and the illustrations were for the most part selected by him. Acknowledgments for the use of material are due to Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, to the Eclectic Company, to Little, Brown, and Company, to the Lippincott Company, to Lee and Shepard, to D. Appleton and Company, to Curtis and Cameron, and to Messrs. E. R. Walker, H. Pickering, and A. H. Gallatin. The author has received many valuable suggestions from Miss Emma M. Ridley, Professor of History in the Iowa Normal School, from Ray Greene Huling, Head Master of the Cambridge High School, and from Miss Lucia Bartlett, of Milton Academy. In the "Suggestions to Teachers," Miss Anna Boynton Thompson, of the Thayer Academy, Braintree, has kindly described her own methods of teaching, and she has also prepared the Suggestive Questions which will be found at the close of each chapter. Probably few teachers will have the time or the opportunity to adopt all of these suggestions; but every teacher will find something of value in them. Few classes even in Colleges will be able to study all the questions; but every class even in the lower grades of the High School will do well to study some of them. The author will be greatly obliged for the communication of any error, and for any suggestions which will make the book more useful to students and to teachers. CAMBRIDGE, November 29, 1897. 163. Peace Negotiations of 1782 225 209 164. The Treaty of Peace, 1783. 228 152. The French Alliance, 1778 211 165. Problems of Peace 168. The Articles of Confedera- 169. Importance of the Articles 170. Claims to Western Lands. 241 244 184. The Legislative Power 263 174. Social Progress, 1780-89 249 186. Political Parties 175. Foreign Relations, 1783-89 251 187. Stability of the Constitution 267 |