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THE NEW STUDENT'S REFERENCE WORK

The first six charts cover general history. We have five more which are given especially to the history of the United States and one on Canadian history. Chart VII is the colonial chart. The first thing that will attract your attention is the fact that Virginia was the oldest colony, as shown by the position of the color representing Virginia on the page. The next was New York, and the third was Massachusetts. These were the great mother colonies. We also notice that Maryland and North Carolina were originally a part of Virginia and were separated from it. So New Jersey and Delaware were part of New York; Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire were originally part of Massachusetts; South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia were originally settled on the dates given. Looking across, at the top, we see that the first settlement was at Jamestown in 1607; the next on Manhattan Island by the Dutch, in 1614; and the third by the Puritans, in 1620. Looking down the column, we see that tobacco was first introduced in 1615; slavery, 1619; cotton, 1621, etc. Passing down into the next century, we have the chief events of the Revolutionary War. Then follows a chart on the history of the United States after the adoption of the Constitution. Few persons can give, in their proper order, the names of the Presidents of the United States, and tell which had one term and which two. Here they are given in a very striking way: Washington, two; Jefferson, two; Madison, two, and so on. Wherever there are two terms, the different administrations are separated by a line and the chief events of each administration are recorded. On the right we have the events which occurred in the Old World. In like manner Chart XII gives us a complete, progressive history of Canada. We thus show how simple and effective these charts are. If we think of New York, involuntarily the map is before our eye and we see just where New York stands on the coast. We see Chicago as it stands at the head of Lake Michigan. We see all the other prominent cities of the country and know just how they stand in relation to each other. We learn the positions easily and readily. How? By a study of the map. In this way geographical positions are learned easily even by young children. It is because through the eye there is photographed on the mind the position of different places to each other. Now these charts in like manner locate events. They are made very simple by placing only the landmarks of nistory. Heretofore, charts have defeated the very object for which they were intended, by putting on so many events that the eye was confused and burdened. Here we give only the landmarks, and in this way the trouble and confusion of studying history are forever done away with. The test of use has proved that this is the most effective method of aiding either old or young to clearly understand and remember the facts of history in their proper order, and especially to fix in the mind the contemporary events of any given century.

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