Category: History - American
I. AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES II. THE ERA OF DISCOVERY III. THE ERA OF COLONIZATION IV. THE COLONIAL ERA V. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE VI. SOCIETY IN 1776 VII. THE REVOLUTION VIII. THE CONFEDERATION AND CONSTITUTION IX. WASHINGTON'S PRESIDENCY X. THE WAR OF 1812 XI. THE MEXICAN...
I. AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES II. THE ERA OF DISCOVERY III. THE ERA OF COLONIZATION IV. THE COLONIAL ERA V. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE VI. SOCIETY IN 1776 VII. THE REVOLUTION VII...
2. Chapter 2Meanwhile, England was not idle in contesting with France and Spain the supremacy of the western land. Very early in the sixteenth century projects of colonizing America were fo...
3. Chapter 3All this must have passed through the mind of each deputy as the illustrious committee of five stood before Hancock, at the President's desk. Foremost among them was Thomas Jeff...
4. Chapter 4The Confederation was designed as a temporary civil machine, with which to conduct a war common to the colonies. The Constitution was the later and permanent bond, combining the...
5. Chapter 5President Madison, who assumed the executive chair in 1809, inherited a quarrel with Great Britain from his predecessor, which soon ripened into war. The great contest which rag...
6. Chapter 6If the Free Soilers were becoming formidable, the South was also resolved to assume the offensive. Its triumph in securing the annexation of Texas as another slave State was fol...
7. Chapter 7Every hour of the day, should you stop to reflect, you would find yourself doing something, or aided by something, unknown to or unused by the generation of 1776. Sitting in you...
8. Chapter 8This sojourn in the favored land of art, and the chance which procured him an introduction to King George III. as he was passing through England on his way home, deprived his na...
9. Chapter 9It may be said, then, of the few great political changes which have come over the spirit of our body politic, that they have been, like the English revolutions, gradual, and, if...