. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. nder-took to build the canal as a government measure. They beganby purchasing^the rights of the old French company; but theSouth American republi
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. nder-took to build the canal as a government measure. They beganby purchasing^the rights of the old French company; but theSouth American republic of Colombia, which claimed the ter-ritory of Panama, refused to allow the continuation of workon the canal unless an enormous sum was paid to Colombia. The people of the Panama district itself were very eagerfor the canal, so they started a rebellion against was supported by President Roosevelts Government,and Colombia was helpless. Panama, having declared itselfan independent state, granted the United States the right tobuild the canal. This stupendous undertaking was thus begunin 1903 and finished in 1014. The most serious difficulty inits construction proved to be the cutting through of the Cu-lebra hill or mountain. An enormous amount of earth was re-moved, and then the edges of the remainder of the hill beganto crumble. Slide after slide of huge masses of earth filled thecut and had to be cleared away again and yet I The United States—Chronology 1689 Cruz; Scotts march against the City of Mexico. 1848—Peace with Mexicobrings a vast increase of territory. 1849—Discovery of gold in —Clays Omnibus Bill. 1854—The Kansas-Nebraska struggle. 1859—■John Browns raid. i860—Election of Lincoln; South Carolina secedes from the Union. 1861—Seven other Southern States join South Carolina and form the Confederacy;Sumter bombarded; call for troops; other States join the Confederacy; fight-ing along the borders; battle of Bull Run (J
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