. The new eclectic history of the United States . erm,—James A. Garfield, PresidentChester A. Arthur, Vice-President and afterwards President 46. Twenty-fifth Term,—Grover Cleveland, President . 47. Twenty-sixth Term,—Benjamin Harrison, President 48. Progress oi the Republic ...... APPENDIX. Synopsis of Twenty-three Administrations .Transfers of Territory in the United Stales .The Declaration of IndependenceConstitution of the United States of America(ieneral Index ...... Pronouncing Vocabulary .... LIST OF MAIS. Map :iu( son Kiver i. North America 2. Routes of Discoverers 3. The < lolonies
. The new eclectic history of the United States . erm,—James A. Garfield, PresidentChester A. Arthur, Vice-President and afterwards President 46. Twenty-fifth Term,—Grover Cleveland, President . 47. Twenty-sixth Term,—Benjamin Harrison, President 48. Progress oi the Republic ...... APPENDIX. Synopsis of Twenty-three Administrations .Transfers of Territory in the United Stales .The Declaration of IndependenceConstitution of the United States of America(ieneral Index ...... Pronouncing Vocabulary .... LIST OF MAIS. Map :iu( son Kiver i. North America 2. Routes of Discoverers 3. The < lolonies . 4. Revolutionary War 5. Lake Champlain and 1 6. War of l8l2 . 7. Mexican War 8. I he Civil War 9. Growth of the United Stales LIST OF TABLES. Thirteen English Colonies .....English Sovereigns during First Colonial PeriodEnglish Sovereigns during Second Colonial Period 291302310317327335341 347353363368 373 378381 XXVI xlii • iS, 19 ? 30, 31 5s- 59 142, ?43 •54 228, 229 264 298, 299 398, 399 88 88 126 A HISTORY THE UNITED Etowah Mound {Restored). CHAPTER I. ANCIENT AMERICA. 1. A Lonely Land.—Four hundred years ago the country welive in was unknown to the rest of the world. There were nocities, no railroads and bridges, no horses and wagons, nobroad, smooth roads. The people were of a dark, reddish-brown color, and lived in wigwams covered with bark. In thewhole space between the Mississippi and the Atlantic there wereprobably not so many people as live to-day in a single citylike Boston or Cincinnati. Far away to the southward, where (91 IO HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. corn grew with little care, and where bananas and other trop-ical fruits were native, there were large villages in Mexico andYucatan, and even on the dry plains of Arizona and New Mex-ico; but with these exceptions America might be called anempty continent, — a desert-land awaiting its inhabitants. 2. The Mound-Builders.—The central part of North Americahad not always been so lonely. T
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