Young Folks' History of America

INDEX.

ACADIA, story of, 84; colony blotted out | Arkwright, Richard, invents the spin-
by the English, 90.

ning-frame, 350.

Acton, 225.
Acts of Parliament burned, 203.
Adams, Gov., 242.
Adams, John, Vice-President, 308; Pres-
ident, 313 his death, 330; would nev-
er own a slave, 345.
Adams, John Quincy, President, 355.
Adams, Samuel, the true king in Boston,
208; at the Old South Church, 211;
at Lexington, 217, 221; Governor in
1795, 238.
Alaska, remains of Siberiau elephant
found in, 25; purchased from Russia,

Arlington Heights seized, 418.

Armies of the Union in Washington, 489;
mustered out, 490.

Armor of the skeleton in armor, 16, 19.
Arnold, Benedict, 249; his treason, 294.
Asia to America, access from, easy, 25.
Asiatic race settled in North America,

19, 22.

Atlanta, Ga., captured, 460.
Atlantic Cable, the, laid, 502.
Atlantis, island of, 13.

Aztecs had traditions of the flood, 19.

Braddock's, Gen., campaign in Ohio, 189-| Charles II., 139, 140.
193; his death, 193.
Charles River, 217.
Brandywine, battle of, 283.
Charleston, S. C., joy in, over surrender
of Fort Sumter, 412.
Brewster, Elder, 93; establishes a printing
press in Holland, 94; his library, 114.
British Columbia, 339.
British Islands visited for tin, 14.
Broke, Capt., 320.

Brown, John, story of, 380; went to
Kansas, 383; at Harper's Ferry, 384;
trial and death, 387.
Buchanan, George, the historian, 55.
Buchanan, James, President, 388.
Buena Vista, battle of, 366.
Buffalo skin means protection, 152.
Bull Run, battle of, 419; results, 420.
Bunker Hill, battle of, 257.
Burgoyne's, Gen., campaign from Canada,

287; surrender at Saratoga, 288.
Burke, Edmund, 186, 205, 212.
Burnside, Gen., in command, 439.
Burr, Aaron, Vice-President, 313.
Bute, Lord, hung in effigy, 235.
Buttrick, Major John, at Concord fight,

229.

CABOT, JOHN, voyages of, 36, 37, 51.
Cahokia, Ill., mound at, 19.
Calhoun, John C., a champion of slavery,
346; Vice-President, 355.
California ceded by Mexico, 371; gold
discovered in, 371; admitted as a free
State, 375.
Canada occupied by the French, 187; in-
vasions of, 194, 316, 319; Dominion of,
332; population of, 336; growth of,
339; divisions, 339: government, 339;
Marquis of Lorne, Governor, 512;
area, 513 political status, 514; Prov-
inces of, 515.

Canadian winter, 63.
Canals from Great Lakes to the Hud-
son, 330.

Cannibal prisoners sold as slaves, 50.
Cannibals of South America, 49.
Canonchet, chief of the Narragansetts,
joins Philip, 123; taken prisoner, 124.
Capitol, the, at Washington burned, 324;
enlarged and adorned, 440.
Cartier, Jacques, in the St. Lawrence, 51,
63; founder of Canada, 59; voyages
of, 63.

Carting, inconvenient habit of, 203.
Carver, John, chosen Governor of Ply-
mouth Colony, 99; presented to Mas-
sasoit, 103.

Cavaliers, the, sought refuge in Va., 178.
Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, 446.
Census of the United States, 512.
Centennial, the, at Philadelphia, 505.
Champlain founds Quebec, 52; a guest at
Port Royal, 86; relates his wonderful
adventures, 89.

Chancellorsville, battle of, 443.
Charles I., 106, 109.

Charter of Massachusetts withdrawn, 211.
Chesapeake, French fleet in the, 297.
Chesapeake and Shannon, fight between,

320.

"Chevy Chase," 265.

Children bewitched, 160; bark like dogs,

163.

Chilson, Mary, 241.

Christ Church, the old north meeting-
house, 232.
Christian Commission, the, 498.
Chronological table, 521.

Church, Capt., captures Annawon, 131.
Church members electors in New Eng-
land, 178.

Cities and towns having a population of
10,000 and upward, 518.
Citizenship, England's claim of, 314; not
to be abridged in any State, 491.
City Point a base of supplies, 458.
Civil wars frequent in Europe, 55.
Codfish in Mass. House of Representa-
tives, 238.
"Coil-made
Utah, 58.
College erected in Virginia, 76.
Colonies, growth and government of the,

pottery, 21; jar from So.

177.

Colony at Virginia massacred by Indians,
64, 75.
Columbus, Christopher, story of, 30.
Commerce extinct, 298; revived, 308,
again prohibited, 316.

Concord, ammunition at, 216; story of
the fight at, 217; plan of roads at, 226;
British loss at, 231.
Concord River, 222.
Confederacy, hollowness of the, proved,
463.
Confederate army, short of rations, 468.
Confederate currency, depreciation of,
455, 469.

Confederates pardoned by the Govern-

ment, 492.
Confederation of the colonies, the first,

II4.

Congress of the States, held at New York,
Congress, address to the king, 215; re-
207; at Philadelphia, 212.

fused a hearing, 216.
Congress, the, captured, 426.
Conscience, freedom in matters of, 166.
Conscription at the South, 468.
Constitution, a written, adopted at James-
town, 76.
Constitution, Federal, adopted, 307; thir-
teenth amendment adopted, 464; four-
teenth amendment adopted, 491; fif-
teenth amendment adopted, 505.
Convention to organize the thirteen States,
306.

Converts, Indian, 118.

Copp's Hill Burying-ground, 242.
Corey, Giles, pressed to death, 163.
Corn, five kernels to each person for one
day, 110.

Cornwallis, Lord, marches into Phila-
delphia, 283; surrender of, 298.
Cortez captured Montezuma, 51.
Cotton, John, 241.
Cotten, high price of, 492.
Cotton-gin, the story of the, 351.
Cotton plant, 352.

Cradle of Liberty, 237.
Cradock Mansion, Medford, 12, 245.
Craigie House, Longfellow's residence,
245, 263.

Creditors imprisoned in England, 151.
Cromwell, Oliver, 106; supported by New
England, 179.

Cross set up on Labrador, 59; on Bay of
Gaspé, 60.

Crown Point, 249.
Cumberland, the, destroyed, 426.

Index.

Daillé, Peter, grave of, 242.
Danes claim to be the builders of round
arch tower at Newport, R. I., 16.
Dare, Virginia, first white child born in
America, 76.

Davenport, John, 241.
Davis, Isaac, at Concord fight, 225.
Davis, Jefferson, President of the Con-
federacy, 398; his inaugural, 403;
curses breathed against, 469; flight
from Richmond, 473; his capture, 489;
set at liberty, 489.
Declaration of Independence, 269.
Debt incurred in putting down the Re-
bellion, 502.

Deerfield, Mass., sacked and burned, 335.
Delaplace, Capt., 253.
Delaware, Lord, reinforces the colony at
Jamestown, 72.

Demonology, King James's book on, 157.
De Monts visits the Bay of Fundy, 86.
Desertions from the Confederate army,
459.
De Soto, Ferdinand, expedition of, 41;
discovers the Mississippi, 42 ; death of,

529

Fast proclaimed by House of Assembly,
163.
Fast-day proclaimed at approach of Quak-

ers, 170.

Fathers of New England imprisoned at
Boston, England, 94.
Feathers signify love, 152.
Ferdinand, King of Aragon, 32.
Fillmore, Millard, President, 375.
Fingers, tender, of Virginia colonists
blistered, 67.

"First in the Foremost Line," poem, 453.
Fishing, successful, 110.

Florida named by Ponce de Leon, 38;
ceded to United States by Spain, 330.
Flour, Washington brand, 182.
Forest, clearing the, 68.

Fort Detroit, surrender at, 316.
Fort Duquesne, 189, 190.

Fort Necessity, built by Washington, 188;
Fort Pitt, 190.

Fort Sumter, attack on, 411.

Fortress Monroe, 424.
Fountain of youth, 38.
Fourth of July, 1826, 329.
Fox, George, 173.

313.

French in Canada, 37.

Frog Lane, 236.

Fugitive Slave Law passed, 375.

France, sympathy of, for Americans, 280.
Francis I. sends Cartier to Western Hem-
isphere, 59, 60.

Franklin, Benjamin, 183; as boy and man,
184; as man of science, 185; ambassa-
dor, 186; commissioner at Paris, 290.
Frederick of Prussia, 274.
Fredericksburg, battle of, 439.
Freedmen's Bureau established, 467.
French settlements earlier than that at
Jamestown, 332.

French and Indian War, 335.
French at Newfoundland, 37.
French colonies, the, 187.

French Directory, misunderstanding with, Hancock, John, at Lexington, 217; his

Ghent, treaty of, 325.
Gibraltar, 14; besieged by Spain, 293.
Gold discovered in California, 371; pre-
mium on, 469.

Greene, Gen., 297.

Greene, Mrs. Gen., encourages Eli Whit-

Goodwin, John, his children bewitched,

163.

Gosnold discovered Cape Cod, 51.
Government, a central, needed, 302.
Governments of the colonies, diversity
in, 177.

Governor appointed by the king, 179.
Governor, functions of the colonial, 177.
Granary Burying-ground, 241.
Grand Pré, village of, 86.
Grant, Gen., victorious in the West, 429;
the William the Silent of the war, 440;
put in command of the Union army,
456; elected President, 502; re-elected,

505.
Great Britain has no written constitution,
307; war declared against, 316.

ney, 352.

Grenville, Lord, 204.
Grievances of the colonies in common,

177.

Gulf Stream, effect of, 37.

HAIR, long, considered unscriptural, 113.
Hamilton, Alexander, entered the army,

302; suggested a constitutional con-
vention, 305; killed in duel with Aaron
Burr, 305; Talleyrand's opinion of, 306;
Secretary of the Treasury, member of
an abolition society, 345.
Hampden, John, farming in Buckingham-
shire, 106.

grave, 242.

Hancock House illuminated, 233, 238.
Handel selected organ for King's Chapel,
Boston, 241.

Harlem evacuated by Washington, 276.
Harper's Ferry, government works at,
burned, 417; captured by Gen. Lee,
436.

Harrison, Wm. Henry, President, 363.
Harvard College founded, 113.
Hat makers not to employ negro work-

men, 203.

Haverhill, Mass, sacked and burned, 335.
Hayes, Rutherford B., elected President,

505.

Henry VII., discoveries in reign of, 51.
Henry VIII., discoveries in reign of, 51.
Henry, Patrick, in Congress, 215.
Hessians, 274.

Hobomok, the Indian interpreter, 103.
Hochelaga, Mount Royal, now Montreal,
63.

Holland, Pilgrims spend eleven years in,
94; sail from Delfthaven in, 97.
Hollis Street Church, 233.
Homes in the new land, 51.
Homestead Act passed, 440.
Hooker, Gen. Joseph, in command, 442.
Hopkins, the witch detector, 158.
House of Commons, resolution to tax
Americans, 204.

Houston, Sam., President of Texas,
358-361.

Howard, Gen., head of Freedman's Bu-
reau, 467.

Howe, Gen., in command, 263; at Staten
Island, 275; retreats to New York,

293.

Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward, 451.
Hudson, Henry, 136.
Hudson River explored, 52.
Hull, Gen., sentenced to be shot, 316.
Human liberty, love of, drawn from the

Bible, 113.

Hunt, William H., Secretary of the Navy,

511.

Hymns composed by Indians, 118.

IMMIGRANTS to California, 375.

Impressment, 314.

Index.

Increase of the colonists, 202.
Indian chief, old, at Port Royal, 86.
Indian corn a legal tender, 110.
Indians, origin of the, 26; in council, 27;
treatment of by De Soto, 41, 42; con-
verted to Christianity, 89; efforts to
christianize the, 117; encroached up.
on by the whites, 119; three hung by
the Puritans for murder, 120; allies of
the French, 335; held as slaves, 344.
Indignation in the North at the Rebellion,

413.

Infants, baptism of, 169.

"Innocence itself is not safe," 236.
Interests of the colonies, in common, 177.
Iron-clads, battle between, 427.
Iron works forbidden, 203.
Isabella, Queen of Spain, 32.
Island of Atlantis, 13.

JACKSON, Gen. ANDREW, at New Orleans,
326; President, 355
Jackson, Thomas, Stonewall," 423 ;
death of, 443.
James I. and Parliament, 55; a fool and

a tyrant, 93.
James II., 178.

James of York, 139.
James, Thomas L., Postmaster General,

512.

James River, emigrants sail up the, 67,
424; Confederate iron-clad in, 426.
Jamestown, Va., founded, 67.

Jefferson, Thomas, Vice-President, 313;
President, 313; his death, 330; op-
posed to slavery, 345.
Jeffreys, the brutal Judge, 75.
Jesuits, contests between, and liberal
Catholic priests, 89; the French, 332.
Johnson, Andrew, President, 490.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 148; sale of his
books, 151.
"Join or die," 207.

Joliet and Marquette discover the Missis-
sippi, 332.

Jones, Paul, on the Scotch coast, 293.
Joy in the South over victories, 413.
July 4, 1776, 270.

KANSAS, 376; fraudulent elections in,

379; colonization by the party of free-
dom, 380; admitted as a free State,
380.
King derives authority from people, 55;
had divine authority, 56; claimed to
regulate religious belief, 59.
King's Chapel, 241.
King's letter, the, 173.
King William's War, 335.

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Knowledge, love of, among the Pilgrims,

114.

Knox, John, the reformer, 55.

LABRADOR, Cabot lands on, 37; Cartier
plants the cross on, 59.
Lachine Rapids, 336.
Lafayette, Marquis de, 281, 330.
Lake St. Peter, 63.
Land of promise, 372.
Lands beyond the great ocean, 36.
La Salle, Robert de, names Louisiana,
332; lands in Texas, 335; treacher-
ously shot, 335.

Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 106.
Lawrence, Capt., 320.
Lawrence, Kan., invaded, 379-
Lee, Richard Henry, in Congress, 215.
Lee, Gen. Robert E., Confederate com-
mander, 422; invades Maryland, 445;
surrender to Grant, 474.

Letters from the Pilgrims regarded as a
"sacred script," 109.
Leverett, Gov. John, 241.

Lexington, story of the battle of, 217;
British and American losses at, 231.
Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., 451.`
Liberty, religious, 165.
Liberty Tree, the, 232.
Licking Valley, mounds in, 20, 21.
Lincoln, Abraham, bust of, 238; enters
Lillie, Theophilus, would sell tea, 234.

Congress, 365; elected President, 391;
story of his early life, 392; political
career, 396; inaugural, 402; his si-
lence, 408; re-election, 467; visit to
Richmond, 477; assassinated, 478; the
people's grief for, 482.

Lincoln, Robert T., Secretary of War,

512.

Madison, James, President, 313; opposed
to slavery, 345.

Man responsible to God alone in relig-
ious belief, 166.

Kirkwood, Samuel J., Secretary of the Manassas Junction, Confederate army at,

Interior, 511.

417.

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