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But he was never able to march against Detroit, as once he had planned to do.

Virginia rewarded the brave men who had followed Clark by giving to each three hundred acres of land in southern Indiana. The land was surveyed and is known

to-day as "Clark's Grant."

Clark and his men had performed one of the greatest deeds of the Revolutionary War. They made it possible for the United States to have the Mississippi River for her western boundary when England acknowledged our independence.

George Rogers Clark was never properly rewarded. He spent his last days in poverty at the falls of the Ohio, on Corn Island, and died in 1818. In 1895 a monument was erected in honor of his memory in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana.

SUGGESTIONS INTENDED TO HELP THE PUPIL

The Leading Facts. I. Boone loved the woods, crossed the mountains into east Tennessee, and later went to Kentucky. 2. He wintered alone in Kentucky; his brother returned home for supplies. 3. Boone built the "Wilderness Road," and also built Fort Boonesboro. 4. Boone took part in the War of the Revolution, was captured by the Indians, carried to Detroit, but escaped. 5. Years after his death his remains were taken to Frankfort, Kentucky.

6. John Sevier studied at Fredericksburg; fought Indians in the Shenandoah. 7. He went over to the settlement on the Watauga; helped defend it against the Indians. 8. Sevier helped win the great victory at Kings Mountain. 9. He was many times governor of Tennessee.

10. George Rogers Clark loved the woods; was a surveyor and an Indian fighter at twenty-one. II. Moved to Kentucky, saw men and women scalped, and resolved to capture the British posts north of the Ohio. 12. Clark received permission from Patrick Henry, collected his little army, and

floated down the Ohio to the falls. 13. He drilled his men; set out for Kaskaskia, which he captured. 14. Clark marched for Vincennes through the drowned lands; attacked and captured Vincennes. 15. Clark was not rewarded by the government, but the state of Indiana has erected a great monument to his memory.

Study Questions. 1. What did Boone do that was pioneerlike? 2. What was the country doing in 1760? 3. Why did Boone wish to leave North Carolina? 4. What were the early names of Kentucky, and what did these names mean? 5. Tell the story of Boone's first visit to Kentucky. 6. Picture the capture and escape of Boone and Stewart. 7. Find the places on the map which are named on Boone's Wilderness Road. 8. Picture the scene in Boonesboro the night of the capture of the girls and also their rescue and return home. 9. Go with Boone to Blue Licks and help make salt. 10. Be captured, and tell of the long journey to Detroit, what you saw there, and how and why Boone made his escape. II. Tell the story of the last attack on Boonesboro. did Boone move to Missouri?

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13. What famous men went to school at Fredericksburg? 14. What famous men have lived a part of their time in the Shenandoah? 15. What changed Sevier's career? 16. Tell what happened to Sevier at the siege of Fort Watauga. 17. Why did Sevier leave Watauga, and what sort of life did he lead on the Nolichucky? 18. Tell of the gathering of the clans, and picture the battle of Kings Mountain. 19. Why did the people of Tennessee love Sevier? 20. Why was the boy disappointed?

21. What were Clark's surroundings in boyhood? 22. When was he a scout? a leader in Kentucky? 23. What made Clark learn to hate the British? 24. Tell the story of his secret. 25. Picture the voyage to the falls of the Ohio. 26. What did Clark do here? 27. Tell the story of events from the falls of the Ohio till he reached Kaskaskia. 28. Picture the scene of the dance at Kaskaskia. 29. What news did Clark give Father Gibault? 30. Where were the British, and what did they do? 31. Picture Clark's march to Vincennes. 32. Be one of the soldiers of Clark and tell what was seen, heard, and done the night of the attack on Vincennes and the next day. 33. Where was Clark's Grant? 34. Why do we call Clark's conquest of Kaskaskia and Vincennes one of

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the greatest events in American history? 35. Where is a monument erected to his memory? 36. Find on the map the places mentioned in the campaign.

Suggested Readings. DANIEL BOONE: Wright, Children's Stories of American Progress, 1-40; Glascock, Stories of Columbia, 138-147; Hart, Camps and Firesides of the Revolution, 101-116; McMurry, Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley, 68–83.

JOHN SEVIER: Blaisdell and Ball, Hero Stories from American History, 90-104; McMurry, Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley, 104-123; Phelan, History of Tennessee, 57-66, 241-257.

GEORGE ROGERS CLARK: McMurry, Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley, 124-149; Blaisdell and Ball, Hero Stories from American History, 1-17; Eggleston, Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet, 41-51; Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, II, 31-85.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW REPUBLIC

ELI WHITNEY, WHO INVENTED THE COTTON GIN AND
CHANGED THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH

113. What a Boy's Love of Tools Led to. Before the Revolution there lived in a Massachusetts village a boy named Eli Whitney. His father had a farm, on which there was also a tool shop. This was the most wonderful place in the world to young Eli. Whenever he had a moment to spare, he was sure to be working away with his father's lathe or cabinet tools. At the age of twelve he made a good violin. After that people with broken violins came to him to have them mended.

One day, when his father had gone to church, Eli got Mr. Whitney's fine watch and took it all apart. He then showed his wonderful mechanical ability by putting it together again, and it ran as smoothly as before. During the war he made quite a bit of money as a nailsmith. At college he helped pay his expenses by mending things and doing a carpenter's work.

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If Eli Whitney were living to-day he would surely have been an engineer. But there were no engineers in to those days, so he decided to teach. He found a position Georgia in far-off Georgia, and took passage on a ship to Savan- to teach nah. On board ship he found the widow of the old war hero, General Nathanael Greene, whom he had met a short time before. She liked the young man for his friendly nature and his intelligence. He had a very pleasant voyage. But sad was his disappointment when he arrived at Savannah! The people who had asked him to come had engaged another tutor, and he was left without a position.

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He was in a strange place, without money, and did not know what to do. Just then came an invitation to visit to at Mulberry Grove, where Mrs. Greene lived. He went Mulberry gladly and was treated very kindly. He made many new friends. The men liked the interest he took in their farms and their work. The children were his friends because he made for them wonderful toys of all sorts.

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One day some visitors were talking with Mrs. Greene Cotton about cotton. This plant was little grown at that time. fiber People knew that it had a fine soft fiber which could be separated made into excellent cloth. But the fiber had to be separated from the seed before it could be spun. In those by days the seeds were taken out by hand, and even a skill- hand ful slave could clean only about a pound a day. working a whole day for a handful of cotton! of this difficulty, cotton was very expensive, more so even than wool or linen. Only well-to-do people could wear cotton clothes.

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The Cotton Gin Invented. One of the visitors said that a machine ought to be invented which would

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clean the cotton. Mrs. Greene thought of Whitney. She had seen him make many wonderful things. She believed

he could make such a machine, and asked him to try. He thought about it, and believed he could make iron fingers do the work that the fingers of the slaves had done. Whitney got a Then he went

basketful of cotton and fixed up a shop.

to work. He had a good deal of trouble, but he kept on. One day he called in Mrs. Greene and her overseer and proudly showed them his little machine, made of rollers and wires and brushes. Into this he poured the cotton just as it came from the field. When he turned a crank the soft, clean cotton came tumbling out of one side and the seeds out of another. This was the cotton gin, which in a few years was to change the entire life of the South.

A few years before Whitney made the cotton gin a vessel came to Liverpool with cotton from the United States. The people in Liverpool were astonished. They did not know that cotton grew in America! As soon as Whitney began to sell his new machines, all the South became a great cotton field. In 1825, the year of Whitney's death, the South shipped abroad thirty-seven million dollars' worth of cotton, more than that of all other goods exported from this country!

Before this time many planters had thought that