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History of the American Frontier 1763-1893
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History of the American Frontier 1763-1893
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| ISBN-13: | 9781931313438 |
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| Publisher: | Simon Publications |
| Publication date: | 12/01/1924 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 628 |
| Sales rank: | 89,073 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.28(w) x 9.08(h) x 1.50(d) |
Table of Contents
| Chapter I | The American Frontier of 1763 | 1 |
| British frontier in America | ||
| Imperial boundaries, 1763 | ||
| Colonial population | ||
| Racial strains | ||
| The Germans | ||
| The Scotch-Irish | ||
| The Irish | ||
| Change and spread of population | ||
| Falls line | ||
| Americanization in the Appalachian Valleys | ||
| Colonial tendencies, 1763 | ||
| Proclamation of 1763; Quebec | ||
| East and West Florida | ||
| The Proclamation line of 1763 | ||
| The Winning of the West | ||
| Chapter II | The Forks of the Ohio | 12 |
| Frontier settlement, 1763 | ||
| New England and New York | ||
| The Six Nations | ||
| The Southwest Indians | ||
| Indian frontier line, 1763-1768 | ||
| The Pennsylvania routes | ||
| Pennsylvania-Maryland dispute | ||
| Fairfax and the Northern Neck of Virginia | ||
| Ohio Land Company, 1748 | ||
| Celoron de Bienville, 1749 | ||
| George Washington, 1732-1799 | ||
| French and Indian War | ||
| Braddock's defeat, 1755 | ||
| Forbes's march to Pittsburgh, 1758 | ||
| The restraint of the frontier | ||
| Chapter III | The Shenandoah Country and the Tennessee | 22 |
| Meaning of the proclamation | ||
| Projects for new colonies | ||
| Extension of settlements | ||
| Cumberland and Tennessee Valleys | ||
| Watauga | ||
| North Carolina Regulators | ||
| James Robertson | ||
| John Sevier | ||
| Transylvania | ||
| Lord Dunmore and Cornstalk | ||
| Indian land cessions | ||
| Daniel Boone | ||
| Nashville and Middle Tennessee | ||
| State of Franklin | ||
| Chapter IV | The Rear of the Revolution | 33 |
| Frontier and Revolution | ||
| British Strategy | ||
| Saratoga, 1777 | ||
| Quebec Act, 1774 | ||
| Hamilton at Detroit | ||
| George Rogers Clark | ||
| Military Strength of frontier | ||
| Conquest of the Illinois | ||
| Southern campaigns | ||
| King's Mountain, 1780 | ||
| Basis of peace | ||
| American boundaries, 1783 | ||
| Chapter V | The Land Problem | 43 |
| American uncertainties | ||
| Definitions of frontier | ||
| Fundamental problem of land | ||
| Nature of land titles | ||
| Fees and quit-rents | ||
| Squatter right | ||
| States accede to Crown lands | ||
| Jcalousy of the landless States | ||
| Agrarian controversy | ||
| Proposal of the articles | ||
| Maryland and the land cessions | ||
| Maryland boundary contests | ||
| Ratification of the articles | ||
| Chapter VI | Creation of the Public Domain | 50 |
| The critical period | ||
| Legal basis of land claims | ||
| New York cession | ||
| Massachusetts claim | ||
| Virginia claim | ||
| Massachusetts cession | ||
| Connecticut cession | ||
| Carolina claim | ||
| North Carolina cession | ||
| Georgia claim | ||
| Yazoo frauds | ||
| Public domain | ||
| Chapter VII | The National Land System | 59 |
| Southern land system | ||
| Township system of New England | ||
| Newburgh Petition | ||
| Fort Stanwix Treaty, 1784 | ||
| Jefferson and Land Ordinance of 1784 | ||
| Survey and subdivision | ||
| The Seven Ranges | ||
| The Ohio Associates | ||
| Northwest Ordinance, 1787 | ||
| Three or five States | ||
| Basis of colonial government | ||
| Scioto group | ||
| Chapter VIII | The Old Northwest | 71 |
| Opening of the frontier | ||
| Marietta | ||
| Symmes Purchase | ||
| Virginia Reserve | ||
| Connecticut Reserve | ||
| The French at Gallipolis | ||
| Indian treaties | ||
| Tribes and the land | ||
| Tribal organization | ||
| American prestige | ||
| Harmar | ||
| St. Clair and Wayne | ||
| Fallen Timbers | ||
| Treaty of Greenville | ||
| Chapter IX | The Western Boundaries | 79 |
| Execution of Peace Treaty | ||
| The new United States power | ||
| Sympathy with France | ||
| Neutrality | ||
| Jay's Mission | ||
| British surrender posts | ||
| Significance of the Mississippi | ||
| Louisiana and St. Louis | ||
| The Secret Article of 1782 | ||
| Mississippi closure | ||
| Loose bond of union | ||
| Spanish Treaty, 1795 | ||
| Chapter X | The First New States | 87 |
| Inauguration of the Government | ||
| Vermont, 1791 | ||
| Kentucky, 1792 | ||
| Mississippi navigation | ||
| Admission of Kentucky | ||
| Admission of Tennessee, 1796 | ||
| Southwest intrigue | ||
| Progress of West | ||
| Chapter XI | Political Theories of the Frontier | 95 |
| British influences on thought | ||
| The factor of isolation | ||
| Self-confidence | ||
| Equality | ||
| Absenteeism of government | ||
| Constitutional ideas | ||
| Making of constitutions | ||
| The Legislature | ||
| Frontier rights | ||
| Chapter XII | Jeffersonian Democracy | 102 |
| Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln | ||
| Washington and government | ||
| Administrative point of view | ||
| The social clash | ||
| Political materials of the frontier | ||
| Democratic views of Jefferson | ||
| Assumption of Revolutionary debts | ||
| Whiskey Insurrection | ||
| The French sympathy | ||
| Organization of the Democrats | ||
| Federalist repression | ||
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | ||
| Election of Jefferson, 1801 | ||
| Chapter XIII | The Frontier of 1800 | 111 |
| Revolution of 1800 | ||
| Population changes | ||
| Frontier line, 1800 | ||
| Social life on the frontier | ||
| Frontier homes | ||
| Frontier loneliness | ||
| Religion | ||
| The Revival of 1801 | ||
| Church schism | ||
| The basic factor of land | ||
| Land system before 1800 | ||
| Private land sales | ||
| Hamilton's proposals | ||
| Harrison and land reform, 1800 | ||
| Chapter XIV | Ohio: The Clash of Principles | 123 |
| Frontier rights | ||
| St. Clair and the Northwest Territory | ||
| The Northwest Delegate in Congress | ||
| Indiana Territory | ||
| Eastern division | ||
| Enabling Act, 1802 | ||
| Ohio Constitution | ||
| Ohio boundaries | ||
| Land grants | ||
| Ohio a State | ||
| Chapter XV | The Purchase of Louisiana | 130 |
| Jefferson and the Western crisis | ||
| France and the Mississippi | ||
| Closure of New Orleans | ||
| The constitutional dilcumma | ||
| Monroe and the Louisiana Purchase | ||
| Transfer of Louisiana | ||
| Reconnoissance of Louisiana | ||
| Lewis and Clark | ||
| Pike and the Upper Mississippi | ||
| Chapter XVI | Problems of the Southwest Border | 140 |
| Louisiana and Texas | ||
| Government of Louisiana | ||
| Pike and New Mexico | ||
| Wilkinson and Burr | ||
| Aaron Burr | ||
| Burr and the ministers | ||
| Reconnoissance of 1805 | ||
| Collapse of the expedition | ||
| State of Louisiana | ||
| Eastern limits of Louisiana | ||
| Chapter XVII | The Bonds of Unity | 150 |
| The year 1811 | ||
| Progress on Border | ||
| Roads | ||
| Ohio and the East | ||
| Cumberland Road | ||
| Construction of the Road | ||
| Constitutional aspects | ||
| Economic aspects | ||
| Political aspects | ||
| Roosevelt's steamboat | ||
| Life on the Mississippi | ||
| Earlier river traffic | ||
| Trade with the current | ||
| New Orleans and the Atlantic ports | ||
| Steamboat era | ||
| Chapter XVIII | The Wabash Frontier: Tecumseh, 1811 | 159 |
| Indian problem | ||
| Land ownership | ||
| Democratization | ||
| Decay of the tribes | ||
| British at Malden | ||
| The Wabash Indians | ||
| Harrison purchases | ||
| Treaties at Fort Wayne | ||
| Nature of sovereignty of tribes | ||
| Tecumseh | ||
| Prophetstown | ||
| Harrison and Tecumseh | ||
| Tippecanoc campaign | ||
| Peace on the Wabash | ||
| Chapter XIX | The Western War of 1812 | 167 |
| The War Congress | ||
| Frontier contrasts | ||
| National idealism | ||
| Causes of War of 1812 | ||
| American trade | ||
| Chesapeake | ||
| Madison and war | ||
| Status of army | ||
| Conquest of Canada | ||
| Hull and Detroit | ||
| Hull's surrender | ||
| General Harrison | ||
| Perry at Put-in-Bay | ||
| Southwest advance | ||
| Cessions in Mississippi Territory | ||
| Creek at Fort Mims | ||
| Jackson's campaign | ||
| Treaty of Fort Jackson | ||
| Raid on Washington | ||
| Pensacola | ||
| Battle of New Orleans | ||
| Chapter XX | Stabilizing the Frontier | 178 |
| Victory of 1812 | ||
| Western boundaries | ||
| Astor and the fur trade | ||
| Frontier readjustment | ||
| Canadian Boundary Treaty | ||
| Oregon | ||
| Spanish boundary | ||
| Jackson in Florida | ||
| Clay and the Spanish Settlement | ||
| Treaty of 1819 | ||
| Texas | ||
| Chapter XXI | The Great Migration | 186 |
| Forces inducing migration | ||
| Land | ||
| Special stimuli | ||
| Waves of migration | ||
| The Great Migration | ||
| Eastern distress | ||
| Western activity | ||
| Bonus Act of 1812 | ||
| Western War | ||
| New States | ||
| Admission of Louisiana | ||
| Chapter XXII | Statehood on the Ohio: Indiana and Illinois | 191 |
| Indiana in 1810 | ||
| Frontier in 1810 | ||
| Indian withdrawal | ||
| Growth of population to 1820 | ||
| River towns | ||
| Location of population in Indiana | < |
