Young folks' history of the United States . ant a colony on the soil of North orSouth America, or to interfere in American affairs, butthat the people of the different parts of the continentshould govern themselves. This has always been calledthe Monroe doctrine, and is considered one of themost important results of this presidents administra-tion. CHAPTER XXVI. ADAMS AND JACKSON. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. NULLIFICATION AND THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS of Massachusetts was the The sixthnext president, serving one term, — from 1825 to ^^®^^^®*1529. All the previous presidents had ta
Young folks' history of the United States . ant a colony on the soil of North orSouth America, or to interfere in American affairs, butthat the people of the different parts of the continentshould govern themselves. This has always been calledthe Monroe doctrine, and is considered one of themost important results of this presidents administra-tion. CHAPTER XXVI. ADAMS AND JACKSON. INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. NULLIFICATION AND THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS of Massachusetts was the The sixthnext president, serving one term, — from 1825 to ^^®^^^®*1529. All the previous presidents had taken part inthe Revolutionary War, or in founding the government;but John QuincyAdams belonged toa younger genera-tion, and had beenbut nine years oldwhen his father hadsigned the Decla-ration of Indepen-dence, and when hehimself had heardit read from theState House in Bos-ton. Since then,the young nationhad freed and es-tablished itself, had widened its bounds, and was now at peace,administration of Mr. Adams, much was done to open 259. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. During the 260 YOUNG folks UNITED STATES. Opening of the mtcrior of the country for settlement. Almost allo/the ^°^ the Indian tribes had been removed west of the Mis-setuemenT sissippi; and their lands had been bought by the gov-ernment. A great system of canals had been begun,affording better means of communication than any thathad before existed. Chief among these was the ErieCanal, which connected Lake Erie with the harbor ofNew York. It was completed in 1825 ; and Gov. DeWitt Clinton of New York, who had planned it, andhad himself dug the first spadeful of earth, was con-veyed the whole distance in a barge, amid the ringingof bells and the discharge of cannon. After this, pop-ulation poured rapidly into the interior of New YorkState ; and, wherever canals were built, towns and vil-lages grew first It vvas durlug Mr. Adamss presidency, moreover, America, that thc first railroad in America was built, in 1827,—
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