. The Great Declaration and the French Alliance.]
[16. Independence.]
[VI]
THE CRITICAL PERIOD, 1783-1789.
[17. The Confederation, 1783-1787.]
[18. Making of the Constitution, 1787-1789.]
[VII]
THE FEDERALIST SUPREMACY, 1789-1801.
[19. Organization of the Government.]
[20. Rise of Political Parties.]
[21. The Last Federalist Administration.]
[VIII]
THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANS, 1801-1812.
[22. The United States in 1800.]
[23. Jefferson's Administrations.]
[24. Causes of the War of 1812.]
[IX]
WAR AND PEACE, 1812-1829.
[25. The Second War of Independence, 1812-1815.]
[26. The Era of Good Feeling, 1815-1824.]
[27. New Parties and New Policies, 1824-1829.]
[X]
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY, 1829-1844.
[28. The American People in 1830.]
[29. The Reign of Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837.]
[30. Democrats and Whigs, 1837-1844.]
[XI]
SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES, 1844-1859.
[31. Beginning of the Antislavery Agitation.]
[32. The Mexican War.]
[33. The Compromise of 1850.]
[34. The Struggle for Kansas.]
[XII]
SECESSION, 1860-1861.
[XIII]
THE WAR FOR THE UNION, 1861-1865.
[37. The Rising of the Peoples, 1861.]
[38. Bull Run to Murfreesboro', 1861-1862.]
[39. The Emancipation Proclamation.]
[40. The Year 1863.]
[41. The End of the War, 1864-1865.]
[XIV]
RECONSTRUCTION AND REUNION, 1865-1869.
[42. President Johnson and Reconstruction, 1865-1869.]
[43. From Grant to Cleveland, 1869-1889.]