A beginner's historyMace, William H. (William Harrison)
History
A beginner's history
Mace, William H. (William Harrison)
United States -- History
=Hudson Bay Company=, 286.
=Hudson River=, 54-55.
=Hull House=, 413.
=Huns=, 476-477.
=Hydroplane=, 394.
=Iceland=, discovered by Northmen, 1.
=Illinois Indians=, 111.
=Illinois River=, 109, 110, 111.
=Inca=, captured by Pizarro, 23.
=Independence, Declaration of=, _see_ Declaration of Independence.
=India=, search for new route to, 2-16, 34-37;
Magellan first to reach, 31.
=Indian corn=, taken to England, 45;
best crop of the Pilgrims, 79.
=Indians=, first seen by white men, 12;
named by Columbus, 12;
Cortés and the Mexican, 18-21;
great city of the, 18-21;
cruelly treated by De Soto, 25;
welcomed Raleigh's sailors, 44;
Lane cruel to, 45;
hostile to English settlers, 45;
Champlain and the, 49-53;
Marquette loved by the, 53;
carried Champlain's remains to Mackinac, 53;
friendly to Hudson but repaid with cruelty, 55;
and the Dutch, 56-58, 59;
and the Jamestown Colony, 61-66;
friendly to Lord Baltimore, 69;
Pilgrims and, 76, 78-81, 84-85;
John Eliot and the, 83-84;
Penn's treaty with the, 98;
Oglethorpe made treaty with the, 103;
La Salle and the, 107, 110-112;
French trappers and, 113-114;
in French and Indian War, 114, 121-126;
war dance of the, 119;
Boone and the, 204-209;
fought with British in Revolutionary War, 207-209;
Sevier and the, 211-215;
Clark and the, 216, 217;
friendly to Lewis and Clark, 239-243;
missionaries among the, 243-244, 301;
Jackson and the, 247-249;
War of the Seminole, 252;
Houston and the, 277-278;
placed on reservations by U. S. government, 375;
_see also_ names of Indians.
=Indigo=, 104.
=Iron=, 422-423.
=Iroquois Indians=, 50, 52, 56, 107, 111, 112, 114.
=Irrigation=, 375, 446-447.
=Isabella, Queen of Spain=, 6, 8, 15.
=Italians=, 102.
=Jackson, Andrew=, 245-254, 282, 308;
early life of, 246-247;
taken prisoner by the English, 246;
lawyer before twenty, 247;
emigrates to Tennessee, 247;
made U. S. senator, 248;
in War of 1812, 248-252;
wins the name "Old Hickory," 249;
fights Indians, 249;
at battle of New Orleans, 250-252;
portrait of, 252;
twice elected president, 252;
and the United States Bank, 252-253;
and nullification, 254, 308;
death, 254.
=Jackson, General "Stonewall,"= 338.
=James I=, puts Raleigh to death, 47;
gives London Company a charter, 60;
makes Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, 69.
=Jamestown=, settled, 61;
life in the colony of, 60-66, 71-72.
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