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Title: History of the United States
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Matthew Page. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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HISTORY OFTHE UNITED STATES CHAPTER I Discovery and Exploration I. Origin of the English Claim to the North American Conti=nent.—The history of the United States may be said to have hadits beginning on the fifth of March, 1496, when Henry VH grantedto John Cabot a patent Ho seeke out other islands or Henry viiscountries across the Atlantic, where, four years earlier, john^Cabot!land had been discovered by Columbus. Cabots ex- ^^^^plorations were to be conducted in the interest of the Enghsh,whereas Columbus had made his discoveriesunder the patronage of Ferdinand andIsabella, King and Queen of Spain. Although Spain and Portugal, under thespecial sanction of the Pope, had alreadydivided between themselves the whole of theNew World, the shrewd English sovereigndetermined that England also should explorethe unkno^vn waters in the west. It was thisaction of Henry VII that laid the founda-tion for English claims and settlements inNorth America. Fortunately for such anoutcome, it had happ

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