INDEX

Adams, John, [26], [27]
Adams, Samuel, [15]-[28], [31], [32], [37]
Alamo, [211]-[213]
Anna, Santa, [211], [214]
Antietam, battle of, [257]
Appomattox Court House, Lee’s surrender at, [253]
Atlanta, capture of, [268]
Backwoodsmen, life among, [110]-[116]
Barlow, Joel, [190]
Bon Homme Richard (bo-nom′-re-shar′), [91]-[93]
Boone, Daniel, [94]-[106]
Boone, Squire, [98]
“Boston Tea Party,” [21]-[25]
Brandywine Creek, [64]
Bull Run, battle of, [258]
Bunker Hill, battle of, [41]-[44]
Burgoyne (ber-goin′), General, his invasion, [63]-[66]
Cabinet, the President’s, [156]
Calhoun, John C., [225]-[227], [235], [236], [239], [240]
Camden, battle of, [74]
Carson, Kit, [216], [217]
Cattle-raising, [286]-[288]
Cedar Creek, battle of, [273], [274]
Cherokee Indians, [100], [124], [129], [208]-[210]
Civil War, [250]-[280]
Clark, George Rogers, [132]-[149]
Clark, William, [175]-[180]
Clay, Henry, [227]-[231], [235], [238], [239], [240]
Clermont, [191]-[193]
Clinton, DeWitt, [196]
Coal, [288], [289]
Colonies become States, [52]
Compromise, Missouri, [234], [235]
Compromise of 1850, [238]-[240]
Concord, battle of, [36]-[40]
Confederate States of America, organization of, [251]
Congress, Continental, first meeting of, [26]-[28];
- second meeting of, [41]
Congress, United States, [69], [154], [205], [206], [237]
Continental Army, [41]
Cornwallis, General, [60], [62], [71], [80]-[85]
Cotton, [281]-[283]
Cotton-gin, invention of, [158], [159], [234]
Cowpens, battle of, [80]
Creek Indians, [184], [209]
Custis, Mrs. Martha, [46]
Davis, Jefferson, [251], [257]
Dawes, William, [33], [35], [37]
Declaration of Independence, [51], [52]
Donelson, Fort, [265]
Dorchester Heights, [50]
Douglas, Stephen A., [250]
Early, General, at Cedar Creek, [273]
Emancipation Proclamation, [252], [280]
Erie Canal, [195]-[198]
Ferguson, Major, [128]
Fitch, John, [188]
Flatboat, [171], [187]
Florida, purchase of, [185], [186]
France aids the Americans, [66]
Franklin, Benjamin, [52], [66]
Frémont, John C., [214]-[220]
French villages, old, life in, [140], [141]
Fulton, Robert, [188]-[193]
Gage, General, [26], [30]-[32]
Gates, General, [74]
George III, [1], [2], [10], [18]-[20], [25], [40], [60]
Gettysburg, battle of, [261], [262]
Gold, discovery of, in California, [221]-[224]
Grant, Ulysses, [262]-[268], [271], [272], [275]-[277], [279]
Greene, Nathanael, [73]-[86]
Guilford Court House, battle of, [84]
Hale, Nathan, [56]-[58]
Hamilton, Alexander, [156], [157]
Hamilton, Colonel, [143], [144], [149]
Hancock, John, [31], [32], [37]
Hayne, Senator, [237]
Henderson, Richard, [100]
Henry, Fort, [265]
Henry, Patrick, [4]-[13], [47], [134], [166], [167]
Hessians, [60]-[62]
Houston, Sam, [208]-[214]
Howe, General, [41], [42], [50], [51], [53], [64]
Hutchinson, Governor, [21], [22], [24]
Independence of the United States, [85]
Iron, [289]-[291]
Jackson, Andrew, [180]-[185], [209], [210], [237]
Jackson, Thomas J. (“Stonewall”), [258], [259]
Jay, John, [157]
Jefferson, Thomas, [52], [164]-[172]
Johnston, Albert Sydney, [265]
Johnston, Joseph E., [267], [268]
Jones, John Paul, [87]-[93]
Kaskaskia (Kas-kas′-ki-a), [136]-[140]
Kentucky, [96]-[105]
King’s Mountain, battle of, [128], [129]
Knox, Henry, [62], [156]
La Fayette (Lä fā-yét), [67]-[69]
Lee, Robert E., [253]-[257], [275]-[279]
Lewis and Clark’s Expedition, [175]-[180]
Lewis, Meriwether, [175]-[180]
Lexington, battle of, [36], [37]
Lincoln, Abraham, [243]-[250];
- and slavery, [250]-[252];
- and the Emancipation Proclamation, [252];
- assassinated, [253], [254]
Lincoln, General, [73]
Livingston, Chancellor, [154]
Livingston, Robert R., [191]
Long Island, battle of, [53]-[55]
Louisiana Purchase, [170]-[173]
McClellan, General, [257]
Mandan Indians, [176]
Marion, Francis, [81]-[84]
Meade, General, [261]
Mexican Cession, [220]
Mexican War, [220]
Minutemen, [30], [40]
Missouri Compromise, [234]
Mohawk Valley, [64], [65]
Monroe, James, [172]
Morgan, Daniel, [78]-[80]
Morse, Samuel F.B., [201]-[207]
Napoleon I, [172]
National Road, [194], [195]
Negroes, [159]-[163], [233]-[238]
New Orleans in 1803, [173]-[175]
Nullification, [236], [237]
Old North Church, [33]
Old South Church, [23]-[25]
Pack-horse, [187]
Partisan warfare in the South, [81]
Pitcairn, Major, [36], [37]
Pitt, William, [9]
Pittsburg Landing, battle of, [265]
Prescott, Samuel, [35], [37]
Prescott, William, [43]
Protective tariff, [235]-[238]
Provincial Congress, [30], [31]
Putnam, General, [53]
Railroad, [198]-[201]
Randolph, Edmund, [157]
Republican Party, [243]
Revere, Paul, [25], [33], [37]
Revolution, causes of, [1]-[4], [9], [10], [18]-[26]
Robertson, James, [107]-[110], [116]-[121]
Rotch, Benjamin, [21], [23], [24]
Rowe, John, [24]
Rumsey, John, [187]
Scott, General, [237]
Secession of South Carolina and ten more slave States, [251]
Seminole Indians, [185]
Serapis (se-rá-pis), [91]-[93]
Sevier, John, [122]-[131]
Shelby, Isaac, [128]
Shenandoah Valley, Sheridan in, [271]-[274]
Sheridan, Philip H., [271]-[274]
Sherman, William Tecumseh, [267]-[271]
Sherrill, Kate, [125], [126]
Shiloh, battle of, [265]
Slavery, [159]-[163], [233]-[238]
Smith, Colonel, [36], [37], [38]
Sons of Liberty, [18]
South Carolina, [236], [237]
Stamp Act, [1], [6]-[10]
Steamboat, [187]-[193]
Steel, [289]-[291]
Stephens, Alexander H., [251]
Stuart, J.E.B., [259]-[261]
Sutter, Captain, [218]-[221]
Tariff, [235]-[238]
Taxation of the Colonies, [1], [6]-[8], [10], [21]-[25]
Tea, tax on, [21]
Telegraph, [201]-[207]
Tennessee, [116]-[131]
Texas, [209]-[214]
Tories, [17], [128]
Treaty at close of Revolution, [85]
Trenton, victory at, [60]-[62]
Valley Forge, sufferings at, [69]-[71]
Vicksburg, capture of, [262], [266], [267]
Vincennes, [140], [143], [144], [148], [149]
Warren, Joseph, [32], [33]
Washington, D.C., made the national capital, [157]
Washington, George, in the Revolution, [41], [44]-[71];
- as President, [151]-[153]
Watauga, [116]-[131]
Webster, Daniel, [231]-[233], [237], [238], [241], [242]
West, Benjamin, [190], [206]
Wheat, [283]-[286]
Whitney, Eli, [158], [159]
Wilderness Road, [100], [117]
Yorktown, Cornwallis’s surrender at, [85]