Excerpt from A Brief Compend of the History of the United States: Arranged for the Use of Teachers and PupilsMost teachers agree that history is best taught by topics, for the proper selection and arrangement of which, much care, time and experience are requisite. This is the only apology for Offering this little work to the consideration of my fellow-teachers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.