The Growth of the American People

by Kelty

Front Cover/Spine:

This is a neat old American History text book. Great for home schooling. The book was published in 1931. The green cloth pictorial cover shows signs of wear to the surface, the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The title page is missing, along with several other pages in the front of the book. The pages show no signs of foxing. With a few exceptions, the pages show no signs of rips. I did spot for or five places where the pages have been torn and/or repaired. One of the defective pages is “crumpled” as well. One of the pages is missing a small piece of the page in the margin area. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is good – a readable copy.


Sample Text

Contents:

Unit One – How the United States won the Respect of the Nations

  • The New Nation Made a Good Start at Home
  • The New Nation Won the Respect of Europe

    • Unit Two – How the United States moved Westward to the Pacific

  • The First Great Addition was the Land Just West of the Mississippi
  • In Reaching the Pacific, Troubles Arose with Other Nations

    • Unit Three – How One Machine Called for Another until All our Methods of Living were Changed

  • One Filed of Invention was in the Clothing Industry
  • Men Had to Find Ways of Sending News to People in Distant Parts
  • Ships and Trade
  • A New Metal Industry was Begun

    • Unit Four – How the Slavery Question almost split the Nation into Two Parts

  • How Slavery Began in this Country
  • Should Slavery Spread into the New Territories?
  • The War to Keep the Parts of the Country Together

    • Unit Five – How the United States became really United in Spirit

  • The East and the West were Bound Together by Improved Transportation and Communication

    • Unit Six – How the United States became a Great Industrial Nation

  • The United States became the Leading Manufacturing Country of the World
  • New Inventions and Discoveries
  • Capital and Labor
  • Scientific Farming Needed
  • Conservation

    • Unit Seven – How the United States became a World Power

  • At First it Had Little to do With Other Countries
  • Lands Far from Home Made it a World Power
  • Working with Other Nations
  • American Progress

    • Appendix
    Index


    Excerpt – To the Boys and Girls who are about to read This Book:
    If you like to read stories, you will like this book. The stories tell of the discovery of our country and how ships were wrecked and men lost for years in the wilderness, trying to explore its coasts and rivers. Some of the later stories tell about the beginnings of our nation.

    Perhaps your father and mother will be interested to have you tell them about these great events which happened so many years ago. As you read the stories, keep in mind that you many not have the book before you when you want to tell the stories…
    End excerpt


    Moving to the West


    General Robert E. Lee


    An old horse car


    Part of the old city wall, San Juan, Puerto Rico


    Map – The United States in 1870, 1880, and 1890

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