The Story of American Democracy, Political and Industrial

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Small, Maynard and Company, 1922 - 791 pages

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Contents

Cincinnati in 1810 after Howe
75
United States growth from 1800 to 1853 Colored
76
Louisiana and West Florida three maps 17561819
78
Explorations in Louisiana Territory Colored
79
The National Road
81
Distribution of population in 1820
83
John Cotton Drakes History and Antiquities of Boston
84
Facsimile from the Body of Liberties
99
Old grist mill 1645 at New London Connecticut
106
PART IICOLONIAL AMERICA 16601763
107
COLONIAL AMERICANS FROM 1690 TO 1763
133
COLONIAL LIFE
145
Pine Tree Shilling Massachusetts Historical Society Collections
154
Essex Institute
160
An American deepseagoing ship
161
Massachusetts paper money of 1690
162
Mount Vernon from a photograph
164
Lexington Green from a photograph
165
Boones Fort
166
SEPARATION FROM ENGLAND 17631783
168
Colonial cartoon reception of a bishop in New England
177
TEN YEARS OF AGITATION 17651774
189
Handbill of New York Sons of Liberty We Dare
191
Facsimile of Pennsylvania Journals announcement of suspension due to Stamp Act
192
Paul Reveres engraving of the landing of British regiments
194
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
206
The Concord Minute Man French
207
The Concord Fight Simmons in Boston State House
208
The Washington Elm at Cambridge photo
209
Facsimile of the first of Jeffersons draft of the Declaration of Inde pendence
211
A continental bill Massachusetts Historical Society
227
Boundaries proposed by France in 1782 Colored facing
233
Crossed swords American and English Massachusetts Historical Society
235
THE MAKING OF THE SECOND WEST
237
Western settlement 17691784
239
A Boone tree
242
Daniel Boone at eightyfive the Harding portrait
243
A NATIONAL DOMAIN
249
The United States in 1783 State claims and cessions Colored facing
251
Manasseh Cutler
256
An old Ohio mill
257
Frontier lines 1774 1790 and 1820 Colored facing
258
THE FEDERAL CONVENTION AND THE CONSTITUTION
272
George Washington Stuart
275
Benjamin Franklin Duplessis
278

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Page 758 - No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. 'The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Page 268 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions which, by this confederation, are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Page 714 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments...
Page 355 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 373 - Union are virtually dissolved ; that the states which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if they can, violently if they must.

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