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Which has the greater number of dots,
the Mississippi basin or the Rocky Mountain
highland? What part of the Mississippi
basin is most thickly settled ?

 

 

 

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Bell,

Where is the Pacific slope? Where is the
Atlantic slope? Which of these slopes is the
more thickly settled? Can you tell why?

About one tenth of the people of the
United States are Negroes.

A long time ago, many black people from
Africa were sold as slaves in the United
States. Their labor proved most helpful in
the cotton fields of the South.

At length all the slaves were set free, and
most of them made their homes on the southern
plains where they had worked.

The number of Indians in the United
States is very small as compared with the
number of Negroes. The red-brown people
of the United States have in most cases been
placed on lands set apart for them in various
parts of the country.

121. July 4, 1776.

Each band of early settlers formed a colony.
The people of the colonies were called colo-
nists. Most of those who made their homes
along the Atlantic coast came from England.

JULY 4, 1776.

During the wars which the colonists had
with the Indians, many of the small colonies
united to form larger ones. Can you tell
why they did so? After a time there were
thirteen large colonies.

The king of England made the colonists
pay unjust taxes, and at length wise men
in the colonies were chosen to decide what
should be done.

On July 4, 1776, these brave men voted
to declare their land free from English rule,
and to form a new nation.

The “liberty bell” was the first to rmg out
the glad news of freedom. This old bell still
hangs in Independence Hall, in the city of
Philadelphia. .

Each colony was called a state, and all the
states together formed the United States of
America.

At that time the United States held the
land as far west only as the Mississippi river.
The country now reaches from ocean to ocean,
and many new states have been formed.

The city of -
Washington is the
capital of the
country.

All the states
send men to Wash-
ington, and these
make laws for the
whole nation.
Each state is also
somewhat like a
nation, and can
make laws for itself, but such laws must not
conflict with those made in Washington.

Each state has a capital. Cities and towns
that are capitals are marked by stars (#*) on
the maps.

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