"French and Indian War," causes, 107; first campaigns, 109; declaration of war, 109; campaign of 1755, 109; campaigns of 1756 and 1757, 110; alignment of European powers, 110; relative strength of colonies, III; French policy, 110; Pitt's policy, 111; naval war, III; peace of Paris, 112. French Creek, fort built on, 108. French Revolution, 246 f. Freneau, Philip, clerk in State Depart-
ment, 239; attacks Washington, 261. Friedenwald, Herbert, as author, 166. "Frolic," beaten by "Wasp," 325. Frontier, in Virginia, 43; in mid-eigh- teenth century, 60; conditions of life on, 60 f., 79; relations with coast, 79 f.; Ohio Valley frontier, 379 f. Fugitive Slave Law of 1793, 373. Fuller, Herbert B., as author, 367. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 33. Funding Plan, Hamilton's, 230. Furs, added to enumerated products, 91. Fur trade, in Virginia, 42; in New York, 45; in Pennsylvania, 59; as factor in development of Canada, 100; of U. S., on northwest coast, 179; in Far West, 353 f.
Gage, General Thomas, governor of Massachusetts, 135; situation, 138; attempt to seize stores at Concord, 139; report on Battle of Lexington, 140; attacks Bunker Hill, 142; suc- ceeded by Howe, 143.
Gallatin, Albert, appointed Secretary
of Treasury, 273; sketch, 273; plans, 275; success, 275; under Madison, 303 n.; persecution by politicians, 315; on peace commission, 315, 326 f.; advocates war taxes, 316; recom- mends recharter of U. S. Bank, 316; mediator between Adams and Clay at Ghent, 328; on influence of war, 333. Gallatin, James, at Ghent, 328 f. Galloway, Joseph, in First Continental Congress, 135.
"Galloway Plan," 136.
Gates, General Horatio, receives sur- render of Burgoyne, 151; defeated at Camden, 157; superseded, 158. Gay, Sidney H., as author, 241. Gayarré, C. E. A., as author, 118. General revenue amendment, 201. General Survey Bill, 385. Genêt, Edmond Charles, French min- ister in U. S., 248 f.; designs on Lou- isiana and the Floridas, 249; re- placed, 249.
George III, control of Commons, 89; responsibility for American policy, 90; character, 90; discredited by loss of America, 90; on tea act of 1773, 131; unyielding attitude, 137; pro- claims Americans rebels, 144; war measures, 144; concessions after French alliance, 154; opposition to independence of colonies, 160; re- ceives minister from U. S., 178. Georgia, tardy founding, 54; motives of founders, 54; classes of settlers, 55; unique features of government, 55; a royal province, 55, 93; land cession, 187; claims tract in dispute with Spain, 243.
Germans, found Germantown, 54; settle in Georgia, 55; in New York, 58; in Pennsylvania, 59; in Virginia, 60; in Carolina Piedmont, 60; defeat St. Leger, 150.
Gerry, Elbridge, member of Federal Convention, 205; motion concerning representation of new states, 216; an Antifederalist, 219; on X Y Z com- mission, 259.
Ghent, treaty of, commissioners, 326; negotiations, 326 f.; dissensions in commission, 328.
Gilman, Daniel C., as author, 346. Gnadenhütten, 186.
Godoy, Manuel, makes treaty with Pinckney, 243.
Galvez, Bernardo de, Spanish general Goodwin, John A., as author, 37.
Goodwin, Maud W., as author, 55.
Gardoqui, Don Diego de, negotiations Gordy, John P., as author, 241, 270,
Governor, office of, in states, 168. Grafton, Duke of, on Massachusetts Government Act, 133.
Granger, Gideon, postmaster-general, 273.
Gray, Robert, discovers mouth of Co-
lumbia River, 289, 355. Great Lakes, British demand control of, 327; Wellington's advice, 327. Great Plains, crossed by Coronado, 6; by Mallet Brothers, 102; by Véren- drye, 102.
"Great Triumvirate," 306. Green, Thomas M., as author, 202. Greene, Evarts B., as author, 56, 97. Greene, Nathanael, a blacksmith, 142; successor of Gates, 158. Greenville, treaty of, 244. Grenville, George, colonial policy of, 120 f.
Grundy, Felix, a "Young Republican," 306; quoted, 308; on expansion, 312. "Guerrière," defeated by "Constitu- tion," 325.
Guilford Courthouse, battle of, 159.
Hamilton, Alexander, measure for re- demption of continental notes, 182 and n.; advises Robert Morris, 182; critic of Articles of Confederation, 203, 209; member of Federal Convention, 205; on coercive power, 209; argues no conflict between large and small states, 211; in New York convention, 220; author of Federalist essays, 221 f.; ap- pointed Secretary of Treasury, 227; advice on official etiquette, 228; First Report on Public Credit, 230; report on U. S. Bank, 232; report on manufactures, 233; recommends ex- cise, 232, 233; motive, 233 f.; and Whisky Rebellion, 234; Federal- ist leader, 235; sketch, 235; political philosophy, 235; bank opinion, 238; importance of implied powers, 238; sympathy with army mutiny, 239; opposes Washington's plan to retire,
240; offends John Adams, 241; favors alliance with England, 1793, 247; defends neutrality proclamation, 247; retires from cabinet, 254; great in- fluence with Federalists, 254; intrigue against Adams, 1796, 254 f.; regarded as head of Federalist party, 255; rivalry with Knox, 260; war plans, 1798, 260; advises amendment of Sedition bill, 263; refuses to support Adams, 1800, 267; uses influence for Jefferson in House election, 268; duel with Burr, 269, 287; ideal of govern- ment, 272 f.; opposes secession plan, 287. Hamilton, Colonel Henry, British com- mander in Northwest, 156. Hamilton, Ohio, founded, 244.
Hamilton, Paul, Secretary of Navy:
Hancock, John, smuggles goods into Boston, 128; entertains John Adams, 129; elected governor of Massachu- setts, 185; member of Massachusetts ratifying convention, 219.
Hanna, Charles A., as author, 81. Harmar, Fort, 193.
Harmar, General Josiah, 244. Harrison, William Henry, delegate of Northwest Territory, 245; governor of Indiana Territory, 245; land pur- chases from Indians, 307; Tippecanoe campaign, 307; campaign of 1813, 319. Hart, Albert, B., as editor, 19; as author, 378.
Hartford Convention, 329 f.;
ments on, 329 f.; public suspicion of, 330; amendments proposed by, 330 f. Harvard College, founded, 31; in eighteenth century, 67.
Hawaii, beginnings of American interest in, 179.
Hayne, Robert Y., on Tariff of 1824, 387. Hazleton, J. H., as author, 166. Head rights, in Virginia, 16, 39. Helps, Sir Arthur, as author, 20. Henderson, Archibald, as author, 119, 166, 202.
Henry, Patrick, storekeeper, 75; reso- lution against Stamp Act, 122; radical leader in Revolution, 130; declines to serve as delegate to Federal Con-
vention, 204; opposes Constitution, | Illinois, state of, admitted, 353.
220; on slavery, 371, 372.
Henry VII, 9.
Henry VIII, 10 f.
Hildreth, Richard, as author, 19. Hillsborough, Lord, opposes settlements west of mountains, 117; orders sup- pression of Massachusetts Circular Letter, 128.
Hinsdale, Burke A., as author, 202. Hockett, H. C., as author, 81, 176, 241, 346, 398, 399.
Holland, as creditor of U. S., 200. Holy Alliance, 362 f.
"Home market." See Tariff. Hooker, Thomas, pastor at Newtown, liberal views of, 29; leads settlers to Connecticut Valley, 33. "Hornet," sinks "Peacock," 325. Hosmer, James K., as author, 140. Houston, David F., as author, 398. Howard, G. E., as author, 140. Howe, Sir William, at Bunker Hill, 142; inaction, 143; forced from Boston, 143; campaign around New York, 148; dilatory campaign in New Jersey, 148; plans for winter, 149; abandons New Jersey after Princeton, 149; oc- cupies Philadelphia, 150; fails to sup- port Burgoyne, 150.
Immigration, Franklin's alarm over, 80. See Germans; Scotch-Irish; and names of colonies.
Impeachments, case of Pickering, 278; case of Chase, 278.
Implied powers, doctrine of, 238; up- held by Supreme Court, 343. Impressment, British practice, 250 f.; American contention, 250 f.; nego- tiations of 1806, 295; "Leopard- Chesapeake" affair, 296; climax of controversy, 297; as cause of War of 1812, 312; in negotiations at Ghent, 326.
Indented servants. See Servants. Independence, first talk of, 141; move- ment for, 144 f.; Declaration of, 145; analysis of Declaration, 145 f.; popular reception, 146; consequences of, 146 f.; English Whigs ready to acknowledge, 154; recognition of, demanded by U. S., 161 f.; recognized by England, 162; economic conse- quences of, 177 f.
Independents, in England, 21. See Separatists.
India, in fifteenth century, 1; reached by Portuguese, 3.
Indiana Territory, created, 245.
Howe, Lord, British admiral, at New- Indiana, state of, admitted, 353.
Hudson Bay Company, organized, 104; in Oregon Country (Northwest Com- pany), 355.
Huguenots, in Virginia, 60; forbidden to emigrate to Canada, 100. Hull, William, brigadier-general in War of 1812, 317; in campaign of 1812, 318 f.
Hunt, Gaillard, as author, 398. Huron, Lake, visited by Champlain, 100. Hutchinson, Anne, religious exile, 34. Hutchinson, Thomas, house pillaged, 123; as governor, becomes Tory, 129; sons act as tea agents, 132; replaced by Gage, 135.
Illinois country, land tenure in, 103; settlement of, 103; relations with Louisiana and Canada, 103; economic life, 104.
Indians, Aztecs of Mexico, 5; Pueblos of New Mexico, 6; massacre by, in Virginia, 1622, 18; of New England, decimated by plague, 35; relations with whites - Pequot War, 36; dis- turbances in Virginia, 1676, 43; King Philip's War, 44; Iroquois League, 46; hostility of Iroquois to French, 100; Iroquois trade, 101; Fox Indians, 103; Indian problem after French and Indian War, 112; Pontiac's War, 114; imperial policy, 112 f.; purchase of lands of, 115; in Burgoyne's cam- paign, 150; use of, in Revolution, 156; negotiations with, in Northwest, in Confederation period, 193; policy of British, 193; in Southwest, during Confederation, 199; troubles with Creeks and Cherokees, 1790-1794, 242 f.; resist white settlement in Northwest Territory, 244; effect of
war with, on relations of U. S. and England, 249 f.; Tecumseh and the Prophet," 307; pacification of the Northwest Indians, 1814, 319; South- west, in War of 1812, 319 f.; British demands in behalf of, 327; provisions of treaty of Ghent, 328; land cessions by, 1814-1830, 348; removal policy, 348 f.; use Florida as refuge, 357 f. Intercolonial wars between France and England, 105 f.
Internal Improvements, Washington on, 200 n.; recommended by Madison, 337; sketch of question, 337 f.; atti- tude of Madison, 337 f.; Monroe, 340; Clay, 340; need of, in West, 380; state projects, 382 f.; attitude of sections, 380, 383; Cumberland Road Bill, 384 f.; General Survey Bill, 385. Interregnum, in England, 45. "Intolerable Acts," 135. Invincible Armada, 11. Iroquois League, relations with Dutch, 46; hostility to French, 100; trade with French, 101, English, 105, and Fox Indians, 104; war on Illinois tribes, 105; rivalry of French and English for control of, 105; acknowl- edges dependence on government of New York, 105; cedes lands, 116. Irving, Washington, 345. Isabella of Castile, and Columbus, 4. Italy, states of, accept "Continental System," 298.
Jackson, Andrew, campaign against Creeks, 320; sketch of, 323; defends New Orleans, 323 f.; occupies Mobile and Pensacola during War of 1812, 357; Indian campaign of 1818, 358; governor of Florida, 360; presidential candidate in 1824, 392 f.; believes bargain charge, 395; presidential candidate in 1828, 396 f.; elected, 398.
Jackson, Francis J., British minister in
Jacksonian Democratic Party, rise of, 395.
James I, and colonization, 11 f.; dis- solution of Virginia Company, 18; attitude towards religious groups, 22;
character and ideas of government, 24; contest with Parliament, 24. James II, accession, 50; and Dominion of New England, 85; deposed, 85. James River Canal, 383. Jamestown, 14.
"Java," defeated by "Constitution," 325.
Jay, John, on first talk of independence, 141; on peace commission, 1782, 161; envoy in Spain, 1781, 161; suspicious of France, 162; Secretary of Foreign Affairs, 199; negotiations with Gar- doqui, 199; in New York convention, 220; author of Federalist essays, 221 f.; declines office of Secretary of State, 226 f.; negotiates treaty with England, 251 f.; chief justice, 342. Jay's Treaty, influence of, on planters, 237; effect of, on Spain, 243; nego- tiations, 251 f.; provisions of, 252; struggle over, 252 f.; benefits of, 253; offends France, 257.
Jefferson, Thomas, on town meeting, 32; at college, 75, 76; radical leader in Revolution, 130; drafts Declaration of Independence, 145; declines place on peace commission of 1782, 161; minister to France, 179; and decimal system of coinage, 183; drafts Ordi- nance of 1784, 188; on members of Federal Convention, 206; desires bill of rights in Constitution, 221; ap- pointed Secretary of State, 227; share in assumption, 231 f.; opinion of excise, 234; leader of Republicans, 235; political philosophy, 236; bank opinion, 237 f.; patronage of Freneau, 239; opposes Washington's plan to retire, 240; favors alliance with France, 247; criticizes neutrality proclamation, 247; resigns from cabi- net, 254; Republican candidate for President, 1796, 254; elected Vice- President, 255; on war with France, 260; discountenances secession, 264; drafts Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, 264; explanation of them, 266; can- didate in 1800, 267; elected by House, 269; religious views, 271 n.; inau- gural address, 271 f.; ideal of govern- ment, 271; desire to conciliate, 272 f.;
Vice-President, 1804, 293; same 1808, 302; speech on Missouri Com- promise, 377; on prospects of Federal- ist Party, 390; receives last electoral votes of Federalists, 391. "King's Friends," 90. "King George's War,"
cabinet, 273; intimacy with Madison and Gallatin, 273; simplicity, 273 f.; characteristics, 274; policy in ap- pointments, 275 f.; purchase of Lou- isiana, 279 f.; objects to French ownership of Louisiana, 282; thinks constitutional amendment necessary, 285; distrusts Burr, 287; versatility, King's Mountain, battle of, 158. 288 f.; claims West Florida, 291; King Philip's War, 1676, 44. reëlected, 293; rejects Monroe's "King William's War," 101, 106. treaty, 295; action on "Leopard- "Know ye laws," 184 f. Chesapeake" affair, 296 f.; faith in "peaceable coercion," 299; fears commerce, 299; favors embargo, 300; favors Madison for President, 302; on ease of invading Canada, 313; on marks of good general, 317; advo- cates domestic manufactures, 337; advice on Monroe Doctrine, 364; on slavery, 371, 374; on Missouri contest, 376; on state rights, 384; on internal improvements, 385; incon- sistency, 388.
Knox, Henry, a bookseller, 142; ap- pointed Secretary of War, 227; up- holds U. S. Bank bill, 233; rivalry with Hamilton, 1798, 260. Kosciusko, 148.
Kremer, George, charges corrupt bar- gain, 395.
Lafayette, Marquis de, 148, 160. Lake Erie, battle of, 319; influence of battle on peace, 327. Lake of the Woods, 163.
Jesuits, in interior, 101; among Iro- Lands, Virginia asserts claim to western,
Johnson, Allen, as editor, 20; as author,
Johnson, Richard M., a "Young Repub- lican," 306.
Johnson, Sir William, Indian superin- tendent, 115; treaty of Fort Stan- wix, 116.
Johnston, Mary, as author, 20.
'Joint occupation agreement," 355. Joliet, Louis, IOI.
Judiciary Act of 1789, 228; act of 1801,277.
Kalb, Baron, 148.
Kanawha River, 186.
155; Maryland demands cession of claims, 173; claimant states, 187; cessions, 187 f.; promises of Congress, 188; Land Ordinance of 1785, 189; reservations for schools, 191; colonial land systems, 191; sales under Or- dinance, 191 f.; special contracts, 192 f.; law of 1800, 245; speculators, 246; effect of land laws on settlement, 246; cessions by Indians, 1814- 1830, 348; laws of 1820, 349.
Land Survey, system of, 189; of seven ranges, interrupted, 193 f.
Land system, Virginia, 16, 39 f.; Massa- chusetts, 32; New Netherland, 48.
Kaskaskia, mission founded, 103; at- La Salle, Sieur de, in Mississippi Valley,
Kellogg, Louise P., as author, 97. Kentucky, description of, 118; ginnings of settlement of, 155; organ- ized as county, 155; Indian troubles, 156; development during Confedera- tion period, 186 f.; desire for state- hood, 197; admitted to Union, 242; Resolutions of 1798, 264 f. King, Rufus, member of Federal Con- vention, 205; on purchase of Lou- isiana, 286; Federalist candidate for
Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 25. Laurens, Henry, 161.
Lecky, W. E. H., as author, 140. Lee, General Charles, at Monmouth, 154.
Lee, Richard H., secures appointment
of committee of correspondence, 131; on the Association, 137; proposes in- dependence, 145; proposes confedera tion, 170.
Legal-tender. See Currency.
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