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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cherokee Indians, (search)
s in Florida. He also held a conference with the chiefs of thirty-seven different cantons of Cherokees. He gave them presents, smoked with them the pipe of peace, marked the boundaries of the lands between them and the English settlers, regulated weights and measures, and appointed an agent to superintend their affairs. He then concluded a treaty of commerce and peace with the Creeks. About 1730 the projects of the French for uniting Canada and Louisiana by a cordon of posts through the Ohio and Mississippi valleys began to be developed. To counteract this scheme, the British wished to convert the Indians on the frontiers into allies or subjects, and, to this end, to make with them treaties of union and alliance. The British government accordingly sent out Sir Alexander Cumming to conclude such a treaty with the Cherokees. It was estimated that they could then put 6,000 warriors in the field. In April, 1730, Sir Alexander met the chief warriors of all the Cherokee towns in c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Roosevelt, Theodore 1858-1893 (search)
rmity with State laws and without interference with those laws or with vested rights. The policy of the national government should be to aid irrigation in the several States and Territories in such a manner as will enable the people in the local communities to help themselves, and as will stimulate needed reforms in the State laws and regulations governing irrigation. The reclamation and settlement of the arid lands will enrich every portion of our country, just as the settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys brought prosperity to the Atlantic States. The increased demand for manufactured articles will stimulate industrial production, while wider home markets and the trade of Asia will consume the larger food supplies and effectually prevent Western competition with Eastern agriculture. Indeed, the products of irrigation will be consumed chiefly in upbuilding local centres of mining and other industries, which would otherwise not come into existence at all. Our people as
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treaty of Aix-la-chapelle, (search)
Treaty of Aix-la-chapelle, A treaty between Great Britain, France, Holland, Germany, Spain, and Greece; signed by the representatives of these respective powers on Oct. 18 (N. S.), 1748. By it the treaties of Westphalia (1648), of Nimeguen (1678-79), of Ryswick (1697), of Utrecht (1713), of Baden (1714), of the Triple Alliance (1717), of the Quadruple Alliance (1718), and of Vienna (1738), were renewed and confirmed. It was fondly hoped this treaty would insure a permanent peace for Europe. It was, however, only a truce between France and England, contending for dominion in America. The English regarded as encroachments the erection by the French of about twenty forts, besides block-houses and tradingposts, within claimed English domain. So while Acadia (q. v.) furnished one field for hostilities between the two nations, the country along the lakes and in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys furnished another.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
because of failure to punish criminals by law; forty-two killed and 120 wounded......March 28-30, 1884 Dow law passed, taxing the liquor traffic......1885 State board of health established......1885 John Sherman is re-elected United States Senator......Feb. 12, 1886 Waterspout at Xenia kills twenty-five persons, destroys 100 houses......May 19, 1886 Centennial celebration of the first settlement in Ohio at Marietta......April 7, 1888 Sunday liquor law passed......1888 Ohio Valley and Central States Centennial Exhibition opens at Cincinnati......July 4, 1888 Organization of White Caps disband on promise from authorities not to proceed against them; last outbreak, the whipping of Adam Berkes in Sardinia, Brown county, accused of immoral conduct......Nov. 17, 1888 Population, 3,672,316; 92.1 to square mile......1890 Calvin S. Brice elected United States Senator......Jan. 14, 1890 Woman's Christian Temperance League organized at Cleveland......Jan. 23, 18
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
lt and mass celebrated in Philadelphia......1734 County of Lancaster organized......1737 George Whitefield arrives at Philadelphia......November, 1739 American philosophical society established in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin......1743 Hostilities with the Six Nations, after a bloody collision between them and the backwoodsmen of Virginia, are averted by a treaty at Lancaster between Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland and the Six Nations, the Indians ceding the whole valley of the Ohio for £ 400......July, 1744 War of England with France, termed King George's War ......1744 For the reduction of Louisburg, Pennsylvania furnishes £ 4,000 in provisions......1745 Thomas and Richard Penn the sole proprietors of Pennsylvania, Thomas holding three-quarters of the whole by bequest from his brother John, who dies this year ......1746 Over 5,000 immigrants, mostly Germans, arrive in Pennsylvania......1750 Franklin identifies lightning and electricity......June 5