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A History of the United States and Its People

by Edward Eggleston Author

(From Amazon): In this third book in Edward Eggleston?s history series you?ll find solid American history in a thorough handbook of American history up to 1888, containing information every child and adult should know about our American heritage.

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Resource Type
Book
ISBN
9780965273589
Print Status
In Print
Chapters
36
Pages
433
Publisher
Lost Classic Books
Edition
Reprint
Copyright
1998

Chapters

  • 1 How Columbus discovered America
  • 2 Other discoveries in America
  • 3 Sir Walter Raleigh Tries to Settle A Colony in America
  • 4 How Jamestown Was Settled
  • 5 The Starving TIme, and What Followed
  • 6 The Great Charter of Virginia
  • 7 The Coming of the Pilgrims
  • 8 The Coming of the Puritans
  • 9 The Coming of the Dutch
  • 10 The Settlement of Maryland and the Carolinas
  • 11 The Coming of the Quakers and Others to the Jerseys and Pennsylvania
  • 12 The Settlement of Georgia and the Counting of the Germans, Irish and French
  • 13 How the Indians Lived
  • 14 Early Indian Wars
  • 15 Traits of War with the Indians
  • 16 Life in the Colonial Times
  • 17 Farming and Shipping in the Colonies
  • 18 Bond-Servants and Slaves in the Colonies
  • 19 Laws and Usages in the Colonies
  • 20 The Spanish in Florida and the French in Canada
  • 21 Colonial Wars with France and Spain
  • 22 Braddock's Defeat and the Expulsion of the Acadians
  • 23 Fall of Canada
  • 24 Characteristics of Colonial Wars with the French
  • 25 How the Colonies were Governed
  • 26 Early Struggles for Liberty in the Colonies
  • 27 The Causes of the Revolution
  • 28 The Outbreak of the Revolution and Declaration of Independence
  • 29 The Battle of Trenton and the Capture of Burgoyne's Army
  • 30 The Dark Period of the Revolution
  • 31 The Closing Years of the Revolution
  • 32 Traits and Incidents of the Revolutionary War
  • 33 The Adoption of the Constitution
  • 34 The New Republic and its People
  • 35 Home and Society in Washington's Time
  • 36 Washington's Presidency: 1789-1797

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