Essentials in American History (from the Discovery to the Present Day)American Book Company, 1905 - 583 pages |
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... Western Lands 190 Part of Central North America in 1789 198 The United States in 1803 • 264 Roads and Waterways to the West in 1825 291 • 300 • The United States in 1825 Railroads and Waterways of the United States in 1850 The United ...
... Western Lands 190 Part of Central North America in 1789 198 The United States in 1803 • 264 Roads and Waterways to the West in 1825 291 • 300 • The United States in 1825 Railroads and Waterways of the United States in 1850 The United ...
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... in nature and the desire to know her secrets sprang up again with passionate force . Hence , when a new commer- cial route to India was needed , men were willing to take great ment risks , to penetrate into the unknown western ocean , 13.
... in nature and the desire to know her secrets sprang up again with passionate force . Hence , when a new commer- cial route to India was needed , men were willing to take great ment risks , to penetrate into the unknown western ocean , 13.
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Albert Bushnell Hart. risks , to penetrate into the unknown western ocean , and to explore a land as yet undreamed of . A new spirit speedily showed itself in improvements in navigation , and especially in two inventions ( both ...
Albert Bushnell Hart. risks , to penetrate into the unknown western ocean , and to explore a land as yet undreamed of . A new spirit speedily showed itself in improvements in navigation , and especially in two inventions ( both ...
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... western Europe - by Spain , France , England , and Portugal . The adventurous Portuguese by 1450 had already dis- covered the four groups of the Canary , Madeira , Cape Verde , and Azores or Western Islands . Under the direc- tion of ...
... western Europe - by Spain , France , England , and Portugal . The adventurous Portuguese by 1450 had already dis- covered the four groups of the Canary , Madeira , Cape Verde , and Azores or Western Islands . Under the direc- tion of ...
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... Western Prairies and Plains from 90 C.Sable Greenwich 80 6000 ft . 7 A 2 BAHAM ISLANDS E A T N 30 40 natural advantages which determined the location of a line of. 19 90 St. Albany Lawrence River James 80 50 70 Bay A D.
... Western Prairies and Plains from 90 C.Sable Greenwich 80 6000 ft . 7 A 2 BAHAM ISLANDS E A T N 30 40 natural advantages which determined the location of a line of. 19 90 St. Albany Lawrence River James 80 50 70 Bay A D.
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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.