Sidelights on American History I, Vol. 1 Book

Chapter I	Declaration of Independence
	Love of the Colonists for England	3
	Causes that led to Independence	5
	Progress toward Independence	8
	A View of Congress	12
	The Final Act in the Great Drama	15
Chapter II	Framing of the Constitution
	Condition of the Country after the Revolution	21
	Defects in the Articles of Confederation	24
	Quarrels of the States	28
	The Annapolis Convention	31
	The Constitutional Convention	32
	The Three Great Compromises	36
	The Constitution before the People	42
Chapter III	The Inauguration of Washington
	The Unanimous Election	47
	The Triumphal March	50
	New York's Welcome	53
Chapter IV	The Alien and Sedition Laws
	Political Parties One Hundred Years Ago	57
	Folly of the Federal Party	60
	Sedition Law in Operation	63
	The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions	67
Chapter V	Fulton and the Steamboat
	Fulton's Predecessors	72
	Early Life of Robert Fulton	76
	Fulton in Foreign Lands	77
	The Clermont on the Hudson	79
Chapter VI	The Lewis and Clarke Expedition
	Ascending the Missouri	88
	On to the Pacific	92
	The Return to the United States	97
	An Indian Story	99
Chapter VII	Conspiracy of Aaron Burr
	Aaron Burr	104
	The Great Conspiracy	111
	The Arrest and the Trial	116
	Theodosia	123
	Later Life of Aaron Burr	128
Chapter VIII	The Missouri Compromise
	Slavery during the Colonial Period	133
	Slavery under the Constitution	139
	The Sixteenth Congress	144
Chapter IX	The Monroe Doctrine
	How this Doctrine Originated	150
	The Monroe Doctrine in Operation	155
	Cuba and Mexico	160
	Venezuela	165
	Remarks on the Monroe Doctrine	171
Chapter X	Lafayette's Visit
	A Nation's Welcome	175
	At the Capitol	180
	Mount Vernon and Bunker Hill	182
Chapter XI	The Caroline Affair
	The Canadian Rebellion	188
	Destruction of the Caroline	191
	Arrest and Trial of McLeod	195
Chapter XII	The Campaign of 1840
	The Whig Convention	203
	William Henry Harrison	206
	The Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign	209
	Last Days of President Harrison	214
Chapter XIII	Discovery of Gold in California
	Sutter's Sawmill	220
	The "Forty-Niners"	224
	A View of the Miners and the Mines	227
	California in National Politics	233
Chapter XIV	The Underground Railroad
	The Fugitive Slave Law	240
	The Fugitive Slave Law in Operation	245
	Working of the Underground Railroad	249
Chapter XV	The Kansas-Nebraska Bill
	Presidential Election of 1852	267
	Stephen A. Douglas	271
	Reception of the Bill at the North	276
	Results of the Kansas-Nebraska Law	278
Chapter XVI	The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
	A View of the Two Men	280
	Preliminaries	283
	The Challenge	287
	Extracts	293
	The Freeport Doctrine	296
	The Result	300
Chapter XVII	History of Political Parties
	The Earliest Political Parties	307
	The Federal Party	308
	The Democratic Party	312
	The Whig Party	317
	The Republican Party	320
Chapter XVIII	Relation of the States to the Nation
	Origin of the States and of the Union	328
	Three Kinds of Governments, Consolidated, Federal, and Confederate	331
	National and State Laws	333
	National and State Authority	336
	Advantages of the Federal System	340
	States' Rights	345
	Index	349