History of the United States
The front cover is the transcibers creation, not the original. It is in the public domain. More notes at the end of the book.
THE POPULAR SERIES
NEW YORK
CINCINNATI
CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
1891
Copyright, 1891, by American Book Company.
To the American youth the history of our country is more important than any other branch of education. A fair degree of knowledge respecting the progress of the American people from the discovery of the New World to the present is almost essential to that citizenship into which our youth are soon expected to enter. In a government of the people, for the people and by the people, a familiar acquaintance with the course of events, with the movements of society in peace and war, is the great prerequisite to the exercise of those rights and duties which the American citizen must assume if he would hold his true place in the Nation.
Fortunately, the means for studying the history of our country are abundant and easy. American boys and girls have little cause any longer to complain that the writers and teachers have put beyond their reach the story of their native land. Great pains have been taken, on the contrary, to gather out of our annals as a people and nation the most important and romantic parts, and to recite in pleasing style, and with the aid of happy illustrations, the lessons of the past.
The author of the present volume has tried in every particular to put himself in the place of the student. He has endeavored to bring to the pupils of our great Common Schools a brief and easy narrative of all the better parts of our country's history. It has been his aim to tell the story as a lover of his native land should recite for others that which is dearest and best to memory and affection. He has sought to bring the careful results of historical research into the schoolroom without any of the superfluous rubbish and scaffolding of obtrusive scholarship and erudition.
Another aim in the present text-book for our youth has been to consider the events of our country's history somewhat from our own point of view—not to despise the history of civilization in the Mississippi Valley, or to seek wholly for examples of heroism and greatness in the older States of the Union. Perhaps no part of our country is more favorably situated for taking such a view of our progress as a nation than is that magnificent region, constituting as it does the most fertile and populous portion of the continent. In the present History of the United States the author has not hesitated to make emphatic those paragraphs which relate to the development and progress of this region.
John Clark Ridpath
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Transcriber's Note:
CONTENTS.
MAPS AND PORTRAITS.
COLORED MAPS.
OUTLINE MAPS.
PORTRAITS.
The Aborigines.
Review Questions.—Part I.
The Norsemen in America.
Spanish Discoveries in America.
Spanish Discoveries in America.—(Continued.)
The French in America.
English Discoveries and Settlements.
English Discoveries and Settlements.—(Continued.)
Voyages and Settlements of the Dutch.
Review Questions.—Part II.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
Virginia.—The Royal Government.
Massachusetts.—Settlement and Union.
Massachusetts.—War and Witchcraft.
New York.—Settlement and Administration of Stuyvesant.
New York Under the English.
Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Maryland and North Carolina.
South Carolina and Georgia.
French and Indian War.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
Causes of the Revolution.
The Beginning of the Revolution.—Events of 1775.
The Events of 1776.
Operations of 1777.
Events of 1778 and 1779.
Reverses and Treason. Events of 1780.
Events of 1781.
Confederation and Union.
Review Questions.—Part IV.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Washington's Administration, 1789-1797.
Adams's Administration, 1797-1801.
Jefferson's Administration, 1801-1809.
Madison's Administration.—War of 1812.
War of 1812.—Events of 1813.
The Campaigns of 1814.
Monroe's Administration, 1817-1825.
Adams's Administration, 1825-1829.
Jackson's Administration, 1829-1837.
Van Buren's Administration, 1837-1841.
Administrations of Harrison and Tyler, 1841-1845.
Polk's Administration and the Mexican War, 1845-49.
Administrations of Taylor and Fillmore, 1849-1853.
Pierce's Administration, 1853-1857.
Buchanan's Administration, 1857-1861.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
CHAPTER XL.
CHAPTER XLI.
CHAPTER XLII.
CHAPTER XLIII.
Lincoln's Administration.—The Beginning of the War.
Causes of the Civil War.
Events of 1861.
Campaigns of 1862.
The Events of 1863.
The Closing Conflicts.—Events of 1864 and 1865.
Review Questions.—Part VI.
CHAPTER XLIV.
CHAPTER XLV.
CHAPTER XLVI.
CHAPTER XLVII.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
CHAPTER XLIX.
Johnson's Administration, 1865-1869.
Grant's Administration, 1869-1877.
Hayes's Administration, 1877-1881.
Administration of Garfield and Arthur, 1881-1885.
Cleveland's Administration, 1885-1889.
Harrison's Administration, 1889- ——.
Review Questions.—Part VII.
CHAPTER L.
CHAPTER LI.
CHAPTER LII.
CHAPTER LIII.
CHAPTER LIV.
CHAPTER LV.
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