Index for A beginner's history by William H. Mace
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"A Beginner's History" by William H. Mace is a historical account written in the early 20th century. This work serves as an introductory textbook aimed at educating young learners about American history, emphasizing key figures, events, and themes that shaped the United States. The book aims to engage students by presenting history as a series of struggles and achievements led by notable individuals. The opening of "A Beginner's History" sets the stage for an exploration of early exploration and discovery in the New World. Mace begins with the Norse explorer Leif Ericson, who is credited with reaching North America around A.D. 1000 and naming it Vinland due to the abundance of grapes. The narrative includes the subsequent voyages of other significant figures like Christopher Columbus, highlighting their ambitions and challenges as they sought new lands and treasures. Mace emphasizes that these early explorers’ quests were not merely about discovery but also about confronting difficult circumstances, laying a foundation for understanding American history's broader themes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
The Project Gutenberg eBook ofA beginner's history THE PREFACE THE TABLE OF CONTENTS THE NORTHMEN DISCOVER THE
NEW WORLD LEIF ERICSON, WHO DISCOVERED VINLAND EARLY EXPLORERS IN AMERICA PONCE DE LEON, WHO SOUGHT A MARVELOUS LAND
AND WAS DISAPPOINTED CORTÉS, WHO FOUND THE RICH CITY OF MEXICO PIZARRO, WHO FOUND THE RICHEST CITY IN THE
WORLD CORONADO, WHO PENETRATED SOUTHWESTERN UNITED
STATES BUT FOUND NOTHING BUT BEAUTIFUL SCENERY DE SOTO, THE DISCOVERER OF THE MISSISSIPPI MAGELLAN, WHO PROVED THAT THE WORLD IS ROUND THE MEN WHO MADE AMERICA KNOWN TO
ENGLAND AND WHO CHECKED THE
PROGRESS OF SPAIN JOHN CABOT ALSO SEARCHES FOR A SHORTER ROUTE TO
INDIA AND FINDS THE MAINLAND OF NORTH AMERICA SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, THE ENGLISH "DRAGON," WHO SAILED
THE SPANISH MAIN AND WHO "SINGED THE KING
OF SPAIN'S BEARD" SIR WALTER RALEIGH, THE FRIEND OF ELIZABETH, PLANTS
A COLONY IN AMERICA TO CHECK THE POWER OF SPAIN THE MEN WHO PLANTED NEW FRANCE IN
AMERICA, FOUNDED QUEBEC, EXPLORED
THE GREAT LAKE REGION, AND PENETRATED
THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, THE FATHER OF NEW FRANCE JOLIET AND MARQUETTE, FUR TRADER AND MISSIONARY,
EXPLORE THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FOR NEW FRANCE WHAT THE DUTCH ACCOMPLISHED IN THE
COLONIZATION OF THE NEW WORLD FAMOUS PEOPLE IN EARLY VIRGINIA LORD BALTIMORE, IN A PART OF VIRGINIA, FOUNDS MARYLAND
AS A HOME FOR PERSECUTED CATHOLICS (1634)
AND WELCOMES PROTESTANTS INDUSTRIES, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF FIRST SETTLERS
OF VIRGINIA PILGRIMS AND PURITANS IN NEW ENGLAND JOHN WINTHROP, THE FOUNDER OF BOSTON; JOHN ELIOT,
THE GREAT ENGLISH MISSIONARY; AND KING PHILIP,
AN INDIAN CHIEF THE EQUAL OF THE WHITE MAN JOHN ELIOT, A SUCCESSFUL MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS KING PHILIP, INDIAN CHIEF AND HATER OF WHITE MEN INDUSTRIES, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS THE MEN WHO PLANTED COLONIES FOR
MANY KINDS OF PEOPLE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF NEW NETHERLAND WILLIAM PENN, THE QUAKER, WHO FOUNDED THE CITY
OF BROTHERLY LOVE QUAKER WAYS IN OLD PENNSYLVANIA JAMES OGLETHORPE, THE FOUNDER OF GEORGIA AS A
HOME FOR ENGLISH DEBTORS, AS A PLACE FOR
PERSECUTED PROTESTANTS, AND AS A BARRIER
AGAINST THE SPANIARDS INDUSTRIES, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF THE
SOUTHERN PLANTERS ROBERT CAVELIER DE LA SALLE, WHO
FOLLOWED THE FATHER OF WATERS TO
ITS MOUTH, AND ESTABLISHED NEW
FRANCE FROM CANADA TO THE
GULF OF MEXICO LA SALLE PUSHED FORWARD THE WORK BEGUN BY JOLIET
AND MARQUETTE THE MEN OF NEW FRANCE GEORGE WASHINGTON, THE FIRST GENERAL
AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES THE "FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY" SUGGESTIONS INTENDED TO HELP THE PUPIL THE MAN WHO HELPED WIN INDEPENDENCE
BY WINNING THE HEARTS OF FRENCHMEN
FOR AMERICA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THE WISEST AMERICAN OF HIS
TIME PATRICK HENRY AND SAMUEL ADAMS,
FAMOUS MEN OF THE REVOLUTION,
WHO DEFENDED AMERICA WITH
TONGUE AND PEN PATRICK HENRY, THE ORATOR OF THE REVOLUTION SAMUEL ADAMS, THE FIREBRAND OF THE
REVOLUTION THE MEN WHO FOUGHT FOR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
WITH GUN AND SWORD GENERALS GREENE, MORGAN, AND MARION, THE MEN
WHO HELPED WIN THE SOUTH FROM THE BRITISH THE MEN WHO HELPED WIN INDEPENDENCE
BY FIGHTING ENGLAND ON THE SEA JOHN BARRY, WHO WON MORE SEA FIGHTS IN THE REVOLUTION
THAN ANY OTHER CAPTAIN THE MEN WHO CROSSED THE MOUNTAINS,
DEFEATED THE INDIANS AND BRITISH,
AND MADE THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
THE FIRST WESTERN BOUNDARY
OF THE UNITED STATES DANIEL BOONE, THE HUNTER AND PIONEER OF KENTUCKY JOHN SEVIER, "NOLICHUCKY JACK" GEORGE ROGERS CLARK, THE HERO OF VINCENNES DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW REPUBLIC THOMAS JEFFERSON, WHO WROTE THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE, FOUNDED THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
AND PURCHASED THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY LEWIS AND CLARK, AMERICAN EXPLORERS IN THE
OREGON COUNTRY OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, VICTOR IN THE BATTLE OF
LAKE ERIE ANDREW JACKSON, THE VICTOR OF NEW ORLEANS THE MEN WHO MADE THE NATION GREAT BY
THEIR INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, INVENTOR OF THE TELEGRAPH CYRUS WEST FIELD, WHO LAID THE ATLANTIC CABLE
BETWEEN AMERICA AND EUROPE CYRUS H. McCORMICK, INVENTOR OF THE REAPER ELIAS HOWE, INVENTOR OF THE SEWING MACHINE THE MEN WHO WON TEXAS, THE OREGON
COUNTRY, AND CALIFORNIA DAVID CROCKETT, GREAT HUNTER AND HERO OF
THE ALAMO JOHN C. FREMONT, THE PATHFINDER OF THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS SPANISH MISSIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST THE THREE GREATEST STATESMEN OF THE
MIDDLE PERIOD DANIEL WEBSTER, THE DEFENDER OF THE CONSTITUTION JOHN C. CALHOUN, THE CHAMPION OF NULLIFICATION ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE LIBERATOR
AND MARTYR TWO FAMOUS GENERALS ROBERT EDWARD LEE, THE MAN WHO LED THE
CONFEDERATE ARMIES MEN WHO DETERMINED NEW
POLITICAL POLICIES JAMES A. GARFIELD AND CHESTER A. ARTHUR GROVER CLEVELAND BENJAMIN HARRISON THE BEGINNING OF EXPANSION
ABROAD THE MAN WHO WAS THE CHAMPION OF
DEMOCRACY WESTWARD EXPANSION AND
DEVELOPMENT GEORGE WASHINGTON GOETHALS, CHIEF ENGINEER OF
THE PANAMA CANAL MEN OF RECENT TIMES WHO MADE
GREAT INVENTIONS TWO INVENTIONS WIDELY USED IN BUSINESS AUTOMOBILE MAKING IN THE UNITED STATES WILBUR AND ORVILLE WRIGHT, THE MEN WHO
GAVE HUMANITY WINGS JOHN P. HOLLAND, WHO TAUGHT MEN HOW TO SAIL
UNDER THE SEA HEROINES OF NATIONAL PROGRESS JULIA WARD HOWE, AUTHOR OF THE "BATTLE HYMN OF
THE REPUBLIC," AND HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
WHO WROTE "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" FRANCES E. WILLARD, THE GREAT TEMPERANCE CRUSADER;
CLARA BARTON, WHO FOUNDED THE RED CROSS SOCIETY
IN AMERICA; AND JANE ADDAMS, THE FOUNDER OF
HULL HOUSE SOCIAL SETTLEMENT IN CHICAGO RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIES OF OUR
COUNTRY MINES, MINING, AND MANUFACTURES AMERICA AND THE WORLD WAR AMERICA ENTERS TO WIN THE CONCLUSION OF THE WAR WHERE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THEIR
CIVILIZATION CAME FROM THE OLDEST NATIONS GREECE, THE LAND OF ART AND FREEDOM HOW THE GREEKS TAUGHT MEN TO BE FREE SPREAD OF GREEK CIVILIZATION WHEN ROME RULED THE WORLD HANNIBAL TRIES TO CONQUER ROME ROME CONQUERS THE WORLD BUT GROWS WICKED THE ROMAN REPUBLIC BECOMES THE ROMAN EMPIRE WHAT ROME GAVE TO THE WORLD THE DOWNFALL OF ROME THE ANGLES AND SAXONS IN GREAT BRITAIN CHARLES THE GREAT, RULER OF THE FRANKS THE COMING OF THE NORTHMEN ALFRED THE GREAT THE NORMAN CONQUEST THE STRUGGLE FOR THE GREAT CHARTER A PRONOUNCING INDEX THE INDEX TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE Chapter 116
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