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PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

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STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY

PATRICK HENRY

PATRICK HENRY’S FIERY SPEECH AGAINST THE STAMP ACT

ANOTHER GREAT SPEECH BY PATRICK HENRY

SAMUEL ADAMS

SAMUEL ADAMS AN INSPIRING LEADER

SAMUEL ADAMS AND THE “BOSTON TEA PARTY”

SOME RESULTS OF THE “BOSTON TEA PARTY”

THE WAR BEGINS NEAR BOSTON

THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

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

NATHANAEL GREENE AND OTHER HEROES IN THE SOUTH

GENERAL GREENE IN THE SOUTH

DANIEL MORGAN, THE GREAT RIFLEMAN

MARION, THE “SWAMP FOX”

JOHN PAUL JONES

A DESPERATE SEA DUEL

DANIEL BOONE

BOONE GOES TO KENTUCKY

THE KENTUCKY SETTLERS AT BOONESBOROUGH

JAMES ROBERTSON

HOW THE BACKWOODSMEN LIVED

ROBERTSON A BRAVE LEADER

ROBERTSON SAVES THE SETTLEMENT

JOHN SEVIER

SEVIER A HERO AMONG THE TENNESSEE SETTLERS

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK

CLARK STARTS ON HIS LONG JOURNEY

LIFE IN THE OLD FRENCH VILLAGES

CLARK’S HARD TASK

CLARK CAPTURES VINCENNES

THE NEW REPUBLIC

THE COTTON-GIN AND SLAVERY

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

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS

THE NATIONAL ROAD AND THE ERIE CANAL

THE RAILROAD

MORSE AND THE TELEGRAPH

THE REPUBLIC GROWS LARGER

SAM HOUSTON

DAVID CROCKETT

JOHN C. FRÉMONT THE PATHFINDER

THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD

THREE GREAT STATESMEN

JOHN C. CALHOUN

HENRY CLAY

DANIEL WEBSTER

SLAVERY AND THE TARIFF

THE COMPROMISE OF 1850

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

FOUR GREAT INDUSTRIES

COTTON

WHEAT

CATTLE-RAISING

COAL

The End

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