| [The United States in 1783] | facing 1 |
| [State-making in the West, 1783-87] | 9 |
| Distribution of Votes in Ratification of The Constitution: | |
| [The New England States] | 37 |
| [The Middle States] | 39 |
| [The Southern States] | 42 |
| [Distribution of Population, 1790] | 49 |
| [Vote on Assumption] | 59 |
| [The Northwest, 1785-95] | 71 |
| [Vote on the Repeal of the Alien and Sedition Acts, February 25, 1799] | between 112 and 113 |
| [Presidential Election of 1800] | between 116 and 117 |
| [Distribution of Population, 1800] | 125 |
| [Vote on the Repeal of the Judiciary Act, March 2, 1802] | between 134 and 135 |
| [The Yazoo-Georgia Land Controversy] | 168 |
| [The Tonnage of the United States, 1807] | 185 |
| [Vote on the Embargo, December 21, 1807] | between 190 and 191 |
| [Vote on the Declaration of War, June 4, 1812] | between 208 and 209 |
| [Land Sales and Land Offices To 1821] | 248 |
| [The Cotton Crop in the United States, 1801-34] | 250 |
| [The West As an Economic Section in 1820] | 253 |
| [Treaty With Spain, 1819] | 263 |
| [Distribution of Slaves in 1820] | 270 |
| [Vote on the Missouri Compromise, March 2, 1820] | 278 |
| [Russian Claims in North America] | 293 |
| [Distribution of Population, 1820] | 299 |
| [States Admitted To the Union Between 1812 and 1821] | 306 |
| [Vote on the Tariff Bill, April 16, 1824] | between 310 and 311 |
| [Presidential Election of 1824] | between 314 and 315 |
| [Vote on the Tariff Bill, April 22, 1828] | between 328 and 329 |
| [Canals in the United States About 1825] | 341 |
| [Highways of the United States About 1825] | 344 |