Guided Primary Source Analysis: Robertson’s Geographic-Historical Series

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— [Title sheet]

— The Earth

— The Earth as known when Columbus sailed

— Columbus’ voyages

— Location of Indian tribes 1492

— The Cabots

— Ponce de Leon and Balboa

— Magellan’s voyages

— Spanish in America at close of the sixteenth century

— French explorers (a)

— French explorers (b)

— French explorers (c)

— Drake, Frobisher and Gosnold

— Attempted colony by Raleigh

— Settlements — Settlements of Virginia

— [S.n.] — Hudson’s discoveries

— Settlement of Massachusetts

— Settlement of New York

— Conflicting grants

— The inter-colonial wars

— Braddock’s defeat

— Greene’s retreat

— Miscellaneous

— Siege of Quebec

— English, French and Spanish possessions

— British and Spanish possessions

— Siege of Boston

— Lexington and Bunker Hill

— Siege and surrender at Yorktown

— Campaign in New York

— The Revolutionary War

— Burgoyne’s invasion

— United States after Sept. 3, 1783/The thirteen original states

— Organization and development [1789-1845]

— Organization and development [1845-1865]

— Battle of Bull Run

— First attempt to open the Mississippi

— McClellan’s first advance on Richmond

— [Battle of Gettysburg]

— Fall of Vicksburg

— Grant’s advance on Richmond

— Sherman’s march to the sea

— Organization and development [1865-1897]

— McKinley’s administration, 1897

— Territorial growth

— Tables of comparison and statistics.