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... Measures A Bill of Rights Adopted ; Two States Admitted Federalists and Republicans 186 189 190 191 194 XIX TROUBLE ABROAD AND AT HOME Foreign Relations 197 The Whisky Insurrection 201 64 A Westward - Moving People The Close of ...
... Measures A Bill of Rights Adopted ; Two States Admitted Federalists and Republicans 186 189 190 191 194 XIX TROUBLE ABROAD AND AT HOME Foreign Relations 197 The Whisky Insurrection 201 64 A Westward - Moving People The Close of ...
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Samuel Eagle Forman. In some cases the colonial assemblies took measures to protect the natives from the rapacity of the whites . In the royal and proprietary provinces the land of the colo- Quit- nists was subject to a quit - rent to be ...
Samuel Eagle Forman. In some cases the colonial assemblies took measures to protect the natives from the rapacity of the whites . In the royal and proprietary provinces the land of the colo- Quit- nists was subject to a quit - rent to be ...
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... measures were taken to establish the Anglican faith in this colony , but the effort was attended with but little success ; Puritanism remained supreme . In all the New England colo- nies except Rhode Island , where the Baptists were the ...
... measures were taken to establish the Anglican faith in this colony , but the effort was attended with but little success ; Puritanism remained supreme . In all the New England colo- nies except Rhode Island , where the Baptists were the ...
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... measure of local independence . Massa- chusetts a Royal Province The Government was in the hands of a propertied class , much as it was in England , for in all the colonies suffrage was re- Suffrage stricted to property - holders or ...
... measure of local independence . Massa- chusetts a Royal Province The Government was in the hands of a propertied class , much as it was in England , for in all the colonies suffrage was re- Suffrage stricted to property - holders or ...
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... measures of Parliament ( p . 66 ) had done their work so effec- tively that by 1760 the manufacturing industries were of less importance than they had been in 1700. From one end of the seaboard to the other the people depended upon ...
... measures of Parliament ( p . 66 ) had done their work so effec- tively that by 1760 the manufacturing industries were of less importance than they had been in 1700. From one end of the seaboard to the other the people depended upon ...
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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.