=Standish, Miles=, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80; portrait of, 78. =Stanton, Elizabeth Cady=, 401-404; early life of, 401-402; portrait of, 401; calls woman's rights convention, 402; works with Miss Anthony for suffrage, 403; death, 404. =Stanton, Henry B.=, 402, 403. =Starved Rock=, 110, 111. =Steamboat=, invented by Fulton, 257-260; used on all rivers, 260-261. =Steel=, manufacture of, 423. =Stephenson, George=, 263. =Steuben, General=, 138. =Stewart=, Boone's companion, 204. =Stowe, Calvin E.=, 407. =Stowe, Harriet Beecher=, 406-407; early life of, 406-407; in behalf of freedom for slaves, 407; writes _Uncle Tom's Cabin_, 407; portrait of, 407; death, 407. =Strait of Magellan=, _see_ Magellan. "=Stump speaking=," 319. =Stuyvesant, Peter=, 87-91; in West Indies, 87; portrait of, 88; governor of New Amsterdam, 88-90; makes strict laws, 88; disputes with people, 89; surrenders to English, 90-91. =Submarine=, 395-397. =Suffrage, Woman=, 402, 403-404, 414. =Sumter, Fort=, 323. =Sumter, Thomas=, 184. =Superior=, iron "ranges" of Lake, 422. =Sutter, Colonel=, 288. =Sutter's Fort=, 287. =Taft, William Howard=, 369-370; portrait of, 369. =Tanks=, 397. =Tariff=, collecting in South Carolina, 297; protective, 303-307; Calhoun and, 307-308. =Tariff Law, Compromise=, 297, 304, 308. =Tarleton, Colonel=, sent to capture Morgan, 185-187; defeated at battle of the Cowpens, 186-188; stories of, 187-188; sent to capture Marion, 191. =Tea Tax=, 129, 162-163, 168-170, 231. =Tecumseh=, 249. =Telegraph=, invented by Morse, 264-268; Marconi invents wireless, 268; Edison and the, 381-383. =Telephone=, invented by Bell and Gray, 268. =Temperance=, _see_ Woman's Christian Temperance Union. =Tennessee=, 215, 247, 248. =Texas=, 279-283, 310. =Thanksgiving=, the first American, 80. =Thermopylae=, 462. =Threshing machines=, 418. =Ticonderoga=, 132. =Tigris River=, 448. =Tobacco=, chief crop of Virginia planters, 71. =Tonti=, comes to America with La Salle, 107; goes to hunt the _Griffin_, 109, 110; at Starved Rock, 111, 113; in command of Fort St. Louis, 112. =Tories=, 169, 190. =Tours=, battle of, 479. =Trade routes=, old, 2; Turks destroy, 3. =Trading posts=, 56. =Transportation=, development of, 373-374. "=Traveler=," Lee's horse, 341. =Travis, Colonel=, 279. =Treaty of 1783= (Revolution), 140, 155. =Treaty of Ghent= (War of 1812), 306. =Treaty of 1846=, 244. =Trenton=, 135. =Trojans=, 452-453. =Turkey=, 45. =Tyler, President=, 314, 320. =Typewriter=, 386-388. =Ulysses=, 453. "=Uncle Tom's Cabin=," 407. "=Unknown Warrior=," burial of, 433. =Union-Pacific Railway=, completed, 374. =United States=, resources and industries of the, 316-323.