Advanced Geography (1899) (14595120510)

Identifier: advancedgeography (find matches)
Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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sissippiriver systems, and for many years the English colonists could notuse those water ways. The valley of the Hudson and Mohawk rivers would have openeda way to the Great Lakes, if its upper part had not been held bywarlike Indian tribes. Other tribes farther south also held thelands a little back from the coast. At length the year 1776 arrived, and with it came great changesin the colonies, — then thirteen in number. Great Britain hadlong made the colonists pay taxes which they had no share inimposing, but in that year wise and brave men from the coloniesmet in Philadelphia and voted that their land should no longer beur (it British rule. After a long struggle, known as the Revolt 1 There is a jnap of the United States on page 126. 2 A.nong the important settlements made by colonists of nations otherthan th 3 British were the following: the Dutch along the Hudson river;the Swedes near the mouth of the Delaware river ; the French aroundCharleston, S. C.; the Spaniards in Florida.
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\ - Mexico, and also the great peninsula of Alaska. The area is now a little more than 3,550,000 square miles. When the struggle for freedom was over, many peoplemoved into the Allegheny plateau region and still fartherwestward along the river branches. After a time wagonroads were made across the Appalachian highland, andlater came the Erie canal and the railroads. Then thegrowth of the country became very rapid, especiallywhen the prairies were reached and the fertile open landswere found ready for millions of settlers. Forts andtrading stations on the rivers, the Great Lakes, the Eriecanal and the railroads, soon grew to towns and cities. While the upper half of the Mississippi valley was thusbeing settled, a great change was also taking place in the 3 They were : New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecti-cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. / 124 DISTRIBUTION OF PEOPLE. — GOVERNMENT. Southern