École de l'histoire américaine ; embrassant la croissance et les réalisations de notre pays des premiers jours de découverte et de règlement à l'année actuelle .. . h GreatP)ritain. Il a obtenu de grands loansand a conduit Eurojiean powerspour faire d'excellents traités avec hiscountry. Adams et Franklinont encadré le traité préliminaire de Versailles, et, en tant que premier ministre américain de l'Angleterre, il a servi until1788. Il a reçu les remerciements du Congrès pour le patriotisme, la perse-(n35-4°f^nft?™?^7^97-i8oi. La verance, l'intégrité et la diligence affichées tout en représentant son pays à l'étranger. Quand Jean

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Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . h GreatP)ritain. He obtained large loansand induced leading Eurojiean powersto make excellent treaties with hiscountry. Adams and Franklinframed the preliminary treaty ofVersailles, and, as the first Americanminister to England, he served until1788. He received the thanks ofCongress for the patriotism, perse-(n35-4°f^nft?™?^7^97-i8oi. verance, integrity, and diligence displayed while representing his country abroad. When John Adams assumedthe duties of the presidency, he found the country comparatively prosperousand well governed. The South was the most prosperous. Until 1703, its principal productionswere rice, indigo, tar, and tobacco. The soil and climate were highly favorableto the growth of cotton, but its culture was unprofitable, for its seeds were soclosely interwoven in its texture that only by hard work could a slave clean fivepounds a day. In the year named, Eli Whitney, a New- England school-teacher, living in Georgia, invented the cotton gin, with which a man can clean. TROUBLES WITH FEAXCE 169 a thousand pounds of cotton a day. Tliis rendered its cultivatiun highly profit-able, gave an imjiortance tu the institution of slavery, and, in its iar-reachingeffects, was the greatest inveiiliun ever made m this country. TliOfBIJOS Wrill FKANCE. The matter which chiefly occupied public attention during the adminis-trati(jn of the elder Adams was uur dithcuUies with France. That country hadhariUy emerged from the awful llcigu of Terror in which a unllion of peoplewere massacred, and it was under the cnnd-ol of a set (jf bloody minded mis-creants, whowaired againstmankind andbelieved theycoidd compelthe UnitedStates to pay alarge sum ofmoney for theprivilege ofbeing letalone.They turnedour represen-tatives out ofthe country, enacted lawsaimed to de-stioy our com-merce, and in-structed theirna

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