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Introduction
Timeline
1. Leif Erikson (ca. 1000)
2. Columbus' Discovery (1492)
3. First English Voyage (1497)
4. America in English (1511)
5. First English Slave Trader (1530)
6. First Expedition to Kansas and Nebraska (1540)
7. De Soto on the Mississippi (1542)
8. Attractions of Florida (1565)
9. English Free-booter's Adventures (1568)
10. Drake's Circumnavigation (1580)
11. First English Voyage to Virginia (1584)
12. Abasing Spain (1584)
13. First Account of New England (1602)
14. Trans-continental Trade (1602)
15. Value of Colonies for England (1607)
16. Early Struggles in Virginia (1608)
17. Lake Champlain (1609)
18. Starving Time in Virginia (1609-10)
19. Tale of Pocahontas (1614)
20. Indians of the South (1618)
21. Why the Pilgrims Migrated (1620)
22. Tales of Squanto (1622)
23. Dismasking of Virginia (1622)
24. Defense of Virginia Charter (1623)
25. Indentured Servant's Letter (1623)
26. New English Canaan (1624)
27. Founding of New Netherland (1628)
28. Patroons in New Netherland (1629)
29. Pequot War (1635)
30. Church and State (1636)
31. Exclusion of Heretics (1637)
32. New England Indians (1642)
33. The Iroquois (1644)
34. New England Opinion of the Dutch (1653)
35. Why the Dutch Surrendered (1665)
36. Toleration in Rhode Island (1670)
37. Marquette on the Mississippi (1673)
38. King Philip's War (1675)
39. Mary Rowlandson Captivity Narrative (1676)
40. Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
41. Indian Captivity (1677-1678)
42. New York in 1679
43. Dutchmen in Boston (1680)
44. Pueblo Revolt (1680)
45. Treaties with Indians (1683)
46. Early Pennsylvania (1683)
47. Life of a Southern Planter (1686)
48. New York in 1687
49. Poor Man's Paradise (1698)
50. History of the Pilgrims (1702)
51. Kandiaronk (1703)
52. Englishmen Hate Arbitrary Power (1710)
53. Danger from the French Mississippi Settlements (1718)
54. Historical Sketch of New England (1720)
55. French and the Fur Trade (1724)
56. A Man Diligent in his Calling (1732)
57. Establishing the Colony of Georgia (1733)
58. Salzburg Germans (1734)
59. Evil Deeds of the Spaniards (1740)
60. Politics in Pennsylvania (1740-1754)
61. Runaways (1741-9)
62. Eliza Lucas (1741-2)
63. Edwards Account of Revival (1743)
64. Louisbourg Expedition (1745)
65. Colonial Independence (1748)
66. The Beautiful River (1752)
67. Albany Plan of Union (1754)
68. Future of North America (1758)
69. New York City (1760)
70. Opposition to Arbitrary Power (1763)
71. Declaration and Remonstrance (1764)
72. Character of the Indians (1767)
73. Pennsylvania Farmer’s Remedy (1768)
74. Wretchedness of White Servants (1770)
75. North Carolina Regulators (1771)
76. Natural Rights of Colonists (1772)
77. The Settlement of the Western Country (1772-1774)
78. Boston Tea-Party (1773)
79. Rebels in Springfield (1774)
80. Reign of King Mob (1775)
81. Conflicting Accounts of Lexington and Concord (1775)
82. A Call for Independence (1776)
83. A Woman at the Front (1775-6)
84. Abandonment of New York (1776)
85. Framing Articles of Confederation (1776)
86. Drafting of the Declaration (1776)
87. Lot of the Refugee (1775-1779)
88. Vengeance on the Tories! (1779)
89. Freeing Slaves to Fight (1779)
90. Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier (1777)
91. Inconveniences of Militia (1780)
92. United States as a World Power (1780)
93. Public Lands (1780)
94. Evils of Slavery (1781)
95. Review of the War (1781)
96. Arcadia in Nantucket (1782)
97. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Revolution (1783)
98. Spirit of American Democracy (1783)
99. How to Found a Settlement (1785-90)
100. Shays's Rebellion (1786-7)
101. The Crisis (1786)
102. Preparations for the Convention (1787)
103. Debates on Slavery (1787)
104. Happy Boston (1788)
105. Defects of the Confederation (1789)
106. What is Popular Government? (1790)
107. Down the Mississippi (1791)
108. West will Remain in the Union (1790)
109. An Opinion of Hamilton (1792)
110. An Opinion of Jefferson (1792)
111. Yellow Fever in Philadelphia (1793)
112. The French Revolution (1792)
113. Economic Advantages of the United States (1795)
114. Political Conditions in America (1795)
115. Importance of New Orleans (1802)
116. Objections to Annexation (1803)
117. Courtesies of English Cruizers (1804)
118. British Case against America (1805)
119. Great Difference between Red and White (1805)
120. Road to Oregon (1805)
121. Argument for the Embargo (1808)
122. Repeal of the Embargo (1809)
123. Voyage down the Ohio (1811)
124. Sleep No Longer (1811)
125. New England Secessionist (1811)
126. Justification of the War (1813)
127. The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)
128. Discussion of Peace (1814-15)
129. People of the Woods (1817)
130. Argument for Internal Improvements (1817)
131. Indian Opinion of the White Man (1817)
132. Perils of State Banking (1818)
133. Conditions of Mexico (1823)
134. Monroe Doctrine as Monroe Stated it (1817-24)
135. Objections to the Panama Congress (1826)
136. Domestic Manners of the Americans (1828)
137. Memorial of the Cherokee Nation (1829)
138. First American Steam Railroad (1830)
139. Black Hawk's Surrender (1832)
140. Boat, Stage, Railroad, and Canal (1833)
141. Chicago (1833)
142. Right of Nullification (1833)
143. Life with a Slave-Breaker (1833)
144. Principles of Executive Government (1834)
145. Spirit of Republican Government (1835)
146. Texas Revolution (1836)
147. Anti-Slavery Protest (1837)
148. Speech in Pennsylvania Hall (1838)
149. Ranney Letters (1839, 1842)
150. All Honest Callings are Honorable (1840)
151. On the Coast of California (1835)
152. Cheerful View of Slavery (1841)
153. A Fugitive Case (1841)
154. Condition of Mexico (1842)
155. Raleigh Letter (1844)
156. Reasons for Annexation (1844)
157. How Annexation was Secured (1845)
158. Reasons for War (1846)
159. Opponent of the War (1847)
160. A Young Officer in the War (1847)
161. Capture of Mexico (1847)
162. Defense of the Proviso (1847)
163. A Forty-Niner (1849-50)
164. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)
165. Lyman Ranney Letters (1850)
166. Danger of Disunion (1850)
167. Plea For The Oppressed (1850)
168. The Poor Whites (1850)
169. On the Underground Railroad (1850)
170. What, To the Slave, Is the Fourth of July? (1852)
171. Slavery a Positive Good (1854)
172. Foundation of a New Party (1855)
173. Fourth of July Address at Reidsville (1854)
174. Civil War in Kansas (1856)
175. Dred Scott Decision (1857)
176. Dred Scott Decision Reviewed (1857)
177. Impending Crisis of the South (1857)
178. A House Divided (1858)
179. Irrepressible Conflict (1858)
180. Cotton is King (1858)
181. A Slave Auction (1859)
182. John Brown Broke the Laws (1859)
183. Result of the Election (1860)
184. Southern "Opponent" of Secession (1860)
185. Secession of South Carolina (1860)
186. No Extension of Slavery (1860-61)
187. Principles of the Confederacy (1861)
188. Rising of the People (1861)
189. Antietam (1862)
190. On the Firing Line (1863)
191. Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (1863)
192. The Draft Riot (1863)
193. Voting By Classes (1863)
194. March to the Sea (1864)
195. Among the Freedmen (1864)
196. Surrender of Lee (1865)
197. An Impartial View (1865)
198. Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
199. Adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment (1865)
200. Presidential Reconstruction (1866)
201. The South As It Is (1865-66)
202. Fourteenth Amendment (1866)
203. Eligibility of Colored Members to Seats (1868)
204. Arraignment of Reconstruction (1868)
205. Completion of the Pacific Railroad (1869)
206. Fifteenth Amendment (1869)
207. Ku-Klux Klan (1871)
208. The Tidal Wave (1874)
209. Proposed Intervention in Cuba (1875)
210. A Warning (1876)
211. Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876)
212. Electoral Crisis (1877)
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