American History before 20th century revisionism. This book was originally published before the Wright brothers flew, World War I, Radio, Television, and the Great Depression.
New roads were made in many directions, bridges were built over rivers and brooks, and the National Pike or Cumberland Road made traveling easy between the Potomac and Ohio rivers. Stagecoaches now ran regularly between the principal cities, and steamboats began to appear on all the large lakes and rivers.
Along the roads and down the [...]
The slavery question created such very strong and bitter feeling that the next election saw the rise of what is still called the Republican party, which soon included all those in favor of free soil. The Democrats proving the stronger, however, James Buchanan, their candidate, became the fifteenth President of the United States.
As Buchanan was [...]
John C. Frémont is one of our national heroes and pioneers. Besides conquering California, he is noted for his explorations, which he had been carrying on more than five years. His guide and friend was the famous trapper, Kit Carson, whose name is now borne by a prosperous city in Nevada. Once when Frémont crossed [...]
Lived: 4/13/1743 - 7/4/1826
Served: 3/4/1801 - 3/3/1809
Party: Democratic-Republican
Zodiac Sign: Aries
The third President of our country was Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and of the Act of Religious Freedom in Virginia. A good and honest man, the “Sage of Monticello” always kept the resolution made at the age of twenty-six, when elected a [...]
The Southern Confederacy was now in a bad plight; for, while it had won most of the triumphs in the beginning of the war, it had lately lost heavily, and its resources were exhausted.
Besides, its seaports had fallen, one by one, into the hands of the Union, and now it had hardly any left. In [...]
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