conservation.
V. Minor political parties.
1. Before the Civil War: Free Soil (319) and Labor Parties
(306-307).
2. Since the Civil War: Greenback (463-464), Populist (464),
Liberal Republican (420), Socialistic (577-579), Progressive
(531-534, 602-603).
=The Economic Development of the United States=
I. 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]