Chapter VI: Part 6

Custis, Martha, 294

Cuyahoga River, 137, 138, 140, 141, 145

Declaration of Independence, 8, 85

Delaware River, 67, 68, 69

de Portolá, Don Gaspar, 227

Des Plaines River, 53

Detroit, 139, 189-206
leading port on Canadian shore, 189, 199
founded, 191
early history, 191
growth, 192
trade center, 194
harbor, 195
shipbuilding industry, 195
becomes industrial city, 196
center of automobile trade, 196
industries, 197
immense wholesale trade, 198
railroad center, 200

Detroit River, 191, 200, 205

District of Columbia, 267, 288, 289

Doan, Nathaniel, 139

Dutch West India Company, 5

East River, 27, 36

East St. Louis, 98

Erie Canal, 9, 193, 209, 210, 212

Exports, value of, 301

Fall River, 121

Farragut, David, 248

Fillmore, Millard, 224

Fish industry, 121, 239

Fitch, John, 72

Fort Dearborn, 44

Fort McHenry, 169

Fort Myer, 294

Fort Pitt, 171

Foreign-born population, 300

Franklin, Benjamin, 73, 84

French and Indian War, 171, 191, 245

Fulton, Robert, 72

Girard, Stephen, 79

Gold, 227

Golden Gate, 231, 241

Grain industry, 55, 102

Granite City, 98

Gunpowder River, 163

Hale, Edward Everett, 130

_Half Moon_, 3

Hancock, John, 124

Homestead, 173

Hudson, Henry, 4

Hudson River, 4, 30, 35, 36, 207, 209, 210

Hull, General William, 192

Illinois and Michigan Canal, 47

Illinois River, 47, 53, 93

Imports, value of, 302

Increase in population of our great cities, 299

Iron industry, 171, 172, 214, 233

Jackson, Andrew, 246

Jefferson, Thomas, 89

Key, Francis Scott, 169

Kingsbury, James, 138

Kinzie, John, 43

Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, 215

Largest cities in the world, 299

Lawrence, 121

Lee, Robert E., 294

Lewis and Clark expedition, 90

Louisiana Purchase, 89, 245

Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 96

Lowell, 121

Lumber, 57, 100, 217, 257

Lynn, 119

Madison, 98

Manhattan, 4, 11

McCall Ferry dam, 163

McKeesport, 173

McKinley, William, 224

Mexican War, 227

Mints, 81, 82, 237

Minuit, Peter, 5

Mississippi River, 47, 89, 91, 96, 97, 171, 245, 248, 249

Missouri River, 90, 93

Mohawk River, 207, 209

Monongahela River, 171, 172, 182

Morris, Robert, 75

Mt. Vernon, 267, 294

Natural gas, 151, 181, 185, 213

New Amsterdam, 6, 14

New Bedford, 121

New Orleans, 171, 245-264
early history, 245
in the War of 1812, 246
in the Civil War, 247
building the city, 249
the French quarter, 251, 252
the American quarter, 251, 255
important lumber market, 257
important cotton market, 258, 261
Gulf port, 261
second export port in America, 261
exports, 261
important sugar market, 257, 261
Mardi Gras, 263

New York, 3-40
settlement of, 4
surrendered to English, 7
named, 8
capital city, 9
harbor, 9, 36
becomes Greater New York, 11
boroughs, 11
nation's chief market place, 32
imports, 32
exports, 32
nation's greatest workshop, 32
industries, 32

Niagara Falls, 213, 224

Niagara River, 190, 191, 209, 212, 219, 224

Oakland, 240

Ohio Canal, 140

Ohio River, 93, 137, 139, 140, 171, 172

Ore, 56, 142, 214

Packing industry, 59, 61, 101, 217, 233

Panama Canal, 233, 242

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 242

Pan-American Exposition, 224

Patapsco River, 168

Penn, William, 67, 74, 75, 76

Perry, Oliver Hazard, 192

Petroleum, 180, 213, 257

Philadelphia, 67-88, 167
settlement of, 67
manufacturing city, 69
commercial center, 70
industries, 70
United States mint, 81
Continental Congress, 84, 85
Declaration of Independence signed at, 85
capital of the nation, 87

Pitt, William, 171

Pittsburgh, 148, 171-188
workshop of the world, 171
named, 171
trade center, 172
manufacturing city, 172
center of steel industry, 173
industries, 173
Pittsburgh district, 173
mines, 175, 177
petroleum, 180
natural gas, 181

Pontiac's conspiracy, 192

Population of our great cities, 299

Potomac River, 267, 272, 292

Pullman, 62

Puritans, 105

Quakers, 67

Railroads, 9, 49, 58, 70, 93, 110, 142, 150, 200, 211, 213, 238
Pennsylvania, 30, 150
New York Central, 32, 110, 150
Michigan Southern, 49
Michigan Central, 49, 200
Missouri Pacific, 93
Boston & Albany, 110
Boston & Maine, 110
New York, New Haven & Hartford, 110
Nickel Plate, 150
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, 150
Erie Railroad, 150
Baltimore & Ohio, 150
Wheeling & Lake Erie, 150
Southern Pacific, 238
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé, 239
Union Pacific, 239
Western Pacific, 239

Revere, Paul, 124

Revolution, War of the, 8, 75, 111, 112, 119, 122, 192, 207, 266

Richmond, 240

Rogers, Major Robert, 191, 193

Roosevelt, Theodore, 224

Ross, Betsy, 86

Sacramento River, 230

St. Gaudens, 113, 127

St. Lawrence River, 190

St. Louis, 89-104
frontier village, 89
trade center, 93
railroad center, 94
favorable location, 98
industries, 100
distributing center, 102
fur, grain, and live-stock market, 102, 103

San Francisco, 227-244
early history, 227
growth of, 227, 228
"child of the mines," 228
San Francisco Bay, 230
trade center, 231
exports, 231
imports, 231
industries, 233
United States mint, 237
leading salmon port, 239

San Joaquin River, 230

Sargent, John S., 128

Sault Ste. Marie, 190

Saur, Christopher, 73

Schuylkill River, 68, 75

Scioto River, 140

Shaw, Colonel, 113

Shortest railway routes from Chicago, 301

Shortest railway routes from New York, 300

Silver, 228

Standard Oil Company, 143

Steel, 56, 71, 173, 180

Straits of Mackinac, 190

Stuyvesant, Peter, 6

Sugar, 32, 257, 261

Susquehanna River, 163

Thevis, Father, 255

Tonawanda, 219

Touro, Judah, 257

Trumbull, John, 275

Union Stockyards, 59

University City, 96

Venice, 98

War of 1812, 44, 192, 209, 246, 268

Washington, 202, 265-298
the capital city, 265
location, 265
story of, 266
District of Columbia, 267, 288, 289
plan of the city, 268
capitol, 272
House of Representatives, 277, 289
Supreme Court, 279
Senate, 279, 289
Library of Congress, 280
White House, 282
National Treasury, 284, 286
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 285
Washington Monument, 291
Post Office Department, 294
Arlington National Cemetery, 294

Washington, George, 8, 84, 87, 119, 171, 267, 282, 294

Westinghouse, George, 185

Westinghouse Electric Company, 185

Winne, Cornelius, 207, 208

Winthrop, John, 105

Woodward, Augustus B., 202

World's Columbian Exposition, 63

York, Duke of, 7

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Transcriber's Notes:

The original spelling and minor inconsistencies in the spelling and formatting have been maintained.

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Text in italics has been marked with underscores (_text_) and text in bold with equal signs (=text=).

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The table below lists all corrections applied to the original text.

frontpage: BOOKS I AND II -> BOOKS I AND II,
p. 160: here small craft -> crafts
p. 225: Important center for. -> Important center for
p. 227: Pacific coast, and Don Gasper -> Gaspar
p. 239: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe -> Fé
p. 248: forces land and take -> takes
p. 306: de Portolá, Don Gasper -> Gaspar