Essentials in American History (from the Discovery to the Present Day)American Book Company, 1905 - 583 pages |
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... slaves . His five ships were caught in the Mexican port of San Juan de Ulloa by thir- teen Spanish ships ; he fought them all and escaped with two vessels ( 1568 ) . One of Hawkins's captains was Francis Drake , who in 1572 sailed off ...
... slaves . His five ships were caught in the Mexican port of San Juan de Ulloa by thir- teen Spanish ships ; he fought them all and escaped with two vessels ( 1568 ) . One of Hawkins's captains was Francis Drake , who in 1572 sailed off ...
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... slavery . A Dutch man - of - war in Virginia exchanged twenty negro slaves for provisions ; and thus began a new source of labor for the cultivation of tobacco , which quickly became almost the sole industry of Virginia . In 1623 the ...
... slavery . A Dutch man - of - war in Virginia exchanged twenty negro slaves for provisions ; and thus began a new source of labor for the cultivation of tobacco , which quickly became almost the sole industry of Virginia . In 1623 the ...
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... slaves were introduced . ORIGINAL EXTENT OF MARYLAND . Dotted lines are present state boundaries . The first excitement of early Maryland history was a contro- versy over Kent Island in Chesapeake Bay , with William Clay- bourne , who ...
... slaves were introduced . ORIGINAL EXTENT OF MARYLAND . Dotted lines are present state boundaries . The first excitement of early Maryland history was a contro- versy over Kent Island in Chesapeake Bay , with William Clay- bourne , who ...
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... slaves . In 1660 four of them were executed in Boston ; and this rigor so shocked the sense of the community that a new law was passed abolishing the death penalty against the Quakers , but still banishing them . The Quaker episode is a ...
... slaves . In 1660 four of them were executed in Boston ; and this rigor so shocked the sense of the community that a new law was passed abolishing the death penalty against the Quakers , but still banishing them . The Quaker episode is a ...
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... slaves in every colony . Indian slaves were sullen and revengeful , and rapidly died off in confine- ment . Negro slaves were brought chiefly from Guinea , planter and on the west coast of Africa , to the West Indies , and the slave ...
... slaves in every colony . Indian slaves were sullen and revengeful , and rapidly died off in confine- ment . Negro slaves were brought chiefly from Guinea , planter and on the west coast of Africa , to the West Indies , and the slave ...
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Page xxi - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 436 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Page xxviii - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 226 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page xxviii - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page xvi - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 206 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 182 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page xviii - ... §7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. §8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign...
Page 212 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.