History of the United States and Its People Book

1 How Columbus Discovered America
2 Other Discoveries in America
3 Sir Walter Raleigh Tries to Settle a Colony in America
4 How Jamestown was Settled
5 The Starving Time and What Followed
6 The Great Charter of Virginia and the First Massacre by the Indians
7 The Coming of the Pilgrims
8 The Coming of the Puritans
9 The Coming of the Dutch
10 The Settlement of Maryland and the Carolinas
11 The Coming of the Quakers and Others to the Jerseys and Pennsylvania
12 The Settlement of Georgia and the Coming of the Germans, Irish, and French
13 How the Indians Lived
14 Early Indian Wars
15 Traits of War with the Indians
16 Life in the Colonial Time
17 Farming and Shipping in the Colonies
18 Bond-Servants and Slaves in the Colonies
19 Laws and Usages in the Colonies
20 The Spanish in Florida and the French in Canada
21 Colonial Wars with France and Spain
22 Braddock's Defeat and the Expulsion of the Acadians
23 Fall of Canada
24 Characteristics of the Colonial Wars with the French
25 How the Colonies were Governed
26 Early Struggles for Liberty in the Colonies
27 The Causes of the Revolution
28 The Outbreak of the Revolution and Declaration of Independence
29 The Battle of Trenton and the Capture of Burgoyne's Army
30 The Dark Period of the Revolution
31 The Closing Years of the Revolution
32 Traits and Incidents of the Revolutionary War
33 The Adoption of the Constitution
34 The New Republic and Its People
35 Home and Society in Washington's Time
36 Washington's Presidency, from 1789 to 1797
37 Troubles with England and France, Presidency of John Adams
38 Election of Jefferson, War with Tripoli
39 The Settlement of the Great Valley
40 Beginning of the Second War with England
41 The Navy in the War of 1812
42 The Army in the War of 1812
43 Expansion of the Union
44 From Monroe to Van Buren, Rise of Whigs and Democrats
45 The Steamboat, the Railroad, and the Telegraph
46 Annexation of Texas, Beginning of the Mexican War
47 The Close of the Mexican War and the Annexation of New Territory
48 The Question of Slavery in Politics
49 Breakup of Old Parties, Approach of the Civil War
50 How the Great Civil War Began
51 Confederate Victory at Bull Run, The First Western Campaign
52 The War at the East, From Bull Run to Gettysburg
53 Various Operations in 1862 and 1863
54 The Campaign between Nashville and Atlanta
55 From the Wilderness to Petersburg, The War in the Valley
56 Close of the Civil War
57 Traits and Results of the War, Death of Lincoln
58 Political Events since the Civil War
59 Later Developments of the Country
60 Population, Wealth, and Modes of Living
61 Literature and Art in the United States
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