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Title: A history of the American nation
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Chicago, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hundred and seventy leagueswest of the Cape Verde Islands. Upon this agreement, dulyratified by the Pope, Spain based her claim to the New World. References Thwaites, The Colonies, Chapters I and II; Fisher, The ColonialEra, pp. 1-20; FiSKE, The Discovery of America, Volume I, especiallyChapters I, II, III, V, VIII, IX, and X; Channing, History of theUnited States, Volume I, Chapters I-III. Longer accounts: Markham,Christopher Columbus; Adams, Christopher Columbus. See also Far-rand, Basis of American History, pp. 3-88; Cheyney, EuropeanBackground of American History, pp. 3-41; Bourne, Spain in America,, an united kingdom; before the middle of the sixteenth century Spanishpower reached towering heights. In America, in Africa, in the far East, indifferent parts of Europe, her hand was raised with authority. The Span-ish kings were charged with zeal for universal empire; Httle England andlittler Holland stood in the way, and had the strength in time to breakdown her power upon the sea.
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CHAPTER IITHE SOUTHERN COLONIES—1607-1700 While Spain in the hundred years after Columbus was build-ing her colonial empire, the other nations of Europe accom-plished nothing in the way of actual settlement of the NewWorld. France, it is true, took some interest and made someexplorations. Hardly was the New World known to the Old,when the hardy fishermen of Brittany began to visit the fisheriesof Newfoundland. Verrazano, in 1524, sailed along the NorthAmerican coast from North Carolina to Maine. Ten yearslater Jacques Cartier explored the lower part of the St. Law-rence, and the next year visited the present site of Montreal. Afew years after this (1542-43) an attempt was made to planta colony in the new-found region, but without success. TheHuguenots sought to settle in Brazil, but the effort ended inmiserable failure. A colony formed in Florida was destroyed bythe Spaniards, and its people were murdered in the cold-blooded fashion of which the Spanish soldier of the day wasmaster.

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