A history of the United States
By: by Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton.
Contributors: Benton, Elbert Jay, 1871-1946, joint author.
Publisher: D.C. Heath and company
Published: 1919
Place of publication: Boston; New York [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
Subjects: United States -- History
Notes: Maps on lining-papers.
Table of contents: title: 1. Discoverers and Explorers; title: 2. Gaining a Foothold on the Atlantic Shore; title: 3. Exploring the Mississippi Valley; title: 4. The Founding of Virginia; title: 5. The Exiles for Conscience Sake at Plymouth; title: 6. The Beginnings of New England; title: 7. Maryland, a Refuge for English Catholics; title: 8. Dutch and English Rivalries: Beginnings of a Great State; title: 9. A Second Great Emigration; title: 10. The French Rivals; title: 11. The Making of New Frontiers; title: 12. How the Colonists Lived; title: 13. How the Colonies Were Governed; title: 14. Conquest of the French Colonies in America; title: 15. Why the English Colonists Became Revolutionists; title: 16. The Outbreak of War; title: 17. The Birth of a New Nation; title: 18. Life in War Time; title: 19. How the French Helped the Colonists; title: 20. The Difficulties of the New Republic; title: 21. Starting the New Government; title: 22. The United States and Europe; title: 23. Rule of Jefferson: A New West; title: 24. The United States and the Napoleonic Wars; title: 25. The War of 1812; title: 26. New Work and New Routes; title: 27. The March of Population Westward; title: 28. Government by the People; title: 29. Problems of the New Democracy; title: 30. Neighboring Countries Bring on New Questions; title: 31. How the United States Won the Pacific Coast; title: 32. A Great Domain, New Tools, and Willing Hands; title: 33. The Question of Slavery; title: 34. A Divided Nation; title: 35. The Beginning of Civil War; title: 36. Story of Victory and defeat; title: 37. Conquering a Peace; title: 38. Peace and Its Problems; title: 39. Neighbors and Rivals; title: 40. The Prairie States; title: 41. New Methods of Working; title: 42. The New South; title: 43. The Last Barriers; title: 44. Laborers of a Great Nation; title: 45. New Methods of Government; title: 46. The New Education; title: 47. The Republic and the Larger World; title: Appendix