Stories of Later American History

About this eBook

Author

Gordy, Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk), 1854-1929

Credits

E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net)

Language

English

LoC Class

E151: History: America: United States

Subject

United States -- History -- Juvenile literature

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Text

eBook-No.

18618

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18618

Release Date

June 19, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY
2. 2.WILBUR F. GORDY
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS — CHAPTER — ILLUSTRATIONS — MAPS — STORIES OF LATER AMERICAN HISTORY
5. 5.PATRICK HENRY — PATRICK HENRY’S FIERY SPEECH AGAINST THE STAMP ACT — ANOTHER GREAT SPEECH BY PATRICK HENRY — Some Things to Think About
6. 6.SAMUEL ADAMS — SAMUEL ADAMS AN INSPIRING LEADER — SAMUEL ADAMS AND THE “BOSTON TEA PARTY” — SOME RESULTS OF THE “BOSTON TEA PARTY” — Some Things to Think About
7. 7.THE WAR BEGINS NEAR BOSTON — THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD — Some Things To Think About
8. 8.GEORGE WASHINGTON IN THE REVOLUTION — WASHINGTON IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY — THE HEROIC NATHAN HALE — A TIME OF TRIAL FOR WASHINGTON — THE VICTORY AT TRENTON — BURGOYNE’S INVASION — LAFAYETTE JOINS THE AMERICAN ARMY — Some Things to Think About
9. 9.NATHANAEL GREENE AND OTHER HEROES IN THE SOUTH — GENERAL GREENE IN THE SOUTH — DANIEL MORGAN, THE GREAT RIFLEMAN — MARION, THE “SWAMP FOX” — Some Things to Think About
10. 10.JOHN PAUL JONES — A DESPERATE SEA DUEL — Some Things to Think About
11. 11.DANIEL BOONE — BOONE GOES TO KENTUCKY — THE KENTUCKY SETTLERS AT BOONESBOROUGH — Some Things to Think About
12. 12.JAMES ROBERTSON — HOW THE BACKWOODSMEN LIVED — ROBERTSON A BRAVE LEADER — ROBERTSON SAVES THE SETTLEMENT — Some Things to Think About
13. 13.JOHN SEVIER — SEVIER A HERO AMONG THE TENNESSEE SETTLERS — Some Things to Think About
14. 14.GEORGE ROGERS CLARK — CLARK STARTS ON HIS LONG JOURNEY — LIFE IN THE OLD FRENCH VILLAGES — CLARK’S HARD TASK — CLARK CAPTURES VINCENNES — Some Things to Think About
15. 15.THE NEW REPUBLIC — THE COTTON-GIN AND SLAVERY — Some Things to Think About
16. 16.INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC — JEFFERSON’S GREATEST WORK AS A STATESMAN — NEW ORLEANS IN 1803 — LEWIS AND CLARK’S EXPEDITION — ANDREW JACKSON — Some Things to Think About
17. 17.INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS — THE NATIONAL ROAD AND THE ERIE CANAL — THE RAILROAD — MORSE AND THE TELEGRAPH — Some Things to Think About
18. 18.THE REPUBLIC GROWS LARGER — SAM HOUSTON — DAVID CROCKETT — JOHN C. FRÉMONT THE PATHFINDER — THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD — Some Things To Think About
19. 19.THREE GREAT STATESMEN — JOHN C. CALHOUN — HENRY CLAY — DANIEL WEBSTER — SLAVERY AND THE TARIFF — THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 — Some Things to Think About
20. 20.THE CIVIL WAR — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND SLAVERY — ROBERT E. LEE — “STONEWALL” JACKSON — J.E.B. STUART — GETTYSBURG — ULYSSES S. GRANT — WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN — PHILIP H. SHERIDAN — TWO GREAT GENERALS — Some Things to Think About
21. 21.FOUR GREAT INDUSTRIES — COTTON — WHEAT — CATTLE-RAISING — COAL — Some Things To Think About
22. 22.The End
23. 23.INDEX

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