Essentials in American History (from the Discovery to the Present Day)American Book Company, 1905 - 583 pages |
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... command men ; yet he felt more than any other Frenchman the importance of the West . He opened up a trade between the Lakes and the Mississippi , and between the upper and lower reaches of that river , and he secured for France a valid ...
... command men ; yet he felt more than any other Frenchman the importance of the West . He opened up a trade between the Lakes and the Mississippi , and between the upper and lower reaches of that river , and he secured for France a valid ...
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... command of William Pepperell , a brave but untrained militia general , joined a small British fleet , and in sixteen days ' siege brought Louisburg to surrender in 1745. The war was ended in 1748 by the treaty of Aix 126 COLONIAL AMERICANS.
... command of William Pepperell , a brave but untrained militia general , joined a small British fleet , and in sixteen days ' siege brought Louisburg to surrender in 1745. The war was ended in 1748 by the treaty of Aix 126 COLONIAL AMERICANS.
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... command of a little Virginian force , thereupon collided with a body of threatening French near Great Meadows ( May 28 , 1754 ) , and by his orders was fired the first shot in a great war . At the breaking out of this fourth ...
... command of a little Virginian force , thereupon collided with a body of threatening French near Great Meadows ( May 28 , 1754 ) , and by his orders was fired the first shot in a great war . At the breaking out of this fourth ...
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... command . He pro- ceeded to reorganize the force , and , to use his own phrase , 66 gave a pretty good slam " to some of the militia generals . Gradually troops arrived from the middle and southern col- onies . Washington seized the ...
... command . He pro- ceeded to reorganize the force , and , to use his own phrase , 66 gave a pretty good slam " to some of the militia generals . Gradually troops arrived from the middle and southern col- onies . Washington seized the ...
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... command of the army at Cambridge under the tree now called the Washington Elm ? ( 20 ) Samuel Adams's opinions of independence . ( 21 ) Where did Jefferson get his ideas for the Declaration of Independence ? ( 22 ) Hender- son's ...
... command of the army at Cambridge under the tree now called the Washington Elm ? ( 20 ) Samuel Adams's opinions of independence . ( 21 ) Where did Jefferson get his ideas for the Declaration of Independence ? ( 22 ) Hender- son's ...
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Page 568 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Page 573 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 574 - 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 Executive...
Page 579 - ... respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Page 570 - ... §7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. §8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign...
Page 564 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 568 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 224 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 571 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Page 407 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.