. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ts grow th ^^■as confined to this continent. Fromthe small beginning of thirteen states, the Union had become agreat and poweiful nation of forty-five States and six Terri-tories, reaching from ocean to ocean, which seemed to be itsnatural eastern and western boundaries. But in the hitter part of the iiineteentli century, there wasa great change of conditions. The nation had greatness thrustupon her. The results of the kindly act in behalf of down-trodden Cuba, Avere greater and more important than those ofany other peiio
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ts grow th ^^■as confined to this continent. Fromthe small beginning of thirteen states, the Union had become agreat and poweiful nation of forty-five States and six Terri-tories, reaching from ocean to ocean, which seemed to be itsnatural eastern and western boundaries. But in the hitter part of the iiineteentli century, there wasa great change of conditions. The nation had greatness thrustupon her. The results of the kindly act in behalf of down-trodden Cuba, Avere greater and more important than those ofany other peiiod since the civil wai*. Expansion liad comeuninvited, and had brought with it new duties and greatresponsibilities. The United States had become a World Power with valu-able dependent possessions in the far off Pacific and in theAtlantic. The Philippines, peopled with many tribes invarious degrees of civilization ; the Ha^vaiians ; the inhabitantsof fair Porto Rico and of other smaller islands had come underour care, and it became our dutv to so deal with them as to.
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