_Virginia_,--Founding of Jamestown--Captain John Smith--Introduction of African Slavery--Indian Wars--Bacon's Rebellion--Forms of Government--Prosperity--Education--_New England_,--Plymouth--Massachusetts Bay Colony--Union of the Colonies--Religious Persecution--King Philip's War--The Witchcraft Delusion--_New Hampshire_,--_The Connecticut Colony_,--_The New Haven Colony_,--Union of the Colonies--Indian Wars--The Charter Oak--_Rhode Island_,--Different Forms of Government--_New York_,--The Dutch and English Settlers--_New Jersey_,--_Delaware_,--_Pennsylvania_,--_Maryland_,--Mason and Dixon's Line--_The Carolinas_,--_Georgia_ 47 CHAPTER III. THE INTERCOLONIAL WARS AND THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. King William's War--Queen Anne's War--King George's War--The French and Indian War--England and France Rivals in the Old World and the New--The Early French Settlements--The Disputed Territory--France's Fatal Weakness--Washington's Journey Through the Wilderness--The First Fight of the War--The War Wholly American for Two Years--The Braddock Massacre--The Great Change Wrought by William Pitt--Fall of Quebec--Momentous Consequences of the Great English Victory--The Growth and Progress of the Colonies and their Home Life 75 CHAPTER IV. THE REVOLUTION--THE WAR IN NEW ENGLAND. Causes of the Revolution--The Stamp Act--The Boston Tea Party--England's Unbearable Measures--The First Continental Congress--The Boston Massacre--Lexington and Concord--The Second Continental Congress--Battle of Bunker Hill--Assumption of Command by Washington--British Evacuation of Boston--Disastrous Invasion of Canada 89 CHAPTER V. THE REVOLUTION (CONTINUED). THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE STATES AND ON THE SEA. Declaration of Independence--The American Flag--Battle of Long Island--Washington's Retreat Through the Jerseys--Trenton and Princeton--In Winter Quarters--Lafayette--Brandywine and Germantown--At Valley Forge--Burgoyne's Campaign--Port Schuyler and Bennington--Bemis Heights and Stillwater--The Conway Cabal--Aid from France--Battle of Monmouth--Molly Pitcher--Failure of French Aid--Massacre at Wyoming--Continental Money--Stony Point--Treason of Arnold--Paul Jones' Great Victory 103 CHAPTER VI. THE REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH (CONCLUDED). Capture of Savannah--British Conquest of Georgia--Fall of Charleston--Bitter Warfare in South Carolina--Battle of Camden--Of King's Mountain--Of the Cowpens--Battle of Guilford Court-House--Movements of Cornwallis--The Final Campaign--Peace and Independence 131 CHAPTER VII. ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES.