tion>Robert Mackenzie
America
A history
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066200657
Table of Contents
POSTSCRIPT. [11] PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
CHAPTER I. THE DAWN OF CANADIAN HISTORY.
CHAPTER II. SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN.
CHAPTER III. THE JESUITS IN CANADA.
CHAPTER IV. THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
CHAPTER V. THE AMERICAN CONTINENT GAINED BY THE BRITISH.
CHAPTER VI. COLONIZATION BY FRANCE AND BY ENGLAND.
CHAPTER VII. AFTER THE CONQUEST.
CHAPTER VIII. CANADA DURING THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
CHAPTER IX. CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT.
CHAPTER XII. THE CANADIAN REVOLUTION.
CHAPTER XIV. THE MARITIME PROVINCES.
CHAPTER XV. THE PROVINCES OF THE NORTH-WEST.
CHAPTER XVI. THE PROGRESS OF THE CANADIAN NATION.
CHAPTER I. DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST.
CHAPTER II. THE INDIANS OF SPANISH AMERICA.
CHAPTER III. SPANISH GOVERNMENT OF THE NEW WORLD.
CHAPTER VI. THE CHURCH OF ROME IN SPANISH AMERICA.
THE UNITED STATES.
Book First.
CHAPTER I.
DISCOVERY.
It was late in the history of the world before Europe and America became known to each other. During the first fifteen centuries of the Christian era Europe was unaware of the vast continent which lay beyond the sea. Asia had ceased to influence her. Africa had not begun. Her history was waiting for the mighty influence which America was to exercise in her affairs through all the future ages.
Men had been slow to establish completely their dominion over the sea. They learned very early to build ships. They availed themselves very early of the surprising power which the helm exerts over the movements of a ship. But, during many ages, they found no surer guidance upon the pathless sea than that which the position of the sun and the stars afforded. When clouds intervened to deprive them of this uncertain direction, they were helpless. They were thus obliged to keep the land in view, and content themselves with creeping timidly along the coast.
But at length there was discovered a stone which the wise Creator
