A School History of the United States

%536. Candidates in 1880.%--The campaign of 1880 was opened by the meeting of the Republican national convention at Chicago, where a long and desperate effort was made to nomina...

%419. South Carolina secedes%.--The only state where in 1860 presidential electors were chosen by the legislature was South Carolina. When the legislature met for this purpose,...

%129%. When the 10th of May, 1775, came, the colonists had ceased to petition and had begun to fight. In accordance with the Massachusetts Bill, General Thomas Gage had been app...

%325. New Political Institutions.%--Of the political leaders of Washington's time few were left in 1825. The men who then conducted affairs had almost all been born since the Re...

%356. Texas secures Independence.%--The fact that Tyler now belonged to no party enabled him to commit an act which, had he belonged to either, he would not have ventured to com...

%227. Trouble with Great Britain and France.%--From the congressional election in 1792 we may date the beginning of organized political parties in the United States. They sprang...

%71. Louisiana, or the Mississippi Basin.%--The landing of La Salle on the coast of Texas, and the building of Fort St. Louis of Texas, gave the French a claim to the coast as f...

%273.% Twenty-five years had now gone by since Washington was inaugurated, and in the course of these years our country had made wonderful progress. In 1790 the United States wa...

%185. The States.%--What sort of a country, and what sort of people, was Washington thus chosen to rule over? When, he was elected, the Union was composed of eleven states, for...

%494. New Issues before the People.%--Five years had now passed since the surrender of Lee, and nine since the firing on Sumter. During these years the North, aroused and united...

%384. Franklin Pierce, Fourteenth President.%--Although the struggle with slavery was thus growing more and more serious, the two great parties pretended to consider the questio...

%91. Things unknown in 1763.%--Had a traveler landed on our shores in 1763 and made a journey through the English colonies in America, he would have seen a country utterly unlik...

%105. The New Provinces.%--The acquisition of Canada and the Mississippi valley made it necessary for England to provide for their defense and government. To do this she began b...

%312. Improvement in Means of Travel%.--We have now considered two of the results of the rush of population from the seaboard to the Mississippi valley; namely, the admission of...

%403. The Movement of Population.%--The twenty years which elapsed between the election of Harrison, in 1840, and the election of Lincoln, in 1860, had seen a most astonishing c...

%30. The Beginnings of New England.%--When the Dutch put up their trading posts where New York and Albany now stand, all the country east of New York, all of what is now New Eng...

%301. Rush into the West.%--The settlement of our boundary disputes, especially with Spain, was most timely, for even then people were hurrying across the mountains by tens of t...

%1. Nations that have owned our Soil.%--Before the United States became a nation, six European powers owned, or claimed to own, various portions of the territory now contained w...

%250. France and Great Britain renew the War.%--The war between France and Great Britain, which had been the cause of the sale of Louisiana to us, began in May, 1803. The United...

The three ships which carried the Virginia colony reached the coast in the spring of 1607, and entering Chesapeake Bay sailed up a river which the colonists called the James, in...

%209. Organizing the New Government.%--he President having been inaugurated, and the new government fairly established, it became the duty of Congress to enact such laws as were...

%163. How the Colonies became States.%--When the Continental Congress met at Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, a letter was received from Massachusetts, where the people had penned...

%477. The Reëlection of Lincoln%.--While the war was still raging, the time came, in 1864, for the nomination of candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. The situation...

%263. Fighting on the Frontier.%--"Mr. Madison's War," as the Federalists delighted to call our war for commercial independence, opened with three armies in the field ready to i...

%453. State of our Navy in 1861.%--On the day our flag went down at Sumter, the navy of the United States consisted of ninety vessels of every sort. Fifty of these were sailing...

%174. Call for the Constitutional Convention.%--Finding that it could do nothing, because so few states were represented, and because the powers of the delegates were so limited...

%57%. When Europeans first set foot on our shores, they found the country already inhabited, and, adopting the name given to the men of the New World by Columbus, they called th...

%464. The Cost in Money.%--When Fort Sumter was fired on in 1861 and Lincoln made his call for volunteers, the national debt was $90,000,000, the annual revenue was $41,000,000,...

%291. Monroe inaugurated.%--The administration of Madison ended on March 4, 1817, and on that day James Monroe and Daniel D. Tompkins were sworn into office. They had been nomin...

%11. The Spaniards explore the Southwest.%--Now it must be noticed that up to 1513 no European had explored the interior of either North or South America. They had merely touche...

%47. North and South Carolina.%--You remember that away back in the sixteenth century the French under Jean Ribault and the English under Ralegh undertook to plant colonies on w...

%15. The English Claim to the Seaboard.%--After the Spaniards had thus explored the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and what is now Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, the English atte...

%520. Results of the War.%--The Civil War was fought by the North for the preservation of the Union and by the South for the destruction of the Union. But we who, after more tha...

ACADIA comprised what is now New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and a part of Maine. It was settled in the early years of the seventeenth century at Port Royal (now Annapolis, Nova Sco...

%488. Discovery of Gold near Pikes Peak.%--In the summer of 1858 news reached the Missouri that gold had been found on the eastern slope of the Rockies, and at once a wild rush...

%529. Mechanical Progress.%--The mechanical progress made by our countrymen since the war surpasses that of any previous period. In 1866 another cable was laid across the bed of...