Readings in American history
By: by David Saville Muzzey.
Publisher: Ginn
Published: 1915
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 594
Subjects: United States -- History -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Table of contents: title: Part I – The Establishment of the English; title: 1. The New World; title: The Discovery of America; title: A Century of Exploration; title: 2. The English Colonies; title: The Old Dominion; title: The New England Settlements; title: The Proprietary Colonies; title: The Colonies in the Eighteenth Century; title: 3. The Struggle with France for North America; title: The Rise of New France; title: The Fall of New France; title: Part II – The Separation of the Colonies from England; title: 4. British Rule in America; title: The Authority of Parliament in the Colonies; title: Taxation without Representation; title: The Punishment of Massachusetts; title: 5. The Birth of the Nation; title: The Declaration of Independence; title: The Revolutionary War; title: Peace; title: Part III – The New Republic; title: 6. The Constitution; title: The Critical Period; title: “A More Perfect Union”; title: 7. Federalists and Republicans; title: Launching the Government; title: The Reign of Federalism; title: The Jeffersonian Policies; title: The War of 1812; title: Part IV – National versus Sectional Interests; title: 8. The Growth of a National Consciousness; title: A New American Spirit; title: The Monroe Doctrine; title: 9. Sectional Interests; title: The Favorite Sons; title: An Era of Hard Feeling; title: The “Tariff of Abominations”; title: 10. “The Reign of Andrew Jackson”; title: Nullification; title: A New Party; title: Part V – Slavery and the West; title: 11. The Gathering Cloud; title: The Missouri Compromise; title: The Abolitionists; title: 12. Texas; title: The “Reoccupation” of Oregon and the “Reannexation” of Texas; title: The Mexican War; title: 13. The Compromise of 1850; title: The New Territory; title: The Omnibus Bill; title: The Four Years’ Truce; title: Part VI – The Crisis of Disunion; title: 14. Approaching the Crisis; title: The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Formation of the Republican Party; title: “A House Divided against Itself”; title: 15. Secession; title: The Election of Abraham Lincoln; title: The Southern Confederacy; title: The Fall of Fort Sumter; title: 16. The Civil War; title: The Opposing Forces; title: From Bull Run to Gettysburg; title: The Triumph of the North; title: Part VII – The Political and Industrial History of the Republic Since the Civil War; title: 17. Twenty Years of Republican Supremacy; title: Reconstruction; title: The Aftermath of the War; title: A New Industrial Age; title: 18. The Cleveland Democracy; title: A People’s President; title: A Billion Dollar Country; title: Problems of Cleveland’s Second Term; title: 19. Entering the Twentieth Century; title: The Spanish War and the Philippines; title: The Roosevelt Policies; title: The Return of the Democrats; title: 20. America and the World War; title: Neutrality; title: Participation; title: Problems of Peace