The Story of American History for Elementary Schools
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Blaisdell Albert Franklin. The Story of American History for Elementary Schools
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. AMERICA IN THE OLD DAYS
CHAPTER II. COLUMBUS AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
CHAPTER III. SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH
CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF THE PILGRIMS
CHAPTER V. MORE ABOUT THE PILGRIMS
CHAPTER VI. THE INDIANS AND HOW THEY LIVED
CHAPTER VII. THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK; THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA
CHAPTER VIII. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS
CHAPTER IX. EVERYDAY LIFE IN COLONIAL TIMES
CHAPTER X. THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XI. LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
CHAPTER XII. THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL
CHAPTER XIII. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER XIV. THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGN
CHAPTER XV. WASHINGTON AND THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XVI. THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH
CHAPTER XVII. THE STORY OF ARNOLD'S TREASON
CHAPTER XVIII. JOHN PAUL JONES: OUR FIRST GREAT NAVAL HERO
CHAPTER XIX. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: HIS HIGHLY USEFUL CAREER
CHAPTER XX. EVERYDAY LIFE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
CHAPTER XXI. WHAT OUR NAVY DID IN THE WAR OF 1812
CHAPTER XXII. THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PACIFIC COAST
CHAPTER XXIII. LINCOLN AND THE WAR FOR THE UNION
CHAPTER XXIV. MORE ABOUT THE WAR FOR THE UNION
CHAPTER XXV. OUR NAVY IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION
CHAPTER XXVI. THE WAR WITH SPAIN IN 1898
APPENDIX
REFERENCE BOOKS AND SUPPLEMENTARY READING FOR SUCCESSIVE PERIODS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
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1. The Story of our Country.– We are sure that every intelligent and patriotic American youth must like to read the story of our country's life. To a boy or girl of good sense no work of fiction can surpass it in interest or power.
How delightful to let the imagination summon up the forms and the deeds of the fearless Norse sailors who dared to cross the unknown seas in their frail and tiny vessels without compass and without charts! How interesting the oft-told but ever-fresh narrative of the intrepid Columbus and his memorable first voyage into and across the "Sea of Darkness"! What romance was ever more exciting than the stories of the fierce struggles between the white men and the Indians for existence and supremacy on this continent?
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15. Columbus receives a Royal Welcome on his Return.– A royal welcome was given Columbus on his return. The man who had been laughed at for his strange theories, now returning from a newly discovered world beyond the sea, was regarded as the greatest of men. Ferdinand and Isabella received him with royal pomp and asked him to tell them his story. Marvelous it must have seemed, and all who heard it must have listened with breathless attention. The highest honors were bestowed upon him. His discovery of course excited intense interest throughout the civilized world.
But the high honors paid to him aroused the jealousy of the courtiers. Once, while sitting as a guest of honor at table, one of the courtiers said with a sneer that it was not such a great thing after all to discover the New World; any one else could have done it. By way of reply Columbus took an egg from a dish before him, and handing it to the courtier, asked him to make it stand on end. The man tried but could not do it. Others tried but failed, and the egg came back to Columbus. He struck it upon the table with slight force, cracking the shell a little, and then it stood upright.
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