FOURTH PERIOD. THE REVOLUTION, ETC. (continued). the colonies obedient; Patrick Henry and the Stamp Act; New taxes and their results; the "Boston Massacre;" 66 The Boston Tea Party;" punishment of Boston; colonies unite to aid Boston; the First Continental Congress. II. THE REVOLUTION General outline. In New England and Canada: Paul Revere and the minute men; Lexington and Concord; Second Continental Congress. Bunker Hill. Attempt on Canada; the Hessians; the British driven In the Middle States: Declaration of Independence. Retreat through New Jersey; Battle of Trenton; Robert British plan in 1777; Howe and the Brandywine. Valley Forge; Conway cabal. Burgoyne and the Hudson; Saratoga and aid from France; the French Treaty. In the North: Arnold's treason. Paper money; weakness and difficulties of Congress; re- On the Sea: American war vessels; privateers; Paul In the South British plan to conquer the South; partisan PAGE 70 FOURTH PERIOD. -THE REVOLUTION, ETC. (continued). Gen. Greene and Cornwallis; invasion of Virginia by Arnold and Cornwallis; Washington's army transferred to Virginia; surrender of Cornwallis. The War brought to a close: Suspension of hostilities; dissatisfaction in the American army at Newburgh; treaty V. THE CRITICAL PERIOD AND THE CONSTITUTION The Articles of Confederation; ordinances of 1787; con- dition of the country; making of the Constitution; the North- The Confederation and the Federal Constitution; chart Important topics related to the Constitution: Disagree- ment between small and large States as to their representa- tion in Congress; influence of Connecticut in settlement of this question; compromise between North and South as to FIFTH PERIOD. - THE REPUBLIC BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR. I. WASHINGTON'S ADMINISTRATION. PAGE (Two terms, 1789 129 Political parties; Washington's inauguration; his cabinet; how money 'was raised and debts paid; the whiskey rebellion; trouble with France; Jay's treaty with England; Western emigration; the invention of the cotton-gin. II. JOHN ADAMS'S ADMINISTRATION. (One term, 1797-1801.) 134 Trouble with France; alien and sedition laws; character of Adams. III. JEFFERSON'S ADMINISTRATION. (Two terms, 1801-1809.) 135 War with Tripoli; purchase of Louisiana; Lewis and Clarke's explorations; the right of search and impressment of seamen; commercial injuries; the embargo and non-intercourse acts; Aaron Burr; Fulton and the steamboat. IV. MADISON'S ADMINISTRATION. (Two terms, 1809-1817.) 138 Causes of the war of 1812; Tecumseh's conspiracy. Attitude of New England toward the war; the political parties of the time; the British and the American navies; the Constitution and Guerrière. General character of the naval duels; Perry's victory. McDonough's victory; capture of Washington and the attack on Baltimore. The Hartford convention; Battle of New Orleans; growth of manufacturing interests and the tariff; treaty of peace and results of the war. V. MONROE'S ADMINISTRATION. (Two terms, 1817-1825.) War with Seminoles and the purchase of Florida; the Missouri Compromise; the National Road; Monroe doctrine; La Fayette's Visit and Mount Vernon. 146 The Erie Canal; breaking ground for the first passenger railroad in America; the first successful temperance society. President Jackson and the civil service; Wm. Lloyd Gar- rison and the anti-slavery movement; the Abolitionists; the tariff; John C. Calhoun and nullification; Webster and the Union; Henry Clay, the great peacemaker; extension of The rise of the Mormons; their emigration (later) to Utah, and what they have accomplished there; immigra- Morse and the electric telegraph; the annexation of XI. POLK'S ADMINISTRATION. (One term, 1845-1849.). Dr. Whitman and Oregon; "Fifty-Four-Forty or fight!"; the treaty with England; attitude of the North and the South toward the Mexican War; causes of the war; how the war began; the character of the struggle and a comparison be- tween the American and the Mexican soldiers; results of FIFTH PERIOD. -THE REPUBLIC, ETC. (continued). The question of the extention of slavery; the Compromise of 1850; the Fugitive Slave Law and its results; the underground railroad. XIV. PIERCE'S ADMINISTRATION. (One term, 1853-1857.) Commondore Perry and Japan; the Kansas and Nebraska bill and squatter sovereignty; civil war in Kansas; assault on Charles Sumner. XV. BUCHANAN'S ADMINISTRATION. PAGE 162 (One term, 1857-1861.) 163 The Dred Scot decision and its results at the North; John Brown's raid; political parties and the election of Lincoln; South Carolina; secession of six other Southern States and the organization of the Confederacy; seizure of national property and firing on the Star of the West. SIXTH PERIOD. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR. · XVI. LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION. Outline of the war. (One term, 1861-1865.), 169 The surrender of Fort Sumter; Lincoln's call for volunteers and the rising of the North; secession of four more States; condition of the North and of the South with respect to the war. The Battle of Bull Run and its results. The Confederate war vessels; Mason and Slidell and the "Semmes and the Alabama (1862-1864); France and Capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. |