03002cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000090010610000320011524500520014726400510019930000470025033600260029733700260032333800360034950000310038550801760041652018590059253400720245165300290252385600740255285600430262699900190266978469UtSlPG20260610134823.0mcr n260607r20261901utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aE1511 aWilson, Woodrow,d1856-192412aA history of the American people, Vol. 2 [of 5] 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-04-16  aCharlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"A history of the American people, Vol. 2 [of 5]" by Woodrow Wilson is a historical account written in the early 20th century. Centered on the British mainland colonies’ growth from scattered settlements into an emerging nation, it follows imperial rivalry, frontier expansion, commerce, religion, and politics as they converge toward revolution and independence. This volume likely covers the late 17th century through the Revolutionary era, highlighting how colonial society, war, and governance forged a common American direction.

The opening of this volume surveys the colonies from the late 1600s into the 1730s, showing how repeated wars and shared pressures began to knit them together. It contrasts English settlement with French military expansion down the St. Lawrence, Great Lakes, and Mississippi, notes the Iroquois as a decisive barrier, and recounts King William’s War and Queen Anne’s War—raids, failed expeditions, Port Royal’s capture, and the Carolinas’ hard fighting against Spain and native confederacies. Alongside war, it traces trade under the Navigation Acts, the rise and suppression of piracy (including Kidd, Blackbeard, and Bonnet), William Penn’s conciliatory reforms, New Jersey’s shift to royal control, new colleges, and Alexander Spotswood’s forward-looking Virginia governance and Blue Ridge exploration. A long Walpole-era peace brings population growth and diversity (Scots-Irish, Germans, Huguenots), Charleston’s plantation elite, colonial assertiveness (the Zenger acquittal), slave unrest, and the tightening French cordon inland (Crown Point, Niagara, New Orleans). The section closes with James Oglethorpe’s founding of Georgia as a philanthropic, military buffer, deliberately settled by vetted Europeans such as Salzburgers and Highlanders. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1901  aUnited States -- History4 uhttps://archive.org/details/historyofamerica0207wils/page/n9/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78469  c119188d119188