A LIST OF TOPICS ON THE ECONOMIC 

 HISTORY OF AMERICAN AGRI- 

 CULTURE. 



Introduction. 



I. The Study of Economic History. 

 II The Economic History of American 

 Agriculture. 



Part I. 



THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 



1607-1783. 



III. Geographic Influences in American His- 

 tory. 

 IV. Indian Agriculture in America. 



V. Land Systems of the American Colonies. 

 VI. Agriculture in the American Colonies. 

 VII. Trade and Commerce of the American 

 Colonies. 



Part II. 



THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT OF PIONEER AND PLANTER 

 INTO THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. 



1783-1860. 



A. The Revolution to the War of 1812. 

 VIII. The Public Lands. 



IX. Agriculture in the Early National Period. 



X. Beginnings of Internal Trade. 

 XL Foreign Commerce and Shipping. 



B. The War of 1812 to the Civil War. 

 XII. The Settlement of the New West. 



XIII. The Public Lands. 

 XIV. Agriculture in the Northern States: 



Pioneer Farming. 

 XV. Agriculture in the Southern States: 



Economics of Slavery. 

 XVI. Internal Trade and Transportation. 

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