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TOPICAL ANALYSIS.

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TOPICAL ANALYSIS FOR SLATE AND BLACKBOARD

The figures refer to the numbered paragraphs.

FIRST PERIOD, THE DISCOVERY AND NAMING OF AMERICA. (1000-1521.)

The Northmen.

Geographical knowledge.

Columbus.

The Cabots.

Origin of the name America.

2. Who were they?

2. Iceland.

2. Greenland.

2. "Leif the Lucky."
2. Vinland.

3. Results of the discovery of America by the Northmen.

1. Ideas about the earth in 1436.

1. The "Sea of Darkness."

1. Birth of Columbus.

3. Visits Iceland.

4. What he wished to do.

4. Marco Polo's book.

4. First motive or object of Columbus.

5. His second motive.

5. Trade with the Indies. (Venice, Genoa.)

6. Portuguese voyages. (Results.)

7. Plan of Columbus. (How far right, how far wrong.) 8. He seeks assistance.

9. He sails. (Vessels; Canary Islands; equipment for

the voyage.)

10. Incidents of the voyage. (Compass, crew, birds.) II. Land! (The West Indies; the Indians.)

12. Return. (Letter of Columbus; division of the world.)

13. Disappointment of Spain.

13. Death of Columbus. (What he had accomplished.)

14. John.

14. Sebastian.

14. Henry VII.'s note-book.

14. England's claim to America.

15. Amerigo Vespucci.

15. What happened in 1507.

15. Did Amerigo Vespucci deserve the honor be re

ceived?

Discoveries

concerning

America.

16. What people thought of America.
16. Magellan.

16. How Europe felt about his discovery.
17. Summary of the section.

SECOND PERIOD. - ATTEMPTS AT EXPLORING AND COLONIZING AMERICA.

Ponce de Leon.

Balboa.

French

explorations.

New attempts

of the
Spaniards.

The French
(Huguenots)

and the
Spaniards.

English explo

rations and

attempts at settlement.

America and

the Indians.

(1513-1602.)

18. Discovers and names Florida.

19. Discovers the "South Sea." (Cortez.)

20. Francis I.; Cartier.

21. Narvaez; Cabeza de Vaca.
22. De Soto's expedition.

23. Jean Ribaut; Laudonnière.

24. Menendez; St. Augustine.

25. De Gourgues. (Results of the struggle between the French and the Spaniards.)

26. Frobisher; Davis.

27. Sir Humphrey Gilbert; Drake.
28. Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition.

29. Raleigh's first colony. (The new root; the new

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31. Results of the Spanish, French, and English attempts up to 1600.

32. What America was found to be.

(Climate, soil,

crops; healthfulness; superiority to Europe.)

33. The Indian population.

34. Personal appearance of the Indians. (The scalp

lock.)

35. How they lived. (The four chief families or tribes;

note 1,)

36. Their work.

canoe.)

(The moccasin; the snow-shoe; the

37. Government of tribes; "wampum.”
38. Social condition; customs; "totems."

39. Religion; character.

40. Self-control; torture; respect for courage. (General

Stark.)

41. The Indian and the white man; what the Indian

taught the white man.

42. Influence of the Indians on the early history of the country. (The Iroquois; the Indian wars.)

Effects of the

discovery of

America on
Europe.

TOPICAL ANALYSIS.

43. (1) Geographical knowledge.

43. (2) Spain, Portugal, France, and England.
43. (3) The precious metals.

43. (4) Trade and navigation.

43. (5) New products.

43. (6) Sugar, cotton, rice, coffee.

43. (7) Effects on men's minds. (Opportunity.)

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44. Summary of the section. (Spaniards, French, English.)

THIRD PERIOD. PERMANENT ENGLISH AND FRENCH SETTLEMENTS.

The English and the French establish

permanent colonies.

I. Virginia (1607).

The Dutch

settle New Netherland.

II. New York (1614).

III. New

Jersey (1617).

(1602-1763.)

(45. Opening of the 17th century; Gosnold.

46. England's need of America; the king grants a char-
ter to settle Virginia. (Articles of the charter;
instructions.)

47. The London Company; Captain John Smith.
48. Jamestown; condition of the colonists.

49. Their sufferings; search for the Pacific; Pocahontas.
50. Gold! The French in Canada; what the colony
owed Smith; Jamestown abandoned.

51. Lord Delaware; the new charter; Governor Dale; the great reform. (Gift of land.)

52. Cultivation of tobacco. (Four effects.)

53. Virginia becomes practically self-governing. (The House of Burgesses; wives.)

54. Negro slaves; white "apprentices."

54. What settlements were made at the North.

55. Virginia loses her charter; Governor Berkeley; Puri-
tans and Cavaliers.

56. Berkeley restored to power; the Navigation Laws;
the king gives away Virginia.
colonies.)

(Other English

57. Condition of the Virginia colonists; the Bacon re

bellion. (Results.)

58. Summary of the Virginia colony.

59. Henry Hudson.

60. The Indians.

61. The Dutch take possession of New Netherland; the
English and the French.

62. Purchase of Manhattan Island.
63. The Patroons. (Van Rensselaer.)
64. Peter Stuyvesant; New Amsterdam.
claim the country; they seize it.)
65. Summary of New Netherland or New York.

66. Dutch claim; English claim.

(The English

66. English get possession. (Name New Jersey.)

67. The Friends or Quakers. (Treaty with the Indians; government of the colony.)

68. Summary of New Jersey.

71.

IV. Massachu-
setts (Ply-
mouth Colony,
1620)

69. Religious liberty in England. (Catholics, Puritans,
Separatists.)

70. Emigration; the Separatists.

72.

Why the Separatists or Pilgrims resolved to leave
Holland for America.

Where they intended to settle; how they got as-
sistance.

73. The Pilgrims sail; Myles Standish.

74. Cape Cod; the compact.

75. Exploring the coast; Plymouth Rock. (The first
winter.)

76. Governor Bradford; town-meeting; Indians.
77. The Pilgrims buy out the English Company. (Growth
of the colony; what made the Pilgrims great.)

78. Salem; Governor Endicott; religious toleration.
(Love of England and love of America.)

79. Governor Winthrop; Boston. (Emigration to New
England.)

80. Government of Massachusetts; occupations of the

people.

81. Banishment of Roger Williams; of Mrs. Hutchinson;
Williams and the Indians.

Public schools; Harvard University; Rev. John
Eliot.

82.

IV. Massachu-

setts (Massa-

83.

84.

The New England Confederacy; object; results.
The coming of the Friends or Quakers.

chusetts Bay

85.

Colony, 1630).

Why it excited alarm. (What the Friends refused
to do.)

V. New Hamp-
shire (1623).

VI. Connecticut
(1634).

86. Effect of persecution on the Friends.

87. What Massachusetts did; what the king did.

88. King Philip's War. (Eliot's Indians; result of the

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90. Massachusetts loses her charter; Andros; the new

charter.

91. Summary of Plymouth and of Massachusetts Bay
colonies.

(92. Grant to Gorges and Mason; first settlements.
93. Division of the territory; Exeter.

94. Londonderry; union of New Hampshire with Mas-
(Voting; New Hampshire a royal

sachusetts.
province.)

95. Summary of New Hampshire.

96. Emigration to the valley of the Connecticut; Hook-
er's colony.

97. The Pequot War.

98. The Connecticut constitution. (Of what it was the
parent.)

(Connecticut-
continued.)

VII. Maryland
(1634).

VIII. Rhode

Island (1636).

IX. New

Sweden, or Del-
aware (1638).

X., XI. Caro-
lina (1663).

XII. Pennsyl-

vania (1681).

XIII. Georgia
(1733).

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99. The New Haven colony; Scripture laws.
100. The Regicides; Davenport's sermon; Andros and
the Connecticut charter.

101. Summary of Connecticut.

102. The Catholic Pilgrims; Lord Baltimore; Maryland.
103. St. Mary's; the wigwam church.

104. Government of the colony; religious freedom.
105. Clayborne and Ingle; what the English commis-
sioners did; how the Assembly or Legislature
treated Lord Baltimore.

106. Lord Baltimore restored to his rights; Maryland
loses her charter.

107. Establishment of the Church of England; Mary-
land restored to Lord Baltimore; Mason and
Dixon's Line.

108. Summary of Maryland.

109. Roger Williams; Providence.

110. Liberty of conscience.

United States.)

(The Constitution of the

III. Settlement of the island of Rhode Island; the char-
ter. (Rhode Island and the Revolution.)

112. Summary of Rhode Island.

113. The Swedes plant a colony; the Dutch.

114. The English seize the country. (William Penn;
the "Territories"; the National Constitution.)
115. Summary of Delaware.

116. Grant of Carolina; first settlements.

117. Charleston; the Huguenots.

118. The "Grand Model"; division of the territory into
North and South Carolina.

119. Growth of the two colonies; rice; indigo; Charles-
ton in 1773.

120. Summary of Carolina.

121. William Penn; Pennsylvania; the "Holy Experi-

ment."

122. The first emigrants; Philadelphia; Penn at New
castle.

123. The "Great Law."

124. The Great Treaty; importance of Philadelphia.
125. Summary of Pennsylvania.

126. Oglethorpe. (His two objects in establishing a

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colony.)

127. Georgia; Savannah; silk culture.

128. Five restrictions on the colony. (Results.)

129. The Wesleys; Whitefield; removal of the restric-
tions; the Spaniards; Georgia in 1752; natural
resources of Georgia.

130. Summary of Georgia.

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