ILLUSTRATIONS. Map Jefferson's Plan for Division of Northwest Territory. Map Changes in Area. States and Territories. Map PAGE 33 38 39 40 52 63 British Stamps for American Market (the Stamp Act) Facsimile Declaration of Independence Broadside. Announcing Treaty of Peace, 1783 TABLES. States and Territories - Statistics Signers of the Declaration of Independence -Secession, Readmission, Congresses, etc. Number of Representatives in each Congress Sessions of the United States Congress Civil Procedure, New York City (Courts) Criminal Procedure, New York City (Courts) Tracing of National Political Positions A.D. NORSEMAN DISCOVERIES. 985, Bjarni sailed from Iceland for Greenland, and driven south by a storm, sighted land at Cape Cod or Nantucket, then returned to Greenland. 1000. Leif, son of Eric the Red, sailed in search of the land seen by Bjarni, stopping near Boston or farther south for the winter. He called the land Vinland from its grapes. 1002. Thorwald, brother of Leif, wintered near Mount Hope Bay, Rhode Island. 1003. A party of Thorwald's men explored the Atlantic coast to the south end of New Jersey. 1004. Thorwald explored the coast eastward; he was killed by the Indians near Boston. 1005. Thorwald's companions returned to Greenland. 1007. Thorfinn Karlsefne sailed from Greenland, with 160 persons, in three ships. Landed in Rhode Island, and remained in Vinland three years. Report of Henry W. Haynes and Abner C. Goodell, Jr., Committee, Massachusetts Historical Society, December, 1887. "There is the same sort of reason for believing in the existence of Leif Ericson that there is for believing in the existence of Agamemnon,- they are both traditions accepted by later writers; but there is no more reason for regarding as true the details related about his discoveries than there is for accepting as historic truth the narratives contained in the Homeric poems. It is antecedently probable that the Northmen discovered America in the early part of the eleventh century; and this discovery is confirmed by the same sort of historical tradition, not strong enough to be called evidence, upon which our belief in many of the accepted facts of history rests." |