A History of the United States. Charles Kendall Adams

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       Charles Kendall Adams, William P. Trent

      A History of the United States

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066200824

Table of Contents

       MAPS.

       ILLUSTRATIONS.

       CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

       PART I. PERIOD OF DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT, 1492–1765.

       CHAPTER I. discovery.

       THE AMERICAN INDIANS.

       PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERERS.

       COLUMBUS AND THE SPANISH DISCOVERERS.

       THE FRENCH EXPLORERS.

       THE ENGLISH EXPLORERS.

       SUMMARY OF RESULTS.

       CHAPTER II. the first plantations and colonies, 1607–1630.

       THE SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA.

       THE SETTLEMENT OF NEW YORK.

       THE PILGRIMS AT PLYMOUTH.

       THE SETTLEMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS.

       CHAPTER III. spread of plantations, 1630–1689.

       THE SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH OF MARYLAND.

       DEVELOPMENT OF VIRGINIA.

       DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ENGLAND.

       THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERACY.

       DEVELOPMENT OF THE MIDDLE COLONIES.

       THE SOUTHERN COLONIES.

       CHAPTER IV. the country at the end of the seventeenth century.

       GENERAL CONDITIONS.

       CHARACTERISTICS OF NEW ENGLAND.

       CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MIDDLE COLONIES.

       CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SOUTHERN COLONIES.

       CHAPTER V. development of the colonies, 1690–1765.

       COLONIAL DISPUTES.

       VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA.

       FRENCH DISCOVERIES AND CLAIMS.

       WARS WITH THE FRENCH.

       PART II. PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION, 1765–1789.

       CHAPTER VI. causes of the revolution.

       GENERAL CAUSES.

       THE QUESTION OF TAXATION.

       THE RESISTANCE OF THE COLONISTS.

       THE TAX ON TEA.

       NEW LEGISLATION AND OPPOSITION.

       THE CRISIS.

       CHAPTER VII. the campaigns of 1775 and 1776.

       EARLY MOVEMENTS.

       WASHINGTON IN COMMAND.

       THE WAR IN NEW YORK.

       GENERAL CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY.

       FAILURE OF BRITISH EXPEDITIONS.

       THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

       THE WAR IN NEW JERSEY.

       CHAPTER VIII. the campaign of 1777.

       THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CENTER.