. A brief history of the United States . citations and examinations may be conducted by having a mapdrawn upon the blackboard with colored crayons, and requiring theclass to fill in the names and dates, describing the historical facts asthey proceed. In turn, during review, the pupil should be able, whena date or place is pointed out, to state the event associated with it. It will be noticed that the book is written on an exact plan andmethod of arrangement. The topics of the epochs, chapters, sectionsand paragraphs form a perfect analysis; thus, in each PresidentialAdministration, the order o
. A brief history of the United States . citations and examinations may be conducted by having a mapdrawn upon the blackboard with colored crayons, and requiring theclass to fill in the names and dates, describing the historical facts asthey proceed. In turn, during review, the pupil should be able, whena date or place is pointed out, to state the event associated with it. It will be noticed that the book is written on an exact plan andmethod of arrangement. The topics of the epochs, chapters, sectionsand paragraphs form a perfect analysis; thus, in each PresidentialAdministration, the order of subjects is uniform, viz.: DomesticAflTairs, Foreign AfiFairs, and Political Parties—the subsidiary topicsbeing grouped under these heads. The teacher is therefore com-mended to place on the board the analysis of each Epoch, and conduct therecitation from that without the use of the book in the class. Entered according to Act of Congress, a. d. 1872, by A. S. Barnes & Co., In theOffice of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. [HO first settled America? —It Avas probably first peopled from Asia,the birth-place of man. In what waythis happened, we do not know. Chi-nese vessels, coasting along the shore according to the cus-tom of early voyagers, may have been driven by storms tocross the Pacific Ocean, while the crews were thankful toescape a watery grave by settling an unknown country:or, parties wandering across Behring Strait in search of ad-venture, and finding on this side a pleasant land, may haveresolved to make it their home. American Antiquities.—In various parts of the con-tinent, remains are found of the people who settled thecountry in prehistoric times. Through the Mississippi val-ley, from the Lakes to the Gulf, extends a succession of de- 10 INTBODUCTION. fensive earthworks. * Similar ruins are found in varions othersections of the United States. The largest forest trees areoften found growing upon them. The Indians have no tra-dition as to the origin o
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