Identifier: historyofuniteds05mowr (find matches)
Title: A history of the United States for schools; including a concise account of the discovery of America, the colonization of the land, and the revolutionary war
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Mowry, William A. (William Augustus), 1829-1917 Mowry, Arthur May, 1862-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Silver, Burdett and co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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— Reign of George II.Georgia — Settlement at Savannah, February 13. OBlacfeboam atualtjsijs* OOLONIALWAKS Indian Characteristics Warfare Pequots .King Philip . New France French Wars . French Fourth War , Treaty of 1763 r Features.I Traits.1 Occupations.I Distribution. ( Contrasts between IndiansJ and White Men.I Implements of War.^Race Difficulties. r Indians in Connecticut.-j The Story of the War.I^The Tribe exterminated. The Tribe of the Pokanokets.Attempt to exterminate the English.Great Swamp-Fight.The War Severe. Early Explorers.Settlements at Acadia and Quebec.Explorations of the Jesuits.La Salles Discovery of the Mississippi..Extent of the Country. fKiNG Williams War.-j Queen Annes War.(King Georges War. ^Causes of the War. Attempt to unite the Colo-nies. English Defeat under Brad-dock. English Failures everywhere. William Pitt comes to theRescue. Plan of Campaign. Fall of Quebec. Conquest of Canada.France shut out from North America.Effect upon the English Colonies. 1640
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NATIONAL CLAIMS TO THE ATLANTIC SLOPEi:sr 1640. r I EXGLISH CLAIMS based on the discoveries of John Sebastian CaJ>of, 1497-08, and tlie settlements at James- tmvn, 1607, and Plyjmuth, 1620.I I FRENCB CLAIMS based on the discoveries of Corteral, loOl,Denys, 1506, Verrazani, 1524, Cartier, 1534, and settlements of Champlavn, 1609, and the Huguenots in the south, 1562.I I SPANISH CLAIMS basedon discovery by Pmice de Leon, 1512, and settlement of St. Augtcstine, 1565.I I B UTCH CLA IMS based on the discovery of Hudson, 1609, and settlement of New Amsterdam, 1614. (To the Connecticut River until \^0.)I I SWEDISH CLAIM by settlement, 1631. iV Cofyright, 1892, in MacCoinVs Historical Geography of the United States. SECTION III.COLONIAL WARS. CHAPTER XV. INDIAN CHARACTERISTICS. 98. Indians. — Europeans found this country inhabited by acopper-colored race of men whom they called Indians, supposingthat this land was a part of the East Indies. They were dividedinto tribes, and each tribe wa

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