Identifier: makingofamerican00redw (find matches)
Title: The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw), 1849-1942
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Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ay. To Mr. Hay, quiteas much as to any other diplo-mat, belongs the credit of main-taining the peace of both Americaand Europe. The peace that cameto the two combatants was thework of President Roosevelt,after Mr. Hays death. After sixmonths of effort, President Roose-velt persuaded Russia and Japanto join in a conference. Thisconference of the two powers washeld nominally at Washington(really at Portsmouth, NewHampshire), and terms of peacewere agreed upon (September,1905).2 Progress of Civilization in the American States. — Students ofhistory have always found much to commend in the general char- 1 See page 373. ^ The Russians were represented by M. (now Count) Witte and AmbassadorRosen, the Japanese by Baron Komura and Minister Takahira. Under the termsRussia agreed to surrender Manchuria to the Chinese, and to cede to Japan thesouthern half of the island of Sakhalin, which formerly belonged to Japan. Itwas agreed that trade in Korea and Manchuria should be unrestricted and free.
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John Hay. 418 THE MAKING OF THE AMEBIC AN NATION acter of the American people; they have also found much tocondemn. Many years ago, when Mr, Charles Dickens in his American Notes described our bad manners in public, popularindignation at once rose high. The great author told some un-pleasant truths in a painfully blunt way. But foreign criticsalmost always give us credit for trying to be fair, and this trait ina people is always the open door to a better civilization. But whatever may be either the virtues or the shortcomingsof the American people, the traits that distinguish them fromother English-speaking people are due mainly to geographic envi-ronment. Their environment has been powerful enough to modifyand even to overcome many of the race tendencies inherited froinEnglish ancestors. There are several powerful agents throughwhich the conditions of geographic environment have operated;these are chiefly the political system, the literature, the system ofpublic education, and church

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