Thomas Jefferson, Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence, Founded the Democratic Party, and Purchased the Louisiana Territory
229
Lewis and Clark, American Explorers in the Oregon Country
238
Oliver Hazard Perry, Victor in the Battle of Lake Erie
244
Andrew Jackson, the Victor of New Orleans
245
The Men Who Made the Nation Great by Their Inventions and Discoveries
Robert Fulton, the Inventor of the Steamboat
257
Samuel F. B. Morse, Inventor of the Telegraph
264
Cyrus West Field, Who Laid the Atlantic Cable between America and Europe
268
Cyrus McCormick, Inventor of the Reaper
272
Elias Howe, Inventor of the Sewing Machine
274
The Men Who Won Texas, the Oregon Country, and California
Sam Houston, Hero of San Jacinto
277
David Crockett, Great Hunter and Hero of the Alamo
282
John C. Fremont, the Pathfinder of the Rocky Mountains
283
Spanish Missions in the Southwest
290
The Three Greatest Statesmen of the Middle Period
Henry Clay, the Founder of the Whig Party and the Great Pacificator
294
Daniel Webster, the Defender of the Constitution
300
John C. Calhoun, the Champion of Nullification
306
Abraham Lincoln, the Liberator and Martyr
A Poor Boy Becomes a Great Man
313
Andrew Johnson and the Progress of Reconstruction
328
Two Famous Generals
Ulysses S. Grant, the Great General of the Union Armies
331
Robert Edward Lee, the Man Who Led the Confederate Armies
337
Men Who Helped Determine New Political Policies
Rutherford B. Hayes
342
James A. Garfield
345
Chester A. Arthur
346
Grover Cleveland
347
Benjamin Harrison
349
The Beginning of Expansion Abroad
William McKinley and the Spanish-American War
352
The Man Who Was the Champion of Democracy
Theodore Roosevelt, the Typical American
360
William Howard Taft
369
Westward Expansion and Development
The Westward Movement of Population and the Development of Transportation
372
George Washington Goethals, Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal
376
Men of Recent Times Who Made Great Inventions
Thomas A. Edison, the Greatest Inventor of Electrical Machinery in the World
380
Two Inventions Widely Used in Business
386
Automobile Making in the United States
388
Wilbur and Orville Wright, the Men Who Gave Humanity Wings
390
John P. Holland, Who Taught Men to Sail Under the Sea
395
Heroines of National Progress
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Who Were the first to Struggle for the Rights of Women
400
Julia Ward Howe, Author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Who Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
404
Frances E. Willard, the Great Temperance Crusader; Clara Barton, Who Founded the Red Cross Society in America; and Jane Addams, the Founder of Hull House Social Settlement in Chicago
408
Resources and Industries of Our Country
How Farm and Factory Helped Build the Nation
416
Mines, Mining, and Manufactures
421
America and the World War
Early Years of the War
424
America Enters to Win
431
The Conclusion of the War
437
Where the American People and Their Civilization Came From
