Young folks' history of the United States . 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 him
Young folks' history of the United States . 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,—. EARLY RAILROAD TRAIN. a road of three miles only, leading from the granitequarries to the wharves at Quincy, Mass. The carswere drawn by horses; and the first locomotive enginewas not used until two years later, when it was importedfrom England, where such engines had only just beenintroduced. This first engine only averaged about four-teen miles an hour, and was regarded as a great curios-ity. Many people predicted in America, as they had in INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. 26l England, that it would never be able to move its ownweight, but that the wheels would spin round and roundupon the rail. Others thought, that, if it succeeded, itwould destroy the value of farming-lands by frighteningall the animals, and would stop the raising of sheep,because their wool would be so blackened by thesmoke. They were very much surprised when they sawlocomotives running peaceably, and without causing anyof these disasters. During John Quincy Adamss administration, his Death offather, Ex-President John Adam
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