History of the United States

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. xv, [1], 663 pages 20 cm "References" at end of most of the chapters I: The colonial period. The great migration to America ; Colonial agriculture, industry, and commerce ; Social and political progress ; The development of colonial nationalism -- II: Conflict and independence : The new course in British imperial policy ; The American Revolution -- III: Foundations of the Union and national politics : The formation of the Constitution ; The clash of political parties ; The Jeffersonian republicans in power -- IV: The West and Jacksonian democracy : The farmers beyond the Appalachians ; Jacksonian democracy ; The middle border and the Great West -- V: Sectional conflict and Reconstruction : The rise of the industrial system ; The planting system and national politics ; The Civil War and Reconstruction -- VI: National growth and world politics : The political and economic evolution of the South ; Business enterprises and the Republican Party ; The development of the Great West ; Domestic issues before the country (1865-1897) ; America a world power (1865-1900) -- VII: Progressive democracy and the World War [i.e., World War I] : The evolution of republican policies ; The spirit of reform in America ; The new political democracy ; Industrial democracy ; President Wilson and the World War