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Mackenzie Robert Shelton. America
America
Table of Contents
THE UNITED STATES
Book First
CHAPTER I. DISCOVERY
CHAPTER II. COLONIZATION
CHAPTER III. VIRGINIA
CHAPTER V. THE NEW ENGLAND PERSECUTIONS
CHAPTER VI. WITCHCRAFT IN NEW ENGLAND
CHAPTER VII. THE INDIANS
CHAPTER VIII. NEW YORK
CHAPTER IX. PENNSYLVANIA
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 V. BUNKER HILL
CHAPTER VI. INDEPENDENCE
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
Book Third
CHAPTER I. KING COTTON
CHAPTER II. SLAVERY
CHAPTER III. MISSOURI
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 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 V. CONFEDERATE SUCCESSES
CHAPTER VI. THE WAR CONTINUES
CHAPTER VII. GETTYSBURG
CHAPTER VIII. THE LAST CAMPAIGN
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 IV. EDUCATION IN AMERICA
CHAPTER V. EUROPE AND AMERICA
POSTSCRIPT.[11] PRESIDENT GARFIELD
FOOTNOTES
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
FOOTNOTES
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
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
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Robert Mackenzie
A history
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During the first forty years of its existence, the great city which we call New York was a Dutch settlement, known among men as New Amsterdam. 1609 A.D. That region had been discovered for the Dutch East India Company by Henry Hudson, who was still in search, as Columbus had been, of a shorter route to the East. The Dutch have never displayed any aptitude for colonizing. But they were unsurpassed in mercantile discernment, and they set up trading stations with much judgment. Three or four years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Dutch West India Company determined to enter into trading relations with the Indians along the line of the Hudson river. They sent out a few families, who planted themselves at the southern extremity of Manhattan Island. A wooden fort was built, around which clustered a few wooden houses—just as in Europe the baron’s castle arose and the huts of the baron’s dependants sheltered beside it. The Indians sold valuable furs for scanty payment in blankets, beads, muskets, and intoxicating drinks. The prudent Dutchmen grew rich, and were becoming numerous. 1643 A.D. But a fierce and prolonged war with the Indians broke out. The Dutch, having taken offence at something done by the savages, expressed their wrath by the massacre of an entire tribe. All the Indians of that region made common cause against the dangerous strangers. All the Dutch villages were burned down. Long Island became a desert. The Dutchmen were driven in to the southern tip of the island on which New York stands. They ran a palisade across the island in the line of what is now Wall Street. To-day, Wall Street is the scene of the largest monetary transactions ever known among men. The hot fever of speculation rages there incessantly, with a fury unknown elsewhere. But then, it was the line within which a disheartened and diminishing band of colonists strove to maintain themselves against a savage foe.
1645 A.D. The war came to an end as wars even then required to do. For twenty years the colony continued to nourish under the government of a sagacious Dutchman called Petrus Stuyvesant. Petrus had been a soldier, and had lost a leg in the wars. He was a brave and true-hearted man, but withal despotic. When his subjects petitioned for some part in the making of laws, he was astonished at their boldness. He took it upon him to inspect the merchants’ books. He persecuted the Lutherans and “the abominable sect of Quakers.”
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