Webster's Guide to American History: A Chronological, Geographical, and Biographical Survey and CompendiumCharles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry Merriam-Webster, 1971 - 1428 pages |
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... million a year by 1512 . 1497 May 2 - Aug . 6. John Cabot , Venetian resident of England , explores Newfoundland coast for Henry VII in further search of Asia . In 1498 , subsequent voyage by Cabot in search of Japan and the Spice ...
... million a year by 1512 . 1497 May 2 - Aug . 6. John Cabot , Venetian resident of England , explores Newfoundland coast for Henry VII in further search of Asia . In 1498 , subsequent voyage by Cabot in search of Japan and the Spice ...
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... million copies over 150 years ; it is the only textbook used in colonial grade schools for 50 years after publication . Besides illus- trated ABC , book contains moral texts . 1692 Massachusetts act reviving compulsory education laws is ...
... million copies over 150 years ; it is the only textbook used in colonial grade schools for 50 years after publication . Besides illus- trated ABC , book contains moral texts . 1692 Massachusetts act reviving compulsory education laws is ...
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... million . Then I saw a swamping gun As large as logs of maple Upon a very little cart , A load for Father's cattle . Every time they shot it off It took a horn of powder And made a noise like father's gun Only a nation louder . There I ...
... million . Then I saw a swamping gun As large as logs of maple Upon a very little cart , A load for Father's cattle . Every time they shot it off It took a horn of powder And made a noise like father's gun Only a nation louder . There I ...
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... million fund for support of Army , the 12 " Confederated Colonies " to share the burden according to popula- tion . ( Georgia is not yet officially repre- sented at Convention . ) May 10. Benedict Arnold and Ethan Al- len lead small ...
... million fund for support of Army , the 12 " Confederated Colonies " to share the burden according to popula- tion . ( Georgia is not yet officially repre- sented at Convention . ) May 10. Benedict Arnold and Ethan Al- len lead small ...
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... million in paper money ( " Continentals " ) . In January paper currency is valued , relative to coin , at 8 to 1 , but by December it has fallen to 40 to 1 . At the December rate , $ 120 million ( actual- ly only $ 3 million ) is ...
... million in paper money ( " Continentals " ) . In January paper currency is valued , relative to coin , at 8 to 1 , but by December it has fallen to 40 to 1 . At the December rate , $ 120 million ( actual- ly only $ 3 million ) is ...
Contents
V | 638 |
VI | 650 |
VII | 658 |
VIII | 672 |
IX | 678 |
X | 684 |
XI | 690 |
XII | 698 |
XVIII | 756 |
XIX | 766 |
XX | 771 |
XXI | 775 |
XXII | 777 |
XXIII | 779 |
XXIV | 780 |
XXV | 785 |
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Page 68 - II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.
Page 608 - I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
Page 99 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 122 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 514 - It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace. Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.
Page 223 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government- proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 223 - 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.0
Page 92 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 331 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
Page 393 - With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...