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Relations with Plymouth. De Vries on the Delaware.
Dutch Fort at Hartford. Conflict of Dutch with English. Gustavus
Adolphus. Swedish Beginnings at Wilmington, Delaware. Advent of
Kieft. Maltreats Indians. New Netherland in 1647. Stuyvesant's
Excellent Rule. Conquers New Sweden. And the Indians. Conquest of
Dutch America by England. "New York." Persistence of Dutch
Influence and Traits.

* CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST INDIAN WARS
Beginning of Indian Hostility. Of Pequot War. Mason's Strategy. And
Tactics. Capture of Pequot Fort. Back to Saybrook. Extermination of
Pequot Tribe. Peace. Miantonomoh and Uncas. Dutch War with Indians.
Caused by Kieft's Impolicy. Liquor. Underhill Comes. Mrs.
Hutchinson's Fate. Deborah Moody. New Haven Refuses Aid. Appeal
to Holland. Underhill's Exploits. Kieft Removed. Sad Plight of New
Netherland. Subsequent Hostilities and Final Peace.

PERIOD II
ENGLISH AMERICA TILL THE END OF THE FRENCH AND
INDIAN WAR
1660--1763
CHAPTER I.
NEW ENGLAND UNDER THE LAST STUARTS.
Charles II. and Massachusetts. Massachusetts about 1660. Its View of
its Political Rights. The King's View. And Commands. Commission of
1664. Why Vengeance was Delayed. Boldness of the Colony. It Buys
Maine. Fails to get New Hampshire. The King's Rage. The Charter
Vacated. Charles II. and Connecticut. Prosperity of this Colony. Rhode
Island. Boundary Disputes of Connecticut. Of Rhode Island. George
Fox and Roger Williams. James II. King. Andros Governor. Andros
and Southern New England. In Massachusetts. Revolution of 1688.
New Charter for Massachusetts. Defects and Merits.

* CHAPTER II. KING PHILIP'S WAR.
Whites' Treatment of Red Men. Indian Hatred. Causes. Alexander's

Death. Philip King. Scope of his Conspiracy. Murders Sausaman. War
Begun. Nipmucks take Part. War in Connecticut Valley. Bloody Brook.
The Swamp Fight at South Kingston, R. I. Central Massachusetts
Aflame. The Rowlandson History. Southeastern Massachusetts and
Rhode Island again. Connecticut Valley once more Invaded. Turner's
Falls. Philip's Death. Horrors of the War. Philip's Character. Fate of his
Family.

* CHAPTER III. THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT
New England Home Life. Religion its Centre. The Farmhouse.
Morning Devotions. Farm Work. Tools. Diet. Neighborliness. New
England Superstitions. Not Peculiar to New England. Sunday Laws.
Public Worship. First Case of Sorcery. The Witch Executed. Cotton
Mather. His Experiments. His Book. The Parris Children Bewitched.
The Manifestations. The Trial. Executions. George Burroughs. Rebecca
Nurse. Reaction. Forwardness of Clergy. "Devil's Authority." The End.

* CHAPTER IV. THE MIDDLE COLONIES
English Conquest of New Netherland. Duke of York's Government.
Andros. Revolution of 1688. Leisler. Problems which Teased Royal
Governors. New Jersey. Its Political Vicissitudes. William Penn.
Character. Liberality of Pennsylvania Charter. Penn and James II.
Penn's Services for his Colony. Prosperity of the Latter. Fletcher's Rule.
Gabriel Thomas's History of Pennsylvania. Penn's Trials. And Victory.
Delaware.

* CHAPTER V. MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, CAROLINA
Maryland after the Stuart Restoration. Navigation Act. Boundary
Disputes. Liberality of Religion. Agitation to Establish Anglicanism.
Maryland under William and Mary. English Church Established. Not
Oppressive. Fate of Virginia after the Restoration. Virginia's Spirit,

Numbers, Resources. Causes of Bacon's Rebellion. Evil of the
Navigation Acts. Worthless Officials. Course of the Rebellion. Result.
Dulness of the Subsequent History. William and Mary College.
Governor Spotswood. Blackbeard. Carolina. Its Constitution. Conflict
of Parties. Georgia.

* CHAPTER VI. GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE
COLONIES.
Origin of American Political Institutions. Local Self-Government.
Representation. Relation of Colonies to England. Classification of
Colonies. Changes. Conflict of Legal Views. Colonists' Contentions.
Taxation.

* CHAPTER VII. SOCIAL CULTURE IN COLONIAL TIMES.
Population of the Colonies at Different Dates. Differences according to
Sections. Intellectual Ability. Free Thought. Political Bent. English
Church in the Colonies. Its Clergy. In New York. The New England
Establishment. Hatred to Episcopacy. Counter-hatred. Colleges and
Schools. Newspapers. Libraries. Postal System. Learned Professions.
Epidemics. Scholars and Artists. Travelling. Manufactures and
Commerce. Houses. Food and Dress. Wigs. Opposition to Them. Social
Cleavage. Redemptioners. Penal Legislation. Philadelphia Leads in
Social Science.

* CHAPTER VIII. ENGLAND AND FRANCE IN AMERICA
The French in the Heart of the Continent. Groseilliers, Radisson, La
Salle. Joliet and Marquette Reach the Mississippi. Baudin and Du Lhut.
La Salle Descends to the Gulf. "Chicago." The Portages. La Salle's
Expedition from France to the Mississippi. Its Fate. French, Indians,
and English. France's Advantage. Numbers of each Race in America.
Causes of England's Colonial Strength. King William's War. The

Schenectady Massacre. Other Atrocities. Anne's War. Deerfield. Plans
for Striking Back. Second Capture of Port Royal. Rasle's Settlement
Raided. George's War. Capture of Louisburg. Saratoga Destroyed.
Scheme to Retaliate. Failure. French Vigilance and Aggression.

* CHAPTER IX. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Struggle Inevitable. George Washington. Fights at Great Meadows.
War Begun. English Plans of Campaign. Braddock's March. Defeat and
Death. Prophecy Regarding Washington. The "Evangeline" History.
Loudon's Incompetence. Pitt at the Head of Affairs. Will Take Canada.
Louisburg Recaptured. "Pittsburgh." Triple Movement upon Canada.
The Plains of Abraham. Quebec Capitulates. Peace of Paris.
Conspiracy of Pontiac.

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