The Beginner's American History

244. The Lincoln family move to Indiana; "Abe" helps his father build a new home; what it was like.--Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12th, 1809, in a log shanty on a lonely...

151. Boone's daughter is stolen by the Indians; how he found her.--One day Boone's young daughter was out, with two other girls, in a canoe on the river. Suddenly some Indians p...

44. "He who will not work shall not eat."--Captain Smith then set part of the men to planting corn, so that they might raise what they needed. The rest of the settlers he took w...

To whom did King Charles the Second owe a large sum of money? How did he pay his debt? What did the king name the country? What does the name mean? What has been found there? Wh...

192. Emigration to the west, and the man who helped that emigration.--But during the last hundred years that great empty land of the far west has been filling up with people. Th...

172. Fights with the Indians; how the settlers held their town; Indian Rock; the "Miami[7] Slaughter House."--But the people of Marietta had hardly begun to feel at home in thei...

When and where was Columbus born? What did he do when he was fourteen? What about his sea-fight? What did he do in Lisbon? How much of the world was then known? How did Columbus...

86. Summary.--Roger Williams, a young minister of Salem, Massachusetts, declared that the Indians, and not the king of England, owned the land in America. The governor of Massac...

120. Franklin invents the lightning-rod; _Doctor_ Franklin.--But Franklin did not stop at that. He said, If I can draw down electricity from the sky with a kite-string, I can dr...

The next time Samoset came he brought with him another Indian, whose name was Squanto. Squanto was the only one left of the tribe that had once lived at Plymouth. All the rest h...

At the battle of Cowpens[6] Colonel William Washington[7] fought on the American side, and Tarleton got badly whipped and had to run. Not long afterward he happened to see some...

135. Colonel Washington at Mount Vernon; Congress makes him General Washington, and sends him to take command of the American army.--At the time the battle of Bunker Hill was fo...

[Footnote 11: When the button at Chicago is pressed down, the electricity passing over the wire to Denver presses the point there down on the paper, and so makes a dot or dash w...

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The saddest thing at the close of the war was the murder of President Lincoln by a madman named Booth. Not only the people of the North but many of those at the South shed tears...

Harrison, General, birthplace of (note), 203. governor of Indiana Territory, 203. marches against the Indians, 203. gains victory of Tippecanoe, 203. beats the British, 204. ele...

Washington, George, birth and boyhood of, 123-125. at school, 123. playing at war, 124. battle with the colt, 125. what he owed to his mother, 123. visits Mount Vernon, 126. mak...