Let us always remember with grateful hearts the noble life of the great
man who has rightly been called the "Father of his Country."
SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
1. How did the people express their feeling for Washington when he was on
his way to New York to be inaugurated as President?
2. Describe one of his public receptions.
3. Who were the men Washington chose to help him in his new task as
President?
4. What effects did the invention of the cotton-gin have upon slavery?
5. In imagination visit some old plantations and tell what you can about
slave life there.
6. Why has Washington been called the "Father of his Country"?
CHAPTER XII
INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE NEW REPUBLIC
As with reverent thought we turn from the closing days of George
Washington's life, our interest is drawn to the career of another national
hero, with whom we associate the most remarkable expansion in the area of
our country.
[Illustration: Thomas Jefferson.]
Already through the achievements of early pioneers and settlers, such as
Daniel Boone in Kentucky, John Sevier and James Robertson in Tennessee,
and George Rogers Clark in the region of the Great Lakes, the country
lying between the Alleghany Mountains and the Mississippi River had come
to be a part of the United States.
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