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XIV.
Pierce's
Administration.
(One term,
1853-1857.)

XV.
Buchanan's
Administration.
(One term,
1857-1861.)

SIXTH PERIOD. ·

(First year of the
war, 1861-1862.)

XVI.
Lincoln's
Administration.
(One term and

part of second,
1861-1865.)

(Second year of
the war, 1862-

1863.)

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TOPICAL ANALYSIS.

(Pierce. See note 1, page 270.)

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301. The World's Fair of 1853; American labor-saving

machines.

302. Commodore Perry and Japan.

303. The Kansas-Nebraska Act. (Stephen A. Douglas.)
304-306. The struggle for the possession of Kansas;
rival governments; civil war in Kansas; attack
on Lawrence; John Brown; assault on Sumner.
307. Summary of Pierce's presidency.

(Buchanan. See note 1, page 275.)
308, 309. The Dred Scott Case;

decision; results.

310. The business panic of 1857.

Chief Justice Taney's

(Causes.)

311. Discovery of silver, of petroleum, and of natural

gas.

312. John Brown's raid into Virginia.

313.

314.

Election of Abraham Lincoln; secession of South
Carolina.

Secession of six other states; formation of the
"Confederate States of America."

315. Why the South seceded; national property; the
Star of the West.

316. General summary from Washington to Buchanan. ·
(1, population; 2, territorial growth; 3, cities,
railroads, and telegraph; 4, disunion: its cause;
what must be done; what freedom would ac-
complish.)

THE CIVIL WAR. (APRIL, 1861, TO APRIL, 1865.)

((Lincoln. See note 2, page 279, and note 1, page 285.)
317. President Lincoln's arrival at Washington and
inaugural speech. (Feeling at the North.)
318. Major Anderson; Fort Sumter; the Civil War begins.
319. President Lincoln's call for troops; result.
320. Secession of four more states; General Butler's
"Contrabands."

321. Condition of the North and the South. (The three
advantages of the North; the four of the South.)
322. Number and position of the two armies.
323, 324. Battle of Bull Run; results.

325. Union plan of the war.

326. The Confederate war-vessels; Mason and Slidell.
327. The Merrimac; the Monitor.

328. The war in the West; Fort Henry; Fort Donelson.
329. Pittsburg Landing; Island Number Ten.

330. Summary of the first year of the war, April, 1861,
to April, 1862.

331. Second year of the war; expedition against New
Orleans.

332. Bombardment of the forts; capture of New Orleans.

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333. The war in Virginia; McClellan's advance on Rich-
mond; the Peninsular Campaign.

334.

"Stonewall" Jackson's raid; Stuart; results of the
Peninsular Campaign.

335. Second battle of Bull Run; Lee's advance; An-
tietam.

336. Battles of Fredericksburg and Murfreesboro'.

337. Proclamation of Emancipation; results.

338. Summary of the second year of the war, April, 1862,
to April, 1863.

339. Third year of the war; Chancellorsville.
340. Gettysburg.

341. Vicksburg and Port Hudson.

342. Draft riots; Morgan's raid; Chickamauga; siege
of Chattanooga.

343. Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain; Me-
ridian; Grant made general-in-chief.

344. Summary of the third year of the war, April, 1863,
to April 1864.

345. Fourth and last year of the war; planning the
"Hammering Campaign."

346. The battles of the Wilderness; Petersburg.
347. Captain Winslow and the Alabama; Early's raid.
348. Sheridan's raid in the Shenandoah Valley.

349. The Petersburg mine; Sheridan's ride.

350. The war in the West; Sherman's advance to At-

lanta.

351. Sherman takes Atlanta: Farragut enters Mobile

Bay.

352. Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea.

353. Thomas and Hood.

354. Sherman at Savannah; his message to the Presi-

dent; his advance northward.

355. The end of the war; what the war cost; murder of
the President.

356. The North and the South in the war.

357. Summary of the fourth and last year of the war,
April, 1864, to April, 1865.

– RECONSTRUCTION; THE NEW NATION.

PRESENT TIME.)

(Johnson. See note 1, page 324.)

(1865 TO THE

358. Task of reconstruction; the grand review; dis-
banding the armies.

359. What the war settled.

360. The President's proclamation of pardon; the Presi-
dent and Congress.

361. Congress and the Southern States.

(Fohnson's Ad-

ministration-
continued.)

XVIII.

Grant's

Administration.

(Two terms,
1869-1877.)

XIX.

Hayes's
Administration.
(One term,
1877-1881.)

XX., XXI.

Garfield and

Arthur's Ad-
ministrations.

(One term,
1881-1885.)

XXII.
Cleveland's

362.

363.

TOPICAL ANALYSIS.

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Six states re-admitted; negro legislators and "Car-
pet-Baggers."
Congress impeaches the President; the President's
proclamation of full and unconditional pardon;
the three amendments to the Constitution.
364. The Atlantic cable.

365. Alaska; payment of the national debt.
366. Summary of Johnson's presidency.

(Grant. See note 1, page 297, section on the Civil War,
and note 3, page 332.)

367, 368. The Pacific Railroad; what railroads and tele-
graphs have done for the Union; Effect of the
Pacific Railroad on commerce with Asia, and on
the growth of the far West.

369. Completion of reconstruction; great fires; "Rings."
370. The business panic of 1873; the Centennial Exhi-
bition; the electric light; the telephone.
371. Treaty with Great Britain; the Alabama; Indian

wars.

372. Summary of Grant's presidency.

(Hayes. See note 1, page 340.)

373. Withdrawal of troops from the South; railroad
and coal strikes.

374. Deepening the mouth of the Mississippi. (Results.)
375. "Greenbacks and gold; the national debt.
376. Summary of Hayes's presidency.

(Garfield and Arthur. See note 1, page 343.)

377. Assassination of the President; Civil Service Reform.
378. Overflow of the Mississippi; the East River Suspen-
sion Bridge; cheap postage.

379. The New Orleans Exhibition; the "New South."
380, 381. Progress in the South; manufactures; the cot-
ton crop; the freedmen; education. (Horace
Greeley.)

382. Summary of Garfield and Arthur's presidencies.

(Cleveland. See note 1, page 349.)

383. Progress in Civil Service Reform.

384. The "Knights of Labor "; the "Black List"; the
"Boycott."

385. The Year of Strikes; the Chicago Anarchists.
Administration. 386. The Charleston earthquake; "Blizzards."
387. The Statue of Liberty.

(One term,
1885-1889.)

388. Four important laws. (1, Succession to the presi-
dency; 2, counting the electoral votes; 3, inter-
state commerce; 4, Chinese immigration.)

389. Summary of Cleveland's presidency.

XXIII.

Harrison's

Administration.

(Harrison. See note 3, page 355.)

390. Oklahoma. (Oklahoma City and Guthrie.)

391. The Washington Centennial; the Johnstown dis-

aster.

392. The Congress of the three Americas; six new
states; the new war ships.

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General summary. (1, Growth of the Republic; ex-
tent; 2, advantages; 3, what America means;
4, the great question.)

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Abolition societies formed, 238.
Adams, John, 164, 165, 185.
presidency, 199.

Adams's, J. Q., presidency, 229.

on right of petition, 239.

Adams, Samuel, 152, 154, 155, 156 (note 2);

157.

Alabama, the, built, 294.

sunk, 313.

claims settled, 339.

Alaska purchased, 331.

Albany (Fort Orange) settled, 66.
Albany, the, Convention (1754), 135.
Albion, New, 34.

Alien, the, and Sedition laws, 200.
Allen, Ethan, takes Ticonderoga, 159.

Amendment, the 13th, to the Constitution, 327.

the 14th, to the Constitution, 328.
the 15th, to the Constitution, 330.

America, Struggle of English and French for,
129-139.

Early trade of, 52, 62, 114, 141, 149, 150.
declares itself independent, 164.

first flag of, 175 (note 3); 178.

a country of advantages, 359.
means Opportunity, 359.

See also United States.
American Party, the, 270 (note 1).
Americas, Congress of the Three, 357.
Amerigo Vespucci, voyages of, 20.
Anarchists, the Chicago, 351.

Anderson, Major, at Fort Sumter, 286, 322.
Andros, Governor, of Massachusetts, 93.
is seized and imprisoned, 93.

tries to get possession of the Connecticut
Charter, 100.
Anti-Federalists, 191.
Anti-Renters, 253.

Amendments, the constitutional, and the Anti-Slavery movement, beginning of, 237.

negro, 330.

America discovered by the Northmen, 3.

discovered by Columbus, 14.

continent of, discovered by Cabot, 18.

origin of name, 20, 21.

white settlers in 1600, 38.

what it was found to be, 38.

wherein superior to Europe, 38, 39.

Gladstone on, 39.

Apprentices, white, in Virginia, 59.
Armies, in the Revolution, 167.

in the Civil War, 290, 291.

review of, at close of the war, 325.
disbanding the Union, 325.

Arnold, expedition against Quebec, 161.
at Saratoga, 175.

treason of, 180.

Art, American, 245.

effects of the discovery of, on Europe, Arthur's presidency, 343.

46-48.

Ashburton Treaty, 253.

first permanent English and French Astor, John J., 206 (note 1).

colonies in, 49.

England's need of, 50.

Astoria, 206 (note 1).

Atlantic, the "Sea of Darkness," 2.

thought to be less than two hundred Atlantic Telegraph Cable, 330.

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