Includes index

Beginning -- First years of the Constitution -- Teaching by example -- Influence of France upon the United States -- Forces of civilization -- Social life in New England -- Social life in other states -- Administration of John Adams -- War with Algiers -- Opening years of the century -- How there came to be war with England -- Victories on the sea -- Second year of the war -- Second and third year of the war -- Close of the war with England -- From 1817-1832 -- Religious and moral forces -- Progress of temperance -- Prejudice against color -- Texas -- War with the Seminole Indians -- Beginning of a great movement -- War with Mexico -- California -- Oregon -- Compromise of 1850 -- Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law -- Kansas -- The Underground Railroad -- Progress of invention -- The Mormons -- Literature and science -- John Brown -- The election of Abraham Lincoln

4 p. of the publisher's advertisements at end

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