| battle-field | battlefield |
| coast-wise | coastwise |
| cow-pens | cowpens |
| head-rights | headrights |
| iron-master | ironmaster |
| new-comers | newcomers |
| non-sectional | nonsectional |
| out-vote | outvote |
| rail-splitter | railsplitters |
| sea-board | seaboard |
| slave-holding | slaveholding |
| tide-water | tidewater |
| un-won | unwon |
The following corrections have been made to the text:
page 25—as the nation marched westward.[period is missing in original]
page 40, footnote 40:5—"American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century,"[quotation mark missing in original]
page 48, footnote 48:4—Sheldon, "Deerfield,"[quotation mark missing in original]
page 49—your honours [original has extraneous opening parenthesis]we haue but litel laft
page 53—the frontier Towns.[original has extraneous quotation mark]
page 68, footnote 68:1—Powell, "Physiographic Regions[original has extraneous single quote]"
page 75, footnote 75:1—Egleston[original has Eggleston], "Land System of the New England Colonies,"
page 86—at least three foot within the ground."[quotation mark missing in original]