The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1901-04-04
The United States How OBJ
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ym be 81 Kind as TO ruhli,h ,his com
position written (withont add by
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read at a Friday ev, ,nInr's rxric,".
GRACE L. B,YLE,.. Te .ch.r
ID I 80, Beaver County %. II
Our country Sns tigst discovered by
Caristoyhcr Culumbus ~ l49!. II WAS
tnun fIll uf Indians. There were wig>
vans here aud there aud perhaps II lew
Iu,iinn villages.
An.r Columbus came men Of different
nations camc over and huntcd Tor gold
aud wen, b TEX They kept doing this
until 1865 when ~ Augustine. Florida.
was fosndsd 10y Meuedez a Spaniurd.
Colonies kept coming over aud set
Ting up th. country. la !6si. the iirst
h ,glisn col"Ly was planted ut jane
,d~n. on the James river. in vi giniu.
Tue SECOND English eulcny was by the
rilgrims ia lG!J. az rly mouth, Massa.
chus-iis.
England then claimed the land ives,
- the Aurghany inoun,ains aud south
IL Florida. The c-unlry had flled up
- that in ii5i. som. people crossed the
Aleghauy mountains ani were driven
back by The French. This caused the
frenrh aud Indian war. which began
IN "a LnI euded ~ 1868. THIS gave
the English the land west tr the Missis
p,m river aud all sauih to Fiorids
England r.ies were harsh a'd she
G,aic us pay heavy tax = on every thing
aud IN 1910 the Revolutionary war be-
gan. whirh freed VA. Til. war .l"srd IL
Isl. 1hs treaty uf i'.nce Was sieu, Il
H. lisa.
S"nn after the colonies wee orrgas-
lied into - siaics nnd elected Grorg,
Washington president. lie served two
i"rHs. The country was ihen tn n bad
Q nditios. The war debt WAS 10 ray
bn, every thing wen; an quietly
During Thomas J, ,flersou's admin
i,ltntIon Ia 1908 w. mad. the Louisiana
Its western bou,iary line was the Sabine
river north Ia Red river. u followed
,r He'd river 10 ihG lOOlh Meridian. Ia
I c Arkansas river wet iu the Rocky
.ionntains then aorth IL the Dominion
VI Canada,
Alsv. during J,n srs"S's administers
ti,n the northwest territory was cx
rlor d II was first discovered by Capt
u ny of Boston in 1902 lie named the
columbia river after his slip. After he
had locked over the cu,iniry he wen
hack To Boston md told n na,tering
story about Il and "A ter hat Il was the
general desire 10 zee the .ountry la
lbs Jtfersun sen, n company of men
under Lewis and Clark 10 cxplsrc the
G unity They came back aud told ~
t,cir wonderful sdventur,s In 1871!
astoria + ut was built by Jacob As,ur
Su we claim that bv exploration. We
bought of Spain wha, II now the state
81 Florida. for which we puid $500.
100
During P"lk'S administration In 1915
". had n light with Mrxirn and got the
country south II the Prcos river 10 the
l,in Gruudc river from Mexico Mexi-
ga wan'ei the southern boundary line
10 hs the Prros river, bu, the United
states wanted u 10 extend to the Rio
'runde snd finally II was settled thn,
the itio Grnndr should be III. botinhnry
line, In 1913 Mexico gave up ~ the
United States the western aud southern
sidirs
During Fillmore ss,lmi inisirHiion Gen.
rral Ga'isdcn made an agreement with
hl-Nro that the Uni,ed States should
pN'l ,ttO.OW Tor the country NJ
southern Ariznna mud New McNi ~.
This was known as III. Gsdsen purchase
During Johnson's administration we
bought Alaska of Russia for s;,aoO,O MO
We now own the country ffom th.
tne Atlantic Ia the Pacific aud north IA
Do,ainion ol Canada a.d south to Mex
hn aud III" Gulf Of Mexico. Our coun,
wy consists of fnrtyive anu NV. terri.
sty We are ~ Tree na,isn nui have
,he right Ia make our own laws.
The wake Islands were annexed I,
the United States In 1897, The Hawai-
lslands were annexed ~ iS9S. and the
Howlsnd aud Baker Islands were an
nrxud In 1857. In 1890 Gunu, Puert,
Ricn and phlliuninrs w,.rr c,,irl Inv