A new history of the United States. The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year ...

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Chapter I. Discovery And Exfloraxion

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The Visits of the Northmen to the New World — The Indians and Mound Builders — Christopher Columbus — His Discovery of America — Amerigo Vespucci — John Cabot — Spanish Explorers — Balboa — His Discovery of the Pacific — jMagellan — Ponce de Leon — De Narvaez — De Soto — 5Ienendoz — French Explorers — Verrazzani — Cartier — Eibault — Laudonniere — Champlain — La Salle — Engh'sli Explorers — Sir Hugh Willoughby — Martin Frobislier — Sir Humphrey Gilbert — Sir Walter Raleigh — The Lost Colony — Dutch Explorer — Henry Hudson 33

CHAPTEE II.

SETTLEMENT OE THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL

STATES.

Virginia, — Founding of Jamestown — Captain John Smith — Introduction of African Slavery — Indian Wars — Bacon's Rebellion — Forms of Government — Prosperity — Education — jVcw England, — Plymouth — Massachusetts Bay Colony — Union of the Colonies — Religious Persecution^King Philiji's War — The Witchcraft Delusion — New Hampshire, — The Connecticut Colony, — The I\ew Haven Colony, — Union of the Colonies — Indian Wars — The Charter Oak — Rhode Island, — Different Forms of Government — NewYorh, — The Dutch and English Settlers — New Jersey, — Delaware, — Pennsylvania, — Maryland, — JIason and Dixon's Line — The Carolinas, — Georgia 47

CHAPTEE III.

THE INTERCOLONIAL WARS AND THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.

King William's War — Queen Anne's War — King George's War — The French and Indian War — England and France Rivals in the Old World and the New — The Early French Settlements — The Disputed Territory — France's Fatal Weakness — Washington's Journey Through the Wilderness— The First Fight of the War— The War Wholly American for Two Years— The Braddock Massacre — The Great Change Wrought by William Pitt — Pall of Quebec — Momentous Consequences of the Great English Victory — The Growth and Progress of the Colonies and their Home Life 75

CHAPTER IV.

THE REVOLUTION— THE WAR IN NEW ENGLAND.

Causes of the Revolution— The Stamp Act — The Boston Tea Party— England's Unbearable Measures — The First Continental Congress — The Boston Massacre — Lexington and Concord — The Second Continental Congress — Battle of Bunker Hill — Assumption of Command by Washington

—British Evacuation of Boston — Disastrous Invasion of Canada 89

CHAPTER V.

THE REVOIvUTION (CONTINUED). THE WAR IN THE VIIDDIvE STATES AND ON THE SEA.

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Declaration of Independence — The American Flag — Battle of Long Island— Washington's Retreat Through the Jerse3's — Trenton and Princeton — In Winter Quarters — Lafayette — Brandywine and Germantown — At Valley Forge — Burgoyne's Campaign — Fort Schuyler and Bennington — Bemis Heights and Stillwater — The Conway Cabal — Aid from France — Battle of Monmouth — Molly Pitcher — Failure of French Aid — Massacre at Wyoming — Continental Money — Stony Point — Treason of Arnold — Paul Jones' Great Victory . . 103

CHAPTER VI.

THE REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH (CONCLUDED).

Capture of Savannah — British Conquest of Georgia — Fall of Charleston — Bitter Warfare in South Carolina — Battle of Camden — Of King's Mountain — Of theCowpens — Battle of Guilford Court- House — Movements of Cornwallis — The Final Campaign — Peace and Independence . . . 131

CHAPTER VII.

OROANIZATION OE THE UNITED STATES.

The Method of Government During the Revolution — Impending Anarchy — The State Boundaries — State Cessions of Land — Shays' Rebellion — Adoption of the Constitution — Its Leading Features — The Ordinance of 1787 — Formation of Parties — Election of the First President and Vice- President ... 143

CHAPTER VIII.

ADIvIINISTRATIONS OE WASHINOTON, JOHN ADAIVIS, AND JEFEERSON— 17S9-1809,

Washington — His Inauguration as First President of the United States — Alexander Hamilton — His Success at the Head of the Treasury Department — The Obduracy of Rhode Island — Establishment of the United States Bank — Passage of a Tariff Bill — Establishment of a Mint — The Plan of a Federal Judiciary — Admission of Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee — Benjamin Franklin — Troubles with the Western Indians — Their Defeat by General Wayne — Removal of tlie National Capital Provided for — The Whiskey Insurrection — The Course of "Citizen Genet" — Jay's Treaty — Re-election of AVashington — Resignation of Jefferson and Hamilton — Washington's Farewell Address— Establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point— Tlie Presidential Election of 1 796— .John Adams— Prosperity of the Country— Population of the Country in 1790 — Invention of the Cotton Gin — Troubles with France — War on the Ocean — Washington Appointed Commander-in-Chief- Peace Secured — The Alien and Sedition Laws — The Census of 1800— The Presidential Election of 1800— The Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution— Thomas Jefferson — Admission of Ohio — The Indiana Territory — The Purchase of Louisiana — Its Immense Area — Abolishment of the Slave Trade^War with Tripoli — The Lewis and Clark Expedition — Alexander Hamilton Killed in a Duel by Aaron Burr — The First Steamboat on the Hudson — The First Steamer to Cross the Atlantic — England's Oppressive Course Toward the United States — Outrage by the British Ship Lenniler — The Affair of the Leopard and Chesapeake — Passage of the Embargo Act — The Presidential Election of 1808 . . . . .15!