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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 Stony Point--John Paul Jones--The Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis--A Thrilling Naval Combat--Wretched Condition of American Finances-- Franklin's Heavy Burden--The Treason of Benedict Arnold--Capture of André--Escape of Arnold--André Executed as a Spy--Sir Henry Clinton Captures Charleston, General Lincoln and His Army--Lord Cornwallis Left in Command in the South--The British Defeat Gates Near Camden, South Carolina--General Nathanael Greene Conducts a Stubborn Campaign Against Cornwallis--The Latter Retreats Into