ACADIA, story of, 84; colony blotted out | Arkwright, Richard, invents the spin-
by the English, 90.
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 Siberian elephant found in, 25; purchased from Russia,
Alexandria, Confederate flag at, 417; seized by the Federals, 418. Allen, Ethan, 249.
Alligators cooked by the Indians, 46. Alton, Ill., Mr. Lovejoy killed at, 358. Amber on the shores of the Baltic, 14. Amendment to the Constitution forbid- ding slavery, 464; the fourteenth, 491; the fifteenth, 505.
America, the most grateful of nations, 282.
America's name, story of, 45.
American Antislavery Society organized, 356.
American continent known to the an- cients, 13.
ning-frame, 350.
Arlington Heights seized, 418.
Armies of the Union in Washington, 489;
BALBOA discovered Pacific Ocean, 51. Baltimore, blood shed in streets of, 414. Baptism and religious instruction with- held from slaves, 343.
Baptism of Indians at Port Royal, 89. Baptists banished, 169; conduct of, 170. Barrett's, Col., British at, 225. Battle of Lexington, 221. Battle of New Orleans, 329. Battle-Hymn of the Republic, 451. Bay of Chaleur explored and described, 59, 60.
Beacon Hill, 238; bonfires on, 232. Beauregard, Gen., at Manassas, 418. Behring Strait easily crossed, 25. Belle Isle, Strait of, Cartier enters, 59. Bellingham, Gov., 242. Beloeil, Mt., 336.
American Revolution begun at Concord, Belt of brass tubes found at Fall River,
Americans arm and drill, 212. Americus Vespucius, voyage of, 45, 51. Amnesty, general, proclaimed, 505. Ancient pueblo pottery, 21.
Anderson, Major, surrendered Fort Sum- ter, 412.
André, Major John, story of, 293. Andrew, Gov., statue of, 238. Andros, Gov., imprisoned, 241. Andros, Lady Anne, 241.
Annapolis, site of the old Port Royal, 86. Annawon, story of capture of, 131. Antietam, battle of, 439. Antislavery riots, 357. Apthorp, Madame, 236.
Area of the States and Territories, 517.
Bible, the book of all ages, 56; not al-
lowed to be printed in America, 203. Blaine, James G., Secretary of State, 511. Blockade of American ports, 320. Blockade of Confederate ports, 418. Blockading decrees repealed, 316. Booth, assassinator of Pres. Lincoln, 481. Boston, England, persecutions at, 94: Boston, the port closed, 211; full of monuments, 237; situation of, 246; blockaded, 246.
Boston Common, English troops en- camped on, 207, 217.
Boston Massacre, the, 208, 242. Boucherville, Mt., 336. Bowdoin, Gov., 242.
Braddock's, Gen., campaign in Ohio, 189-| Charles II., 139, 140. 193; his death, 193. Brandywine, battle of, 283. Brewster, Elder, 93; establishes a printing press in Holland, 94; his library, 114. British Columbia, 339.
Charleston, S. C., joy in, over surrender of Fort Sumter, 412.
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,
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; ir- 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,
"Chevy Chase," 265.
Children bewitched, 160; bark like dogs, 163.
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 "
pottery, 21; jar from So.
Utah, 58. College erected in Virginia, 76. Colonies, growth and government of the,
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,
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.
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,
EAST INDIA COMPANY, 208, 211. Effects of the war, 289.
Election of 1860, 388.
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 Sumter, attack on, 411.
Fortress Monroe, 424. Fountain of youth, 38. Fourth of July, 1826, 329. Fox, George, 173.
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 Directory, misunderstanding with, Hancock, John, at Lexington, 217; his
French colonies, the, 187.
Georgia, 148 country between the Sa- vannah and the Altamaha, 152; sends money, rice, &c., to Boston, 245. German boy's funeral, 231. German mercenaries in New Jersey, 283. German Protestants join Oglethorpe, 152. Germantown, battle at, 284. Gettysburg, Gen. Lee's advance to, 445; battle of, 446. Ghent, treaty of, 325.
Gibraltar, 14; besieged by Spain, 293. Gold discovered in California, 371; pre- mium on, 469.
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.
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,
IMMIGRANTS to California, 375-
Impressment, 314.
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,
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.
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.
Knowledge, love of, among the Pilgrims,
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, 511.
Liquors, Indians' passion for, 117. Long Island, battle of, 276.
Lorne, Marquis of, Governor of Canada,
MACHINERY HALL, Philadelphia, 505. McClellan, Gen. George B., in command, 421; on the Peninsula, 424; his fail- ure, 425; removed from command, 439; nominated for President, 467. McDowell, Gen., at Bull Run, 419. MacVeagh, Wayne, Attorney General,
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,
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