A.

Abenaquis, the, 131.

Abolition movement, the rise of, 334
Acadia, 129; settlement of, 94; South-
ern, conquest of by the English,

209.

Acadians, banishment of by the Eng-
lish government, 209.

Adams, John, 251; sent as an envoy to
England, 290; elected President,
294; defeated for the Presidency,
296; death of, 317.

Adams, John Quincey, President, his
policy, 316.

Alabama, the cruiser, 374.
Albany, conference at, 206.
Albermarle, Duke of, a proprietor of

Carolina, 171; settlement of, ib.
Albert de Prado, his voyage, 32.
Alexander, the Indian chief, 115.
Algiers, war with, 300.
Alien Law, the, 296.

Allen, Ethan, takes Ticondoroga, 243;

his capture, 246.

Ameriea, geography of, 1; coast of, 5;
nations of, 8.
Amidas, his voyage, 36.

André, his seizure and death, 272.
Andros, Sir Edmund, governor of New
England, 122; governor of New
York, 163.

Annapolis captured from the French,
135.
Anniversary of Independence, the fif-
tieth, 317.

Antietam, battle of, 366.
Appalachians, war with South Caro-
lina, 174.

Archdale, John, governor of South
Carolina, 173.

Argall, governor of Virginia, 48.
Arkansas becomes a state, 325.
Arlington, Lord, grant of Virginia to,
56.

Bradstreet, Simon, sent as a commis-
sioner to England, 109.
Bragg, General, invades Kentucky,
365.
Brandywine, battle of, 260.
Brekenridge of Kentucky a candidate
for the Presidency, 338.
Brook, Lord, 76, 85.

Brooklyn, American defeat at, 257.
Brown, John, 336; John and Samuel
banished from Massachusetts, 79.
Buchanan, President, 336.
Buchanan, his policy towards the
South, 341, 343.

Bull Run, battle of, 351.
Bunker's Hill, battle of, 244.
Burgoyne, General, his expedition and
surrender, 263.

Burke, Edmund, 230; his scheme of
conciliation, 239.

Burnet, William, governor of Massa-
chusetts, 140; governor of New
York, 167.

Burnside, General, 366.

Burr, Aaron, 296; shoots Hamilton,
301; his plot, 302.
Butler, General, 358.

Chancellorsville, battle of, 368.
Charles I., his dealings with Virginia,

51.

Charles II., his grant of Virginia to
Lords Culpepper and Arlington, 56;
proclaimed in New England, 108.
Charleston, defence of against Parker,
256; harbour of, blocked up by the
Federals, 357; unsuccessfully at-
tacked by the Federals, 374-

Charters, attack on the New England,
138; those of the Jerseys threatened,
183.

Chatham, see Pitt.

Chattanooga, battle of, 372.

Cherokees, war with in South Caro-
lina, 214.

Chesapeake, the, and Leopard, affair
of, 303; and Shannon, 306.
Chickahominies, league with, 47.
Chickamanga, battle of, 371.

Church of England, its position in the
colonies, 218.

Churches, meeting of in New Eng.
land, 100.

Cincinnati, society of, 281.

Clarendon, Earl of, a proprietor of
Carolina, 171.

Clay, Henry, 321; his compromise
bill in 1832, 320; his omnibus bill,
333.
Clayborne, 148.

Clinton, General, his successes in the
South, 269.

Coddington, of Rhode Island, 89.
Colonization, motives for English in
the seventeenth century, 40.
Columbus, Christopher, his discoveries,

22.

Commonwealth, its dealings with Vir-
ginia, 52; its dealings with New
England, 96.

Confederation, the first articles of,
253; finally settled, 278; its short-
comings, 279; New England, forma-
tion of, 95; disputes in, 104.
Confederacy, Southern, formation of,
342.

Conscription, result of at New York,

373.

Constitution, the Federal, 286; put in
force, 288.

Congress at New York in 1692, 132.
Convention troops, treatment of, 264.
Connecticut, settlement of, 83; consti
tution of, 84; charter of, 111; its
union with Newhaven, 112; loses
its charter, 122.

D.

Dale, Sir Thomas, governor of Vir-
ginia, 46.
D'Aulney, 102.

Davis, Jefferson, elected President of
the Southern Confederacy, 342;
capture of, 385.

Dearborn, General, destroys Toronto,
305.

De Gourgues, Dominic, 29.

Delaware, Lord, governor of Virginia,

45; becomes a separate state, 188.
Democrats, or States right party, for-
mation of, 291.

D'Estaing, Admiral, 269.
Dickinson, James, of Pennsylvania,

245.

Dieskan, death of, 210.

Dinwiddie, governor of Virginia, 204.
Doegs, war with, 57.

Donelson, Fort, captured by the Fede-
rals, 355

Douglas of Illinois, defeated by Lin-
coln for the Presidency, 338.
Dred Scot case, the, 335.

Dudley, Joseph, 122; his disputes
with the assembly of Massachusetts,

127.

Dummer, Jeremiah, his defence of
the charter, 139.

Dunmore, Lord, governor of Virginia,

245.

Duquesne, Fort, surrendered by Wash-
ington, 206; taken by the English,

212.

Durpee, death of, 323.

Dutch, their settlements, 95; their
disputes with New England, 100.

E.

Early, General, invades Maryland,
380

Education, want of in Virginia, 55;
in America, 221.

Edwards, Jonathan, 223.

Effingham, Lord, governor of Virginia,
59.

Eliot, John, 114; his book, 108.
Emancipation proclaimed by President
Lincoln, 367.

Endicott, of Massachusetts, 78.
Erie, Lake, battle on, 306.

F.

Fair Oaks, battle of, 361.
Falmouth, Peace of, 137.
Farragut, Admiral, 358.

Federal party, formation of, 291; its
defeat in 1800, 295.
Federalist, the, 289.

Five Nations, the, 17, 102, 119; hos-
tile to the French, 131: their deal-
ings with New York, 163.
Fillmore, succeeds to the Presidency,
332.

Fletcher, Colonel, 126; governor of
New York, 166.

Florida explored by Spaniards, 28;
French colony in, 29; becomes
a State, 325.

Floyd, Secretary of War, 343.
France, Commissioners sent to by Con-
gress in 1776, 255; alliance with the
United States, 255.

Franklin, Benjamin, 207, 223; exam-
ined as to the Stamp Act, 230; sent
as commissioner to France, 255,
265.

Frederica, settlement of, 193.
Fredericksburg, battle of, 366.
Fremont, General, proposed as a can-
didate for the Presidency, 381.
French, their attempts to settle in Flo-
rida, 29; their settlements, 94; their

dealings with New England, 102;
settlements, character of, 130; in-
vaded the English colonies, 132.
Frobisher, Martin, his voyages, 33.
Frontenac, Count, 130, 132.
Fulton, Robert, 315.

G.

Gainsville, battle of, 364.

Gardiner, banished from Massachu-
setts, 81.

Garrison, William, the abolitionist.

335.

Gates, General, 263, 268.

Genet, French representative in Amer-
ica, 293.

Georgia, settlement of, 189; charter of,
191; invasions of by Spaniards, 198;
becomes a royal colony, 201; invaded
by Sherman, 376.

Germans in the Spanish colonies, 30;
in Georgia, 193.
Germantown, battle of, 261.
Gettysburg, battle of, 370.
Ghent, treaty of, 314.

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, his voyage
and death, 35.

Godfrey, the mathematician, 223.
Goffe, the regicide, 108.

Gold discovered in California, 332,
387.

Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, 60, 70; his
scheme of government for New
England, 82; becomes proprietor of
Maine, 90; Robert, 70.

Henry VIII., his influence on seaman-
ship, 33.

Henry Patrick, 228; elected governor
of Virginia, 251; his political views,
284; opposes the Federal constitu-
tion. 289.

Hillsborough, Lord, 226.
Hispaniola, discovery of, 23.
Hocking, death of, 93.

Hood, General, his unsuccessful in-
vasion of Tennessee, 378.
Hooker, General, 368.
Hore, his voyage, 32.

Houston, President of Texas, 328.
Howe, Lord, and his brothers in
America, 256.

Hubbard, his history of the Indian

J.

Jackson, Andrew, 307; defends Mo-
bile and New Orleans, 311; elected
President, 318; opposes nulification,
320; overthrows the Bank, ib:
General Stonewall,' 352; his cam-
paign in the Shenandoah valley,
361; his death, 368.

James I., dissolution of the Virginian
Company by, 50.

James II., his dealings with New
England, 122.

Jay, a writer in the Federalist, 289.
Jefferson, Thomas, 252; his character

as a statesman, 292; elected vice-
president, 294; elected president,
296; his policy as president, 298;
death of, 317.

Jesuit missionaries, 130.
Jessop, General, his treachery to the
Indians, 323.

Johnson, Andrew, succeeds Lincoln as
President, 385.

Johnston, General Joseph, 351; his
surrender, 384.

Jones, Captain Paul, 276.
Jumonville, death of, 2c6.

399

Massachusetts, 81.

Laudonnière, his colony, 29.
Laws, early Virginian, 46.

Lawson, death of, 174.

Lee, General, 362; invades Maryland
twice, 366, 369; his surrender, 383;
Ann, founder of the Shakers, 389.