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Chapter 5 LAND SPECULATION AS THE BEGINNING LEADING TO AMERICAN SELF-GOVERNMENT

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crupulous speculators, as were other big franchises granted by kings, it could well have been a near-relative to the get-rich-quick manias that present so queer a view of men's minds, not only in t

he new land grants. These Pennsylvanians were what is known as dissenters. They had a religious belief of their own. If they moved into th

e English laws that demanded such sec

was greatly settled in the latter part of Charles the First's time, and during the usurpation, by the zealous churchmen; and that spirit, which was then brought in, has ever since continued; so that, except a few

g run, be the necessary proof found in a thing being true as it works. In any event, the Washington idea was that of individual

The friendship of the Indians was of the highest importance to both sides. Every effort was made by both French and English to form alliances with the Indians. The French addressed themselves in all their meetings as "

ng the boundaries of their territory, he was met by an old

d on one side of the Ohio, and the English claim all the la

hich the new government of the United States came into possession; and the orator and the poet could fittingly

nity, at last settled "The Indian Question,"

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Contents

Chapter 1 M. Stevens Chapter 2 EARLY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE FIRST AMERICAN HERO 1732 Chapter 3 A COMMUNITY PROUD OF ITS FAMILY HONOR Chapter 4 GETTING USED TO ROUGHING IT Chapter 5 LAND SPECULATION AS THE BEGINNING LEADING TO AMERICAN SELF-GOVERNMENT Chapter 6 THE FIRST GREAT PROBLEMS OF THE INDIANS Chapter 7 ALARM FOR THE FUTURE Chapter 8 ANNOYANCES AND ANTAGONISMS Chapter 9 DISHONORS AND DISASTERS Chapter 10 THE SEPARATION BEGINNING BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND ENGLAND Chapter 11 LESSONS GATHERED FROM DEFEAT
Chapter 12 FRONTIER FEARS AND PANICS
Chapter 13 POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND OFFICIAL CONFUSION
Chapter 14 MILITARY VICTORY AND A HAPPY MARRIAGE
Chapter 15 LIFE FULFILLED AS A VIRGINIA COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
Chapter 16 MOUNT VERNON AT FIRST IN A ZONE OF CALM
Chapter 17 GIVING THE APPEARANCE AND KEEPING THE SUBSTANCE
Chapter 18 BLAZING THE WAY TO WAR
Chapter 19 THE DOUBLE-QUICK MARCH TO REVOLUTION
Chapter 20 SUPPRESSING AMERICANS
Chapter 21 THE BUSINESS OF GETTING READY
Chapter 22 UNPATRIOTIC CONFUSION OF OPINIONS AND INTERESTS
Chapter 23 SOMETIMES TOO LATE TO MEND
Chapter 24 THE FIRST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
Chapter 25 BIG BUSINESS, MONEY-MAKERS AND PATRIOTISM
Chapter 26 SEEKING RETIREMENT FOR LIFE IN THE PEACE OF A COUNTRY HOME
Chapter 27 FREEDOM AND THE WRANGLE FOR PERSONAL GAIN
Chapter 28 SORROW FOR THE DEPARTED SCENES AROUND MOUNT VERNON
Chapter 29 CROWNED IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME 1799
Chapter 30 FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 31 FREEDOM OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Chapter 32 THE WASHINGTON IDEAL AS THE FIRST GREAT AMERICAN IDEAL
Chapter 33 NOT BIRTH BUT CHARACTER MAKES AMERICANS
Chapter 34 THE AMERICAN LESSON LEARNED FROM THE GREATEST LEADERS IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA
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