XIV. XV. SIXTH PERIOD. · (First year of the XVI. part of second, (Second year of 1863.) - TOPICAL ANALYSIS. (Pierce. See note 1, page 270.) liii 301. The World's Fair of 1853; American labor-saving machines. 302. Commodore Perry and Japan. 303. The Kansas-Nebraska Act. (Stephen A. Douglas.) (Buchanan. See note 1, page 275.) 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 Secession of six other states; formation of the 315. Why the South seceded; national property; the 316. General summary from Washington to Buchanan. · THE CIVIL WAR. (APRIL, 1861, TO APRIL, 1865.) ((Lincoln. See note 2, page 279, and note 1, page 285.) 321. Condition of the North and the South. (The three 325. Union plan of the war. 326. The Confederate war-vessels; Mason and Slidell. 328. The war in the West; Fort Henry; Fort Donelson. 330. Summary of the first year of the war, April, 1861, 331. Second year of the war; expedition against New 332. Bombardment of the forts; capture of New Orleans. 333. The war in Virginia; McClellan's advance on Rich- 334. "Stonewall" Jackson's raid; Stuart; results of the 335. Second battle of Bull Run; Lee's advance; An- 336. Battles of Fredericksburg and Murfreesboro'. 337. Proclamation of Emancipation; results. 338. Summary of the second year of the war, April, 1862, 339. Third year of the war; Chancellorsville. 341. Vicksburg and Port Hudson. 342. Draft riots; Morgan's raid; Chickamauga; siege 343. Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain; Me- 344. Summary of the third year of the war, April, 1863, 345. Fourth and last year of the war; planning the 346. The battles of the Wilderness; Petersburg. 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 356. The North and the South in the war. 357. Summary of the fourth and last year of the war, – RECONSTRUCTION; THE NEW NATION. PRESENT TIME.) (Johnson. See note 1, page 324.) (1865 TO THE 358. Task of reconstruction; the grand review; dis- 359. What the war settled. 360. The President's proclamation of pardon; the Presi- 361. Congress and the Southern States. (Fohnson's Ad- ministration- XVIII. Grant's Administration. (Two terms, XIX. Hayes's XX., XXI. Garfield and Arthur's Ad- (One term, XXII. 362. 363. TOPICAL ANALYSIS. lv Six states re-admitted; negro legislators and "Car- 365. Alaska; payment of the national debt. (Grant. See note 1, page 297, section on the Civil War, 367, 368. The Pacific Railroad; what railroads and tele- 369. Completion of reconstruction; great fires; "Rings." wars. 372. Summary of Grant's presidency. (Hayes. See note 1, page 340.) 373. Withdrawal of troops from the South; railroad 374. Deepening the mouth of the Mississippi. (Results.) (Garfield and Arthur. See note 1, page 343.) 377. Assassination of the President; Civil Service Reform. 379. The New Orleans Exhibition; the "New South." 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 385. The Year of Strikes; the Chicago Anarchists. (One term, 388. Four important laws. (1, Succession to the presi- 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 General summary. (1, Growth of the Republic; ex- Abolition societies formed, 238. 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. Alien, the, and Sedition laws, 200. Amendment, the 13th, to the Constitution, 327. the 14th, to the Constitution, 328. America, Struggle of English and French for, Early trade of, 52, 62, 114, 141, 149, 150. first flag of, 175 (note 3); 178. a country of advantages, 359. See also United States. Anderson, Major, at Fort Sumter, 286, 322. tries to get possession of the Connecticut 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. in the Civil War, 290, 291. review of, at close of the war, 325. Arnold, expedition against Quebec, 161. 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. |