Chapter IV.---page 85.

VIRGINIA, NORTH AND SOUTH-CAROLINA, GEORGIA,

KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, OHIO, LOUISIANA, MISSIS-

SIPPI, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, ALABAMA, MICHIGAN, MIS-

SOURI, ARKANSAS AND FLORIDA.

Episcopacy established in Virginia; Inquietude of the people; Rebellion of

Bacon; he obtains a commission by compulsion; he usurps the govern-

ment; he dies, and the rebellion is suppressed; Culpepper's adminis-

tration; William and Mary college; Birth of Washington; Amidas and

Barlow land in Carolina; Reception of them by the Indians; perma-

nent settlements; Constitution; Constitution of Locke; Charleston

laid out; Insurrection; New seat for Charleston; Locke's Constitution

abandoned; Introduction of rice; Attack on St. Augustine; Indian war;

Charleston attacked; defeat of the Spanish; War with the Indians;

Bank; Another Indian war; Dissentions; Division into North and

South Carolina; Negro insurrection; Regulators; Charter of incorpo-

ration for Georgia; Settlement of Savannah; Regulations; Emigrations;

slow progress of population; Unsuccessful attempt to reduce St. Au-

gustine; Invasion of the Spaniards; Military skill of Oglethorpe; re-

treat of the Spanish; The government relinquished to the Crown;

prosperity; Kentucky explored by Colonel Boone; Lexington laid

out; dismembered from Virginia; made a separate state, and admitted

into the union; Name of Tennessee; failure in first attempting a set-

tlement; subsequent success; defeat of the Indians; soil ceded to Con-

gress; admitted an independent state into the union; Settlement of Ohio

by Rufus Putnam; admission into the union; antiquities; Discovery of

Louisiana; failure of the Spanish in attempting to destroy the Missouri

settlement; massacre at Natches by the Indians; destruction of the

Natches tribe; the country ceded to Spain; cession to Great Britain ;*

to France, by the treaty of St. Ildefonso; Purchase and possession by

the United States.

Chapter V.---page 125.

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.

Ohio Company; threat of the French Governor of Canada; encroach-

ments of the French; Washington sent to the Ohio; military expedi-

tion ander Washington; plans of a campaign; conquest of Acadie ;

Braddock's defeat; Crown Point; Campaign of 1756-of 1757--of 1758;

surrender of Louisburg, &c.; and of Fort du Quesne; campaign of

1759; proceedings of Amherst; fall of Niagara; fall of Quebec; death

of Wolfe and Montcalm; Levi's attempt to regain Quebec; surrender

of Montreal; complete conquest of Canada; Peace.

Chapter VI.---page 139.

THE REVOLUTION.

Commencement of the causes which led to the Revolution; Colonial Con-

gress; Opposition to the stamp aet; Its repeal; Imposition of new du-

ties by parliament; Opposition of the colonies; Repeal of the duties,

excepting on tea; Affray of March 5th 1770; Destruction of tea in

Boston; Boston port bill; Meeting of Congress; Engagements at Lex-

ington and Concord; Surrender of Ticonderoga and Crown Point ;

Battle of Bunker's hill; Washington appointed commander in chief; he

arrives at Cambridge; Surrender of fort St. Johns, and Montreal;

Unsuccessful attack of Quebec; Death of Montgomery; Burning of

Norfolk, by lord Dunmore; Boston evacuated; Declaration of Inde-

pendence; Engagement on Long-Island; Retreat from the Island;

Forts Washington and Lee surrendered to the British; General des-

pondency; Capture of the Hessians at Trenton; Battle of Brandywine

Howe enters Philadelphia: Battle of Germantown: Battle of Ben-

nington: Surrender of the British army under Burgoyne: Treaty of

Alliance with France: Battle of Monmouth: Savannah surrendered to

the British Ineffectual attempt to recover Savannah : Stoney Point ta-

ken by Wayne: Penobscot expedition: Defeat of the Five Nations:

Surrender of Charleston to Clinton: Battle of Camden: and of King's

mountain Treason of Arnold: Fate of Andre: Predatory warfare of

Arnold in Virginia: Battle of Cowpens: Battle of Guilford: Battle of

Eutaw springs; surrender of the British army under Cornwallis : New-

London burnt by Arnold: Naval engagement in the West Indies: Com-

missioners appointed to negociate a peace: l'eace concluded: Army

disbanded Washington's resignation.

:

Chapter VII.---page 171.

NEW CONSTITUTION--ITS ADMINISTRATIONS—

WITH GREAT BRITAIN PEACE.

--

-WAR

Incompeteney of the National Government: Meeting of deputies at An-

napolis National Convention to form a new constitution : Constitution

adopted by the states: Washington elected President: Meeting of Con-

gress at New-York: Government organized: Funding of the national

and assumption of the state debts: Internal taxes: National Bank :

Cause of parties: Indian War: Apportionment of Representatives :

Defeat of St. Clair by the Indians: Forces raised: Washington re-chos-

en President: War on the continent of Europe: Proclamation of neu-

trality Arrival of Genet: his deportment: Democratic societies:

Commercial resolutions: Algerine captures: The building of frigates:

Difficulties with England: Genet recalled: Wayne's victory: Pennsyl-

vania insurrection-Treaty with England-with Algiers-with th eIndians

--and with Spain-Ministers sent to France-Death of Washington-Mr.

Jefferson's administration-Tripolitan war-Burr's conspiracy-Chesapeak

and Leopard-French and British Edicts-Arrangement with Erskine-

Mr. Jackson's correspondence--Measures preparatory to a war with

Great Britain-Declaration of war-Mob in Baltimore-Capture of the

Guerriere-Hull's surrender-Battle of Queenston-Capture of the Frol-

ic-the Macedonian-and Java: Battle at the Raisin Capture of the

reacock: Battle and taking of York: Fort Meigs: Loss of the Chesa-

peak: Victory on Lake Erie : Loss of the Essex Capture of the Ep.

ervier: Battle of Chippewa: Possession of Washington by the British :

Plunder of Alexandria: Fort Erie defended: Naval victory on Lake

Champlain Defeat of the British at Plattsburg: Fleets on Lake Onta-

rio: Hartford Convention: Loss of the President: Battle of New

Orleans: Peace.

Questions on the History of the U. States

Questions on the Compendium

251

274

OF THE

HISTORY

OF THE

UNITED STATES

OF

AMERICA.

Chapter I.

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF VIRGINIA AND NEW-ENGLAND. Preliminary remarks-Discovery of America-Discovery of the Northern Continent by Cabot-Queen Elizabeth's letters patent to Gilbert and Raleigh-Unsuccessful attempt to settle Virginia-Tobacco-Gosnold discovers Cape Cod-Settlement at Jamestown, Virginia-Captain Smith a prisoner-saved by Pocahontas--Chesapeak bay explored--Plot of the Indians; revealed by Pocahontas-Pocahontas seized: her mar riage-Women sent to Virginia for wives; sold for tobacco-Slavery introduced-Northern voyage of Captain Smith-Unsuccessful attempt to settle New-England-Rev. Mr. Robinson's flock-Settlement at Plymouth-Formed into a body politic-Intercourse with the IndiansDeaths of the company-New arrivals Settlement at Portsmouth and Dover-at Salem-Massachusetts colony-Arrival of Winthrop-Representatives chosen-Ann Hutchinson: theological dissensions--Massacre in Virginia by the Indians-Virginia company relinquish to the king. THE overthrow of ancient dynasties, the establishment of recent, or other most important revolutions in an empire, can have but an inconsiderable effect, compared with the stupendous events, that have resulted, and that must hereafter result, from the discovery of America by Columbus.

The consequences of the greatest victories have generally been neither an accession to human happiness, nor an increase of the human race; but rather a diminution of both, or a mere change of masters. Far otherwise, in all

B