History of the United States

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v. 1. Introduction: America before Columbus

I: The fore-history : Discovery and settlement ; Early Spanish America ; Exploration and colonization by the French and English ; The planting of Virginia ; Pilgrim and Puritan at the North ; Baltimore and his Maryland ; New Netherlands ; The first Indian wars

II: English America till the end of the French and Indian War : New England under the last Stuarts ; King Philip's War ; The Salem witchcraft ; The Middle colonies ; Maryland, Virginia, Carolina ; Governmental institutions ; Social culture in colonial times ; England and France in America ; The French and Indian War

III: Revolution and the old Confederation : Results of the French and Indian War ; George II and his American colonies ; Independence and the new states ; Outbreak of war

Washington's movements ; The Northern campaign ; The Southern campaigns ; Peace ; American manhood in the Revolution ; The old Confederation ; Rise of the new Constitution v. 2. [III: Revolution and the old Confederation, continued] : Slavery after the Missouri Compromise ; "Immediate abolition" ; The Mexican war ; California and the compromise of 1850 ; The fight for Kansas ; Slavery and the old parties ; The crisis ; Material progress

IV: Civil War and Reconstruction : Causes of the war ; Secession ; The North in the winter of 1860-61 ; War begun ; The struggle for the Mississippi Valley ; The war in the centre [i.e. center] ; The Virginia campaigns of 1862-63 ; Collapse of the Confederacy ; The war on the sea ; Foreign relations

finance, emancipation ; Reconstruction

V: The cemented Union : Political history of the last two decades ; The Treaty of Washington ; The fisheries dispute ; The New South ; The New West ; Expositions of 1876 and 1893 ; Economic politics ; The march of industry ; Conclusion