History of Our Country by Reuben Post Halleck 1929

Halleck's American History Series - American Book Company

Tan cloth cover with some soil and bumped corners and edge wear but overall in very good condition. Pages are complete with no tears, page edges are soiled. Owners name in pencil on inside front page, otherwise clean. Binding is tight. Lots of illustrations, pictures and colored maps. Copyright, 1923, 1926, 1929.

This book aims to present from a modern point of view the main facts in American History in a simple, direct, and living way, just as if they had happened this morning. The life, progress, and industries of the people are specially emphasized.

Contents:

• Before Columbus
• Discovery, Exploration, and Early Colonization
• Natural Features and Natives
• The First Permanent English Colony
• The Coming of the Pilgrims
• Puritan colonies in New England
• Maryland, The Carolinas, and Georgia
• The Middle Colonies
• The Struggle of England and France for North America
• Life in the Colonies
• Causes of Separation From Great Britain
• Beginning of the Revolutionary War
• Progress of the Revolution
• The People, The Confederation, and the New Union
• Beginning of Government Under the Constitution
• Expansion and Foreign Trouble
• Second War with Great Britain
• American Problems, 1815 to 1829
• Life and Progress, 1789 to 1829
• The Industrial Revolution
• Jacksonian Democracy (1829-1841)
• Expansion to the Pacific
• Slavery Trouble (1849-1861)
• Progress, 1830 to 1860
• Secession and Civil War
• Progress of the Civil War
• Reconstruction, 1865 to 1877
• A New Period, 1877 to 1897
• The United States Becomes a World Power
• Growth of the West
• A New Industrial Revolution (1865-1900)
• New Aims (1901-1909)
• Interests in Latin America
• Problems, Old and New (1909-1917)
• The World War
• Twentieth-Century Progress and Problems
• Since the World War

Appendix

• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution of the United States
• The Twenty Most Important Dates in American History
• The Forty Eight States
• Presidents of the United States
• Index

Colored Pictures

• Independence
• The Mayflower
• Expedition of George Rogers Clark, The Hero of The Northwest
• Sakakawea, The Bird Woman
• Evolution of the Flag
• Orchard on Irrigated Land in the West
• A Lock on the Panama Canal
• Immigrants Entering New York Bay

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