XX. THE ENGLISH AND THE DUTCH TRIUMPH OVER SPAIN

XXI. THE ENGLISH PEOPLE ATTEMPT TO SETTLE AMERICA

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INDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY



INTRODUCTORY AMERICAN HISTORY



CHAPTER I

THE SCATTERED CHILDREN OF EUROPE


THE EMIGRANT AND WHAT HE BRINGS TO AMERICA. The emigrant who lands
at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or any other seaport, brings with
him something which we do not see. He may have in his hands only a
small bundle of clothing and enough money to pay his railroad fare to
his new home, but he is carrying another kind of baggage more valuable
than bundles or boxes or a pocket full of silver or gold. This other
baggage is the knowledge, the customs, and the memories he has brought
from the fatherland.

He has already learned in Europe how to do the work at which he hopes
to labor in America. In his native land he has been taught to obey the