{"product_id":"2940013840782","title":"INTRODUCTORY AMERICAN HISTORY","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I. THE SCATTERED CHILDREN OF EUROPE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II. OUR EARLIEST TEACHERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III. HOW THE GREEKS LIVED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV. GREEK EMIGRANTS OR COLONISTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V. NEW RIVALS OF THE GREEKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VI. THE MEDITERRANEAN A ROMAN LAKE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII. THE ANCIENT WORLD EXTENDED TO THE SHORES OF THE ATLANTIC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII. THE CIVILIZATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IX. CHRISTIANITY AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X. EMIGRANTS A THOUSAND YEARS AGO\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XI. HOW ENGLISHMEN LEARNED TO GOVERN THEMSELVES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII. THE CIVILIZATION OF THE MIDDLE AGES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIII. TRADERS, TRAVELERS, AND EXPLORERS IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV. THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XV. OTHERS HELP IN THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVI. EARLY SPANISH EXPLORERS AND CONQUERORS OF THE MAINLAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVII. THE SPANISH EXPLORERS OF NORTH AMERICA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. RIVALRY AND STRIFE IN EUROPE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIX. FIRST FRENCH ATTEMPTS TO SETTLE AMERICA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XX. THE ENGLISH AND THE DUTCH TRIUMPH OVER SPAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXI. THE ENGLISH PEOPLE ATTEMPT TO SETTLE AMERICA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREFERENCES FOR TEACHERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTORY AMERICAN HISTORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SCATTERED CHILDREN OF EUROPE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EMIGRANT AND WHAT HE BRINGS TO AMERICA. The emigrant who lands\u003cbr\u003e  at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or any other seaport, brings with\u003cbr\u003e  him something which we do not see. He may have in his hands only a\u003cbr\u003e  small bundle of clothing and enough money to pay his railroad fare to\u003cbr\u003e  his new home, but he is carrying another kind of baggage more valuable\u003cbr\u003e  than bundles or boxes or a pocket full of silver or gold. This other\u003cbr\u003e  baggage is the knowledge, the customs, and the memories he has brought\u003cbr\u003e  from the fatherland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  He has already learned in Europe how to do the work at which he hopes\u003cbr\u003e  to labor in America. In his native land he has been taught to obey the\u003cbr\u003e  laws and to do his duty as a citizen. This fits him to share in our\u003cbr\u003e  self-government. He also brings great memories, for he likes to think\u003cbr\u003e  of the brave and noble deeds done by men of his race. If he is a\u003cbr\u003e  religious man, he worships God just as his forefathers have for\u003cbr\u003e  hundreds of years. To understand how the emigrant happens to know what\u003cbr\u003e  he does and to be what he is, we must study the history of the country\u003cbr\u003e  from which he comes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eALL AMERICANS ARE EMIGRANTS. If this is true of the newcomer, it is\u003cbr\u003e  equally true of the rest of us, for we are all emigrants. The Indians\u003cbr\u003e  are the only native Americans, and when we find out more about them we\u003cbr\u003e  may learn that they, too, are emigrants. If we follow the history of\u003cbr\u003e  our families far enough back, we shall come upon the names of our\u003cbr\u003e  forefathers who sailed from Europe. They may have come to America in\u003cbr\u003e  the early days when there were only a few settlements scattered along\u003cbr\u003e  our Atlantic coast, or they may have come since the Revolutionary War\u003cbr\u003e  changed the English colonies into the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Like the Canadians, the South Americans, and the Australians, we are\u003cbr\u003e  simply Europeans who have moved away. The story of the Europe in which\u003cbr\u003e  our forefathers lived is, therefore, part of our story. In order to\u003cbr\u003e  understand our own history we must know something of the history of\u003cbr\u003e  England, France, Germany, Italy, and other European lands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHAT THE EARLY EMIGRANTS BROUGHT. If we read the story of our\u003cbr\u003e  forefathers before they left Europe, we shall find answers to several\u003cbr\u003e  important questions. Why, we ask, did Columbus seek for new lands or\u003cbr\u003e  for new ways to lands already known? How did the people of Europe live\u003cbr\u003e  at the time he discovered America? What did they know how to do? Were\u003cbr\u003e  they skilful in all sorts of work, or were they as rude and ignorant\u003cbr\u003e  as the Indians on the western shores of the Atlantic?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The answers which history will give to these questions will say that\u003cbr\u003e  the first emigrants who landed on our shores brought with them much of\u003cbr\u003e  the same knowledge and many of the same customs and memories which\u003cbr\u003e  emigrants bring nowadays and which we also have. It is true that since\u003cbr\u003e  the time the first settlers came men have found out how to make many\u003cbr\u003e  new things. The most important of these are the steam-engine, the\u003cbr\u003e  electric motor, the telegraph, and the telephone. But it is surprising\u003cbr\u003e  how many important things, which we still use, were made before\u003cbr\u003e  Columbus saw America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  [Illustration: A MODERN STEAMSHIP AND AN EARLY SAILING VESSEL\u003cbr\u003e  The early emigrants came in small sailing vessels and suffered great\u003cbr\u003e  hardships]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  For one thing, men knew how to print books. This art had been\u003cbr\u003e  discovered during the boyhood of Columbus.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079790608624,"sku":"2940013840782","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013840782_p0.jpg?v=1763595416","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013840782","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}