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.
Additional Details
- 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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