A Short History of the United States, 1492-1938Macmillan, 1939 - 1039 pages |
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Page 423
... results . But his opportunity came with the reviving importance of the slavery issue . By the most vigorous appeals ... result of the agitation was laws to make foreign gold and silver coins legal tender and a law to change the ratio of ...
... results . But his opportunity came with the reviving importance of the slavery issue . By the most vigorous appeals ... result of the agitation was laws to make foreign gold and silver coins legal tender and a law to change the ratio of ...
Page 425
... result would be that the government in such a contingency would find its hands full of worthless paper money and the loss would be immense . Jackson , therefore , ordered land offices to take no money but specie . For a time there was a ...
... result would be that the government in such a contingency would find its hands full of worthless paper money and the loss would be immense . Jackson , therefore , ordered land offices to take no money but specie . For a time there was a ...
Page 654
... result of the national contest was dependent on the way they were received . By midnight of election day most of the crowds who listened to the returns throughout the country went home assured that Tilden Disputed Returns . was elected ...
... result of the national contest was dependent on the way they were received . By midnight of election day most of the crowds who listened to the returns throughout the country went home assured that Tilden Disputed Returns . was elected ...
Contents
Better Times in the Colony | 50 |
The Plymouth Colony | 59 |
The Colonies under the Later Stuarts 16601689 | 92 |
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