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The Heritage of America
- About this book
- Chapter 1. Opening Up the Continent
- The continent
- Individuals may discover
- Brave and stupid men
- Religion
- Dying near the Mississippi
- These Spaniards lied
- Savages
- Proof
- Chapter 2. Planting Colonies in the New World
- The Virginia Company
- Pocahontas
- Pilgrims
- Savage barbarians
- Puritans
- New Netherland
- Wouter van Twiller
- Diversity
- Chapter 3. Life in the American Colonies
- Wonders of the invisible world
- Bacon’s rebellion
- Wabanaki
- Hardships of Maine
- Lazy louts
- Slaves and redemptioners
- Ben Franklin
- George Mason estate
- Chapter 4. White Men and Red
- Skin color
- John Lawson’s opinion of the Indians of North Carolina
- First Indian war
- Neutrality
- Indian captivity
- Indian wars
- Bounty
- Indian adoption
- Chapter 5. The Struggle for the Continent
- Indians between both French and English
- Braddock’s defeat
- Battle on the Plains of Abraham
- Chapter 6. The Coming of the Revolution
- Boston tea party
- John Adams complained
- Liberty or death
- George Washington, British loyalist
- Powder alarm
- Shot heard round the world
- Declaration of independence
- Chapter 7. The Winning of Independence
- Looting Fort Ticonderoga
- March against nature
- Continental morale
- Siege of Fort Vincennes
- Mutiny
- Battle of Flamborough Head
- Surrender at Yorktown
- Chapter 8. Confederation and Constitution
- Thirteen states
- Rhode Island sat it out
- Compromises
- Bill of Rights
- Chapter 9. Launching the New Government
- Presidency
- Dept Assumption
- Partisanship
- Equality
- Treason
- Libels
- Strict construction
- Chapter 10. The War of 1812
- Privateering
- Tippecanoe
- Burning of Washington
- Forces of war
- Treaty of Ghent
- Winning the battle
- Trade
- Chapter 11. The Hardy Frontiersman
- Praying Indians
- Cheap land in Connecticut
- William Cooper
- Westward migration
- Davy Crockett
- In the opinion of Rev. Timothy Flint
- Hardships and perils
- Chapter 12. New Settlements in the Wilderness
- Neighborliness
- Nostalgia
- Underground railroad
- She saw Indians
- Dishonesty
- Chapter 13. Sailing and Whaling
- Flogging at sea
- Whale
- Fate
- Raw material
- Scooners from Monhegan Island
- Chapter 14. Steamboat Days
- New Orleans
- Romance of the river
- Chapter 16. Man the Reformer
- New world
- Pseudoscientific fads
- Social welfare
- Principles
- Wilderness
- Working for a living
- Shakers
- Chapter 17. The South and Slavery
- An ideal of the industrial age
- Effects of slavery
- Cargo of slaves
- Benevolent master
- Labor in the rice fields
- Myth of the happy darky
- Chapter 18. Abolition and Fugitive Slaves
- Vested interests
- The power of the press
- Property