The Story of American Democracy, Political and IndustrialAllyn and Bacon, 1922 - 791 pages |
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... began to lish roots play each its indispensable part in making this of American composite nation . Even in the closing colonial period , Frenchman , Dutchman , German , gave us much of our blood and our thought ; and , later still ...
... began to lish roots play each its indispensable part in making this of American composite nation . Even in the closing colonial period , Frenchman , Dutchman , German , gave us much of our blood and our thought ; and , later still ...
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... began his control by reappointing the old governor and Council in Virginia and giving them full authority to rule the colony . The instructions to these officers made no mention of an Assembly . Indeed James planned a permanently ...
... began his control by reappointing the old governor and Council in Virginia and giving them full authority to rule the colony . The instructions to these officers made no mention of an Assembly . Indeed James planned a permanently ...
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... began , with that special purpose . ment This new movement was due to a new danger to Puritan- ism in England . For years , despite the strenuous efforts of the Puritans , the English Church had been The coloniz- carried farther and ...
... began , with that special purpose . ment This new movement was due to a new danger to Puritan- ism in England . For years , despite the strenuous efforts of the Puritans , the English Church had been The coloniz- carried farther and ...
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... began again . Soon after , the King seemed for a time to have established a legal claim to the power of arbitrary taxation ( in the famous " ship - money " controversy ) . This gave new im- petus to the Puritan emigration , and it went ...
... began again . Soon after , the King seemed for a time to have established a legal claim to the power of arbitrary taxation ( in the famous " ship - money " controversy ) . This gave new im- petus to the Puritan emigration , and it went ...
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... began also to breed cattle . The fisheries furnished some profitable export to England , to at the — help pay for European supplies ; and from the woods that reached to their doors , the settlers fashioned staves staves and clapboards ...
... began also to breed cattle . The fisheries furnished some profitable export to England , to at the — help pay for European supplies ; and from the woods that reached to their doors , the settlers fashioned staves staves and clapboards ...
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