America. A history

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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