Category: Great Stories for Little Americans
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Great Stories for Little Americans The First Steamboat
The first good steamboat was built in New York. She was built by Robert Fulton. Her name was “Clermont.” When the people saw her, they laughed. They said that such a boat would never go. For thousands of years, boatmen had made their boats go by using sails and oars. People had never seen any…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Quicksilver Bob
Robert Fulton was the man who set steamboats to running on the rivers. Other men had made such boats before. But Fulton made the first good one. When he was a boy, he lived in the town of Lancaster in Pennsylvania. Many guns were made in Lancaster. The men who made these guns put little…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: A Long Journey
A long time ago, when Thomas Jefferson was President, most of the people in this country lived in the East. Nobody knew anything about the Far West. The only people that lived there were Indians. Many of these Indians had never seen a white man. The President sent men to travel into this wild part…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Stories About Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was one of the great men of the Revolution. He was not a soldier. He was not a great speaker. But he was a great thinker. And he was a great writer. He wrote a paper that was the very beginning of the United States. It was a paper that said that we…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Decatur and the Pirates
Nearly a hundred years have passed since the ship “Philadelphia” was burned. But the brave sailors who did it will never be forgotten. The people of Tripoli in Africa were pirates. They took the ships of other nations at sea. They made slaves of their prisoners. The friends of these slaves sometimes sent money to…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Clark and His Men
At the time of the Revolution there were but few people living on the north side of the Ohio River. But there were many Indians there. These Indians killed a great many settlers in Kentucky. The Indians were sent by British officers to do this killing. There was a British fort at Vincennes in what…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Marion’s Tower
General Francis Marion was one of the best fighters in the Revolution. He was a homely little man. He was also a very good man. Another general said, “Marion is good all over.” The American army had been beaten in South Carolina. Marion was sent there to keep the British from taking the whole country.…
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Great Stories for Little Americans Washington’s Last Battle
Washington had been fighting for seven years to drive the British soldiers out of this country. But there were still two strong British armies in America. One of these armies was in New York. It had been there for years. The other army was far away at Yorktown in Virginia. The British general at Yorktown…
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Great Stories for Little Americans How George Washington Got out of a Trap
After the battle of Trenton, Washington went back across the Delaware River. He had not men enough to fight the whole British army. But the Americans were glad when they heard that he had beaten the Hessians. They sent him more soldiers. Then he went back across the river to Trenton again. There was a…
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Great Stories for Little Americans George Washington’s Christmas Gift
George Washington was fighting to set this country free. But the army that the King of England sent to fight him was stronger than Washington’s army. Washington was beaten and driven out of Brooklyn. Then he had to leave New York. After that, he marched away into New Jersey to save his army from being…