ABBOTT, DR. C. C., 24.
Abenaki Indians, their treaty,
179.
Abercrombie, General James,
182.
Abolition movement, 434, 443,
444, 448, 450.
Abolition of slavery, 434.
Abolitionists, 452, 453,
466, 474, 500.
Acadia, 179, 181.
461, African negroes, 435, 440.
Adventurer," the word, 137.
Aguinaldo, 607.
Act of Navigation, the, 210.
Adams, Abigail, quoted, 241,
243; also, 257, 300, 309, 324,
325, 330.
Adams, Charles Francis, 382,
569.
Adams, John, his view of town-
meetings, 230; his election as
President, 319; his character,
323; his wife, 324; his cabinet,
326; his policy towards France,
ibid.; his rupture with his
party, 328; his correspond-
ence with Mercy Warren, 335; |
his old age, 342; also, 230,
242, 243.
Adams, John Quincy, quoted,
372, 382; vote for Missouri
Compromise, 373; Presidency
of, 385; internal improvements
recommended by, 397; the
same accomplished, 398; en-
tertainments of, 406; cir-
cumstances of his election,
407, 418; his policy, 409; his
defeat, 410, 419; his want
of popularity, 419; also, 411,
414, 421, 452, 459, 460.
Alabama, admitted as a State,
372; passed ordinance of
Alaska purchased from Russia,
secession, 510.
Alexander, William E., 395, 415-
563.
Alexander VI., Pope, bulls of,
Algerine pirates, 285.
Algonquins, the, 124.
Aliaco, P. de, 53.
Alien and Sedition laws, 328,
Allen, Ethan, 240.
334.
Alligators, early descriptions of,
Ambrister, R. C., 372, 418.
Allison, William B., 548.
American Antislavery Society,
American Colonization Society,
448.
American flora, 209; finance,
443.
306; physique, 311; seamen
impressed, 347, 348; litera-
Americans, the first, 1.
ture, 398.
Ames, Fisher, 288, 304, 378.
Amidas, Philip, 95.
Anderson, Major, 514.
André, Major John, 279.
Bacourt, M., 404.
Bagot, Sir Charles, 377.
Andros, Governor Edmund, 176, Bahia, alleged column at, 42.
Anna, Santa, President
Mexico, 459, 471.
Anne, Queen, 178.
Antietam, 522.
Anti-imperialists, 606.
Antiquitates Americanæ, 26, 41.
Appomattox Court-House, Lee's
surrender at, 532.
Arbuthnot, A., 371, 418.
Archer, W. S., 405.
Architecture in colonies, 223.
Aristophanes, 186.
Aristotle's narrow sea, 53.
Arkansas, seceded from Union,
516; reconstructed, 543.
Armistead, Colonel George, 358.
Army, Revolutionary, organiza-
tion of, 246; condition of, 248;
Washington's views of, 249;
statistics of, 273, 280; drilled
by Steuben, 274; disbanded,
Balboa. (See Nuñez, Vasco.)
Baltimore, Cecil, Lord, 156, 162,
Baltimore, George, Lord, 156.
Baltimore founded, 156; "hor-
rors of," 353.
Bancroft, George, 26, 43, 105.
218, 260.
Bancroft, H. H., 4.
Bandelier, A. F., 5, 8, 13.
Bank, United States, 334, 431,
432, 443, 456, 462.
Barclay, Robert, 198.
Barker, Jacob, 358.
Barlow, Arthur, 95, 378.
Barton, Mrs. (See Livingston,
Cora.)
Basque fishermen, 112.
Beamish, C. C., 41.
Beaujour, Chevalier de, 311.
Beauregard, General, 514, 515.
Becher, Captain, 59.
Belknap, Dr. Jeremy, quoted.
Bell, John, candidate for Presi-
dent, 508.
Bering Strait, width of, 22.
Berkeley, Governor William,
Bernaldez, Andres, 115.
Bimini, island of, 69.
Bingham, Mrs., 309.
Bingham, William, 406.
Birkbeck, Captain Morris, 393-
Birney, James G., candidate
for Presidency, 453, 466.
"Black Sally," 331.
at, Blaine, James G., in Congress,
548; as Speaker of the House,
574; candidate for Presidency,
587; declined a second nomi-
nation, 591.
Avalon, colony of, 156.
Aztecs, 2, 4, 16, 18, 22, 60.
BACCALAOS, the, 81, 112.
Bache, Mrs. B. F., 406.
Bacon, Lord, 83.
Bacon, Nathaniel, Jr., 171.
Blair, Jr., General Francis P.,
candidate for Vice-president,
562.
"Bland act," 582.
Bland, Richard P., 582.
Blaxton, William, 195.
Block, Adrian, 144.
Bombazen, an Indian chief, 166. |
Bonaparte, Napoleon, his de-
crees, 339, 347; Federalist ser-
mon against, 351; also, 360,
563.
Boone, Daniel, 402.
Boston, settlement of, 153;
evacuation of, 250.
Bourbourg, Brasseur de, 17.
Boutwell, George S., 548.
Bowdoin, Governor James, 300.
Bowling-alley built by a clergy-
man, 188.
Braddock, General Edward, 181.
Bradford, Governor William,
145, 148, 151, 187.
Bradley, Judge Joseph P., 576.
Bradley, Thomas, 80.
Bradstreet, Governor
Bragg, General Braxton, 520,
521, 528.
Brazil, 74
Brebeuf, Père, 117.
Breck, Samuel, quoted, 405,
406, 414.
Breckinridge, John C., candi-
date for Vice-president, 501;
his election, 502; candidate
for President, 508.
Breedon, Captain Thomas, 210.
Brehan, Madame de, 299, 300.
Breton fishermen, the, 83, 113.
Brewster, Elder William, 151,
187.
Brissot de Warville, J. P.,
Bristow, Benjamin H., 574.
British, plans of, in Revolu-
tionary War, 273.
British yoke, the, 209.
Bromfield, Henry, 332.
Brooks, C. W., 21.
Brooks, Rev. C. T., 42.
Brown, John, led attack on
Harper's Ferry, 505; hanged,
506.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 219.
Bryan, William J., nominated
for President, 602, 609.
Bryant, W. C., 182, 380.
Buccaneers, 88, 96, 100.
Buchanan, James, candidate
Cabot, Zuan (John), 79.
Cabots, the, 76, 100, 112.
Cacafuego, the, captured by
Drake, 91.
Calhoun, John C., his opinions,
377, 382; Vice-president, 404,
420, 427, 428; quoted, 429;
great speech of, 479; death
of, 480.
Calhoun, Miss, 404.
Calhoun, Mrs., 427.
California, visited by Drake, 93;
Iceded to the United States,
473; discovery of gold in, 477;
admitted into the Union, 479.
Calvert, George (Lord Balti-
more), 156.
Calvert, Governor Leonard, 156.
Cambridge, Mass., settled, 152;
"Tory Row" in, 228.
Canada, derivation of word,
107; attacks on, 178; surren-
der of, by France, 183, 231; in-
fluence of this surrender, 219;
invasions of, 251, 372.
Chatham, Earl of, 221, 276.
Chesapeake, the, 339.
Chesterton, England, mill at,
Chicago, Ill., 369, 393, 395.
Chichen-Itza, 20.
Chickamauga Creek, 528.
Choate, Rufus, 483.
Choiseul, Duc de, 231.
Cholula, pyramid of, 13.
Chopunish Indians, 11.
Christiana, Del., foundation of,
157.
Christina, Queen, 157.
Christopher, St., 56.
Church, Captain Benjamin, 165,
170.
Churubusco, battle of, 472.
Cicero, 188.
Cincinnati, O., 369.
Circleville, O., 15.
Catholic and Huguenot clergy, Circumnavigation of globe by
Centennial Exhibition, 580.
Cerro Gordo, 472.
Cervera, Admiral, 605.
Chambersburg burned, 528.
Champigny, M., 176.
Champlain, Samuel de,
journals, 121; his musketry,
125; his campaign with the
Iroquois, 126; also, 133, 134,
143, 163, 173, 175, 202.
Champlin, Miss, 278.
Chapultepec, heights of, 472.
Charlemagne, Emperor, 27.
Charles I., 139.
Charles II., 170, 204, 205, 209.
Charlesfort, near Beaufort, S.
C., 110.
Charleston, S. C., 252.
Charlestown, Mass., settled, 153.
Charlevoix, P. F. X., 175.
Charlotte, Queen, 325.
Charter of Virginia, 134; of
Maryland, 155; of Connecti-
cut, 212; of Massachusetts,
214; colonial charters
nulled, 214.
Chase, Chief-justice, 558.
Chastellux, Marquis de, 310, 311.
Drake, 94; by Cavendish, 99.
Civil offices, tenure of service in,
381; appointments to, 421;
also, 307, 308, 334, 409.
Civil Rights bill, 558.
Civil service commission, 568,
586.
Civil service reform, 570, 571,
583, 586, 587, 591.
Civil war, outbreak of, 514;
Fort Sumter, 514; Bull Run,
515, 522; Wilson's Creek,
517; Fort Henry and Fort
Donelson, 519; occupation
of Nashville, 520; Vicksburg,
Murfreesborough, and Fair
Oaks, 521; Antietam, Fred-
ericksburg, and Hampton
Roads, 522; Chancellorsville
and Gettysburg, 526; Vicks-
burg, 527; Chickamauga Creek
and the battle of the Wilder-
ness, 528; Sherman at Atlanta,
529; Lee's surrender at Ap-
pomattox Court-House, 532;
cost of, 533, 534, 537, 538.
Clark, General William, 334.
Clavigero, Francisco, 10.
Clay, Henry, Federalist, 371;
candidate for Presidency, 407,
408, 430, 465; compromise
tariff of, 429; quotation from,
438; also, 346, 373, 378, 418,
419, 461, 478, 479.
Clayton - Bulwer treaty, 485,
608.
Cleveland, Grover, nominated
for President, 587, 590, 595;
his election, 588, 596; his first
administration, 588-590; fi-
nancial conditions during his
second term, 597, 598; and
the Venezuela boundary dis-
pute, 599, 600.
Clinton, De Witt, 355, 401.
Clinton, George, 338, 341.
Clinton, Sir Henry, 242.
Cobbett, William, 348.
Coffin, Levi, 488.
Colden, Governor Cadwallader,
173.
Coleridge, S. T.,
Colfax, Schuyler, candidate for
Vice-president, 561; his elec-
tion, 562.
Collingwood, Lord, 348.
Colonies,
Commissioners, royal, in Bos-
Comogre,_66.
ton, 210.
Confederacy, 214, 510, 532, 535,
Conant, Roger, 152.
Confederation, experiments at,
536, 541.
215; formation and failure of,
Congress, Continental, records
283.
of, 253; discussions in, 261,
262, 268; early resolutions of,
267; a single house, 284; man-
ners in, 346.
Conkling, Roscoe, 548, 585.
Connecticut, colonies of, 155;
education in, 193; witchcraft
in, 200; charter of, 212; Conti-
Constellation, the frigate, 327.
nental troops in, 279.
Constitution, discussion
Constitution and Guerrière, bat-
formation of, 291.
tle of, 355.
Continental
Contreras, battle of, 472.
Congress.)
Cooper, J. Fenimore, 380, 402.
Copper-mines, early Indian, 122.
Cornwallis, Earl of, 272, 279.
Coronado, Francisco de, 9.
Costume, changes of, 331.
69, 70.
Cotton, increased demand for,
Cotton-gin, invention of the,
440; trade destroyed, 525.
French Protestant,
109, 110, 111, 112; Lane's,
Grenville's, White's, 130; Gos-
nold's, 133; Popham's, 134,
147; Virginia, 134, 138; Dutch
143; Plymouth, 145; Massa-Cortez, Hernando de, 9, 10, 17,
chusetts, 152; Connecticut,
155, 158, 159; Calvert's, 156;
Swedish, 157; Penn's, 205;
union of, 214.
Colorado organized as a terri-
tory, 511.
Columbus, Christopher, his voy-
age as compared with that of
the Northmen, 49; his train-
ing, 50; his reasonings, 51;
his voyage, 53; his delusions,
54; landfall, 59; his treat-
ment of natives, 60; his
influence on the Cabots, 76;
also, 62, 63, 68, 72, 75, 80, 84,
105, 115.
Columbus, Ferdinand, 53.
Commerce, ruin of American,
339, 354; Jefferson's opposi-
tion to, 340, 354.
Coverley, Sir Roger de,
American, 332.
Crandall, Prudence, persecuted,
Coxey's army," 598.
Crawford, William H., 370, 378,
Creasy, Sir Edward, 274.
382, 407, 408, 418, 422.
Creek Indians, 11.
Croatoan, 131.
Cromwell, Richard, 209.
Cromwell, Oliver, 208.
Cuba, situation in, 603; revolts
in, 604; independence of, rec-
615
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