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History of the United States in Words of One Syllable

Chapter 2: PREFATORY.
By Helen Wall Pierson
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This work retells the nation's past in simple, one-syllable language for young readers, moving from the first inhabitants to later growth. It describes the lives and lands of Native peoples and the voyages by European seamen who reached the shores, naming early explorers and the first contacts. It traces the founding of colonies, the rise of towns, laws, and trade that shaped settlements. It recounts the struggle for independence, battles and leaders of the Revolution, and the building of a new government. It then covers expansion, the slave trade and the conflict it provoked, the Civil War and its aftermath, and the return to peace and civic rebuilding.

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Title: History of the United States in Words of One Syllable

Author: Helen Wall Pierson

Release date: May 27, 2017 [eBook #54798]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Produced by Corbin Hunter

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE ***

PAUL REVERE.

HISTORY
OF THE
UNITED STATES
IN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE

BY

MRS. HELEN W. PIERSON

WITH FORTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS.

AN ARMORED LOOK-OUT

NEW YORK

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS

9 Lafayette Place

Copyright, 1883.

By Joseph L. Blamire.

PREFATORY.

In this "Child's History of the United States," it has been the aim to use words of only one syllable. But it will be seen that, in a historical work, names must be given of famous men, of great battles, and of some important measures. It is thought that parents or teachers can soon familiarize young people with these names, so that they will read them as readily as the rest. Titles have been sometimes omitted, and some names which deserve a place and have it in larger histories, are not found here. All such omissions have been made from the fear of rendering the task of reading the book too difficult for many, who, as they grow older, can add to the list that fame has made illustrious, and take wider views of the history of this land.

H. W. P.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
How this Land was Found. 9
CHAPTER II.
The New World. 16
CHAPTER III.
The Red Men. 26
CHAPTER IV.
The War that Made us Free. 46
CHAPTER V.
Three Great Fights. 53
CHAPTER VI.
First in War—First in Peace. 61
CHAPTER VII.
The Rest of the War. 69
CHAPTER VIII.
In Times of Peace. 82
CHAPTER IX.
New Men and New Laws. 95
CHAPTER X.
The Slave Trade. 107
CHAPTER XI.
A New War. 120
CHAPTER XII.
The War of North and South. 126
CHAPTER XIII.
Peace Once More. 145