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Bill Nye's
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
ILLUSTRATED BY
F. Opper
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
ISABELLA AT CONFESSIONAL.
COLUMBUS AT COURT.
CHAPTER II.
OTHER DISCOVERIES—WET AND DRY.
CHAPTER III.
THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES.
CHAPTER IV.
THE PLYMOUTH COLONY.
CHAPTER V.
DRAWBACKS OF BEING A COLONIST.
CHAPTER VI.
THE EPISODE OF THE CHARTER OAK.
CHAPTER VII.
THE DISCOVERY OF NEW YORK.
Beware of Paint.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE DUTCH AT NEW AMSTERDAM.
CHAPTER IX.
SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE STATES.
QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION.
CHAPTER X.
THE EARLY ARISTOCRACY.
CHAPTER XI.
INTERCOLONIAL AND INDIAN WARS.
CHAPTER XII.
PERSONALITY OF WASHINGTON.
CHAPTER XIII.
CONTRASTS WITH THE PRESENT DAY.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
CHAPTER XV.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, LL.D., PH.G., F.R.S., ETC.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE CRITICAL PERIOD.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER XIX.
THE FIRST PRESIDENT.
CHAPTER XX.
THE WAR WITH CANADA.
CHAPTER XXI.
THE ADVANCE OF THE REPUBLIC.
CHAPTER XXII.
MORE DIFFICULTIES STRAIGHTENED OUT.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE WEBSTERS.
CHAPTER XXIV.
BEFO' THE WAH—CAUSES WHICH LED TO IT—MASTERLY GRASP OF THE SUBJECT SHOWN BY THE AUTHOR.
CHAPTER XXV.
BULL RUN AND OTHER BATTLES.
CHAPTER XXVI.
SOME MORE FRATRICIDAL STRIFE.
CHAPTER XXVII.
STILL MORE FRATERNAL BLOODSHED, ON PRINCIPLE.—OUTING FEATURES DISAPPEAR, AND GIVE PLACE TO STRAINED RELATIONS BETWEEN COMBATANTS, WHO BEGIN TO MIX THINGS.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
LAST YEAR OF THE DISAGREEABLE WAR.
CHAPTER XXIX.
TOO MUCH LIBERTY IN PLACES AND NOT ENOUGH ELSEWHERE.—THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR—WHO IS THE BIGGER ASS, THE MAN WHO WILL NOT FORGIVE AND FORGET, OR THE MAWKISH AND MOIST-EYED SNIVELLER WHO WANTS TO DO THAT ALL THE TIME?
CHAPTER XXX.
RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT PAIN—ADMINISTRATIONS OF JOHNSON AND GRANT.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CLOSING CHRONICLES.
THE END.
APPENDIX.
FOOTNOTES
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