Studies in American History

D.C. Heath & Company, 1893 - 431 pages

1000 B C 1492 a d	3

Sagas of the North	6

Marco Polo	12

List of important events connected with the development of geography 1000 a d 1492 a d	16

14921607	19

Columbus great discovery	22

Las Casas Father Marco	38

Drake Frobisher Raleigh 7 List of important voyages and enterprises 14921607	46

The Louisiana purchase	215

Trade and life in the thirteen original states	220

Trade and life in the new states and territories	225

Troubles with England and beginning of War of 1812	229

War of 1812 continued	233

Threats to the Union	237

Threats to the Union the slavery question	241

Trade and life from 18151840 local pictures	245

16071763	51

The planting of Jamestown or the beginnings of Virginia 3 Samuel de Champlain or the beginnings of Canada 4 The Pilgrim Fathers or the beginnin...	69

The opening of the region of the Great Lakes	74

English colonial governments Virginia and New England 8 King Philips War and Bacons Rebellion	83

The opening of the Mississippi Valley	87

The beginning of Pennsylvania and Georgia	92

The New England Charters	96

The English over the Alleghanies or the causes of the French and Indian War	101

The French and Indian War on the Western frontier	105

French and Indian War siege of Quebec	109

On the new frontier	113

List of important events during the Age of Plantation 16071763	118

17631783	125

English laws on colonial commerce	131

The Stamp Act	134

From the Stamp Act to the Boston Teaparty	139

The United Colonies	144

Lexington and Concord	148

The siege of Boston	152

The Declaration of Independence	158

The Tories	163

Second and third years of the war with Washington in the Jerseys	166

Third year of war Burgoynes invasion	170

Foreign relations Franklin Lafayette	173

The Revolution in the West Boone and Clark	177

Last years of the war Arnold the heroes of Kings Mountain	181

Yorktown and peace	185

List of important events of the Revolutionary period	190

17831850	194

The Confederation troubles and opinions	196

The Northwest Territory government and life	199

The making of the Constitution 1787	203

The new Constitution	207

Our first President	211

Trade and life from 18151840 country in general	250

The Oregon question and the Oregon trail	256

The Spanish West	261

The Mexican War or the winning of the Spanish West	267

The Mexican War invasions of Mexico 18461847	272

Gold in California	276

List of leading events from 17831850	281

CIVIL CONFLICT 1 The Fugitive Slave Law in the Senate Clay Calhoun Webster Seward	291

The Fugitive Slave Law in execution Frederick Doug lass Jerry	295

The struggle for Kansas	299

John Brown in Kansas at Harpers Ferry	304

Trade and life in the 50s Cotton is King	308

lina	314

The question of the hour	318

The formation of the Confederacy	322

The first shot and the call to arms North and South	325

The first year of the war special study on Bull Run and the Blockade	331

The second year of the war special study on the Merri mac and Monitor and the fall of New Orleans	335

The war and the slave emancipation and the contraband	339

The third year of the war Gettysburg and Vicksburg	343

War pictures	348

PAGE	350

Shermans march	354

Before Richmond	358

Abraham Lincoln	362

End of the war	368

List of leading events from 18491865	370

12	375

16	390

27	408

46	409

77	410

92	411

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Title	Studies in American History
Authors	Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes
Publisher	D.C. Heath & Company, 1893
Length	431 pages

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