A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY WOODROW WILSON, PH.D., LITT.D., LL.D. IN FIVE VOLUMES VOL. II. Colonies and Nation [Illustration: GEORGE WASHINGTON] A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY WOODROW WILSON, PH.D., LITT.D., LL.D. PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS, MAPS, PLANS, FACSIMILES, RARE PRINTS, CONTEMPORARY VIEWS, ETC. IN FIVE VOLUMES VOL. II. [Illustration] NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS MCMVII Copyright, 1901, 1902, by WOODROW WILSON. Copyright, 1901, 1902, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. COMMON UNDERTAKINGS 1 II. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS 98 III. THE APPROACH OF REVOLUTION 172 IV. THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE 223 APPENDIX 331 NOTES ON ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE GEORGE WASHINGTON _Frontispiece._ PLAN OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ABOUT 1732.—From plate 12 of Henry Popple’s _Map of the British Empire in America_. London, 1733 3 NEW ORLEANS IN 1719.—Redrawn from an old print 5 SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN.—Redrawn from an old print 7 AN EARLY VIEW OF QUEBEC.—Redrawn from a view published at London in 1760 12 COUR DU BOIS, XVII. CENTURY.—From a drawing by Frederic Remington 14 AN ENGLISH FLEET ABOUT 1732.—From plate 11 of Henry Popple’s _Map of the British Empire in America_ 16 MOALE’S SKETCH OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, IN 1752.—Drawn from the original in the Maryland Historical Society 19 CHARLESTON, FROM THE HARBOR, 1742.—Redrawn from an old print 22 LORD BELLOMONT.—From an old engraving 25 WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE BEFORE THE FIRE, 1723.—Redrawn from an old print 27