McCormick, Cyrus H., inventor of
grain reaper, 393.
McDowell, General Irwin, and Army

of the Potomac at Bull Run, 404,
405; in command of the Army of
the Rappahannock, 420.
McKinley, William, author of Mc-
Kinley tariff bill, 494; elected
president, 498; sketch of life,
498 administration of, 498-506;
ultimatum of, to Spain, 499; re-
election of, 505; assassination of,
505.

Meade, General George G., in com-

mand of the Army of the Poto-
mac, 434: at Gettysburg, 434-
436 at Petersburg, 445.
Mechanicsville, battle at, 418.
"Memorial Day," 459.
Menendez (ma-nen'-deth), Pedro,
founds St. Augustine, 31; de-
stroys Huguenot colony in Flor-
ida, 36.

Merrimac, in Hampton Roads, 415,
416.

Merritt, General Wesley, at battle
of Manila, 501.

Methodism, founded in America by
the Wesleys, 103.

Mexican War, The, declaration of,
336; opposition to, 336-338; plan
of, 338; Taylor's campaign in,
338-340 Kearney's campaign in,
340, 341; General Scott's cam-
paign in, 341, 342; terms of the
treaty which closed the war, 342.
Mexico, conquest of, 26: war with,
336-342 U. S. paid $10,000,000
to for the Mesilla valley, 357,
358; and the Monroe Doctrine,
469, 470.

Michigan, admitted to the union,
317.

Middle Colonies, education in, 140,
141.

Middle of the Road People's, The,
party. 519.

Milan decree, 269, 275.

Miles, General Nelson A., conquers

Porto Rico, 501.

Military rule in the south in John-
son's administration, 468;

con-

tinued under Grant, 473; ended
by withdrawal of troops, 477.
Minnesota, admitted to the union,
382.

Mint, the United States, estab-
lished, 249.

Missionary Ridge, 429; battie of,
430, 431.

Mississippi, admitted to the union,

289, 290; secedes, 380; is read-
mitted, 473.

Mississippi River, discovery of, 30,
31 LaSalle's exploration of, 39;
opening of the upper Mississippi,
in 1862, 412 opening of the low-
er Mississippi, 413, 414.
Missouri, admitted to the union,
290; border state in civil war,

400, 401; saved to the union,
402.

Missouri Compromise, 290, 360, 366,
370, 371.

Mobile Bay, entered by Farragut,

441.

Mobilian family of Indians, 55.
Moluccas (mō-ŭk'-kas), 27.
Money, in the Colonies, 139; paper
money issued by Mass. in 1690,
139; during the Revolutionary
War, 218-220; paper money in
Jackson's administrations, 312,
313; in sub-treasuries, 319; dur-
ing the Civil War, 456; in Grant's
administration, 476; paper money
as good as gold and silver, 484;
the silver question, 484, 485; the
Sherman Act, 496.

Monitor and Merrimac, 415, 416.
Monmouth, battle of, 199, 200.
Monroe Doctrine, 291, 354; and
Mexico, 469, 470; and Venezuela,
497.

Monroe, James, envoy to France,
262; envoy to England, 271;
elected president, 287; adminis
trations of, 288-293; sketch of
life of, 288; and internal im-
provements at government ex-
pense, 292.

Montana, admitted to the union,
497.
Montcalm

(mont-käm'), General,
the French general at Quebec,
115-117.

Monterey, captured by Commodore
Sloat, 340.

Monterey, battle of, 339.
Montezuma,

Mexico, 26.

emperor of ancient

Montgomery, General Richard, at
Quebec, 176, 177.

Monticello, Jefferson's estate, 261;
picture of, 261; "The Sage of
Monticello," 261.

Monts, de (deh mōn'), Sieur, 37.
Morgan, Daniel, defeats Tarleton,
211; Cornwallis pursues, 211.
Mormons, 325, 326.

Morris, Robert, superintendent of
finance, 219, 220, 228.
Morristown, Washington withdraws
to, 191.

Morse, Samuel F. B., and the tele-
graph, 331, 332.

Morton, Levi P., vice-president, 493.
Moultrie (mōō'tre), Colonel Will-
iam, 178, 179.

Mound builders in North America,
56, 57.

Mount Vernon, home of Washing.
ton, 217, 246.

Murfreesboro, battle of, 414.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, see BONA-

PARTE.

Narvaez, de (dã när-vä'eth), Pam-
filo, 28.

Nashville, battle of, 439, 440.

National Democratic party, or
Sound Money Democracy, 518.
National Expositions, 512.
National Republican party, 297, 315;
formed Whig party, 315.
Navigation Acts, 72, 73, 80, 121,
122, 159, 160.

Navy, The, during the Revolution,
202, 203; gunboat flotilla of, 270,
271; in the War of 1812, 280,
282, 283, 284, 286; in the United
States from 1789 to 1829, 306,
307; four vessels, the beginning
of our present great navy, 307;
in the Mexican War, 340; in the
blockade of Southern ports in the
Civil War, 406, 407, 425; aids in
opening the Mississippi, 410, 411,
412, 413, 414; the ironclad Moni-
tor, of, 415, 416; fleet of iron-
clads of, fail at Charleston, 431,
432 steamer Kearsarge sinks the
Alabama, 442; in the Spanish-
American War, 500.

Nebraska, admitted to the union,
469.

Nevada, admitted to the union,
457.

New Amsterdam, settled by the
Dutch, 79, 80.

New England, Council for, 74.
New England, The United Colonies
of, 84, 85; clergy of, 134; ship-
building in, 138; education in,
139, 140.

New England Kitchen, picture of,
132.

Newfoundland, attempts to found
colony in, 43.

New Hampshire, settled, 81, 82.
New Haven, Conn., settled, 83; one

of "The United Colonies of New
England," 85.

New Jersey, settlement and early
history, 92, 93.

New Madrid, capture of, 412.
New Orleans, 118; 283; British At-
tack upon, 284, 285; captured by
Farragut, 1862, 413, 414.
Newport, R. I., founded, 87; French
fleet fails at, 201.

Newspapers, in the Colonies, 143-
145 in the United States from
1789 to 1829, 305; in the United
States from 1830 to 1860, 389;
from 1860 to 1902, 512.
New Sweden, or Delaware, 97, 98,
127.

New World, discovery of, 13, 14.
New York, settlement and early his-
tory of, 88-92; map of. 89; pop-
ulation in 1790, 125; Huguenots
in, 129; established Church of
England in, 134, 135; population
of, 1810-1830. 301; population of,
1840-1860, 388; population of,
1860-1902, 509.

Nina (nen'ya), one of Columbus'
vessels, 13.

Nominating conventions, 293, 308;
national, 315.

Nonimportation act, 271; repealed,
271.

Nonintercourse act, 271, 272.
Norsemen, The, discovery of, 20, 21.
North and South, relative strength
of, at beginning of the Civil War,
382, 383; condition of, in 1865,
contrasted, 448, 449; Spanish-
American war wiped out all traces
of ill feeling between, 501.
North America, physical features
of, 49; structural map of, 50.
North Anne River, skirmish between
Grant's and Lee's forces at, 444.
North Carolina, secedes, 380.
Northwest Territory, 226; Indian
troubles in, 253.

Northwestern boundary dispute, 324.
Northwestern boundary established,
343.

Nullification doctrine, 314; act of
South Carolina 314, 315; Jack-
son's proclamation, 315.

OGLETHORPE

of

(ō'gl-thorpe), James,
founds Savannah-governor
Georgia, 102, 103.

Ohio, Company, 110; admitted to
the union, 265.

Oklahoma territory, growth of, 497.
"Old Ironsides," 280.

Old South Church, picture of, 167;
168.
Omnibus bill, 350, 351; endorsed by
Whigs and Democrats, 356.
Orders in council, 269, 274, 275.
Ordinance of 1787, 226, 227, 304.
Oregon, admitted to the union, 382.
Oregon country, map of, 104; 264,

265; boundary settled by arbitra-
tion, 343; territory organized,
346.

Oregon trail, map showing, 345.
Orleans, territory of, 263.
Ostend manifesto, 359, 360.
Otis, James, 156, 163.

PACIFIC OCEAN, discovery of, 25.
Pakenham (pak-en-am), Sir Ed-
ward, British general, 284, 285.
Palma, Tomaso Estrada (to-mä'-so
es-trä'-da päl'-ma), first president
of the Cuban republic, 503.
Palo Alto (pā'-lō äl'-tō), battle of,
336.

Palos (pa-los), Columbus set sail
from, 13.

Pan-American congresses, 494.
Pango Pango, harbor on the Samo-
an Islands secured by the United
States, 495.

Panic, financial, of 1837, 318, 319;
of 1873, 476; of 1893, 495, 496.
Paper money in the Colonies, 139;
during the Revolution, 218, 219;
in Jackson's time, "rag money,"
312, 314; during the Civil War,
456; in Grant's administration,
476; as good as gold and silver,
484.

Paris, treaty at close of French

and Indian War signed at, 117;
treaty at, close of Revolutionary
War, 216.

Parliament and the colonies, 153;
overrules King George, 215.
Patroon system, 91; led to anti-
rent difficulties, 92; "patroon
war," antirent difficulties, 325.
Paulus Hook, 205.

Pawnee, Kansas, first state legisla-
ture convened at, 364.
Pea Ridge, battle of, 409.
Peace convention, 322, 381.
Pemberton, John C., confederate
general, 425, 426.

Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883,
487, 488.
Peninsular

campaign, of Gen.
George B. McClellan, 416-420.
Penn, William, character of, 94;
and his "holy experiment," 94;
founded Philadelphia, 95; Indian
policy of, 96; manner of locating
boundaries, 96; liberal charter
granted to, 97; gives a grant to
a colony from Wales, 126; Dutch
pamphlet of, 128.
Pennsylvania, settlement and early
history, 93-97; Germans in, 128;
Scotch-Irish in, 129.
Pennsylvania, University of, Benja-
min Franklin founder of, 143.
Pension Bills, Cleveland vetoed,
490, 491.

People's party in election of 1896,
498; from 1880 to 1900, 517,
518, 519.

Pequot war, 83, 84.

Perry, Commodore Oliver H., in
battle of Lake Erie, 281.
Perry. Matthew C., expedition of,
to Japan, 358, 359.
Perryville, battle of, 414.
Petersburg, intrenched by Lee, 445
besieged by Grant, 445, 451, 452;
fall of, 451, 452.

Philadelphia, founded, 95; popula-
tion in 1790, 125: First Conti-
nental Congress met in, 169;
map of, and vicinity, 196; Howe
entered, 197; evacuated by Clin-
ton, 199; Centennial Exposition
at, 512.

Philip, King, son of Massasoit, 85;
war with, 85, 86; death, 86.
Philippine (fil'ip in) Islands, dis-
covery of, 26; seized by England,
117; returned to Spain, 118; se-
cured by treaty from Spain, 500;
acquired by treaty in 1898, 501;
war in, 502.

Phillips, Wendell, advocate of anti-
slavery cause, 329; address at
Faneuil Hall, 329.

Phipps, William, Sir, 106.
Pickens, Andrew, 209.
Pickett, George E., a Confederate
general, 436.

Pierce, Franklin, elected president,
356; administration of, 356-368;

sketch of life of, 356, 357; policy
toward Kansas, 364, 365.
Pilgrims, The, why so called, 75;
object of coming to America, 75;
voyage in the Mayflower and the
compact, 75, 76; landed at Plym-
outh, 76; relations with the In-
dians, 77.

Pillow, Gideon J., confederate gen-
eral at Fort Donelson, 410.
Pinckney, Charles C., in constitu-
tional convention, 228; commis-
sioner to France, 257; candidate
for vice-president, 259; presiden-
tial candidate, 272.

Pinckney, Thomas, in constitutional
convention, 228.

Plains of Abraham, 116.
Platt amendment, the, 504.
Plymouth Company, The, map of
grant to, 45; limits, 46; attempt
at colonization, 46; reorganized
as "Council for New England,"
74.
Plymouth, Mass., settled 1620, 76;
map of, 78; never obtained char-
ter, 81; one of the United Colo-
nies of New England, 85.
Plymouth Rock, 76.
Pocahontas (pō-ka-hon'-tas),

res-

cues John Smith, 66; marries
John Rolfe, 66.

Policy of nonresistance, Jefferson's,
270.

Political parties, in the colonies,

154, 155; in Washington's ad-
ministration, 251; and the War
of 1812, 278; during the "Era of
Good Feeling," 288; at the close
of Monroe's administration, 292.
293; began to divide more and
more upon the question of slav-
ery, 333, 334; new political par-
ties-Republican and Know-
Nothing, 366; all political differ-
ences swept aside when Fort
Sumter fell, 399; since the Civil
War. 516-519.

Polk, James K., nomination of, to
the presidency, flashed over the
telegraph wires, 331; elected
president, 333; administration of,
333-347 sketch of life of, 333,
334; made offer to Spain to buy
Cuba, 359.

Ponce de Leon (pōn'tha dã lã-ōn'),
discovers Florida, 24-25; govern-
or of Porto Rico, 25.

Pontiac (pon'ti-ac), conspiracy of,
119, 120.

Pope Alexander VI, decree of, 23.
Pope, General John, captures New
Madrid and Island Number Ten,
412; in command of Army of
Virginia, 420; in second battle
of Bull Run, 420; transferred to
a western command, 420.
Pope Nicholas V, grant to Portu-
guese, 16.

Population, Indian, now and at
time of discovery of America,
compared, 61; in the Colonies,
123-125 in the United States
from 1789 to 1829, 299-301; in
the U. S. from 1830 to 1860, 385-
388; slave population in seceded
states, 400; growth in, during the
Civil War, 457; free colored, in
1870, 479; free colored, in 1880,
485.

Populist party, 517, 518.
Port Gibson captured, 426.
Port Hudson, surrendered, 427.
Port Royal, Nova Scotia, founded
by the French, 38; taken by the
English, 106, 107, 108.
Port Royal, South Carolina, 35,
100.

Porter, Admiral David D., with
fleet at Vicksburg, 425, 426.
Porter, General Fitzhugh, in bat-
tle at Gaines' Mill, 419.
Porto Rico (pōr'tō re'ko), discov

ered, 20; conquest of, by Span-
ish, 24 conquest of, by General
Miles, 501; acquired by treaty,
1898, 501.

Portsmouth, R. I., founded, 87
Portugal, 16, 17, 22.

Portuguese, early discoveries of,
16 grant to, by Pope Nicholas
V, 16; discoverers and explorers,
32, 33; summary of explorations,
46.
Postoffice, The, under the manage-
ment of Benj. Franklin, 153, 154.
Post-rider, 154; picture of, 154;
391.

Prescott, William, at Bunker Hill,
175.

Prescott, William H., historian, 27.
President and Little Belt, 277.
Presidential election, of 1796. 255;

of 1800, 259 of 1808. 272; of
1816, 287; of 1824, 292, 293: of
1828, 297, 298; of 1836, 317;
of 1840, 320; in 1844, 332, 333
of 1848, 346, 347; of 1852. 356;
of 1856, 368; of 1860, 377-379;
of 1868, 470; of 1872, 475: of
1876, 479 of 1880, 485 of 1884,

489 of 1888, 493 of 1892, 495;
of 1896, 498; of 1900, 505.
Presidential succession bill, 491.
Prevost, General Sir George, in
War of 1812. 284.
Princeton, battle of, 190, 191.
Princeton University, formerly the
College of New Jersey. 143.

Pring, Martin, 44.
"Privateers,'

in War of 1812, 280,

307.
Proclamation Line, The, 121, 168.
Procter, Colonel, in War of 1812,
281.
Prohibition party, 516, 517, 518.
Proprietary colonies, 152.
Protestants, every sect of, repre-
sented in America, named, 135.
Providence, R. I., founded by Roger
Williams, 79, 81.

Proviso, The Wilmot, 343, 344.
Public school system in the New
England colonies, 139, 140; in
the Southern colonies, 141; in
the United States from 1789 to
1829, 304.

Pulaski (pu-lås'kee), Count, 192.
Puritans, The, why so called, 74;
settlement at Salem, 77-81; in-
tolerance of, 79, 88; costume of,
131: hated the Established
Church of England, 134.
Putnam, Israel, 187, 188.

QUAKERS, THE, persecuted in Mas-
sachusetts, 79, 80; in New Jer
sey, 92, 93; in Pennsylvania, 93-
97 belief of, 93, 94; hated the
established church of England,
134: established public school
system, 141; opposed to slavery,
148 established the Underground
Railroad, 352, 353.
Quartering Act, The, 168.
Quebec, founded, 37; first English
attack on, 106; second attack on,
108; taken by the English, 115-
117; map of, 116; province of,
121; Act, 168, 215; American
attack upon, 176, 177.
Quebec Act, 168, 215.
Queen Anne's War, 107, 108.
Queenstown Heights, battle of. 279.
Quincy, Josiah, Jr., 166.
Quivera (ke-vē'-rä), 29-30.

RAILROADS, early, 296, 297; under-
ground, 352, 353; increase of,
391, 512, 513, 514.

Raisin river, The, savage atrocities
at Frenchtown on, 281.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, attempts at
colonization, 43, 44; death, 44.
Randolph, Edmund, in constitution-
al convention, 228; attorney-
general, 248.

Raymond, engagement at, 426.
Rebellion, Claiborn's. 98. 99;
Shay's, in Massachusetts. 224,
225; Dorr's, in Rhode Island,
324, 325; the great. 398-460.
Reciprocity, in the McKinley tar-
iff bill, 494.

Reconstruction, period of. 461-
480 problems of. 462: Lincoln's
policy of, 463: Johnson's policy
of. 463 policy of congress, 464,
465: influenced by election of
1866, 466; President Johnson's

powers limited by congress, 466,
467; measures of, completed by
congress, 467; plan of, carried
out, 467, 468; states readmitted
under, 468; new state govern-
ments, 468, 469; end of congres-
sional, 472, 473.

Reeder, Andrew H., first territorial
governor of Kansas, 363, 364.
Regulating Act, The, 168.
Religion, awakening of the

16th

century, 74; and the Massachu-
setts colonists, 75, 77; religious
differences, 79; missionary ef-
forts among the Indians, 85, 86;
liberal ideas as to, in Rhode Is-
land, 87, 88; among the Dutch
colonists, 92; in New Jersey, 92;
in Maryland, 98, 99; in the colo-
nies (summary), 134, 135; in the
Republic from 1789 to 1829,
302, 303.

Religion, in the colonies, 134, 135.
Republic, The, growth of, 1789-

1829, 299-308 development of
territory in, 299; population,
table of, by states, 299, 300;
growth of cities, table showing
relative rank, 301; manner of
living in, 301, 302; religion in,
302 mode of travel in, 303;
public schools and colleges in,
304 literature in, 305; occupa-
tions in, 305, 306; the army and
the navy of, 306, 307; growth
of popular government in, 307,
308.

Growth of, 1830-60, 385-395:
close of an era, 385; territorial
growth, 385; population, table
of, by states, 386-388; growth of
cities, table showing relative
size, 388; schools and colleges in,
389; newspapers, 389; literature,
389, 390 canal transportation
in, 390, 391; increase of rail-
roads in, 391; national feeling
in, 392; sectional feeling in, 392,
393; inventions and discoveries
in, 393, 394.

by

Growth of, 1860 to 1902, 507-
520; population. table of,
states, 507, 508: growth of
cities, table of, 508, 509; growth
of territory, 509, 510; public
lands of, 510; public schools and
colleges of, 510, 511; newspapers
in, 512, 513, transportation, 513,
514 growth of industries, 514-
516; political parties in, since
the Civil War, 516-519; nation-
al feeling, 519, 520.
Republican party, rise of, 366-368;

in campaign of 1860, 377-379:
in campaign of 1868, 470; in
campaign of 1872, 475; in cam-
paign of 1876. 479: in cam-
paign of 1880. 485; in campaign
of 1884. 489; in campaign of
1888, 493; in campaign of, 1892,
495; in election of 1896, 498; in

election of 1900, 505; since the
Civil War, 516-519.

Resaca, Ga., Federals defeated Con-
federates, 438.

Resaca de La Palma (rā-sä'ka dā
lä päl'mä), battle of, 336.
Resumption Act, passed, 476; goes
into effect, 483, 484.
Revere (re-veer'), Paul, descendant
of Huguenots, 129.

Revolution, The American, condi-
tions, acts, and events leading to,
157-170; battles of, and events
in, 171-215; treaty closing, 215,
216; finances of, 217, 220; gov-
ernment during, 221.

Rhode Island, settlement and early
history of, 87, 88; government
of, 88; Dorr's rebellion in, 324,
325.

Ribaut (re-bō'), Jean, 35; leader of
first Huguenot expedition to
America, 100.
Richmond, Va., confederate capital,
404; "On to Richmond," 416; the
seven days' fight before, 418-420;
Grant presses on toward, 443-
445, 451; evacuated by the con-
federate army, 452; entered by
national troops, 452.

"Right of petition," 327, 328.
Robinson, Charles, 363; territorial
governor of Kansas, 364, 365.
Rochambeau (rō-sham-bō ), Jean,

Count de, commander of French
forces in America, 213.

Rolfe, John, one of the early set-
tlers of Virginia, marries Poca-
hontas, 66.

Roosevelt (rō'ze-velt), Theodore,
vice-president, succeeds to the
presidency, 505, 506.

Rosecrans, William S.. at Murfrees-
boro, 414 at Chattanooga, 427;
at Chickamauga, 427, 429.
Rotation in office, 261: in Jack-
son's administration, 310, 311.
Round Top, 435.

Royal colonies, 152.

Rutger's or Queen's College, 143.
Rutledge, John, 228.

Ryswick (riz'-wik), Holland, treaty
at, 107.

SAC AND FOX INDIANS, 316.
Saint Augustine (sant a'gus-ten)
founded, by Menendez, 31; be-
sieged by Oglethorpe, 103; Eng-
lish attack upon, 108.
Saint Johns River, discovered by
Ribaut, 35: Laudonniere at-
tempts to found colony on, 36.
Saint Lawrence, River and Gulf
of, 34-35.

St. Leger (sant-lěj'er), Barry,
British officer, 192; in the Mo-
hawk valley, 194.

Salem, Mass., settlement and early
history of, 77-81; character of
settlers, 77; map of, 78; differ-
ence between settlers of, and the