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Title: Our colonial history from the discovery of America to the close of the revolution
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gerson, Oscar, 1874-
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Publisher: New York city, Hinds, Noble & Eldredge
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ife in New England 94 Summary 99 Chapter IX.—The Middle Colonies loi § I. New York loi § 2, New Jersey 107 § 3. Pennsylvania and Delaware 108 § 4. Life in Middle Colonies 117 Summary 119 PART III.—The Establishment of EngHsh Supremacy in America Conflict of Claims 120 Chapter X.—The Intercolonial Wars 123 § I. The Struggle Tor Acadia 123 g 2. The Final Contest 125 Summary 134 Chapter XL—Colonial Life and Government 136 § I. Life in Colonial Times 136 § 2. Government of the Colonies 145 PART IV.—Hov^ the Colonies Became the United States The War for Independence 148 Chapter XII.—Causes of the War 149 Chapter XIII.—The War in New England and Canada .... 153 Chapter XIV.—The War in the Middle States 158 Chapter XV.—The War in the South 165 Appendix 169 PART 1DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION INTRODUCTION 1. Early Ideas of the Extent of the World.—About fourhundred years ago there were no white people Hving in Amer-The only inhabitants of that continent were savage ica.
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The World asKnown to Colum-bus (lig-ht partsonly were known). Indians and Eskimos. The people of the white race lived inEurope, western and southern Asia, and northern Africa. -2 DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION Eastern Asia was inhabited by people of the yellow race andnearly all of Africa was inhabited by negroes. The white people of Europe were the most highly civilizedof all the people on the globe. Although they had schoolsand colleges, they did not know very much about the extentof the world. The school-children of to-day know muchmore about geography than wise men knew at that time.They had no idea that there was such a place as America,neither did they know anything about Australia or Oceanica.In fact, when they spoke of the world, they thought aboutonly those parts in which they lived—Europe, southern andwestern Asia, and northern Africa. 2. New Interest in Geography.—Between the thirteenthand fifteenth century, however, some of the learned men ofEurope began to take great inter

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