This 600 page work, based on primary historical sources and published in 1924, brings true frontier life alive.
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History of the American Frontier 1763-1893
This 600 page work, based on primary historical sources and published in 1924, brings true frontier life alive.
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This 600 page work, based on primary historical sources and published in 1924, brings true frontier life alive.
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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: | 331,398 |
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 | < |