History of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of the United States<br><br>1. We are to study the history of the people living in the country now known as the United States of America. Travel and the study of maps give a knowledge of this land and its people as they now are. But not even the land has always been what we see at the present time. Its mountains, rivers, and plains, which seem to us unchanging, had their beginning and gradual growth. In like manner the character and condition of the inhabitants have also changed. Only 400 years ago there was not one white man living in all America. How the part of America which is now the territory of the United States has been settled by white men; how cities have been built and the country brought under cultivation; how governments have been established and maintained, we are now to learn. Nature made this land beautiful and rich, and our forefathers by establishing liberty and justice have left to us and to all the world a noble record for study and imitation.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.