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The land and natural resources.

      1. The colonial land system: freehold, plantation, and manor (20-25).

      2. Development of the freehold in the West (220-221, 228-230).

      3. The Homestead act and its results (368, 432-433).

      4. The cattle range and cowboy (431-432).

      5. Disappearance of free land (443-445).

      6. Irrigation and reclamation (434-436).

      7. Movement for the conservation of resources (523-526).

      II. Industry.

      1. The rise of local and domestic industries (28-32).

      2. British restrictions on American enterprise (67-69, 70-72).

      3. Protective tariffs (see above, 648-649).

      4. Development of industry previous to the Civil War (295-307).

      5. Great progress of industry after the war (401-406).

      6. Rise and growth of trusts and combinations (406-412, 472-474).

      III. Commerce and transportation.

      1. Extent of colonial trade and commerce (32-35).

      2. British regulation (69-70).

      3. Effects of the Revolution and the Constitution (139-140, 154).

      4. Growth of American shipping (195-196).

      5. Waterways and canals (230-236).

      6. Rise and extension of the railway system (298-300).

      7. Growth of American foreign trade (445-449).

      IV. Rise of organized labor.

      1. Early phases before the Civil War: local unions, city federations, and national unions in specific trades (304-307).

      2. The National Trade Union, 1866–1872 (574-575).

      3. The Knights of Labor (575-576).

      4. The American Federation of Labor (573-574).

      a. Policies of the Federation (576-577).

      b. Relations to politics (579-581).

      c. Contests with socialists and radicals (577-579).

      d. Problems of immigration (582-585).

      5. The relations of capital and labor.

      a. The corporation and labor (410, 570-571).

      b. Company unions and profit-sharing (571-572).

      c. Welfare work (573).

      d. Strikes (465, 526, 580-581).

      e. Arbitration (581-582).

       American Foreign Relations

      I. Colonial period.

      1. Indian relations (57-59).

      2. French relations (59-61).

      II. Period of conflict and independence.

      1. Relations with Great Britain (77-108, 116-125, 132-135).

      2. Establishment of connections with European powers (128).

      3. The French alliance of 1778 (128-130).

      4. Assistance of Holland and Spain (130).

      III. Relations with Great Britain since 1783.

      1. Commercial settlement in Jay treaty of 1794 (177-178).

      2. Questions arising out of European wars [1793–1801] (176-177, 180).

      3. Blockade and embargo problems (193-199).

      4. War of 1812 (199-201).

      5. Monroe Doctrine and Holy Alliance (205-207).

      6. Maine boundary—Webster-Ashburton treaty (265).

      7. Oregon boundary (284-286).

      8. Attitude of Great Britain during Civil War (354-355).

      9. Arbitration of Alabama claims (480-481).

      10. The Samoan question (481-482)

      11. The Venezuelan question (482-484).

      12. British policy during Spanish-American War (496-497).

      13. Controversy over blockade, 1914–1917 (598-600).

      14. The World War (603-620).

      IV. Relations with France.

      1. The colonial wars (59-61).

      2. The French alliance of 1778 (128-130).

      3. Controversies over the French Revolution (128-130).

      4. Commercial questions arising out of the European wars (176-177, 180, 193-199).

      5. Attitude of Napoleon III toward the Civil War (354-355).

      6. The Mexican entanglement (478-479).

      7. The World War (596-620).

      V. Relations with Germany.

      1. Negotiations with Frederick, king of Prussia (128).

      2. The Samoan controversy (481-482).

      3. Spanish-American War (491).

      4. The Venezuelan controversy (512).

      5. The World War (596-620).

      VI. Relations with the Orient.

      1. Early trading connections (486-487).

      2. The opening of China (447).

      3. The opening of Japan (448).

      4. The Boxer rebellion and the "open door" policy (499-502).

      5. Roosevelt and the close of the Russo-Japanese War (511).

      6. The Oriental immigration question (583-584).

      VII. The United States and Latin America.

      1. Mexican relations.

      a. Mexican independence and the Monroe Doctrine (205-207).

      b. Mexico and French intervention—policy of the United States (478-479).

      c. The overthrow of Diaz (1911) and recent questions (594-596).

      2. Cuban relations.

      a. Slavery and the "Ostend Manifesto" (485-486).

      b. The revolutionary period, 1867–1877 (487).

      c. The revival of revolution (487-491).

      d. American intervention and the Spanish War (491-496).

      e. The Platt amendment and American protection (518-519).

      3. Caribbean and other relations.

      a. Acquisition of Porto Rico (493).

      b. The acquisition of the Panama Canal strip (508-510).

      c. Purchase of Danish West Indies (593).

      d. Venezuelan controversies (482-484, 512).

      e. Extension of protectorate over Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Nicaragua (513-514, 592-594).

      The tide of migration that set in toward the shores of North America during the early years of the seventeenth century was but one phase in the restless and eternal movement of mankind upon the surface of the earth. The ancient Greeks flung out their

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