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methods in 1789--73.
Organization of Congress (1789)--74. Organization of the Executive
(1789, 1790)--75. Organization of the courts (1789-1793)--76. Revenue
and protection (1789, 1790)--77. National and State debts (1789,
1790)--78. United States Bank (1791, 1792)--79. Slavery questions
(1789-1798)--80. The success of the new government (1789-1792).

CHAPTER VIII.
FEDERAL SUPREMACY (1793-1801). 81. References--82.
Formation of political parties (1792-1794)--83. War between France
and England (1793)--84. American neutrality (1793)--85. The Jay
Treaty (1794-1796)--86. The Whiskey Rebellion (1794)--87. Election
of John Adams (1796)--88. Breach with France (1795-1798)--89. Alien
and Sedition Acts (1798)--90. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
(1798-1800)-- 91. Election of 1800, 1801--92. Causes of the fall of the
Federalists.

CHAPTER IX.
REPUBLICAN SUPREMACY (1801-1809). 93. References--94. The
political revolution of 1801--95. Jefferson's civil service
(1801-1803)--96. Attack on the judiciary (1801-1805)--97. The policy
of retrenchment (1801-1809)--98. Barbary Wars (1801-1806)--99.
Annexation of Louisiana (1803)--100. Federal schemes of disunion
(1803- 1809)--101. The Burr conspiracy (1806, 1807)--102.
Aggressions on neutral trade (1803-1807)--103. Policy of non
resistance (1805-1807)--104. The embargo (1807, 1808)--105. Repeal
of the embargo (1809).

CHAPTER X.
THE UNION IN DANGER (1809-1815) 106. References--107. Non
intercourse laws (1809, 1810)--108. Fruitless negotiations
(1809-1811)--109. The war party (1811)--110. Strength of the
combatants (1812)--111. War on the northern frontier (1812,
1813)--112. Naval war (1812-1815)--113. Disastrous campaign of

1814--114. Question of the militia (1812-1814)--115. Secession
movement in New England (1814)-- 116. Peace of Ghent
(1812-1814)--117. Political effects of the war (1815).

CHAPTER XI.
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REORGANIZATION (1815-1824) 118.
References--119. Conditions of national growth (1815)--120. The
second United States Bank (1815)--121. Internal improvements
(1806-1817)-- 122. The first protective tariff (1816)--123. Monroe's
administration (1817-1825)--124. Territorial extension
(1805-1819)--125. Judicial decisions (1812-1824)--126. The slavery
question revived (1815-1820)--127. The Missouri Compromises
(1818-1821)--128. Relations with Latin American States
(1815-1823)--129. The Monroe Doctrine (1823).

CHAPTER XII.
ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL REORGANIZATION (1824-1829). 130.
References--131. Political methods in 1824--132. The tariff of 1824
(1816-1824)--133. The election of 1824--134. The election of
1825--135. The Panama Congress (1825, 1826)--136. Internal
improvements (1817-1829)-- 137. The Creek and Cherokee questions
(1824-1829)--138. The tariff of abominations (1828)--139. Organized
opposition to Adams (1825-1829)--140. The triumph of the people
(1828).
INDEX

LIST OF MAPS.
1. Territorial Growth of the United States
2. English Colonies, 1763-1775
3. The United States, 1783
4 The United States, March 4, 1801
5. The United States, March 4, 1825

FORMATION OF THE UNION. 1750-1829

CHAPTER I.
THE AMERICANS IN 1750
1. REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHIES.--R. G. Thwaites, Colonies, §§ 39, 74, 90; notes to
Joseph Story, Commentaries, §§ 1-197; notes to H. C. Lodge,
_Colonies, passim_; notes to Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical
History, V. chs. ii.-vi., Channing and Hart, Guide, §§ 130-133.
HISTORICAL MAPS.--R. G. Thwaites, Colonies, Maps Nos. 1 and 4
(Epoch Maps, Nos. 1 and 4); G. P. Fisher Colonial Era, Maps Nos. 1
and 3; Labberton, Atlas, lxiii., B. A. Hinsdale, Old Northwest
(republished from MacCoun's _Historical Geography_).
GENERAL ACCOUNTS.--Joseph Story Commentaries, §§ 146-190;
W. E. H. Lecky, England in the Eighteenth Century, II. 1-21, III.
267-305; T. W. Higginson, Larger History, ch. ix.; Edward Channing,
The United States, 1765-1865 ch. i.; H. E. Scudder, _Men and Manners
in America_; Hannis Taylor, English Constitution, Introduction, I.; H.
C. Lodge, Colonies (chapters on social life); T. Pitkin, United States, I.
85-138, Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, V. chs. ii.-vi.; R.
Frothingham, Rise of the Republic, chs. i., iv.; Grahame, United States,
III. 145-176.
SPECIAL HISTORIES.--W. B. Weeden, Economic and Social History
of New England, II. chs. xiv., xv.; G. E. Howard, Local Constitutional
History, I. chs. ii., iii., vii.-ix.; C. F. Adams, History of Quincy, chs.
iii.-xiv.; M. C. Tyler, History of American Literature, II.; Edward
Channing, Town and County Government, and _Navigation Acts_; F. B.
Dexter, _Estimates of Population_; C. F. Bishop, _Elections in the
Colonies_; Wm. Hill, _First Stages of the Tariff Policy_; W. E. DuBois,
_Suppression of the Slave Trade_; J. R. Brackett, Negro in Maryland.
CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS.--Benjamin Franklin,
Autobiography (1706-1771); John Woolman Journal (1720-1772);

George Whitefield, Journals (especially 1739); Kalm, Travels
(1748-1749); Robert Rogers, Concise Account of North America (1765);
A. Burnaby, Travels (1759-1760); Edmund Burke, _European
Settlements in America_; William Douglass, _Summary_; the various
colonial archives and documents.--Reprints in II. W. Preston,
Documents Illustrative of American History (charters, etc.); New Jersey
Archives, XI., XII., XVIII. (extracts from newspapers); American
History Leaflets, No. 16; Library of American Literature, III.;
American History told by Contemporaries, II.
2. COLONIAL GEOGRAPHY.
[Sidenote: British America.]
By the end of the eighteenth century the term "Americans" was
commonly applied in England, and even the colonists themselves, to
the English- speaking subjects of Great Britain inhabiting the continent
of North America and the adjacent islands. The region thus occupied
comprised the Bahamas, the Bermudas, Jamaica, and some smaller
West Indian islands, Newfoundland, the outlying dependency of Belize,
the territory of the great trading corporation known as the Hudson's