Great Events in the History of North and South AmericaGoodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
History
Great Events in the History of North and South America
Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)
North America -- History; South America -- History; United States -- History
II. VENEZUELA.
Name, Physical Features, &c.; Discovery; State of the Country
under the Spanish Dominion; Termination of the Spanish
Dominion; Condition since, 837
III. EQUATOR.
Name, Extent, and Physical Character; Classes of the Inhabitants;
Subversion of the Spanish Authority; Condition since the
Spanish Rule, 841
IV. PERU.
Locality, Extent, and Physical Character; Condition at the time of
its Invasion by the Spaniards; Conquest by Pizarro; Condition
of the Country after the Conquest; Insurrection; Revolutionary
Movement; Declaration of Independence; Condition after the
Expulsion of the Spaniards, 845
V. BOLIVIA.
Name, Extent, and Physical Character; Overthrow of the Spanish
Power; Proclamation of Independence; Choice of Rulers under
the New Constitution; Present Condition, 855
VI. CHILI.
Extent, Physical Features, and Climate; Conquest by Almagro;
Revolution in the beginning of the Present Century; Final
Establishment of Independence; Subsequent Condition, 858
VII. BUENOS AYRES.
Name, &c.; Inhabitants, or Classes of People; Discovery and
Settlement; First Insurrection against the Government of
Spain; Progress and Changes of the New Government; Present
Condition of the Government, 863
VIII. URUGUAY.
Locality and Extent; Name and History; Constitution, 868
IX. BRAZIL.
Situation, Extent, &c.; Discovery and Settlement; Policy of the
Portuguese Government; Removal of the Portuguese Court to
Brazil; Constitution and Government, 870
X. PARAGUAY.
Situation, Extent, &c.; Insurrection and attempt at Revolution in
the latter part of the Eighteenth Century; Establishment of
Independence, and Despotic Government, 875
WEST INDIES.
Situation, Extent, &c.; Inhabitants; Political Divisions, 879
I. BRITISH WEST INDIES.
Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbadoes, Bahamas, St. Christopher, Bermudas,
and St. Vincent, 881
II. SPANISH WEST INDIES.
Cuba and Porto Rico, 885
III. FRENCH WEST INDIES.
Martinique and Guadaloupe, 887
IV. DUTCH WEST INDIES.
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