INDEX
Reading edition
Adams, John, 26, 27
Adams, Samuel, 15-28, 31, 32, 37
Alamo, 211-213
Anna, Santa, 211, 214
Antietam, battle of, 257
Appomattox Court House, Lee’s surrender at, 253
Atlanta, capture of, 268
Backwoodsmen, life among, 110-116
Barlow, Joel, 190
Bon Homme Richard (bo-nom′-re-shar′), 91-93
Boone, Daniel, 94-106
Boone, Squire, 98
“Boston Tea Party,” 21-25
Brandywine Creek, 64
Bull Run, battle of, 258
Bunker Hill, battle of, 41-44
Burgoyne (ber-goin′), General, his invasion, 63-66
Cabinet, the President’s, 156
Calhoun, John C., 225-227, 235, 236, 239, 240
Camden, battle of, 74
Carson, Kit, 216, 217
Cattle-raising, 286-288
Cedar Creek, battle of, 273, 274
Cherokee Indians, 100, 124, 129, 208-210
Civil War, 250-280
Clark, George Rogers, 132-149
Clark, William, 175-180
Clay, Henry, 227-231, 235, 238, 239, 240
Clermont, 191-193
Clinton, DeWitt, 196
Coal, 288, 289
Colonies become States, 52
Compromise, Missouri, 234, 235
Compromise of 1850, 238-240
Concord, battle of, 36-40
Confederate States of America, organization of, 251
Congress, Continental, first meeting of, 26-28; second meeting of, 41
Congress, United States, 69, 154, 205, 206, 237
Continental Army, 41
Cornwallis, General, 60, 62, 71, 80-85
Cotton, 281-283
Cotton-gin, invention of, 158, 159, 234
Cowpens, battle of, 80
Creek Indians, 184, 209
Custis, Mrs. Martha, 46
Davis, Jefferson, 251, 257
Dawes, William, 33, 35, 37
Declaration of Independence, 51, 52
Donelson, Fort, 265
Dorchester Heights, 50
Douglas, Stephen A., 250
Early, General, at Cedar Creek, 273
Emancipation Proclamation, 252, 280
Erie Canal, 195-198
Ferguson, Major, 128
Fitch, John, 188
Flatboat, 171, 187
Florida, purchase of, 185, 186
France aids the Americans, 66
Franklin, Benjamin, 52, 66
Frémont, John C., 214-220
French villages, old, life in, 140, 141
Fulton, Robert, 188-193
Gage, General, 26, 30-32
Gates, General, 74
George III, 1, 2, 10, 18-20, 25, 40, 60
Gettysburg, battle of, 261, 262
Gold, discovery of, in California, 221-224
Grant, Ulysses, 262-268, 271, 272, 275-277, 279
Greene, Nathanael, 73-86
Guilford Court House, battle of, 84
Hale, Nathan, 56-58
Hamilton, Alexander, 156, 157
Hamilton, Colonel, 143, 144, 149
Hancock, John, 31, 32, 37
Hayne, Senator, 237
Henderson, Richard, 100
Henry, Fort, 265
Henry, Patrick, 4-13, 47, 134, 166, 167
Hessians, 60-62
Houston, Sam, 208-214
Howe, General, 41, 42, 50, 51, 53, 64
Hutchinson, Governor, 21, 22, 24
Independence of the United States, 85
Iron, 289-291
Jackson, Andrew, 180-185, 209, 210, 237
Jackson, Thomas J. (“Stonewall”), 258, 259
Jay, John, 157
Jefferson, Thomas, 52, 164-172
Johnston, Albert Sydney, 265
Johnston, Joseph E., 267, 268
Jones, John Paul, 87-93
Kaskaskia (Kas-kas′-ki-a), 136-140
Kentucky, 96-105
King’s Mountain, battle of, 128, 129
Knox, Henry, 62, 156
La Fayette (Lä fā-yét), 67-69
Lee, Robert E., 253-257, 275-279
Lewis and Clark’s Expedition, 175-180
Lewis, Meriwether, 175-180
Lexington, battle of, 36, 37
Lincoln, Abraham, 243-250; and slavery, 250-252; and the Emancipation Proclamation, 252; assassinated, 253, 254
Lincoln, General, 73
Livingston, Chancellor, 154
Livingston, Robert R., 191
Long Island, battle of, 53-55
Louisiana Purchase, 170-173
McClellan, General, 257
Mandan Indians, 176
Marion, Francis, 81-84
Meade, General, 261
Mexican Cession, 220
Mexican War, 220
Minutemen, 30, 40
Missouri Compromise, 234
Mohawk Valley, 64, 65
Monroe, James, 172
Morgan, Daniel, 78-80
Morse, Samuel F.B., 201-207
Napoleon I, 172
National Road, 194, 195
Negroes, 159-163, 233-238
New Orleans in 1803, 173-175
Nullification, 236, 237
Old North Church, 33
Old South Church, 23-25
Pack-horse, 187
Partisan warfare in the South, 81
Pitcairn, Major, 36, 37
Pitt, William, 9
Pittsburg Landing, battle of, 265
Prescott, Samuel, 35, 37
Prescott, William, 43
Protective tariff, 235-238
Provincial Congress, 30, 31
Putnam, General, 53
Railroad, 198-201
Randolph, Edmund, 157
Republican Party, 243
Revere, Paul, 25, 33, 37
Revolution, causes of, 1-4, 9, 10, 18-26
Robertson, James, 107-110, 116-121
Rotch, Benjamin, 21, 23, 24
Rowe, John, 24
Rumsey, John, 187
Scott, General, 237
Secession of South Carolina and ten more slave States, 251
Seminole Indians, 185
Serapis (se-rá-pis), 91-93
Sevier, John, 122-131
Shelby, Isaac, 128
Shenandoah Valley, Sheridan in, 271-274
Sheridan, Philip H., 271-274
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 267-271
Sherrill, Kate, 125, 126
Shiloh, battle of, 265
Slavery, 159-163, 233-238
Smith, Colonel, 36, 37, 38
Sons of Liberty, 18
South Carolina, 236, 237
Stamp Act, 1, 6-10
Steamboat, 187-193
Steel, 289-291
Stephens, Alexander H., 251
Stuart, J.E.B., 259-261
Sutter, Captain, 218-221
Tariff, 235-238
Taxation of the Colonies, 1, 6-8, 10, 21-25
Tea, tax on, 21
Telegraph, 201-207
Tennessee, 116-131
Texas, 209-214
Tories, 17, 128
Treaty at close of Revolution, 85
Trenton, victory at, 60-62
Valley Forge, sufferings at, 69-71
Vicksburg, capture of, 262, 266, 267
Vincennes, 140, 143, 144, 148, 149
Warren, Joseph, 32, 33
Washington, D.C., made the national capital, 157
Washington, George, in the Revolution, 41, 44-71; as President, 151-153
Watauga, 116-131
Webster, Daniel, 231-233, 237, 238, 241, 242
West, Benjamin, 190, 206
Wheat, 283-286
Whitney, Eli, 158, 159
Wilderness Road, 100, 117
Yorktown, Cornwallis’s surrender at, 85