4. In the year 1802, OHIO was admitted as a State. It was formed from a part of the North-western Territory,' which Virginia and Connecticut had ceded to the United States. Ohio was organized as a separate government in May, 1800, and admitted as a State on the 29th of November, 1802. Ten years elapsed before another State took its place in the cluster of the great commonwealths that form our Republic. That State was LouISIANA, formed of a portion of the magnificent domain purchased from France in April, 1803.2 It was admitted as a State on the 8th of April, 1812.

5. INDIANA was formed out of a portion of the North-western Territory. A Territorial government was first organized in May, 1800, simultaneously with that of Ohio, when it included Illinois. It was divided in 1809, and the western portion became the Territory of Illinois. It was admitted as a State on the 11th of December, 1816. One year later, MISSISSIPPI was added to the Union. It was formed from territory ceded to the United States by South Carolina and Georgia, and was admitted as a State on the 10th of December, 1817.

6. The Territory of ILLINOIS, separated from Indiana in 1809, steadily increased in population, and on the 3d of December, 1818, was admitted as a State. ALABAMA followed, a year later. It had been a part of the Territory of Mississippi. It was organized as a separate government in the spring of 1817, and was admitted as a State on the 14th of December, 1819. Up to that time, MAINE had been a District of Massachusetts, and under the jurisdiction of that State, when, with the concurrence of that commonwealth, its people asked for its admission as a State. The request was granted by Congress on the 15th of March, 1820.

7. MISSOURI was a part of the domain of Louisiana, and was under the jurisdiction of the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory. It was formed into a separate Territory in 1812. In 1819 it was divided, and the southern part was organized into the Territory of Arkansas. Missouri was admitted to the Union as a

1. Note 6, page 197.

2. Verse 1, page 203.

QUESTIONS.-4. What can you tell about Ohio? What can you tell about Louisiana? 5. What can you tell about Indiana? What can you tell about Mississippi? 6. What can you tell about Illinois? What can you tell about Alabama? What can you tell about Maine? 7. What can you tell about Missouri?

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State on the 10th of August, 1821.' space of fifteen years, no new State was added to the Union. Then, on the 15th of June, 1836, ARKANSAS was admitted, and the growth again commenced. MICHIGAN, formerly a part of the Territory of Indiana,' was given a separate government in 1805, and on the 26th of January, 1837, it was admitted into the Union as a State.

8. The Spanish Territory of the Floridas was ceded to the United States in 1819. They were called East and West Florida. They were made one Territory in 1823; and on the 3d of March, 1845, it was admitted as a State, with the name of FLORIDA. On the 19th of December, 1845, TEXAS, which for nine years had been a sovereign state and independent republic, was admitted into the Union as a State, by the joint action of the legislature of each National Government. In the resolution of annexation, it was provided that four new States might be formed of the territory of the State of Texas, and admitted into the Union.

9. In 1836, a Territory named Wisconsin was formed of a part of the Michigan Territory, and in 1838 a portion of that domain, lying west of the Mississippi, was formed into a separate Territory. It was admitted into the Union as a State, with the name of Iowa, on the 28th of December, 1846. WISCONSIN was admitted as a State on the 29th of May, 1848; and, three years and a half later, a part of the territory on the Pacific ocean, acquired by conquest and purchase from Mexico, was organized as a State, and admitted into the Union as such on the 9th of September, 1850, with the name of CALIFORNIA.®

10. Eight years now passed by before another State was added, when, on the 11th of May, 1858, a part of the ancient domain of Louisiana, lying on the Mississippi river, was admitted as a State, with the beautiful Indian name of MINNESOTA. A few months later, another portion of that magnificent domain of Louisiana, lying on the Pacific ocean, which had been organized into a Territory in 1848, was admitted [February 14, 1859] as a

1. Verse 4, page 233. 4. Note 2, page 245.

2. Verse 5, page 327.
5. Verse 7, page 327.

3. Verse 3, page 232.
6. Verses 2 and 3, page 255.

QUESTIONS.-7. What can you tell about Arkansas and Michigan? 8. What can you tell about Florida? What can you tell about Texas? 9. What can you tell about Iowa? What can you tell about Wisconsin? What can you tell about California? 10. What can you tell about Minnesota?

State, with the title of OREGON. Still another portion of ancient Louisiana was erected into a Territory in 1854, with the name of KANSAS, and was admitted as a State on the 29th of January,

1861.

11. The Civil War produced a new State by the division of VIRGINIA. It was admitted into the Union as the thirty-fifth State. The people of that part of the State which lies chiefly between the Alleghany mountains and the Ohio river, and contained, in 1860, a population of about three hundred and thirtyfive thousand souls, were generally loyal to the National Government when the rebellion broke out in 1861. They met in convention at Wheeling, in June of that year, and organized a State government. A constitution was adopted in convention, in November following, and was ratified by the people in May, 1862. WEST VIRGINIA was admitted into the Union as a State on the 20th of June, 1863, by the authority of an act of Congress, passed on the 31st of December, 1862. On the 31st of October, 1864, NEVADA was admitted as a State (the thirty-sixth) by the proclamation of the President.

12. There are eight organized Territories belonging to the Republic, in which regular governments have been established by acts of Congress, passed respectively at the following dates: For the admission of New Mexico and Utah, September 9, 1850; Washington, March 2, 1853; Nebraska, May 30, 1854; Colorado and Dakota, March 9, 1861; Arizona, February 24, 1863, and Idaho,' March 3, 1863. The District of Columbia, lying on the Potomac, is the seat of the National Government, and is under the immediate control of Congress."

1. Pronounced I-dah'-o.

2. Verse 3, page 196.

3. Note 2, page 315. The District originally comprised territory on each side of the Potomac, ten miles square, which was ceded to the United States by the States of Maryland and Virginia. The portion on the Maryland side, on which the city of Washington was situated, was a county named Washington, and that on the Virginia side was a county named Alexandria. On the 9th of July, 1846, Alexandria county was retroceded to Virginia, and the area of the District was diminished by so much.

QUESTIONS.-10. What can you tell about Oregon What can you tell about Kansas? 11. What can you tell about West Virginia? 12. How many organized Territories are there within the domain of this Republic? Name them, and give the dates of their respective organization. What can you tell about the District of Columbia?

REVIEW QUESTIONS.

THE ABORIGINES.

1. WHAT can you tell about the people found in America by the Europeans?

2. What can you tell about their language and physical character? 3. What were their dwellings, implements, food, dress, money, and records?

4. What were their pursuits, weapons, and dealings with prisoners? and what was the method of peace-making, and the condition of the women?

5. What can you tell about their funerals and burials?

6. What was their religion?

7. What was their government, and what appears to be their destiny?.

DISCOVERIES.

1. What can you tell about alleged discoveries by Northmen?

2. What circumstances kept Western Europe from the commerce of the East?

3. What can you tell about the movements of Columbus?

4. Who aided Columbus? and how? .

5. Give an account of his first exploring voyage.

6. How came this continent to be called AMERICA?

7. What settlements and what other discoveries were made by the Spaniards?

8. What occurred in Florida and Mexico?

9. What can you tell about De Soto's expedition?

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10. What can you tell about the king of England, and the expedition of the Cabots ?

11. Give an account of other voyages and discoveries by Sebastian Cabot.

12. What can you tell of a voyage and discoveries by
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14. Give an account of the second voyage and the discoveries of
Cartier.

15. What important religious movement took place in France?
16. What emigration from France occurred?
17. What can you tell about the attempts at settlement by the Hu-

19. What can you tell about Raleigh's efforts and expeditions?
20. What did Gosnold do?

21. What can you tell about Captains Pring and Weymouth?
22. What can you tell of De Mont's expeditions, and the discovery
of Lake Champlain ?

23. What did English merchants and mariners do?

24. What can you tell about the voyages and discoveries of Henry Hudson?

25. What great movements now took place?

SETTLEMENTS.

1. What is a settlement, and what a colony?

2. What territory was embraced in North and South Virginia?
3. What can you tell about social changes, and the charters given
by King James?

4. What did the London Company do in 1606 ?

5. What can you tell of Newport's voyage?

6. What eminent men were with Newport ?

7. What occurred in Virginia?

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8. Give an account of distress in Virginia, and how it was relieved. 27 9. Tell the story of Captain Smith and Pocahontas 10. What kind of immigrants afterward came to Virginia, and what was the aspect of the colony?

11. What became of a new governor and commissioners ? 12. What sad events occurred in Virginia?

13. What can you tell about a change in affairs in Virginia ? and the marriage of Pocahontas ?

14. What political change occurred?

15. What occurred on the Hudson river and the New England coasts? 32 16. What can you tell about the founding of the province of New Netherland by the Dutch?

17. What can you tell about Captain Smith, New England, and the Council of Plymouth? .

18. What was the origin of the Puritans?

19. Give an account of the Pilgrims in Holland, and their emigration to America.

20. What can you tell about the voyage of the Mayflower, and the Pilgrims in Massachusetts ?

21. When and how was New Hampshire settled?

22. Under what circumstances was Maryland settled, and by whom? 38 23. Give an account of the first settlement, and the character of the charter.

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24. Give an account of the discovery of the Connecticut river, and the beginning of settlements in the valley.

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the Indians?

25. Give an account of emigrations to the Connecticut valley. 26. How and by whom were the settlers troubled ?

27. What can you tell about a war between the New Englanders and

28. How came the New Haven settlement to be formed, and in what

manner?

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