Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . pire from whichmany of the most important States of the Union have been carved. When itis remembered that these changes were the result of a war in which the captureof Quebec was the decisive conflict, it will be admitted that there was amplewarrant for pronouncing it one of the great battles of the world. MOMENTOUS RESULTS OF THE WAR. 85 The thirteen original colonies were now full grown. Their populationhad increased to 2,0
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . pire from whichmany of the most important States of the Union have been carved. When itis remembered that these changes were the result of a war in which the captureof Quebec was the decisive conflict, it will be admitted that there was amplewarrant for pronouncing it one of the great battles of the world. MOMENTOUS RESULTS OF THE WAR. 85 The thirteen original colonies were now full grown. Their populationhad increased to 2,000,000 and was fast growing. Their men hatl proven theirbravery and generalship in the Fi-ench and Indian War. Many of them liaddevelojjed into fine ofHcers, and all compared favorably with the British regu-lars. Their loyalty to England was proven by the 30,000 lives that had beengiven that she might conquer her tiaditional rival and enemy. The adventurous spirit of the colonists was shown by the fact that manybegan crossing the Alleghanies into the fertile district beyond, where they werein continual danger from the fierce Indians. James Robertson led a party of. MEMORIAL HALL, HARVARD COLLEGE. emigrants who made the first settlement in Tennessee in 1768, and the famousDaniel Boone and a company of immigrants were the pioneers in Kentucky in1769. No effort was made to settle tlie country north of the Ohio until afterthe Revolution. The intellectual )n-ogress of the colonies was remarkable. The first print-ing press was set up at Cambridge in 1639, and newspapers and books were ingeneral circulation. Harvard College was founded in Massachusetts in 1638;William and Mary, in Virginia, in 1692; Yale, in Connecticut, in 1700; theCollege of New Jersey (now Princeton Univei-sity), in 1746 ; the University ofPennsylvania, in 1749; and Kings College (now Columbia), in New York, in 86 INTERCOLONIAL WARS—FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. 1754. Much attention was given to education, commerce was
Size: 1931px × 1294px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidhomeschoolofamer00morr
