This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...some fowls, a few days' work, a few dollars for each hundred acres of land. At last, the landlords sold their claims, and the old patroon system came to an end. Maine boundary 1842.--The boundary between Maine and Canada had been in dispute ever since the Revolution. It was settled during Tyler's term by a treaty in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...some fowls, a few days' work, a few dollars for each hundred acres of land. At last, the landlords sold their claims, and the old patroon system came to an end. Maine boundary 1842.--The boundary between Maine and Canada had been in dispute ever since the Revolution. It was settled during Tyler's term by a treaty in which both America and Great Britain made compromises. Oregon Country.--The western boundary was still unsettled. Both Great Britain and the United States claimed the region called the Oregon Country, lying between Mexico and Alaska. For about twenty-five years, the John Tyler Oregon Country was held as neutral ground. People in the eastern states knew little of this region. The maps of the time called the western country 'the Great American Desert, ' because it was thought to be a barren waste, like the Desert of Sahara. Webster asked, "What do we want with this vast worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus, and prairie dogs?" But settlers, with their rifles, axes, and plows, went to the Oregon Country, made homes there, and claimed the The Oregon Trail whole region for the United States. The popular cry was "fifty-four forty or fight,"--54 40' being the southern boundary of Alaska. Florida admitted to Union 1845.--While Tyler was president, Florida was made a state, and Texas asked to be admitted into the Union. Texan War for Independence 1836.--Texas had been Spanish territory, but it rebelled against Spain and became a state of the Mexican republic. Thousands of American emigrants went to the fertile, well-watered country and settled there to trade, raise cotton, and herd cattle. Finding the government of Mexico harsh and unjust, they declared th...
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