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Title: New school history of the United States
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Holmes, George Frederick, 1820-1897
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Publisher: New York, University publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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just closed, and mainly to very recent years. The times beforethe Revolution could claim only two or three painters as rep-resentatives of art. 167. Progress of the United States during a singlecentury of independence may be estimated by comparing thisstartling picture of varied prosperity with the survey of thecondition of the colonies at the beginning of the Revolutionaryperiod. (See pp. 81-87.) 168. The eventful tale of nearly four centuries has beensimply and briefly told to the young, whose duty it will be tocontinue the task of their forefathers in a hopeful and reso-lute spirit. Four hundred years ago, the continent was unknown andunsuspected. Three hundred years ago, there was no Englishhabitation on it. A few scattered settlements were the begin-ning of a vast domain. The settlers increased. They subduedthe forest. They cultivated the soil. They drove back theroving Indian, whose title there had been none to dispute.The colonies grew strong, in hardship and peril and neglect.
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i CONCL USION, 299 They learned self-reliance and independence in wars with theFrench, whom they expelled from the country, and in strugglewith the mother country, whose yoke they threw off after astubborn and doubtful warfare. This new nationality grew in numbers and influence andwealth. It triumphed over discords, dissensions, and armeddivisions. A hundred years only have elapsed since the lastmilitary success of the Revolution assured its independent ex-istence. In these ten decades its population has increasednearly twenty-fold, and its resources have increased even more. The History of the United States has given a short nar-rative of the marvellous development which has changed theface of the continent, and which justifies dreams of the futurebrighter than the achievements of the past. The dangers areas great as the hopes. The tale is for the present ended, andcloses with the trust that the American people may render ** That which they have done but earnest of the things that th

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