Part 35

=Oregon Country=, Lewis and Clark Expedition sent to, 237, 243; sought by fur traders and missionaries, 243-244; United States and Great Britain occupy, 244; northern boundary of the established, 244; Benton speaks on the, 285.

="Pacificator," The=, 297.

=Pacific Northwest=, 333.

=Pacific Ocean=, named by Magellan, 30.

=Pakenham, General=, 251.

=Palos=, 7, 9, 13, 15.

=Panama-California Exposition=, 378.

=Panama Canal=, 376-378.

=Panama-Pacific International Exposition=, 378.

=Paris=, son of the king of Troy, 452.

=Parker, ----=, 243.

=Parsons' Case, The=, 161-162.

=Patagonia=, 29, 38.

=Patroons, The=, 58-59, 89.

=Paul, John=, _see_ Jones, John Paul.

="Pelican," The=, Drake's ship, 38.

=Penn, Admiral=, 93, 94, 95, 96.

=Penn, William=, 92-98; becomes a Quaker, 93; sent to Paris and Ireland, 93-94; portrait of, 94; King Charles and, 94; founds Pennsylvania as home for Quakers, 95-98; invites all persecuted people, 96; founds Philadelphia, 97; treaty with the Indians, 98; death, 98.

=Penn's Woods=, 96.

=Pennsylvania=, founded, 95-96; coal in, 421-422.

=Pennsylvania, University of=, founded, 151.

"=Pennsylvania Dutch=," 98.

"=Pennsylvania Gazette=," 151.

=Pericles=, 460-461.

=Perry, Oliver Hazard=, 244-245; midshipman at fourteen, 244; in war against Barbary States, 244; ordered to Lake Erie, 244; battle of Lake Erie, 244-245; portrait of, 245; highly honored, 245.

=Pershing, John J.=, sent to Mexico, 430; heads American forces, 436; portrait of, 436; early life, 436-437; lands in France, 437; divides his troops among the Allies, 438-439; defeats the Germans at Château-Thierry, 439; wins battle of St. Mihiel, 439-440.

=Peru=, Pizarro in, 23.

=Petersburg=, siege of, 336.

"=Petition of Right=," 493.

=Philadelphia=, 137; founded, 97; British at, 138; first Continental Congress at, 172; Second Continental Congress at, 177.

=Philip=, _see_ King Philip.

=Philip of Macedon=, 455.

=Philippines=, Magellan visits, 30; United States pays Spain for, 357.

=Phoenicians=, 449-450.

=Phonograph=, 384, 387.

=Pickett, General George E.=, 338.

=Pierce, President=, 269.

=Pilgrims, The=, 73-81; seek Holland, 73; land in America, 74-77; and the Indians, 76, 78-81, 84-85; settle at Plymouth, 77; build homes in the forest, 77; celebrate Thanksgiving, 80; industries, manners, and customs of, 85-86.

="Pinta," The=, 10, 11, 13, 14.

=Pinzón=, 7; sails with Columbus, 10.

=Pitt, Fort=, 126, 218.

=Pitt, William=, 126, 154, 162, 233.

=Pittsburgh=, iron and steel center of America, 423.

=Pittsburg Landing=, 334-335, 380.

=Pizarro, Francisco=, 23-24; marches army to Cuzco and finds vast wealth, 23; killed by his men, 24.

=Planters=, industries, manners, and customs of the southern, 103-104.

=Plato=, 454.

=Plymouth=, landing place of the Pilgrims, 77; colony of, 83.

=Plymouth Rock=, 77.

=Pocahontas=, 66-68; rescues John Smith, 64; carries corn to settlers, 64; warns settlers of danger, 65; marries John Rolfe, 66; received as a princess in England, 67; portrait of, 68; death, 68.

=Ponce de Leon=, 17-18; takes possession of Florida, 17; death, 18.

"=Pony express=," 373.

"=Poor Richard's Almanac=," 151, 152, 197.

=Pope, General=, 338.

=Portland=, 376.

=Porto Rico=, annexed by United States, 357.

=Port Royal=, founded, 49.

=Potato, white=, taken to England, 45.

=Powhatan=, famous Indian chief, 63, 64, 65, 67.

=Prescott, Colonel=, 176.

=Princeton=, 136.

=Protestants=, 68, 69, 102.

"=Puffing Billy=," 263.

=Puritans=, 68, 70, 81-83, 85; in England, 81; seek America, 81; at Salem, 81; found Boston, 82, 83; found colony of Massachusetts, 92.

=Put-In-Bay=, 244.

=Quakers=, 92-100; called themselves Society of Friends, 99.

=Quebec=, founded, 49; fall of, 114; expedition against, 126.

=Railroads=, 263-264, 373.

=Raleigh, Sir Walter=, 42-47; Drake carries back to England colony of, 41; as student, soldier, seaman, 42-43; plants colonies in America, 43-46; portrait of, 44; wins favor with Queen Elizabeth, 44; put to death, 47.

="Raleigh," The=, 200.

=Rameses II=, 447.

="Ranger," The=, 196, 197.

="Ranges" of Lake Superior=, 422.

=Reaper=, 272-274.

=Red Cross Society=, 355, 410-412, 431.

=Reed, Deborah=, wife of Franklin, 149, 151.

=Refrigerator cars=, 421.

=Remus=, 464.

=Republican party=, 289, 320, 344, 348, 351, 370.

=Resources and industries of the United States=, 416-423.

=Revere, Paul=, 172, 174.

="Revolution," The=, 403.

=Revolution, War of the=, 207, 209, 211, 224, 246, 247; debt of the, 235; woman's part in the, 400.

=Rice=, in the South, 104.

=Richmond=, 325, 326, 327.

=Roanoke Island=, 44, 45.

=Rochambeau, General=, 139.

=Rocky Mountains=, 240, 243.

=Rolfe, John=, 66, 67.

=Rolfe, Thomas=, 68.

=Rome=, 464-477; legends and myths of, 464-466; threatened with civil war, 466; taken by Gauls, 466; conquers all tribes of Italy, 466; war with Carthage, 466-469; conquers many nations, 469; changed character of, 469-470; uprisings in, 470; conquests under Caesar, 472; becomes an empire, 473; establishes a system of laws, 473-474; builds famous roads and engineering works, 474; literature of, 475; prepares way for spread of Christianity, 475-476; conquered by Teutons, 476-477; later invasions, 477; brings Christianity to Germans, 478-479; Charlemagne crowned emperor of, 481.

=Romulus=, 464.

=Roosevelt, Theodore=, 356, 360-372; early life, 360-363; as New York assemblyman, 363-364; western life, 364-365; as Civil Service Commissioner, 365; as Police Commissioner, 365-366; in Spanish-American War, 366; governor of New York, 366; as vice-president, succeeds McKinley, 367; record as president, 368; as an author, 368-369; defeated for reëlection, 370; explores a Brazilian river, 370-371; death, 371.

=Rosecrans, General=, 335.

"=Rough Riders=," 366.

=Rubicon=, 472-473.

=Rumsey, James=, 257.

=Runnymede=, meeting at, 492.

=Russia=, takes part in World War, 421; makes peace with Germany, 437.

=Sacajawea=, statue of, 241.

=Sacramento Valley=, 287-288.

"=Sage of Monticello=," 238.

=St. Francis=, 290.

=St. Gaudens=, statue of Lincoln by, 326-327.

=St. John's Church=, 163.

=St. Joseph River=, 109, 110.

=St. Lawrence River=, French on, 49, 50, 52.

=St. Louis=, 210, 242.

=St. Louis, Fort=, 112.

=St. Marys=, 69.

=St. Mihiel=, battle of, 439-440.

=Salamis=, battle of, 462.

=Salem=, colony at, 81, 82.

=Samoset=, 78.

=Sampson, Rear Admiral=, 357.

=San Antonio=, 282.

=San Diego=, mission at, 290-291; exposition at, 378.

=San Francisco=, importance of, 376; exposition at, 378; Red Cross relieves suffering caused by earthquake at, 411-412.

=San Jacinto=, battle of, 280-281.

=San Juan=, 356-357.

=San Salvador=, discovered by Columbus, 12.

=Santa Ana, General=, 280, 281, 282.

="Santa Maria," The=, 9.

=Santiago=, 356-357.

=Savannah=, founded, 102; captured by British, 182.

=Saxons=, _see_ Anglo-Saxon tribes.

=Schley, Commodore=, 357.

=Schuyler, Philip=, 132.

=Scott, General=, 254.

=Seminole Indians=, war with the, 252.

="Serapis," The=, 197, 198.

=Serfs=, 445.

=Serra, Junipero=, 290-291.

=Settlement=, _see_ Social Settlement.

=Sevier, John=, 210-216, 247; goes to school at Fredericksburg, 210; famous Indian fighter, 210; captain in Washington' regiment, 210; portrait of, 211; at siege of Fort Watauga, 211-212; Kate Sherrill and, 211-212; moves to the Nolichucky, 212; fights battle of Kings Mountain, 213-214; destroys Indian towns, 214; governor of Tennessee, 215; dies while working, 215.

=Sewing Machine=, 274-276.

=Shafter, General=, 356.

=Shawnee Indians=, 216.

=Shelby, Colonel=, 213.

=Sheridan, General=, 340.

=Sherman, Roger=, 232.

=Sherrill, Kate=, 211-212.

=Sholes, Christopher L.=, 386-387.

=Silver=, 373.

=Slavery=, in Virginia, 71; in the South, 229; Calhoun on question of, 308-310; petitions in favor of abolishing, 308; new view of, 310; Lincoln's attitude toward, 316, 318; question of, 320; destroyed, 326; Harriet Beecher Stowe's efforts against, 407.

=Sloat, Commander=, 289.

=Smith, John=, 61-66, 77; portrait of, 61; as a soldier, 62; and the Indians, 62-65; saved from death by Pocahontas, 64; returns to Jamestown, 64; returns to England, 66; on last visit to America, 66; meets Pocahontas in England, 67.

=Snake River=, Lewis and Clark on the, 242.

=Social Settlement=, Jane Addams and the, 413.

=Socrates=, 453-454.

"=Soldier's Rest=," Morgan's home, 188.

"=Sons of Liberty=," 162, 168.

=South Carolina=, and nullification, 253-254, 308.

=South Pass=, 243, 285.

=Spain=, in America, 11-16, 18-28; Englishmen check progress of, 37-42; missions of, 290-292; war between United States and, 366-370. _See also_ Spanish-American War.

=Spanish-American War=, 366-370; Goethals in the, 377; Clara Barton and the Red Cross in the, 411.

=Spanish Armada, The=, 42.

=Spanish missions=, in the Southwest, 290-292; in California, 290-292; treatment of Indians at, 291-292; present condition of, 292.

=Sparta=, 452, 453, 456, 458, 462.

="Speedwell," The=, 73, 74.

=Spottsylvania=, battle of, 336, 337.

=Squanto=, friend of Pilgrims, 78, 79, 80.

=Stamp Act=, 129, 154, 158-160, 162, 168, 230.

=Standish, Miles=, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80; portrait of, 78.

=Stanton, Elizabeth Cady=, 401-404; early life of, 401-402; portrait of, 401; calls woman's rights convention, 402; works with Miss Anthony for suffrage, 403; death, 404.

=Stanton, Henry B.=, 402, 403.

=Starved Rock=, 110, 111.

=Steamboat=, invented by Fulton, 257-260; used on all rivers, 260-261.

=Steel=, manufacture of, 423.

=Stephenson, George=, 263.

=Steuben, General=, 138.

=Stewart=, Boone's companion, 204.

=Stowe, Calvin E.=, 407.

=Stowe, Harriet Beecher=, 406-407; early life of, 406-407; in behalf of freedom for slaves, 407; writes _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, 407; portrait of, 407; death, 407.

=Strait of Magellan=, _see_ Magellan.

"=Stump speaking=," 319.

=Stuyvesant, Peter=, 87-91; in West Indies, 87; portrait of, 88; governor of New Amsterdam, 88-90; makes strict laws, 88; disputes with people, 89; surrenders to English, 90-91.

=Submarine=, 395-397.

=Suffrage, Woman=, 402, 403-404, 414.

=Sumter, Fort=, 323.

=Sumter, Thomas=, 184.

=Superior=, iron "ranges" of Lake, 422.

=Sutter, Colonel=, 288.

=Sutter's Fort=, 287.

=Taft, William Howard=, 369-370; portrait of, 369.

=Tanks=, 397.

=Tariff=, collecting in South Carolina, 297; protective, 303-307; Calhoun and, 307-308.

=Tariff Law, Compromise=, 297, 304, 308.

=Tarleton, Colonel=, sent to capture Morgan, 185-187; defeated at battle of the Cowpens, 186-188; stories of, 187-188; sent to capture Marion, 191.

=Tea Tax=, 129, 162-163, 168-170, 231.

=Tecumseh=, 249.

=Telegraph=, invented by Morse, 264-268; Marconi invents wireless, 268; Edison and the, 381-383.

=Telephone=, invented by Bell and Gray, 268.

=Temperance=, _see_ Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

=Tennessee=, 215, 247, 248.

=Texas=, 279-283, 310.

=Thanksgiving=, the first American, 80.

=Thermopylae=, 462.

=Threshing machines=, 418.

=Ticonderoga=, 132.

=Tigris River=, 448.

=Tobacco=, chief crop of Virginia planters, 71.

=Tonti=, comes to America with La Salle, 107; goes to hunt the _Griffin_, 109, 110; at Starved Rock, 111, 113; in command of Fort St. Louis, 112.

=Tories=, 169, 190.

=Tours=, battle of, 479.

=Trade routes=, old, 2; Turks destroy, 3.

=Trading posts=, 56.

=Transportation=, development of, 373-374.

"=Traveler=," Lee's horse, 341.

=Travis, Colonel=, 279.

=Treaty of 1783= (Revolution), 140, 155.

=Treaty of Ghent= (War of 1812), 306.

=Treaty of 1846=, 244.

=Trenton=, 135.

=Trojans=, 452-453.

=Turkey=, 45.

=Tyler, President=, 314, 320.

=Typewriter=, 386-388.

=Ulysses=, 453.

"=Uncle Tom's Cabin=," 407.

"=Unknown Warrior=," burial of, 433.

=Union-Pacific Railway=, completed, 374.

=United States=, resources and industries of the, 316-323.

=United States Bank=, President Jackson and the, 252-253.

=Vail, Alfred=, 265.

=Valley Forge=, 137, 138.

=Van Buren, President=, 254.

=Vancouver, Fort=, 286.

=Van Rensselaer=, a patroon, 58.

=Vernon, Admiral=, 116.

=Vespucci, Amerigo=, 16.

=Vicksburg=, siege of, 334.

=Victoria, Queen=, 270.

=Vikings=, _see_ Northmen.

=Villa=, 430.

=Vincennes=, campaign against, 218-224.

=Vinland=, visited by Northmen, 1.

=Virgil=, 475.

=Virginia=, 60, 130, 163, 166; named by Queen Elizabeth, 44; colony planted in, 46; Charles I gives Baltimore a part of, 69; slavery introduced into, 71; life in the colony of, 71; industries, manners, and customs of, 71-72; old days in, 126-129; the change in, 141.

=Wabash=, Clark and his men in the "drowned lands" of the, 221-222.

=War of 1812=, heroes of, 244-254; Perry in, 244-245; Jackson in, 248-252; Clay's part in the, 296; treaty ending, 296; Webster's part in, 302; Calhoun's work in, 307.

=Warren, General Joseph=, 177.

=Washington, Augustine=, 115.

=Washington, George=, 114-145, 153, 166, 173, 180, 182, 184, 234; birthday and birthplace of, 115; mother of, 115; a skilled woodsman, 118; meets Lord Fairfax, 119; as a surveyor, 119-120; in the wilderness and at Greenway Court, 119-121; as a soldier against the French, 121-123; builds Fort Necessity, 123; joins Braddock's army, 123; visits Boston, 125; meets Martha Custis, 126; at Fort Duquesne, 126; married, 126-127; elected to House of Burgesses, 127; at Mount Vernon, 128-129; modesty of, 128, 131; sent to Continental Congress, 130; made commander in chief of American armies, 130, 155, 177; takes command of army, 132; appoints Schuyler to take command in New York, 132; outwits Howe, 133; retreats but fights, 134; at Trenton, 135-136; defeats British at Princeton, 137; at battle of Brandywine, 137; at Valley Forge, 137-138; at Yorktown, 139-140; portrait of, 139; bids farewell to army and returns to Mount Vernon, 140-142; elected first president, 143-145, 234; loved by the people, 143; character of administration of, 144; reëlected president and refuses third term, 145; death, 145.

=Washington, Lawrence=, 116, 117, 121.

=Washington, William=, 184, 185, 186, 187.

=Watauga, Fort=, 211, 212.

=Watt, James=, 258, 259.

=Webster, Daniel=, 300-306; early life of, 300; best student at Dartmouth, 301; studies law, 301; marries, 302; in Congress, 302; opposes nullification, 303, 304; portrait of, 304; Secretary of State, 304, 306; supports the Compromise of 1850, 305; dies at Marshfield, 306.

=Wesley, John and Charles=, 103.

=West, Benjamin=, 258.

=West, The New=, 372-376.

=West Indies=, Columbus discovers and explores, 13, 15; devastated by Drake, 41; Paul Jones' expedition to, 196.

=Wheat=, 375, 417-419.

=Whig party, The=, 297, 298, 304, 319, 322.

=White, John=, 45, 46.

=Whitehaven=, Paul Jones' exploit at, 196.

=White Plains=, 134.

=Whitman, Marcus=, missionary, 243, 244.

=Whitney, Eli=, 226-229; in his father's tool shop, 226; goes to Savannah, 227; invited to Mulberry Grove, 227; becomes interested in cotton, 228; invents cotton gin, 228; effect of cotton gin invented by, 416.

"=Wilderness=," fighting in the, 336, 337.

="Wilderness Road," The=, 205-206.

=Willard, Frances E.=, 408-409; early life of, 408; and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 409; death, 409; portrait of, 409.

=William and Mary=, 90.

=William the Conqueror=, 488-489, 490.

=Williamsburg=, 159, 163, 230.

="Willing," The=, 220, 223.

=Wilson, Woodrow=, 428-431; early life, 429; practises law, 429; as a teacher, 429; president of Princeton, 429; governor of New Jersey, 429-430; portrait of, 430; and Mexico, 430; dismisses German ambassador, 431; makes loans to Allies, 431; at Paris, 442; tours the United States, 443.

=Winslow, Edward=, 73.

=Winthrop, John=, 81-83, 147.

=Wireless telegraphy=, 268.

=Wolfe, General=, 114, 126.

=Woman's Christian Temperance Union=, 409.

=Woman's club=, 405-406.

=Woman's rights=, 401-404, 414; Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, 402; Susan B. Anthony and, 403-404; Julia Ward Howe and, 406.

=Woman's Rights Convention=, first, 402.

=Woman suffrage=, 402, 403-404, 414.

=Women of our nation=, 400-416.

=Wood, Colonel Leonard=, 356.

=World's Columbian Exposition=, 16.

=World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union=, 409.

=World War=, 371, 424-443; support of by the American people, 424-426; attitude of United States in early years of, 426-429, 430-431; nations involved in, 426, naval events of, 427; United States enters, 431-432; size of, 433-434; character of, 434-435; Russia withdraws from, 437; crisis of, 437-439; American battles in, 439-441; Allied victories in, 441; close of, 442-443.

=Wright, Orville=, 390-394.

=Wright, Wilbur=, 390-394.

=Wyeth, Nathaniel=, 243.

=Xerxes=, 462.

=Yadkin River=, Greene crosses, 188; Boone on the, 203; Boone returns to home on the, 205.

=York, Duke of=, 89.

=Yorktown=, victory at, 139-140, 189.

=Zama=, battle of, 469.

=Zeppelins=, 391.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.

Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.

Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.

Enclosed bold font in =equals=.