Volume Iii Part 1 (1/2)

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

by E. Benjamin Andrews.

VOLUME III.

NEW YORK.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

1896.

CONTENTS.

PERIOD II

WHIGS AND DEMOCRATS TILL THE DOMINANCE OF THE SLAVERY CONTROVERSY.

1814--1840

CHAPTER I. THE WHIG PARTY AND ITS MISSION.

The Word ”Whig.”

Republican Prestige.

Schism.

Adams's Election.

Five Doctrines of Whiggism.

I. Broad Construction of the Const.i.tution.

II. The Bank.

Death of Old and Birth of New.

Opposition by Jackson.

III. The Tariff of 1816.

Its Object.

IV. Land.

Whig versus Democratic Policy.

V. Internal Improvements Rivers and Harbors.

Need of Better Inland Communication.

Contention between the Parties.

Whig Characteristics.

Adams.

Webster.

His Political Att.i.tude.

Clay.

His Power, as an Orator.

His Duel with Randolph.

His Wit.

His Influence.

CHAPTER II. FLORIDA AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Florida's Disputed Boundary.

West Florida Occupied.