A History of the People of the United St

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Violence, insolence, and law-breaking were not frequent along the whole border. Five open boats, full of potash, attempted to make the run from Fort Niagara to Canada, and, despite the troops and the Collector, three succeeded. On Salmon river, in Oneida County, the crew of a revenue cutter behave so insolently that the people rose, seized them, and put them into the jail. At Lewiston twenty men came over from Canada and carried off a quantity of flour by force. -from "The Long Embargo" A bestseller when it was first published in 1883, this third volume of historian John Bach McMaster's magnum opus is a lively history of the United States that is as entertaining as it is informative. Eventually stretching to eight volumes, McMaster's epic was original in its emphasis on social and economic conditions as deciding factors in shaping a nation's culture: in addition to the words and actions of great men and the outcomes of significant skirmishes and battles, McMaster indulges his obsession with fascinating trivia, from how the booming American economy led to an epidemic of desertions of British soldiers to high-paying merchantman jobs to the great kerfuffle over the importation of Merino sheep from Portugal. Volume 3, spanning the years 1803 through 1812, is a compulsively readable account of the birth pangs of the new nation, and covers such intriguing and unlikely topics as the vagaries of voting laws in some states that enfranchised women and nonwhites, the dangerous and unguarded state of the Western frontier, early battles over slavery and freedom of the press, and more. OF INTEREST TO: readers of American history AUTHOR BIO: American historian JOHN BACH MCMASTER (1852-1932) taught atthe Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from 1883 to 1919. He also wrote Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters (1887) and A School History of the United States (1897), which became a definitive textbook.

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Campbells resolution debated and passed
321
Resistance in New England
331
Resolutions of the General Court of Massachusetts
337
Note 115
341
Napoleon informed of the Nonintercourse
362
The Macon Act reaches Paris
369
Occupation of East Florida authorized
378
Petitions for recharter
385

CHAPTER XV
42
Burr flees to Philadelphia
57
Seeks Spanish
63
Randolph proposes that the army construct public works
69
Committed for trial in Ohio on new charges
87
Western limits of the States
93
Government of the Northwest Territory organized
100
Hatred of a navy a Republican principle
112
Criminal code of the Northwest
113
Northwest Territory enters the second grade
123
Tyrannical administration of Sargent
131
Ohio road and school lands
137
Exploration of Lewis and Clarke
143
Attitude of the Federalists toward the
156
看着
165
Trial of Judge Pickering
172
Trial of Judge Chase
181
Republican caucus
187
Connecticut without a constitution
193
CHAPTER XVIII
200
Referred to a committee
211
Armed merchantmen
219
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235
Case of the Aurora
247
Smuggling in East Florida
253
Desertions from the Melampus and the Halifax
256
Jeffersons proclamation 262
262
Feeling in England
269
European news in the United States
275
American ships burned by the French
279
First supplementary act 280
281
Burrs prospects bright
287
Evasions of the embargo 293
293
Bibb proposes that Representatives wear homespun
299
Embargobreaking on the lakes 304306
305
Napoleon seizes Spain and Portugal
309
Spain revolts against Napoleon
315
Nonimportation Bill recommitted
391
Struggle with the minority in the House
397
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Economic effects of the embargo
417
Massachusetts made a Republican State
423
Debate on a regular army
433
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CHAPTER XXII
459
Coast survey
467
Canal and road corporations seek aid
475
Pittsburg 481
481
Introduction of the steamboat 486
487
Stevenss efforts in Philadelphia
493
Imports of foreign manufactures
499
Protection for infant industries 505
505
Schedule of the Nashville doctors
510
Slavetrade requires more stringent measures
516
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Condition of the Western frontier in 1812
547
Office of the Federal Republican mobbed
554
Petition for slavery in the Illinois country
561
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182
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310
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329 330
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246 247
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Government of the public lands
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Burr seeks revenge upon Hamilton
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Note 112
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Limitation of suffrage
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