Comic History of the United States

CONTENTS

CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER I.	PAGE
The Discovery of America	13
Other Discoveries—Wet and Dry	23
CHAPTER III.
The Thirteen Original Colonies	36
CHAPTER IV.
The Plymouth Colony	47
CHAPTER V.
Drawbacks of Being a Colonist	55
CHAPTER VI.
The Episode of the Charter Oak	62
CHAPTER VII.
The Discovery of New York	72
CHAPTER VIII.
The Dutch at New Amsterdam	82
CHAPTER IX.
Settlement of the Middle States	92
CHAPTER X.
The Early Aristocracy	102
CHAPTER XI.
Intercolonial and Indian Wars	110
CHAPTER XII.
Personality of Washington	124
CHAPTER XIII.
Contrasts With the Present Day	131
CHAPTER XIV.
The Revolutionary War	142
CHAPTER XV.
Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., PhG, F.R.S., etc.	152
CHAPTER XVI.
The Critical Period	160
CHAPTER XVII.
The Beginning of the End	170
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Close of the Revolution	181
CHAPTER XIX.
The First President	191
CHAPTER XX.
The War With Canada	203
CHAPTER XXI.
The Advance of the Republic	212
CHAPTER XXII.
More Difficulties Straightened Out	222
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Websters	233
CHAPTER XXIV.
Befo' the Wah—causes Which Led To It—masterly Grasp Of the Subject Shown by the Author	243
CHAPTER XXV.
Bull Run and Other Battles	252
CHAPTER XXVI.
Some More Fratricidal Strife	263
CHAPTER XXVII.
Still More Fraternal Bloodshed, on Principle—outing Features Disappear, and Give Place To Strained Relations Between Combatants, Who Begin To Mix Things	274
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Last Year of the Disagreeable War	284
CHAPTER XXIX.
Too Much Liberty in Places and Not Enough Elsewhere.—thoughts On the Late War—who Is the Bigger Ass, The Man Who Will Not Forgive and Forget, Or The Mawkish and Moist Eyed Sniveller Who Wants To Do That All the Time?	297
CHAPTER XXX.
Reconstruction Without Pain—administrations of Johnson And Grant	305
CHAPTER XXXI.
Closing Chronicles	Genius of discovery Clyx.com