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CONTENTS

VOLUME I

                                                                                                                                                                                         

CHAPTER I
Motives Behind the Colonization of Virginia	1
CHAPTER II
Virginia Company of London	9
CHAPTER III
Physical Aspects of Aboriginal Virginia	16
CHAPTER IV
Inhabitants of Aboriginal Virginia	24
CHAPTER V
The First Expedition, 1606-07	34
CHAPTER VI
Jamestown Founded	43
CHAPTER VII
After the Arrival of the First Supply	54
CHAPTER VIII
Administration of Captain John Smith	61
CHAPTER IX
Administration of Captain John Smith (Continued)	73
CHAPTER X
Administration of George Percy	83
CHAPTER XI
Administration of Lord Delaware	91
CHAPTER XII
Administration of Sir Thomas Dale	97
CHAPTER XIII
Administration of Samuel Argall	106
CHAPTER XIV
Administration of Sir George Yeardley	112
CHAPTER XV
Administration of Sir Francis Wyatt	121
CHAPTER XVI
Conflict of Factions in the Company	129
CHAPTER XVII
Revocation of the Charter	139
CHAPTER XVIII
Administration of Sir John Harvey	148
CHAPTER XIX
Expulsion and Return of Harvey	155
CHAPTER XX
First Administration of Sir William Berkeley	161
CHAPTER XXI
The Interregnum	169
CHAPTER XXII
First Years of Berkeley's Second Administration	175
CHAPTER XXIII
Causes of Popular Discontent	182
CHAPTER XXIV
Causes of Popular Discontent (Continued)	189
CHAPTER XXV
The Rebellion of 1676	196
CHAPTER XXVI
The Rebellion of 1676 (Continued)	206
CHAPTER XXVII
The Rebellion of 1676 (Continued)	215
CHAPTER XXVIII
The Rebellion Collapses	227
CHAPTER XXIX
Administrations of Jeffreys and Chicheley	237
CHAPTER XXX
Administration of Culpeper	243
CHAPTER XXXI
Administration of Effingham	251
CHAPTER XXXII
Administrations of Nicholson and Andros	257
CHAPTER XXXIII
Second Administration of Nicholson	266
CHAPTER XXXIV
Economic and Social Conditions	273
CHAPTER XXXV
Institutional Conditions	283
CHAPTER XXXVI
Administration of Edward Nott	297
CHAPTER XXXVII
Administration of Alexander Spotswood	301
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Westward Movement of Population	311
CHAPTER XXXIX
Administrations of Drysdale and Gooch	321
CHAPTER XL
Encroachments of the French and Indians	336
CHAPTER XLI
Dinwiddie's Administration—The French Forts	340
CHAPTER XLII
Dinwiddie's Administration—Fort Necessity	346
CHAPTER XLIII
Dinwiddie's Administration—Braddock's Defeat	351
CHAPTER XLIV
Dinwiddie's Administration—Measures of Defense	360
CHAPTER XLV
Dinwiddie's Administration—Civil Events	367
CHAPTER XLVI
Administration of Francis Fauquier	370
Bibliography	375

VOLUME II

                                                                                                       

PART I
PRELIMINARIES TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION	6
CHAPTER I
Western Extension	7
CHAPTER II
The Currency Question and Parliamentary Taxation	30
CHAPTER III
Self-Government and Taxation Reviewed	52
CHAPTER IV
The Stamp Act—Its Passage and Repeal	79
CHAPTER V
The Revenue Act—Crisis of the Circulars	89
CHAPTER VI
The Revenue Act—Crises of Sloop Gaspee and the Boston Port Bill	105
CHAPTER VII
The Revenue Act—Crisis of Independence	129
PART II
REVOLUTION AND REORGANIZATION
CHAPTER I
Military Activities—Dunmore's War—Indian Troubles	155
CHAPTER II
Military Activities—Clark's Conquest of the Northwest and the Invasion of Collier, Leslie, Arnold and Phillips	175
CHAPTER III
Military Activities — Proposed Expedition Against Detroit, and War with Indians on Western Border; Cornwallis in Virginia	198
CHAPTER IV
Contributions of Virginia to the American Revolution	228
CHAPTER V
The Revolution—Reforms in the Law	247
CHAPTER VI
The Critical Period, 1783-1789	266
PART III
VIRGINIA UNDER THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, 1789-1861
CHAPTER I
Federalist Domination of the Union, 1789-1801	299
CHAPTER II
The Virginia Dynasty, 1801-1825	323
CHAPTER III
National Politics in Virginia, 1825-1845	355
CHAPTER IV
National Politics in Virginia, 1845-1860	384
CHAPTER V
National Politics in Virginia, 1860-1861	405
CHAPTER VI
Domestic History, 1789-1861. Administrations of the Governors, 1788-1834	431
CHAPTER VII
Domestic History, 1789-1861. Administrations of the Governors, 1834-1861	466
PART IV
LOCAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, 1763-1861
CHAPTER I
Population, Slavery, Education and Literature	491
CHAPTER II
Agriculture, Commerce and Banking, Science, Law, Medicine and Religion	519

VOLUME III

                                                                           

CHAPTER I
The War of Secession	7
CHAPTER II
The Wheeling Government and the Formation of West Virginia	59
CHAPTER III
The "Restored Government" at Alexandria and The Beginning of Reconstruction	71
CHAPTER IV
The Campaign of 1867	97
CHAPTER V
The Constitutional Convention of 1867-1868	119
CHAPTER VI
The Committee of Nine	134
CHAPTER VII
The Campaign of 1869 and the Restoration of Virginia	146
CHAPTER VIII
The Elimination of the Carpetbaggers—1869 to 1879	161
CHAPTER IX
The Readjuster Period, 1879-1883, and the State Debt Settlement	179
CHAPTER X
The Foundation of the Public School System in Virginia	221
CHAPTER XI
The Beginnings of the Public School System and the Growth of Higher Education, 1871-1901	237
CHAPTER XII
Educational Expansion After 1886	272
CHAPTER XIII
Politics, 1885-1901	292
CHAPTER XIV
Convention of 1901-1902 and Later Political Developments	315
CHAPTER XV
Prohibition and Other Issues	330
CHAPTER XVI
Some Social and Economic Factors in the Rebuilding of the Old Dominion	345
CHAPTER XVII
Some Social and Economic Factors (Continued)	368
CHAPTER XVIII
Literature and Education	395
CHAPTER XIX
World War and Its Influences	415

VOLUMES IV, V AND VI

Virginia Biography