British at New York, plans of, 166.
Brown, John, in Kansas, 273.

raid of, and execution, 278.
John Brown Song, 279.
Buchanan's presidency, 275.
Buchanan, Captain, 295.

Burgesses, House of, established, 58.

Burgoyne, 159.

expedition, 172, 173.

Burnside, General, 304.

Burr, Aaron, 207.

Chase, Secretary, our debt to, 322.
Chatham, Lord. See Pitt.
Chattanooga, siege of, 310.
Chicago, 245, 336, 351.
Chinese Immigration, 354.
Christian Commission, the, 323.
Civil Service Reform, need of, 237.
Civil Service Reform Act, 344.
Civil Service, progress in, 349.
Civil War, beginning of the, 287.
Clark's victories in the West, 178.

at New Orleans, 300.

Mississippi, 27.

Cabinet, the first, 192.

the present, 354 (note 1).

Clinton, General, 159, 173.

Coal comes into use, 243.

College, Harvard, founded, 86, 87.

English, 35-37, 49, 51.

French, 30-32, 54.

Spanish (St. Augustine), 32.

Swedish, 109.

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general condition of the thirteen in 1763,

139-147.

resistance to English oppression, 149–164.
declare themselves independent, 164.

Columbus, birth, voyages, and death, 1-18.
Kentucky, evacuated, 298.

Compromise, definition of, 225 (note 3).
measures of 1850, 267.
Missouri, 225.

Confederacy, New England (1643), 87, 88.

the Southern, 281.

Congress, First Continental, 156.
Connecticut, first settlement of, 96.
Constitution of, 97, 98.

Andros and the charter of, 100.
extent of, under its charter, 100.

Constitution, amendments to, 327, 328, 330.
the first written in America, 97, 98.
the "Grand Model," 113.

of Pennsylvania (the "Great Law"), 117.
the U. S., formed and adopted, 188, 189.
necessity of the, 188.

what it accomplished, 130.

Constitution and Guerrière, 213.

"Contrabands" applied to fugitive slaves, 289.
Cornwallis, General, 162 (note 2); 167, 171,
179, 181, 183, 184.

Cotton, first exported, 196.

gin invented, 196, 197.

exhibition at New Orleans, 346.

manufacture first established, 346 (note 2).
effect of war of 1812 on manufacture of, 219.
crop of 1890, 348.

States, 281.

capture of, 321 (note 1).

Davis, Captain John, voyages, 33.
Debt of the Revolution, 193.

the Civil War, 322 (note 1).
payment of, 331.

reduction of interest on, 343.
Declaration of Independence, 164.
De Gourges's revenge, 32.
Delaware, Lord, 55.

settled by the Swedes, 109.

seized by the Dutch, 110.

English, 110.

granted to William Penn, 110.

first state to enter the Union, 110.

Democrats, 191, 229 (note 1); 252 (note 2).

De Soto, expedition, 28-30.

discovers the Mississippi, 29.

is buried in it, 30.

Detroit, Hull surrenders at, 213.
Dixie, song of, 314 (note 1).
Dorr Rebellion, the, 253.
Douglas, Stephen A., 271, 272.
Drafting at the South, 310.
Draft riots in New York, 310.
Drake, voyage of, 34.

names Pacific coast New Albion, 34.

Dred Scott case, 275.

Drinking habits of early times, 233.

Dutch, the, in New Netherland (New York),
66, 67.

seize the Delaware country, 110.
dispossessed of New York by the English,

72.

dispossessed of Delaware, 110.

Eads's, Captain, work on the Mississippi, 341.
Early's raid, 313.

Earth, ideas of, before Columbus sailed, 1.

countries known before Columbus sailed, 1.

Earthquake, the Charleston, 352.
Eccentric lathe, the, 255 (note 1).
Education in New England, 86.

Governor Berkeley on, in Va., 60 (note 1).
in the colonies, 146.

Embargo, the, 206.

Emigration to the United States, 251.

from China, 354.

laws concerning, 354 (note 3).

Endicott, Governor, 80, 81.

England's need of America, 50.

England, formerly no religious liberty in, 74.
English explorations, early, 18, 32.

attempts to colonize America, 35-38.
first permanent colony in America, 52.
Ericsson's inventions, 255 (note 1); 296
(note 1).

"Era of good feeling," 220.
Erie Canal, 229.

Ether, Dr. Morton's discovery respecting, 255.
European trade with the Indies, 6, 7.
Exhibition, the Centennial (1876), 337.

the New Orleans, 346.
Ohio, 356 (note 2).

Express system established, 244.

Faneuil Hall, 152, 214.

Farragut takes New Orleans, 299.
enters Mobile Bay, 317.
Federalists, the, 191.

Fillmore's presidency, 268.

Fires, the Chicago, forest, and Boston, 336.
Flag, the first American, 175 (note 3).

first American, on a war-ship, 178.
the Confederate, 282 (and note 1).
our present, 357.

Florida, discovery and naming of, 25.
Narvaez in, 27.
De Soto in, 28.

struggle of French and Spaniards for, 31,

32.

purchase of, by the United States, 222.
Fort Duquesne, 134, 135.

(Pittsburgh), 136.
Orange (Albany), 66.
Forts, line of French, 132.
France sends expedition to America, 27.
colonies of, in America, 30, 32, 54.
struggle of, with England for America,

129-139.

Franklin, sketch of life of, 131 (note 1).
writings of, 146.

electrical experiments of, 147.

Snake, the (Albany Convention), 135.
and the Stamp Act, 151.

letter to Strahan, 161, 162.

negotiates treaty with France, 176.

money obtained by, in aid of Revolution,
176 (note 1).

fits out ships in our defence, 179.
helps frame the Constitution, 188.
Freedmen, the, 304, 327, 328, 330, 336.

progress made by, 348.

Free Trade (1846-1861), 240 (note 1).
Frémont conquers California, 260.

sketch of life of, 291 (note 3).

French, the, explore the St. Lawrence, 26.
the, in Carolina and Florida, 30-32.

found Quebec, 54.

discovery of, in California, 263.
effects of, in 1857, 276.

Gorges, Sir F., 94.

Gosnold's expedition, 49.

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Governments, colonial (see Colonies), 83,
141, 156, 186.

organization of our present, 188, 191, 192.
See Constitution and United States.
"Grand Model," the, 113.

Grant, General, sketch of life, 297 (note 1).
"unconditional surrender letter, 297,

settle in Charleston, 112.

illustrious descendants of the, 113.
Hull, Captain Isaac, victory of, 213.
Hull's march to Detroit, 212.

surrender, 213.

Hutchinson, Mrs. Anne, 85, 108.

Immigration, 251, 354.
Independence, Declaration of, 164.
Independence Hall, 164, 165.
Indians, why so named, 15.

tribes of, 40 (note 1).

mode of life, character, religion, 39–45.
what they taught the whites, 45.
influence on our history, 46.
first taste strong drink, 65.

Eliot's work among, 87.

wars with (see Wars), 63, 80, 91, 97,

129-139, 215, 221, 244, 339.

treaties with, 67, 73, 118, 216.
massacres by, in Revolution, 178.
Indies, trade with, in fifteenth century, 6, 7.

schemes for reaching the, by sea, 5-9.
America supposed to be part of the, 15.
Indigo, culture of, in South Carolina, 114, 115.
Ingle, Captain, 103.

Interstate Commerce Act, 354.
Intolerable Acts, the, 155 (note 2).

Inventions, American, 195, 197 (note 1); 208,
254, 255 (note 1); 270, 296 (note 1);
330, 337, 338 (note 3).
See Cotton Gin, Eccentric Lathe, Moni-
tor, Phonograph, Reaper, Revolver,
Screw Propeller, Sewing Machine,
Steamboat, Steam Printing Press,
Telegraph, Telephone.
Iroquois Indians, 67, 135, 173, 178.

impeached, but acquitted, 329.
Johnston, General A. S., 296, 298 (note 1).
General Joseph E., 291 (note 2); 30%
312, 320, 321 (note 1).

Johnstown disaster, the, 356.

Joliet and Marquette's expedition, 125.
Jones, Paul, 178.

Lafayette in the Revolution, 172, 175, 183.
visit of, in 1824, 228.

La Salle explores the Mississippi, 126.
Laudonnière's colony, 31.

Lee, General Charles, in the Revolution, 168,
170, 177.

Lee, Richard Henry, 62, 164.

Lee, General Robert E., 290, 302, 303, 306,
312, 313, 321, 326.

Leif the Lucky, 3.

Leopard and the Chesapeake, 206.
Lewis and Clarke's expedition, 205.
Liberty, Statue of, 353.

Lincoln, sketch of early life of, 279 (note 2).
election of, 279.
presidency of, 285.

his inaugural speech, 285.
calls for 75,000 volunteers, 288.
emancipates the slaves, 304.
assassination of, 322.

Literature, colonial, 146.

rise of American, 245, 246.

influence of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 268

London Company, the, 50.

Louisburg taken, 130, 136.

Louisiana, origin of the name, 127.

purchase of, 204.

explored by Lewis and Clarke, 205.

great flood in, 344.

progress since the war, 347.

Macdonough's victory, 217.

Machinery, American labor-saving, 270, 338