PART I. Mound Builders; Colonial Settlement; Explorations; Conflicts; Manners; Customs; Education; Religion, etc. etc. Political differences with Great Britain.
PART II. Resistance to the Acts of Parliament; Resentment of British Policy, and the War for American Independence.
PART III. From the Election of President Washington to that of Lincoln; The Expansion and Growth of the Republic; Domestic Issues and Foreign Policy.
PART IV. The Civil War and the End of Slavery.
PART V. The New Era of the Restored Union; Measures of Reconstruction; the Decade of Centennial Jubilation, and the Accession of President Arthur.
APPENDIX. Declaration of Independence; The Constitution of the United States and its Amendments; Chronological Table and Index; Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia.
DISTINGUISHING FEATURES.
The political characteristics of great leaders and great parties have been dealt with so as to meet the approval of all sections of the American people. The progress of Science, Invention, Literature, and Art, are noted, as well as that of the national physical growth, thus condensing material which usually fills several volumes, and all narrated in a graphic and entertaining style. OUTLINE MAPS give the successive stages of national expansion, and special attention has been given to those battles, by land and sea, which have marked the military growth of the Republic.
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