Stories of Later American History
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Chapters (392)
- STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY
- WILBUR F. GORDY
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- MAPS
- STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY
- PATRICK HENRY
- PATRICK HENRY’S FIERY SPEECH AGAINST THE STAMP ACT
- ANOTHER GREAT SPEECH BY PATRICK HENRY
- Some Things to Think About
- SAMUEL ADAMS
- SAMUEL ADAMS AN INSPIRING LEADER
- SAMUEL ADAMS AND THE “BOSTON TEA PARTY”
- SOME RESULTS OF THE “BOSTON TEA PARTY”
- Some Things to Think About
- THE WAR BEGINS NEAR BOSTON
- THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
- Some Things To Think About
- GEORGE WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION
- WASHINGTON IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY
- THE HEROIC NATHAN HALE
- A TIME OF TRIAL FOR WASHINGTON
- THE VICTORY AT TRENTON
- BURGOYNE’S INVASION
- LAFAYETTE JOINS THE AMERICAN ARMY
- Some Things to Think About
- NATHANAEL GREENE AND OTHER HEROES IN THE SOUTH
- GENERAL GREENE IN THE SOUTH
- DANIEL MORGAN, THE GREAT RIFLEMAN
- MARION, THE “SWAMP FOX”
- Some Things to Think About
- JOHN PAUL JONES
- A DESPERATE SEA DUEL
- Some Things to Think About
- DANIEL BOONE
- BOONE GOES TO KENTUCKY
- THE KENTUCKY SETTLERS AT BOONESBOROUGH
- Some Things to Think About
- JAMES ROBERTSON
- HOW THE BACKWOODSMEN LIVED
- ROBERTSON A BRAVE LEADER
- ROBERTSON SAVES THE SETTLEMENT
- Some Things to Think About
- JOHN SEVIER
- SEVIER A HERO AMONG THE TENNESSEE SETTLERS
- Some Things to Think About
- GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
- CLARK STARTS ON HIS LONG JOURNEY
- LIFE IN THE OLD FRENCH VILLAGES
- CLARK’S HARD TASK
- CLARK CAPTURES VINCENNES
- Some Things to Think About
- THE NEW REPUBLIC
- THE COTTON-GIN AND SLAVERY
- Some Things to Think About
- INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC
- JEFFERSON’S GREATEST WORK AS A STATESMAN
- NEW ORLEANS IN 1803
- LEWIS AND CLARK’S EXPEDITION
- ANDREW JACKSON
- Some Things to Think About
- INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
- THE NATIONAL ROAD AND THE ERIE CANAL
- THE RAILROAD
- MORSE AND THE TELEGRAPH
- Some Things to Think About
- THE REPUBLIC GROWS LARGER
- SAM HOUSTON
- DAVID CROCKETT
- JOHN C. FRÉMONT THE PATHFINDER
- THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD
- Some Things To Think About
- THREE GREAT STATESMEN
- JOHN C. CALHOUN
- HENRY CLAY
- DANIEL WEBSTER
- SLAVERY AND THE TARIFF
- THE COMPROMISE OF 1850
- Some Things to Think About
- THE CIVIL WAR
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND SLAVERY
- ROBERT E. LEE
- “STONEWALL” JACKSON
- J.E.B. STUART
- GETTYSBURG
- ULYSSES S. GRANT
- WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
- PHILIP H. SHERIDAN
- TWO GREAT GENERALS
- Some Things to Think About
- FOUR GREAT INDUSTRIES
- COTTON
- WHEAT
- CATTLE-RAISING
- COAL
- Some Things To Think About
- The End
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