A History of United States of America: With an Introduction Narrating the Discovery and Settlement of North AmericaButler, Sheldon & Company, 1897 |
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... passed over . Every good teacher knows how desirable it is to get rid of a parrot- like repetition of an author's words in a text - book . These Topical Analyses break up the narrative into natural groups of related facts , and enable ...
... passed over . Every good teacher knows how desirable it is to get rid of a parrot- like repetition of an author's words in a text - book . These Topical Analyses break up the narrative into natural groups of related facts , and enable ...
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... passed other islands , coasted by Cuba , and came finally to Hayti , to which he gave the name of Hispaniola . He was quite sure that he had reached Japan , and after building a fort and leaving some men to hold it , he sailed with his ...
... passed other islands , coasted by Cuba , and came finally to Hayti , to which he gave the name of Hispaniola . He was quite sure that he had reached Japan , and after building a fort and leaving some men to hold it , he sailed with his ...
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... passed along the east- ern coast until he came to the strait now known by his name . He followed this strait and sailed upon the great 1520 . ocean , crossing it and making his way to the East Indies . The islands in this archipelago ...
... passed along the east- ern coast until he came to the strait now known by his name . He followed this strait and sailed upon the great 1520 . ocean , crossing it and making his way to the East Indies . The islands in this archipelago ...
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... passed from winter into spring , and at every stage of his progress he felt his great dreams to be turning into realities . He came among people who had never seen a white man . Every where he took 1 It is an interesting fact that these ...
... passed from winter into spring , and at every stage of his progress he felt his great dreams to be turning into realities . He came among people who had never seen a white man . Every where he took 1 It is an interesting fact that these ...
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... passed . It declared that no goods should be carried to the colonies or brought from them except in English ships . This act was followed by others forbidding the colonies to send their products to any ports except such as belonged to ...
... passed . It declared that no goods should be carried to the colonies or brought from them except in English ships . This act was followed by others forbidding the colonies to send their products to any ports except such as belonged to ...
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Page 466 - Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent: and in their property rights and liberty they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorized by Congress ; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Page 300 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 475 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 137 - Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved...
Page 467 - Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common high-ways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost or duty therefor. Art. 5th. There shall be formed in the said territory, not less than three, nor more than five states...
Page 132 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the First his Cromwell — and George the Third — ("Treason," cried the Speaker — "treason, treason," echoed from every part of the House.
Page 457 - ... into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 457 - Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia...
Page 467 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever...
Page 401 - Commission, composed of five senators, five representatives, and five justices of the Supreme Court. The result was the election of Mr.