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Henry Hudson's Discovery--Block Winters on Manhattan Island--The
Dutch Take Possession--The Iroquois Friendly--Immigration of the
Walloons--Charter of Privileges and
Exemptions--Patroons--Manufactures Forbidden--Slave Labor
Introduced--New Sweden--New Netherlanders Want a Voice in the
Government, 46
CHAPTER V.

Landing of the Pilgrims--Their Abiding Faith in God's Goodness--The
Agreement Signed on the Mayflower--A Winter of Hardship--The
Indians Help the Settlers--Improved Conditions--The Colony Buys Its
Freedom--Priscilla and John Alden--Their Romantic Courtship and
Marriage, 52
CHAPTER VI.
The Puritan Immigration--Wealth and Learning Seek These
Shores--Charter Restrictions Dead Letters--A Stubborn Struggle for
Self-government-- Methods of Election--The Early Government an
Oligarchy--The Charter of 1691--New Hampshire and Maine--The
New Haven Theocracy--Hartford's Constitution--The United
Colonies--The Clergy and Politics--Every Election Sermon a
Declaration of Independence, 57
CHAPTER VII.
Where Conscience Was Free--Roger Williams and His Providence
Colony-- Driven by Persecution from Massachusetts--Savages Receive
Him Kindly--Coddington's Settlement in Rhode Island--Oliver
Cromwell and Charles II. Grant Charters--Peculiar Referendum in
Early Rhode Island, 64
CHAPTER VIII.
Puritans and Education--Provision for Public Schools--Puritan
Sincerity--Effect of Intolerance on the Community--Quakers Harshly
Persecuted--The Salem Witchcraft Tragedy--History of the Delusion--
Rebecca Nourse and Other Victims--The People Come to their Senses--
Cotton Mather Obdurate to the Last--Puritan Morals--Comer's Diary--
Rhode Island in Colonial Times, 68
CHAPTER IX.
New England Prospering--Outbreak of King Philip's War--Causes of
the War--White or Indian Had to Go--Philip on the

War-path--Settlements Laid in Ashes--The Attack on Hadley--The
Great Swamp Fight--Philip Renews the War More Fiercely Than
Before--His Allies Desert Him-- Betrayed and Killed--The Indians
Crushed in New England, 77
CHAPTER X.
Growth of New Netherland--Governor Stuyvesant's Despotic Rule--His
Comments on Popular Election--New Amsterdam Becomes New
York--The Planting of Maryland--Partial Freedom of Conscience--Civil
War in Maryland--The Carolinas--Settlement of North and South
Carolina--The Bacon Rebellion in Virginia--Governor Berkeley's
Vengeance, 82
CHAPTER XI.
The Colony of New York--New Jersey Given Away to
Favorites--Charter of Liberties and Franchises--The Dongan
Charter--Beginnings of New York City Government--King James
Driven From Power--Leisler Leads a Popular Movement--The
Aristocratic Element Gains the Upper Hand--Jacob Leisler and
Milborne Executed--Struggle For Liberty Continues, 90
CHAPTER XII.
William Penn's Model Colony--Sketch of the Founder of
Pennsylvania-- Comparative Humanity of Quaker Laws--Modified
Freedom of Religion-- An Early Liquor Law--Offences Against
Morality Severely Punished-- White Servitude--Debtors Sold Into
Bondage--Georgia Founded as an Asylum for Debtors--Oglethorpe
Repulses the Spaniards--Georgia a Royal Province, 95
SECOND PERIOD.
THE STRUGGLE FOR EMPIRE.
CHAPTER XIII.

Struggle for Empire in North America--The Vast Region Called
Louisiana-- War Between England and France--New England Militia
Besiege Quebec-- Frontenac Strikes the Iroquois--The Capture of
Louisburg--The Forks of the Ohio--George Washington's Mission to
the French--Braddock's Defeat--Washington Prevents Utter
Disaster--Barbarous Treatment of Prisoners, 103
CHAPTER XIV.
Expulsion of the Acadians--A Cruel Deportation--The Marquis De
Montcalm--The Fort William Henry Massacre--Defeat of
Abercrombie-- William Pitt Prosecutes the War Vigorously--Fort
Duquesne Reduced-- Louisburg Again Captured--Wolfe Attacks
Quebec--Battle of the Plains of Abraham--Wolfe and Montcalm
Mortally Wounded--Quebec Surrenders--New France a Dream of the
Past--Pontiac's War, 108
THIRD PERIOD.
THE REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER XV.
Causes of the Revolution--The Act of Navigation--Acts of
Trade--Odious Customs Laws--English Jealousy of New
England--Effect of Restrictions on Colonial Trade--Du Chatelet
Foresees Rebellion and Independence--The Revolution a Struggle for
More Than Political Freedom, 115
CHAPTER XVI.
Writs of Assistance Issued--Excitement in Boston--The Stamp
Act--Protests against Taxation Without Representation--Massachusetts
Appoints a Committee of Correspondence--Samuel Adams and Patrick
Henry--Henry's Celebrated Resolutions--His Warning to King
George--Growing Agitation in the Colonies--The Stamp Act
Repealed--Parliament Levies Duties on Tea and Other Imports to

America--Lord North's Choice of Infamy--Measures of Resistance in
America--The Massachusetts Circular Letter--British Troops in
Boston--The Boston Massacre--Burning of the Gaspee--North Carolina
"Regulators"--The Boston Tea Party--The Boston Port Bill--The First
Continental Congress--A Declaration of Rights--"Give Me Liberty, or
Give Me Death!" 122
CHAPTER XVII.
The Battle of Lexington--The War of the Revolution Begun--Fort
Ticonderoga Taken--Second Continental Congress--George
Washington Appointed Commander-in-Chief--Battle of Bunker
Hill--Last Appeal to King George--The King Hires Hessian
Mercenaries--The Americans Invade Canada--General Montgomery
Killed--General Howe Evacuates Boston--North Carolina Tories
Routed at Moore's Creek Bridge--The Declaration of
Independence--The British Move on New York--Battle at
Brooklyn--Howe Occupies New York City--General Charles Lee Fails
to Support Washington--Lee Captured--Washington's Victory at
Trenton--The Marquis De Lafayette Arrives, 133
CHAPTER XVIII.
Sir John Burgoyne's Campaign--His Bombastic Proclamation--The
Tragic Story of Jane McCrea--Her Name a Rallying Cry--Washington
Prevents Howe From Aiding Burgoyne--The Battle of
Brandywine--Burgoyne Routed at Saratoga--He Surrenders, With All
His Army--Articles of Confederation Submitted to the Several
States--Effect of the Surrender of Burgoyne-- Franklin the Washington
of Diplomacy--Attitude of France--France Concludes to Assist the
United States--Treaties of Commerce and Alliance--King George
Prepares for War with France--The Winter at Valley Forge--Conspiracy
to Depose Washington Defeated--General Howe Superseded by Sir
Henry Clinton--The Battle of Monmouth--General Charles Lee's
Treachery--Awful Massacre of Settlers in the Wyoming Valley--
General Sullivan Defeats the Six Nations--Brilliant Campaign of
George Rogers Clark--Failure of the Attempt to Drive the British from

Rhode Island, 143
CHAPTER XIX.
The British Move Upon the South--Spain Accedes to the Alliance
Against England--Secret Convention Between France and
Spain--Capture of