It is the aim of this book to give the reader a lucid account of results and not processes; to explain briefly the meaning of the facts of national development, rather than to chronicle events in order to give the reader a clear "picture" of the time. Partial Contents: Meaning of American History; Spanish and French Failures; English Genesis of the United States; Economic Growth of the Colonies; Origin of American Democracy; States' Sovereignty; Immediate Causes of the Revolution; Organization of Resistance; First Attempts at Permanent Organization; Why We Won the Revolution; Results of the Revolution; The Constitution; War of 1812; American System; Jacksonian Democracy; Texas and Mexican War; Causes of Succession; Civil War; Issue of Reconstruction; Solid South; National Problems.