Young folks' history of the United States . h more General La Fayette came from France to revisitthe young nation for whose freedom he had fought,everybody greeted him with enthusiasm ; and the nationseemed quiet and at peace. This was just before retired from five j^g igfj- ^i^g nation with five new States added to the states admitted. Union, as has already been said. Of these, Illinoishad been previously a part of Indiana; and the word GROWTH OF THE NATION. 257 Illinois was the name of an Indian tribe, and meantThe Men. Mississippi and Alabama were both ma
Young folks' history of the United States . h more General La Fayette came from France to revisitthe young nation for whose freedom he had fought,everybody greeted him with enthusiasm ; and the nationseemed quiet and at peace. This was just before retired from five j^g igfj- ^i^g nation with five new States added to the states admitted. Union, as has already been said. Of these, Illinoishad been previously a part of Indiana; and the word GROWTH OF THE NATION. 257 Illinois was the name of an Indian tribe, and meantThe Men. Mississippi and Alabama were both madeout of the old Mississippi Territory, which also tookits name from a river ; the Indian word meaning The Great River. The wordswere both takenfrom rivers; thelatter name mean-ing Muddy Wa-ters. All theseStates had beenoriginally ex-plored and settledby the for the State of Maine, it wasformed out ofMassachusetts, ofwhich it had beena district; and itis generally sup-posed to havebeen named inhonor of Henri- Alabama and Missouri. GENERAL LA FAYETTE. etta Maria, queen of Charles I., who owned the prov-ince of Maine, in France. Others think that this namewas given because it was the mainland, as distinguishedfrom the islands along the coast. These newStates made the number twenty-four in all, — almosttwice as many as the old thirteen. At the census taken The fourti-in 1820, the population of the United States was about ^°^^nine and a half millions (9,638,453). 258 YOUNG folks united STATES. TheMon- Monrocs administration had expressed great sym-trine. pathy for the new republics formed in South America,and had announced the opinion that the United Statesshould thenceforward never allow any European gov-ernment to plant 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
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