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... NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA Asorts AFRICA The Pope's Division of the World . As " lord of the world " he proceeded to divide the newly discovered heathen lands between Spain and Portugal , the two great exploring powers . 19 Taking a ...
... NORTH AMERICA SOUTH AMERICA Asorts AFRICA The Pope's Division of the World . As " lord of the world " he proceeded to divide the newly discovered heathen lands between Spain and Portugal , the two great exploring powers . 19 Taking a ...
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David Henry Montgomery. world the Pope gave Spain the entire continent of North America . " Ferdinand and Isabella soon began to establish settlements in the West Indies and seized the natives as slaves . 9. What Columbus discovered ...
David Henry Montgomery. world the Pope gave Spain the entire continent of North America . " Ferdinand and Isabella soon began to establish settlements in the West Indies and seized the natives as slaves . 9. What Columbus discovered ...
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... north in the hope of discovering a short passage to the Indies . At this point the elder Cabot disappears from history . Sebastian admits that the icebergs which blocked his way chilled his enthusiasm and made him turn southward . He ...
... north in the hope of discovering a short passage to the Indies . At this point the elder Cabot disappears from history . Sebastian admits that the icebergs which blocked his way chilled his enthusiasm and made him turn southward . He ...
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... North America . He thus , as Burke declares , gave the English their claim to the mainland . This laid the foundation for the North American colonies which Sir Walter Raleigh began in the next century . 12. The voyages of Americus ...
... North America . He thus , as Burke declares , gave the English their claim to the mainland . This laid the foundation for the North American colonies which Sir Walter Raleigh began in the next century . 12. The voyages of Americus ...
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... North America was laid down on the maps of that period as an island . The true continental character of the New World was discovered gradually . Cabot and Vespucius must have suspected it , but it was not until Magellan made his famous ...
... North America was laid down on the maps of that period as an island . The true continental character of the New World was discovered gradually . Cabot and Vespucius must have suspected it , but it was not until Magellan made his famous ...
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Page xv - To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of...
Page xx - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Page 426 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page ix - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page xiv - The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day.
Page 373 - ... it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page xi - Resolved, That copies of the Declaration be sent to the several assemblies, conventions, and committees, or councils of safety, and to the several commanding officers of the continental troops ; that it be proclaimed in each of the United States, and at the head of the army.
Page xx - No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Page xiii - No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. The vice-president of the United States shall be president of the senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.
Page 403 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.