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... Bill The War with Spain Expansion and the Open Door The Reëlection of McKinley ; His Death XLIV THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATIONS PAGE • 510 511 513 519 521 • 528 531 Roosevelt and the Trusts Roosevelt and the Coal Strike The Panama Canal ...
... Bill The War with Spain Expansion and the Open Door The Reëlection of McKinley ; His Death XLIV THE ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATIONS PAGE • 510 511 513 519 521 • 528 531 Roosevelt and the Trusts Roosevelt and the Coal Strike The Panama Canal ...
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... Bill of Rights , stated plainly the rights which In the putting down of the uprising known as King Philip's War the confedera- tion served as a useful agency of defense against the Indians . The Bill of Englishmen were henceforth to ...
... Bill of Rights , stated plainly the rights which In the putting down of the uprising known as King Philip's War the confedera- tion served as a useful agency of defense against the Indians . The Bill of Englishmen were henceforth to ...
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... Bill of Rights was of the utmost importance to the colonists , because the rights won in England accrued to Englishmen in America . No sooner had James been driven from his throne than Andros was sent out of Massachusetts . But the ...
... Bill of Rights was of the utmost importance to the colonists , because the rights won in England accrued to Englishmen in America . No sooner had James been driven from his throne than Andros was sent out of Massachusetts . But the ...
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... bill . " The passage of the act , " said Franklin , who was in London at this time , " could not have been pre- vented any more easily than the sun's setting . " Samuel Adams . In England the Stamp Act created . hardly a ripple of ...
... bill . " The passage of the act , " said Franklin , who was in London at this time , " could not have been pre- vented any more easily than the sun's setting . " Samuel Adams . In England the Stamp Act created . hardly a ripple of ...
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... bills were hurried through Parlia- ment removing the tax on tea , repealing the Boston Port Bill , restoring to Massachu- setts its former government , and proclaiming full and gen- eral pardon to all Americans who had joined in the ...
... bills were hurried through Parlia- ment removing the tax on tea , repealing the Boston Port Bill , restoring to Massachu- setts its former government , and proclaiming full and gen- eral pardon to all Americans who had joined in the ...
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Page 396 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 610 - State having jurisdiction of the crime. 3 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.1 SECTION 3.
Page 426 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 296 - 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 543 - Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.
Page 375 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 396 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Page 134 - MARYLAND Samuel Chase Wm. Paca Thos. Stone Charles Carroll of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Th. Jefferson Benja. Harrison Ths.
Page 410 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 276 - The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.