The Story of American Democracy, Political and IndustrialAllyn and Bacon, 1922 - 791 pages |
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Willis Mason West. national life . But the forces that have shaped that life the institution - building forces were supplied by the early English settlers . — American history has no primitive period . The earliest colonists had command ...
Willis Mason West. national life . But the forces that have shaped that life the institution - building forces were supplied by the early English settlers . — American history has no primitive period . The earliest colonists had command ...
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... force a military government , with a savage set of laws known as Dale's Code . Among other pro- visions , these laws compelled attendance at divine worship daily , under penalty of six months in the galleys , and on Sundays on pain of ...
... force a military government , with a savage set of laws known as Dale's Code . Among other pro- visions , these laws compelled attendance at divine worship daily , under penalty of six months in the galleys , and on Sundays on pain of ...
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... force in England , had been enacted against Catholics , to blacken the law books through the rest of the colonial period . CHAPTER III NEW ENGLAND AND THE PILGRIMS After all that 46 EARLY MARYLAND The Concord Fight (Simmons in Boston ...
... force in England , had been enacted against Catholics , to blacken the law books through the rest of the colonial period . CHAPTER III NEW ENGLAND AND THE PILGRIMS After all that 46 EARLY MARYLAND The Concord Fight (Simmons in Boston ...
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... forces at work so far in settling New England , except for the Pilgrims at Plymouth , were mainly commercial . But success was to come from a new force just ready to take up the work of colonization . AND ENGLISH PURITANISM 49 This force ...
... forces at work so far in settling New England , except for the Pilgrims at Plymouth , were mainly commercial . But success was to come from a new force just ready to take up the work of colonization . AND ENGLISH PURITANISM 49 This force ...
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Willis Mason West. AND ENGLISH PURITANISM 49 This force was Puritanism . The " established " church in England was the Episcopalian . Within that church the dom- inant party had strong " High - church " leanings Puritanism and was ...
Willis Mason West. AND ENGLISH PURITANISM 49 This force was Puritanism . The " established " church in England was the Episcopalian . Within that church the dom- inant party had strong " High - church " leanings Puritanism and was ...
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