America. A history
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Mackenzie Robert Shelton. America. A history
THE UNITED STATES
Book First
CHAPTER I. DISCOVERY
CHAPTER II. COLONIZATION
CHAPTER III. VIRGINIA
CHAPTER IV. NEW ENGLAND
CHAPTER V. THE NEW ENGLAND PERSECUTIONS
CHAPTER VI. WITCHCRAFT IN NEW ENGLAND
CHAPTER VII. THE INDIANS
CHAPTER VIII. NEW YORK
CHAPTER IX. PENNSYLVANIA
CHAPTER X. GEORGIA
CHAPTER XI. SLAVERY
CHAPTER XII. EARLY GOVERNMENT
Book Second
CHAPTER I. GEORGE WASHINGTON
CHAPTER II. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
CHAPTER III. THE VALLEY OF THE OHIO
CHAPTER IV. AMERICA ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER V. BUNKER HILL
CHAPTER VI. INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER VII. AT WAR
CHAPTER VIII. SYMPATHY BEYOND THE SEA
CHAPTER IX. THE WAR CONTINUES
CHAPTER X. THE SURRENDER AT SARATOGA
CHAPTER XI. HELP FROM EUROPE
CHAPTER XII. MAJOR ANDRÉ
CHAPTER XIII. THE CLOSE OF THE WAR
CHAPTER XIV. THE THIRTEEN STATES BECOME A NATION
CHAPTER XV. THE WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN
Book Third
CHAPTER I. KING COTTON
CHAPTER II. SLAVERY
CHAPTER III. MISSOURI
CHAPTER IV. HOPE FOR THE NEGRO
CHAPTER V. TEXAS
CHAPTER VI. THE WAR WITH MEXICO
CHAPTER VII. CALIFORNIA
CHAPTER VIII. KANSAS
CHAPTER IX. THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
CHAPTER X. JOHN BROWN
CHAPTER XI. EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY
CHAPTER XII. SECESSION
CHAPTER XIII. THE TWO PRESIDENTS
Book Fourth
CHAPTER I. THE FIRST BLOW STRUCK
CHAPTER II. THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN
CHAPTER III “ON TO RICHMOND.”
CHAPTER IV. LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVE
CHAPTER V. CONFEDERATE SUCCESSES
CHAPTER VI. THE WAR CONTINUES
CHAPTER VII. GETTYSBURG
CHAPTER VIII. THE LAST CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER IX. THE MURDER OF THE PRESIDENT
CHAPTER X. THE LOSSES AND THE GAINS OF THE WAR
CHAPTER XI. AFTER THE WAR
CHAPTER XII. HOW THE AMERICANS CARED FOR THEIR SOLDIERS
Book Fifth
CHAPTER I. REUNITED AMERICA
CHAPTER II. ENGLAND AND AMERICA
CHAPTER III. INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
CHAPTER IV. EDUCATION IN AMERICA
CHAPTER V. EUROPE AND AMERICA
POSTSCRIPT11. PRESIDENT GARFIELD
THE DOMINION OF CANADA
CHAPTER I. THE DAWN OF CANADIAN HISTORY
CHAPTER II. SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN
CHAPTER III. THE JESUITS IN CANADA
CHAPTER IV. THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI
CHAPTER V. THE AMERICAN CONTINENT GAINED BY THE BRITISH
CHAPTER VI. COLONIZATION BY FRANCE AND BY ENGLAND
CHAPTER VII. AFTER THE CONQUEST
CHAPTER VIII. CANADA DURING THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER IX. CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER X. THE WAR OF 1812
CHAPTER XI. DOMESTIC STRIFE
CHAPTER XII. THE CANADIAN REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XIII. CONFEDERATION
CHAPTER XIV. THE MARITIME PROVINCES
CHAPTER XV. THE PROVINCES OF THE NORTH-WEST
CHAPTER XVI. THE PROGRESS OF THE CANADIAN NATION
SOUTH AMERICA
CHAPTER I. DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST
CHAPTER II. THE INDIANS OF SPANISH AMERICA
CHAPTER III. SPANISH GOVERNMENT OF THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER IV. REVOLUTION
CHAPTER V. INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER VI. THE CHURCH OF ROME IN SPANISH AMERICA
CHAPTER VII. BRAZIL
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It was late in the history of the world before Europe and America became known to each other. During the first fifteen centuries of the Christian era Europe was unaware of the vast continent which lay beyond the sea. Asia had ceased to influence her. Africa had not begun. Her history was waiting for the mighty influence which America was to exercise in her affairs through all the future ages.
Men had been slow to establish completely their dominion over the sea. They learned very early to build ships. They availed themselves very early of the surprising power which the helm exerts over the movements of a ship. But, during many ages, they found no surer guidance upon the pathless sea than that which the position of the sun and the stars afforded. When clouds intervened to deprive them of this uncertain direction, they were helpless. They were thus obliged to keep the land in view, and content themselves with creeping timidly along the coast.
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The fame of Oglethorpe’s enterprise spread over Europe. All struggling men against whom the battle of life went hard looked to Georgia as a land of promise. They were the men who most urgently required to emigrate; but they were not always the men best fitted to conquer the difficulties of the immigrant’s life. The progress of the colony was slow. The poor persons of whom it was originally composed were honest but ineffective, and could not in Georgia more than in England find out the way to become self-supporting. Encouragements were given which drew from Germany, from Switzerland, and from the Highlands of Scotland, men of firmer texture of mind – better fitted to subdue the wilderness and bring forth its treasures.
1736 A.D. With Oglethorpe there went out, on his second expedition to Georgia, the two brothers John and Charles Wesley. Charles went as secretary to the Governor. John was even then, although a very young man, a preacher of unusual promise. He burned to spread the gospel among the settlers and their Indian neighbours. He spent two years in Georgia, and these were unsuccessful years. His character was unformed; his zeal out of proportion to his discretion. The people felt that he preached “personal satires” at them. He involved himself in quarrels, and at last had to leave the colony secretly, fearing arrest at the instance of some whom he had offended. He returned to begin his great career in England, with the feeling that his residence in Georgia had been of much value to himself, but of very little to the people whom he sought to benefit.
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