A brief history of the United States / by Joel Dorman Steele and Esther Baker Steele.

New York: American Book Company, 1885.


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A brief history of the United States.

Preliminares.

Introduction.

First epoch.

Early discoveries and settlements. - Spanish explorations.

French explorations. - English explorations. - Dutch explorations. - Extent of these explorations. - Sea-life in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Contemporary European sovereigns. - Chronological summary.

Blackboard analysis.

Second epoch.

Development of the English colonies.

I. Virginia.

II. Massachusetts.

III - X.
III. Maine and New Hampshire.

IV. Connecticut.
V. Rhode Island.
VI. New York.
VII. New Jersey.
VIII - IX. Pennsylvania and Delaware.
X. Maryland.

XI - XIII.
XI - XII. The Carolinas.

XIII. Georgia.

XIV. Inter-colonial wars.
1 - 3.
1. King William's war.

2. Queen Anne's war.
3. King George's war.
4. French and Indian war.

Development of english colonies. - Contemporary European sovereigns. - Chronological summary. - Blackboard analysis.

Third epoch.

Revolutionary war. - 1775.

1776. - 1777.

1778. - 1779. - 1780.

1781.

Rural life one hundred years ago. - Chronological summary. - Blackboard analysis.

Fourth epoch.

Development of the states. - Adams' administration. - Jefferson's administration. - Madison's administration.

Second war with great Britain.

Monroe's administration. - J. Q. Adams`administration. - Kaclson`s administration. - Van Buren`s administration. - Harrison and Tyler's administration.

James k. Polk's administration.-Taylor and Fillmore's administration. - Pierce's administration.

Buchanan's administration.

Civilization. - Chronological summary. -Blackboard analysis.

Fifth epoch.

Lincoln's administration. - The war in Virginia. - The war in Missouri. - The war on the sea and the coast.

The war in the west. - The war on the sea and the coast.

The war in the east.

The war in the west 1868. - The war in Tennessee and Georgia. - The war in east Tennessee. - The war in the east. - The war on the sea and the coast. - 1864. The war on Tennessee and Georgia.

The war in Virginia. - The war on the sea and the coast.

1865. - Chronological summary. - Blackboard analysis.

Sixth e New York: American Book Company, 1885 epoch.

Johnson's administration. - Grant's administration.

Hayes' administration. -Garfield and Arthur's administration.- Cleveland's first administration.- Harrison's administration.- Cleveland's first administration. -McKinley's administration. -Progress in civilization.

Supplement: the war with Spain. - Blackboard analysis.
Parte 1.

Parte 2.

Appendix.

Questions for class use.

First epoch - second epoch.

Third epoch - Sixth epoch.

Historical recreations. - Declarations of Independence.

Constitution of the United States.
Parte 1.

Parte 2.

Table of States. - Table of Presidents. - Index.