. Washington and his country: being Irving's Life of Washington, abridged for the use of schools, with introduction, and continuation, giving a brief outline of United States history from the discovery of America to the end of the civil war . To face page 524. MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE ACQUISITION OF TERRITORYBY THE UNITED STATES. SQ. MILES. Area of United States in 1783 . , „ . 827,844 Austria-Hungary, German Empire, France, and Spain .... 834,90^ Louisiana Purchase, 1803, with the portion of Oregon territory retained in 1846 1,171,931 Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belg
. Washington and his country: being Irving's Life of Washington, abridged for the use of schools, with introduction, and continuation, giving a brief outline of United States history from the discovery of America to the end of the civil war . To face page 524. MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE ACQUISITION OF TERRITORYBY THE UNITED STATES. SQ. MILES. Area of United States in 1783 . , „ . 827,844 Austria-Hungary, German Empire, France, and Spain .... 834,90^ Louisiana Purchase, 1803, with the portion of Oregon territory retained in 1846 1,171,931 Austria-Hungary, German Empire, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, France, and Spain , , 1,171,154 Florida Purchase, 1819 , . , . 59,268 England and Wales . , . 58,320 Texan Annexation, 1845 375,239 Austi ia-Hungary, Italy, and Switzerland c 370,472 Mexican Cessions, 1848-53 German Empire, France, and Spain . 593,963 Alaska, 1867 577,390 Austria-Hungary, German Empire, and Norway 575,314 United States since 1867 3,602,990 Europe . . » , 3,986,975. BECAME A NATION. 525 Exploration of Oregon. —As an expander of American domin-ion, Jefferson did not stop here. The region beyond the Rockymountains and north of Cahfornia was then quite unexplored. In1804 Jefferson sent an expedition under captains Lewis andClark, which explored the valley of the Columbia river as faras the Pacific Ocean, and thus gave us a title to Oregon, thoughmany years elapsed before we took possession. The Tripolitan War. — The Barbary States on the Mediterra-nean coast of Africa had been for more than four centuries a nui-sance to the civilized world. Their pirate cruisers swarmed uponthe high seas and robbed the merchant ships of all nations. Im-portant captives they held for ransom, and all others they soldinto hopeless slavery. European war-ships often punished them,but were unable to put down the evil; and the greatest nations hadtried to bribe them to keep the peace by paying blackmail. TheUnited States had at first felt obliged to adopt this humiliat
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