=Nebraska=, admission of 325. =Necessity=, Fort, built and defended, 138. =Negro= Plot, the, 104. =Nevada=, admission of, 320. =New= Amsterdam, founded, 54. =New= England, named, 49; colonization of, 51, 52, 76-93, 106-114. =New= France, 36-40. =New= Hampshire, the province of, 86, 113; history of, 113. =New= Haven, founded, 108. =New= Jersey, named, 115; history of, 115-118; division of, 116. =New= Netherlands named, 55; history of, 94-99. =New= Orleans, battle of, 241; capture of, 295; exposition in, 350; massacre in, 367. =Newport=, Christopher, commands fleet, 48; brings immigrants, 61. =New= Sweden, colonization of, 95-99. =New= York, colonization of, 94-99; named, 99; under English, 100-105. =New= York City, settlement of, 94; under Dutch, 94-99; under English, 100-105; occupied by Washington, 164; operations about, 166; taken by British, 167; evacuation of, 198; world's fair in, 274; riots in, 309. =Nez= Percé Indians, war with the, 338. =Niagara=, captured by English, 144. =Norsemen=, early discoveries by the, 21; voyages of the, 20-23; remains in America of the, 23. =North= Carolina, history of, 125-127; ratifies constitution, 206. =North= Dakota, admission of, 360. =Northeastern= boundary, establishment of, 258. =Northwest= Passage, the, 43. =Nullification=, account of, 250-251. O =Oglethorpe=, James, founding of Georgia by, 130-134. =Ohio=, admission of, 214. =Ohio= Company, organization of, 136. =Omnibus= Bill, the, 270. =Oregon=, admission of, 276. P =Pacific=, discovery of the, 27. =Pacific= Railroad, route of surveyed, 278; completion of, 328. =Pakenham=, Sir Edward, commands British at New Orleans, 239-241. =Palo= Alto, battle of, 262. =Panic= of 1836-37, the financial, 253, 255; of 1873, 332. =Paper= Money, origin of in America, 89. =Patroons=, account of the, 95. =Paris=, the treaty of, 146. =Parris=, Samuel, joins in witchcraft persecutions, 89. =Penn=, William, purchases East Jersey, 117; proprietor of Pennsylvania 118; sketch of, 119; treaty of with Indians, 119; founds Philadelphia, 120; death of, 120. =Pennsylvania=, history of, 118-120. =Pension= legislation, 354. =Pequods=, war with the, 107. =Perry=, Oliver H., victory of on Lake Erie, 229. =Petersburg=, siege of, 316; capture of, 319. =Philadelphia=, founded, 120; taken by British, 176; evacuated by British, 180. =Philadelphia=, the, captured and retaken, 216. =Philip=, King, war with, 84. =Phipps=, Sir William, commands English troops, 88. =Pickett=, George G., charge at Gettysburg, 308. =Pierce=, Franklin, elected President, 272; administration of, 273-274. =Pilgrims=, so named, 50; promise to the, 50; landing, 51; sufferings, 51. =Pirates=, the Algerine, 210.