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has been spared to secure perfect accuracy in all references
to dates, persons, and places, so that the volumes may be used with
confidence as a work of reference. I am persuaded that much success in
this has been attained, despite the uncertainty still attaching to many
matters of this sort in United States history, especially to dates.
BROWN UNIVERSITY, September 15. 1894.

PUBLISHERS' NOTE
The last edition of President Andrews's History was issued in 1905, in
five volumes, and brought the narrative down to the inauguration of
President Roosevelt in March of that year. In preparing the extension of
the work by the addition of a sixth volume, entrusted to the competent
hands of Professor James Alton James of Northwestern University, it
has been thought desirable to begin this final volume with the chapters
entitled "The Rise of Roosevelt" and "Mr. Roosevelt's Presidency."
This has involved some expansion and revision of these chapters as
well as the continuance of the History from 1905 to the present time.
The Appendices, which include public documents of fundamental
importance and the significant results in various fields of the Census of
1910, are an additional feature of the new edition.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS
Age and Origin of Man in America. Primordial Americans unlike
Present Asiatics. Resemblances between their Various Branches. Two
Great Types. The Mound-builders' Age. Design of the Mounds.
Different Forms. Towns and Cities. Proofs of Culture. Arts. Fate of the
Mound-builders. The Indians. Their Number. Degree of Civilization.
Power of Endurance. Religion. The Various Nations. Original Brute
Inhabitants of North America. Plants, Fruits, and Trees. Indian
Agriculture.

Part First
THE FORE-HISTORY
PERIOD I
DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT
1492-1660
* CHAPTER 1. COLUMBUS.
Bretons and Normans in the New World. The Northmen Question.
Marco Polo's Travels. His Pictures of Eastern Asia. Influence on
Columbus. Early Life of Columbus. His Cruises and Studies. Asia to be
Reached by Sailing West. Appeals for Aid. Rebuffs. Success. Sails
from Palos. The Voyage. America Discovered. Columbus's Later
Voyages and Discoveries. Illusion Respecting the New Land. Amerigo
Vespucci. Rise of the Name "America."

* CHAPTER II. EARLY SPANISH AMERICA.
Portugal and Spain Divide the Newly Discovered World. Spain gets
most of America. Voyage of de Solis. Balboa Discovers the Pacific.
Ponce de Leon on the Florida Coast. Explorations by Grijalva. Cortez

Invades Mexico. Subjugates the Country. De Ayllon's Cruise. Magellan
Circumnavigates the Globe. Narvaez's Expedition into Florida. Its Sad
Fate. De Soto. His March. Hardships. Discovers the Mississippi. His
Death. End of his Expedition. French Settlement in Florida. St.
Augustine. French-Spanish Hostilities. Reasons for Spain's Failure to
Colonize far North. Her Treatment of the Natives. Tyranny over her
own Colonies.

* CHAPTER III. EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION BY THE
FRENCH AND THE ENGLISH
Verrazano. "New France." Cartier Discovers St. Lawrence Gulf and
River. Second Voyage.-Montreal.-Third.-De Monts. Champlain.
Founds Quebec. Westward Explorations. John Cabot, Discoverer of the
North American Main. Frobisher. Tries for a Northwest Passage.
Second Expedition for Gold. Third. Eskimo Tradition of Frobisher's
Visits. Drake Sails round the World. Cavendish Follows. Raleigh's
Scheme. Colony at Roanoke Island. "Virginia." Second Colony. Its
Fate.

* CHAPTER IV. THE PLANTING OF VIRGINIA
The Old Virginia Charter. Jamestown Settled. Company and Colony.
Character of Early Virginia Population. Progress. Products. Slavery.
Agriculture the Dominant Industry. No Town Life. Hardships and
Dissensions. John Smith. New Charter. Delaware Governor. The
"Starving Time." Severe Rule of Dale and Argall. The Change of 1612.
Pocahontas. Indian Hostilities. First American Legislature. Sir Thomas
Wyatt. Self Government. Virginia Reflects English Political Progress.
Dissolution of the Company. Charles I. and Virginia. Harvey, Wyatt.
Berkeley. Virginia under Cromwell.

* CHAPTER V. PILGRIM AND PURITAN AT THE NORTH

The first "Independents." John Smyth's Church at Gainsborough. The
Scrooby Church. Plymouth Colony. Settles Plymouth. Hardships.
Growth. Cape Ann Settlement. Massachusetts Bay. Size. Polity. Roger
Williams. His Views. His Exile. Anne Hutchinson. Rhode Island
Founded. Settlement of Hartford, Windsor, Wethersfield. Saybrook.
New Haven. New Hampshire. Maine. New England Confederation. Its
Function. Its Failure.

* CHAPTER VI. BALTIMORE AND HIS MARYLAND
Sir George Calvert Plants at Newfoundland. Is Ennobled. Sails for
Virginia. Grant of Maryland. Lord Baltimore Dies. Succeeded by Cecil.
Government of Maryland. Conflict with Virginia. Baltimore comes to
Maryland. Religious Freedom in the Colony. Clayborne's Rebellion.
First Maryland Assembly. Anarchy. Romanism Established. Baltimore
and Roger Williams. Maryland during the Civil War in England. Death
of Baltimore. Character. Maryland under the Long Parliament. Puritan
Immigration. Founds Annapolis. Rebellion. Clayborne again. Maryland
and the Commonwealth. Deposition of Governor Stone. Anti-Catholic
Laws. Baltimore Defied. Sustained by Cromwell. Fendall's Rebellion.
Fails. Maryland at the Restoration.

* CHAPTER VII. NEW NETHERLAND
Henry Hudson and his Explorations. Enters Hudson River. His
Subsequent Career. And his Fate. Dutch Trade on the Hudson. "New
Netherland." Dutch West India Company. Albany Begun. New
Amsterdam.