Guide to the Study of American History

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People of the United States 16061895
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English Political Institutions to 1775
311
147 Colonial Political Institutions
312
Colonial Social Institutions and Slavery
314
CONFEDERATION AND CONSTITUTION 149 Government of the Confederation 17811788
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Territorial Questions under the Confederation 17811787
317
Finances of the Confederation 17811788
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Organization of a Financial System 17891793
331
Foreign Relations 17931797
337
Fall of the Federalists 17991801
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Neutral Trade 17891807
350
REORGANIZATION
356
The Missouri Compromise
361
The Monroe Doctrine
362
Administration of John Quincy Adams
364
JACKSONS ADMINISTRATION 180 The United States in 1830
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Andrew Jackson and His Policy
367
Jacksons War on the Bank 18291833
369
Tariff and Nullification 18281832
370
Removal of the Deposits 18331834
372
Territorial Questions and Surplus Revenue 18291841
373
SLAVERY AND TEXAS 186 Negro Slavery from 1830 to 1860
375
The Abolition Movement 18301840
376
Public Controversy as to Slavery 18351844
378
International and Interstate Status of Slavery 18301860
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Van Burens Administration
381
191 The Whigs and Tyler 18401844
382
Northeastern and Northwestern Boundaries 17831846
383
193 Annexation of Texas 18361846
385
The Mexican War 18461848
387
Financial and Commercial Questions 18451849
388
THE SLAVERY CRISIS 196 The Territorial Crisis 18461849
390
197 Compromise of 1850
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198 Fugitive Slaves 18501860
393
Cuba and the KansasNebraska Act 1854
394
The Kansas Struggle 18541861
396
201 Rise of the Republican Party
397
Dred Scott Decision and John Browns Raid
399
203 Election of 1860
400
THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD PAGE 204 The Sections Compared
402
Theory of Secession
404
Process of Secession 18601861
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Coercion and Compromise 18601861
407
Abraham Lincoln and His Policy
410
The Southern Confederacy 18611865
412
Military Events of the Civil War 18611865
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Financial Measures of the Civil War 18611865
419
International Complications of the War 18611865
420
Administration and People during the War
423
214 Abolition of Slavery 18611865
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INDEX
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Página 165 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
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