NOTE.--The attention of teachers and pupils is especially directed to the practical usefulness of the subject of "Reference Books and Supplementary Reading for Successive Periods in American History," as treated on pages 424-435 in the Appendix. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. AMERICA IN THE OLD DAYS 1 II. COLUMBUS AND THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA 10 III. SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH 31 IV. THE STORY OF THE PILGRIMS 47 V. MORE ABOUT THE PILGRIMS 60 VI. THE INDIANS AND HOW THEY LIVED 73 VII. THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK; THE QUAKERS IN PENNSYLVANIA 88 VIII. THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS 106 IX. EVERYDAY LIFE IN COLONIAL TIMES 126 X. THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION 139 XI. LEXINGTON AND CONCORD 158 XII. THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL 170 XIII. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 184 XIV. THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGN 198 XV. WASHINGTON AND THE REVOLUTION 222 XVI. THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH 250 XVII. THE STORY OF ARNOLD'S TREASON 271 XVIII. JOHN PAUL JONES: OUR FIRST GREAT NAVAL HERO 286 XIX. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: HIS HIGHLY USEFUL CAREER 296 XX. EVERYDAY LIFE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO 311 XXI. WHAT OUR NAVY DID IN THE WAR OF 1812 323 XXII. THE SETTLEMENT OF THE PACIFIC COAST 339 XXIII. LINCOLN AND THE WAR FOR THE UNION 353 XXIV. MORE ABOUT THE WAR FOR THE UNION 369 XXV. OUR NAVY IN THE WAR FOR THE UNION 387 XXVI. THE WAR WITH SPAIN IN 1898 406 APPENDIX. Books for Reference and Collateral Reading in the Study of American History 424 INDEX 436 THE STORY OF AMERICAN HISTORY CHAPTER I. AMERICA IN THE OLD DAYS. =1. The Story of our Country.=--We are sure that every intelligent and patriotic American youth must like to read the story of our country's life. To a boy or girl of good sense no work of fiction can surpass it in interest or power.