History of the United States eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 731 pages of information about History of the United States.

History of the United States eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 731 pages of information about History of the United States.
c. The Stamp Act Congress (85-86).
d. The Continental Congresses (99-101).
e. The Articles of Confederation (110-111, 139-143).
f. The formation of the federal Constitution (143-160).
g. Development of the federal Constitution.
(1) Amendments 1-11—­rights of persons and states (163).
(2) Twelfth amendment—­election of President (184, note).
(3) Amendments 13-15—­Civil War settlement (358, 366, 369,
370, 374, 375).
(4) Sixteenth amendment—­income tax (528-529).
(5) Seventeenth amendment—­election of Senators (541-542).
(6) Eighteenth amendment—­prohibition (591-592).
(7) Nineteenth amendment—­woman suffrage (563-568).
3.  Development of the suffrage.
a. Colonial restrictions (51-52).
b. Provisions of the first state constitutions
(110, 238-240).
c. Position under federal Constitution of 1787 (149).
d. Extension of manhood suffrage (241-244).
e. Extension and limitation of negro suffrage (373-375,
382-387).
f. Woman suffrage (560-568). 
II.  Relation of government to economic and social welfare.
1.  Debt and currency.
a. Colonial paper money (80).
b. Revolutionary currency and debt (125-127).
c. Disorders under Articles of Confederation (140-141).
d. Powers of Congress under the Constitution to coin money
(see Constitution in the Appendix).
e. First United States bank notes (167).
f. Second United States bank notes (257).
g. State bank notes (258).
h. Civil War greenbacks and specie payment (352-353, 454).
i. The Civil War debt (252).
j. Notes of National Banks under act of 1864 (369).
k. Demonetization of silver and silver legislation
(452-458).
l. The gold standard (472).
m. The federal reserve notes (589).
n. Liberty bonds (606).
2.  Banking systems.
a. The first United States bank (167).
b. The second United States bank—­origin and destruction
(203, 257-259).
c. United States treasury system (263).
d. State banks (258).
e. The national banking system of 1864 (369).
f. Services of banks (407-409).
g. Federal reserve system (589).
3.  The tariff.
a. British colonial system (69-72).
b. Disorders under Articles of Confederation (140).
c. The first tariff under the Constitution (150, 167-168).
d. Development of the tariff, 1816-1832 (252-254).
f. Tariff and nullification (254-256).
g. Development to the Civil War—­attitude of South and West
(264, 309-314, 357).
h. Republicans and Civil War tariffs (352, 367).
i. Revival of the tariff controversy under Cleveland (422).
j. Tariff legislation after 1890—­McKinley bill (422),
Wilson bill (459), Dingley bill (472),
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