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Civil & Mechanical Engineer.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL HISTORY

OF THE

UNITED STATES:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

WITH QUESTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS,

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,

AND

WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.

BY

JOHN J. ANDERSON, Ph., D.

Author of a" Pictorial School History of the United States," a“ Manual of
General History," a "History of England," "The Historical
Reader," "The United States Reader," etc., etc.

NEW YORK:

CLARK & MAYNARD, PUBLISHERS,

734 BROADWAY.

1882.

A Junior Class History of the United States.

Illustrated with hundreds of portraits, views, maps, etc. 272 pages. 16mo.

A Grammar School History of the United States.

Annotated; and illustrated with numerous portraits and views, and with more than forty maps, many of which are colored. 340 pp. 16mo.

A Pictorial School History of the United States.

Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, vignettes, etc. 420 pp. 12mo.

A Popular School History of the United States,

In which are inserted as a part of the narrative selections from the writings of eminent American historians and other American writers of note. Fuily illustrated with maps, colored and plain; portraits, views, etc. 356 pp. 12mo.

A Manual of General History. Illustrated with numerous

engravings and with beautifully colored maps showing the changes in the political divisions of the world, and giving the location of important places. 488 pp. 12mo.

A School History of England. Illustrated with numerous

engravings and with colored maps showing the geographical changes in the country at different periods. 32 pp. 12mo.

A School History of France.

gravings, colored and uncolored maps. 373 pp. 12mo.

A History of Rome.

Illustrated with numerous en

Amply illustrated with maps, plans, and

engravings. 543 pp. By R. F. LEIGHTON, Ph.D. (Lips.).

A School History of Greece. In preparation.

Anderson's Bloss's Ancient History. Illustrated with

engravings, colored maps, and a chart. 445 pp. 12mo.

The Historical Reader, embracing selections in prose and verse,

from standard writers of Ancient and Modern History; with a Vocabulary of Difficult Words, and Biographical and Geographical Indexes. 544 pp. 12mo.

The United States Reader, embracing selections from eminent

American historians, orators, statesmen, and poets, with explanatory observations. notes, etc. Arranged so as to form a Class-manual of United States History. Illustrated with colored historical maps. 414 pp. 12mo.

CLARK & MAYNARD, Publishers,

734 Broadway, New York,

Copyright, 1874, by JOHN J. ANDERSON,

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THIS work is intended for advanced classes in Grammar Schools and Academies. The leading aim in its preparation has been to narrate the events, as well as their causes, details, effects, and connection with each other, in the most concise language consistent with the clearness and fulness necessary for the proper understanding of the subject. Although the history of our country is here condensed within a few pages, it is believed that all the important facts are stated, and that no particulars are omitted that are essential to their clear comprehension.

A knowledge of history can never be acquired so as to make the acquisition permanent and useful, unless, at the same time, the geography of the narrative is well understood. The exact location of every place mentioned in this work, except a very few beyond the limits of the United States, is shown on maps, a number of which were specially prepared for this work; and the system of map questions, by which not only the location of each place is required to be learned, but its situation with reference to other places, is a

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