The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . A French Fur Trader. lU THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION. Attitudeof thecolonists From this point, if necessary, they could quickly go down theriver to the Ohio, or they could as easily get back to PresquIsle, the present site of Erie, Pennsylvania. Many have charged the English government with dilatory con-duct for remaining idle while all these things were going on. The fault,however,lay chieflywith the coloniststhemselves. Thegovernors of Vir-ginia, New York,and Massachusettseach called upon hislegislative assemblyto tak
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . A French Fur Trader. lU THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION. Attitudeof thecolonists From this point, if necessary, they could quickly go down theriver to the Ohio, or they could as easily get back to PresquIsle, the present site of Erie, Pennsylvania. Many have charged the English government with dilatory con-duct for remaining idle while all these things were going on. The fault,however,lay chieflywith the coloniststhemselves. Thegovernors of Vir-ginia, New York,and Massachusettseach called upon hislegislative assemblyto take active meas-ures, but the assem-blies adjourned with-out doing Franklinand other leadingmen, in a congressat Albany in 1754,drew up a plan forthe federation of thecolonies in order thatthey might take con-certed action, but thecolonists, who stoodGateways through the Appalachians. jj^ Sreat fear of a centralized power, rejected the plan with but little ceremony.^ England, however, sent over some of her best troops, and thecolonies called out their militia. But almost always regular ^ The congress was ca
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