A Brief History of the United StatesAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 332 pages |
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... vote . Religious toleration was enjoyed . Virginia be- came almost an independent republic . Slavery Introduced . - In 1619 , the captain of a Dutch trading vessel sold to the colonists twenty negroes . They were employed in cultivating ...
... vote . Religious toleration was enjoyed . Virginia be- came almost an independent republic . Slavery Introduced . - In 1619 , the captain of a Dutch trading vessel sold to the colonists twenty negroes . They were employed in cultivating ...
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... voting to " freeholders and housekeepers " , and imposed on Quakers a monthly fine of one hundred dollars for absence from worship in the English Church . Two parties gradually sprung up in their midst : one , the 1622. ] 51 DEVELOPMENT ...
... voting to " freeholders and housekeepers " , and imposed on Quakers a monthly fine of one hundred dollars for absence from worship in the English Church . Two parties gradually sprung up in their midst : one , the 1622. ] 51 DEVELOPMENT ...
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... vote in civil affairs . Roger Williams , an eloquent and pious young minister , taught that each person should think for himself in all religious matters , and be responsible to his own conscience alone . He declared that the ...
... vote in civil affairs . Roger Williams , an eloquent and pious young minister , taught that each person should think for himself in all religious matters , and be responsible to his own conscience alone . He declared that the ...
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... vote . 2. The CONNECTICUT COLONY , proper , comprising Hart- ford , Wethersfield , and Windsor , adopted a written constitu- tion in which it was agreed to give to all freemen the right to vote . This was THE FIRST INSTANCE IN HISTORY ...
... vote . 2. The CONNECTICUT COLONY , proper , comprising Hart- ford , Wethersfield , and Windsor , adopted a written constitu- tion in which it was agreed to give to all freemen the right to vote . This was THE FIRST INSTANCE IN HISTORY ...
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... voting and office - holding ; but also provided that no one believing in " Almighty God " should be molested in his religious views . The Quakers , having been persecuted themselves , did not celebrate their liberty by persecuting and ...
... voting and office - holding ; but also provided that no one believing in " Almighty God " should be molested in his religious views . The Quakers , having been persecuted themselves , did not celebrate their liberty by persecuting and ...
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Page xxviii - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page xii - I am not worth purchasing; but such as I am, the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to do it.
Page xix - He has called together legislative bodies, at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
Page 102 - I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
Page xxi - PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin Franklin John Morton George Clymer James Smith George...
Page xix - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 242 - From time to time I added or changed a line, touching it up here and there, anxiously watching the progress of events. Well, the next news we had was of Pope's disaster, at Bull Run. Things looked darker than ever. Finally, came the week of the battle of Antietam. I determined to wait no longer. The news came, I think, on Wednesday, that the advantage was on our side. I was then staying at the Soldiers...
Page 293 - Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, and Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana. The independent greenback party selected Peter Cooper, of New York, and Samuel F.
Page xxxv - ... assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void. SECTION 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. ARTICLE XV SECTION 1.
Page xxii - The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature.