Chapter XVI: Part 16

=Superior=, iron "ranges" of Lake, 422.

=Sutter, Colonel=, 288.

=Sutter's Fort=, 287.

=Taft, William Howard=, 369-370;
portrait of, 369.

=Tanks=, 397.

=Tariff=, collecting in South Carolina, 297;
protective, 303-307;
Calhoun and, 307-308.

=Tariff Law, Compromise=, 297, 304, 308.

=Tarleton, Colonel=, sent to capture Morgan, 185-187;
defeated at battle of the Cowpens, 186-188;
stories of, 187-188;
sent to capture Marion, 191.

=Tea Tax=, 129, 162-163, 168-170, 231.

=Tecumseh=, 249.

=Telegraph=, invented by Morse, 264-268;
Marconi invents wireless, 268;
Edison and the, 381-383.

=Telephone=, invented by Bell and Gray, 268.

=Temperance=, _see_ Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

=Tennessee=, 215, 247, 248.

=Texas=, 279-283, 310.

=Thanksgiving=, the first American, 80.

=Thermopylae=, 462.

=Threshing machines=, 418.

=Ticonderoga=, 132.

=Tigris River=, 448.

=Tobacco=, chief crop of Virginia planters, 71.

=Tonti=, comes to America with La Salle, 107;
goes to hunt the _Griffin_, 109, 110;
at Starved Rock, 111, 113;
in command of Fort St. Louis, 112.

=Tories=, 169, 190.

=Tours=, battle of, 479.

=Trade routes=, old, 2;
Turks destroy, 3.

=Trading posts=, 56.

=Transportation=, development of, 373-374.

"=Traveler=," Lee's horse, 341.

=Travis, Colonel=, 279.

=Treaty of 1783= (Revolution), 140, 155.

=Treaty of Ghent= (War of 1812), 306.

=Treaty of 1846=, 244.

=Trenton=, 135.

=Trojans=, 452-453.

=Turkey=, 45.

=Tyler, President=, 314, 320.

=Typewriter=, 386-388.

=Ulysses=, 453.

"=Uncle Tom's Cabin=," 407.

"=Unknown Warrior=," burial of, 433.

=Union-Pacific Railway=, completed, 374.

=United States=, resources and industries of the, 316-323.

=United States Bank=, President Jackson and the, 252-253.

=Vail, Alfred=, 265.

=Valley Forge=, 137, 138.

=Van Buren, President=, 254.

=Vancouver, Fort=, 286.

=Van Rensselaer=, a patroon, 58.

=Vernon, Admiral=, 116.

=Vespucci, Amerigo=, 16.

=Vicksburg=, siege of, 334.

=Victoria, Queen=, 270.

=Vikings=, _see_ Northmen.

=Villa=, 430.

=Vincennes=, campaign against, 218-224.

=Vinland=, visited by Northmen, 1.

=Virgil=, 475.

=Virginia=, 60, 130, 163, 166;
named by Queen Elizabeth, 44;
colony planted in, 46;
Charles I gives Baltimore a part of, 69;
slavery introduced into, 71;
life in the colony of, 71;
industries, manners, and customs of, 71-72;
old days in, 126-129;
the change in, 141.

=Wabash=, Clark and his men in the "drowned lands" of the, 221-222.

=War of 1812=, heroes of, 244-254;
Perry in, 244-245;
Jackson in, 248-252;
Clay's part in the, 296;
treaty ending, 296;
Webster's part in, 302;
Calhoun's work in, 307.

=Warren, General Joseph=, 177.

=Washington, Augustine=, 115.

=Washington, George=, 114-145, 153, 166, 173, 180, 182, 184, 234;
birthday and birthplace of, 115;
mother of, 115;
a skilled woodsman, 118;
meets Lord Fairfax, 119;
as a surveyor, 119-120;
in the wilderness and at Greenway Court, 119-121;
as a soldier against the French, 121-123;
builds Fort Necessity, 123;
joins Braddock's army, 123;
visits Boston, 125;
meets Martha Custis, 126;
at Fort Duquesne, 126;
married, 126-127;
elected to House of Burgesses, 127;
at Mount Vernon, 128-129;
modesty of, 128, 131;
sent to Continental Congress, 130;
made commander in chief of American armies, 130, 155, 177;
takes command of army, 132;
appoints Schuyler to take command in New York, 132;
outwits Howe, 133;
retreats but fights, 134;
at Trenton, 135-136;
defeats British at Princeton, 137;
at battle of Brandywine, 137;
at Valley Forge, 137-138;
at Yorktown, 139-140;
portrait of, 139;
bids farewell to army and returns to Mount Vernon, 140-142;
elected first president, 143-145, 234;
loved by the people, 143;
character of administration of, 144;
reëlected president and refuses third term, 145;
death, 145.

=Washington, Lawrence=, 116, 117, 121.

=Washington, William=, 184, 185, 186, 187.

=Watauga, Fort=, 211, 212.

=Watt, James=, 258, 259.

=Webster, Daniel=, 300-306;
early life of, 300;
best student at Dartmouth, 301;
studies law, 301;
marries, 302;
in Congress, 302;
opposes nullification, 303, 304;
portrait of, 304;
Secretary of State, 304, 306;
supports the Compromise of 1850, 305;
dies at Marshfield, 306.

=Wesley, John and Charles=, 103.

=West, Benjamin=, 258.

=West, The New=, 372-376.

=West Indies=, Columbus discovers and explores, 13, 15;
devastated by Drake, 41;
Paul Jones' expedition to, 196.

=Wheat=, 375, 417-419.

=Whig party, The=, 297, 298, 304, 319, 322.

=White, John=, 45, 46.

=Whitehaven=, Paul Jones' exploit at, 196.

=White Plains=, 134.

=Whitman, Marcus=, missionary, 243, 244.

=Whitney, Eli=, 226-229;
in his father's tool shop, 226;
goes to Savannah, 227;
invited to Mulberry Grove, 227;
becomes interested in cotton, 228;
invents cotton gin, 228;
effect of cotton gin invented by, 416.

"=Wilderness=," fighting in the, 336, 337.

="Wilderness Road," The=, 205-206.

=Willard, Frances E.=, 408-409;
early life of, 408;
and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 409;
death, 409;
portrait of, 409.

=William and Mary=, 90.

=William the Conqueror=, 488-489, 490.

=Williamsburg=, 159, 163, 230.

="Willing," The=, 220, 223.

=Wilson, Woodrow=, 428-431;
early life, 429;
practises law, 429;
as a teacher, 429;
president of Princeton, 429;
governor of New Jersey, 429-430;
portrait of, 430;
and Mexico, 430;
dismisses German ambassador, 431;
makes loans to Allies, 431;
at Paris, 442;
tours the United States, 443.

=Winslow, Edward=, 73.

=Winthrop, John=, 81-83, 147.

=Wireless telegraphy=, 268.

=Wolfe, General=, 114, 126.

=Woman's Christian Temperance Union=, 409.

=Woman's club=, 405-406.

=Woman's rights=, 401-404, 414;
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, 402;
Susan B. Anthony and, 403-404;
Julia Ward Howe and, 406.

=Woman's Rights Convention=, first, 402.

=Woman suffrage=, 402, 403-404, 414.

=Women of our nation=, 400-416.

=Wood, Colonel Leonard=, 356.

=World's Columbian Exposition=, 16.

=World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union=, 409.

=World War=, 371, 424-443;
support of by the American people, 424-426;
attitude of United States in early years of, 426-429, 430-431;
nations involved in, 426,
naval events of, 427;
United States enters, 431-432;
size of, 433-434;
character of, 434-435;
Russia withdraws from, 437;
crisis of, 437-439;
American battles in, 439-441;
Allied victories in, 441;
close of, 442-443.

=Wright, Orville=, 390-394.

=Wright, Wilbur=, 390-394.

=Wyeth, Nathaniel=, 243.

=Xerxes=, 462.

=Yadkin River=, Greene crosses, 188;
Boone on the, 203;
Boone returns to home on the, 205.

=York, Duke of=, 89.

=Yorktown=, victory at, 139-140, 189.

=Zama=, battle of, 469.

=Zeppelins=, 391.

_Copyright, 1909, by Rand, McNally & Company._]

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