The Beginner's American History

by David H. Montgomery

The National Capitol

The Beginner's
American History

By
D. H. Montgomery

Author of the Leading Facts of History Series

Boston, U.S.A.

Ginn & Company, Publishers

The Athenæum Press

1904

Prefatory note

This little book is intended by the writer as an introduction to his larger work entitled The Leading Facts of American History.

It is in no sense an abridgement of the larger history, but is practically an entirely new and distinct work.

Its object is to present clearly and accurately those facts and principles in the lives of some of the chief founders and builders of America which would be of interest and value to pupils beginning the study of our history. Throughout the book great care has been taken to relate only such incidents and anecdotes as are believed to rest on unexceptionable authority.

The words quoted literally in this book are enclosed in double quotation marks; those quoted in substance only are enclosed in single marks; while those attributed by the writer to different speakers have no marks.

In this edition the paging has been changed, but the numbering of the paragraphs remains the same.

David H. Montgomery.

Contents

See also the expanded table of contents.

• List of illustrations
• Chapters:
  1. Christopher Columbus
  2. John Cabot
  3. Ponce de Leon, Balboa, and De Soto
  4. Sir Walter Raleigh
  5. Captain John Smith
  6. Captain Henry Hudson
  7. Captain Myles Standish
  8. Lord Baltimore
  9. Roger Williams
  10. King Philip
  11. William Penn
  12. General James Oglethorpe
  13. Benjamin Franklin
  14. George Washington
  15. Daniel Boone
  16. General James Robertson and Governor John Sevier
  17. General George Rogers Clark
  18. General Rufus Putnam
  19. Eli Whitney
  20. Thomas Jefferson
  21. Robert Fulton
  22. General William Henry Harrison
  23. General Andrew Jackson
  24. Professor Morse
  25. General Sam Houston
  26. Captain Robert Gray
  27. Captain Sutter
  28. Abraham Lincoln
  29. Since the Civil War
• Appendix: A short list of books of reference

List of illustrations

See also the complete list of illustrations (in Wikimedia Commons) to view all the images at once.

List of large maps

• Map of the World showing all the Possessions of the United States, including Islands

NOTE.—In these maps it has been thought best to give the boundaries of the thirteen original states as they now exist; and to show the outlines of other states before they were organized and admitted.

List of full-page illustrations

• Frontispiece—The National Capitol
• Liberty enlightening the World
• Indian Attack on a Settlement
• “Yankee Doodle,” or The Spirit of '76
• Paul Revere's Ride
• Battle of New Orleans