Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Compendium of the History of the United States: From the Earliest Settlements to 1883; Designed to Answer the Purpose of a d104-Book in Schools and Colleges as Well as to Meet the Wants of General Readers
Book I. Will treat of the discovery, the early settlement, and colonization of the country by the ancestors of the present inhabitants, and the events which led to the as sumption of sovereign or absolute self-governing powers by the respective Colonies.
Book II. Will treat of the achievement and establishment of their independence as States, and their subsequent came: under their present Federal Union.
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