New Primary History of the United StatesB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899 - 238 pages |
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Page 105
... Congress . - It was so plain that there would be a war that the colonists made up their minds to fix on some plans . So the wisest of them came to- 1774 gether at Philadelphia , and declared that the colonies would not have anything ...
... Congress . - It was so plain that there would be a war that the colonists made up their minds to fix on some plans . So the wisest of them came to- 1774 gether at Philadelphia , and declared that the colonies would not have anything ...
Page 106
... Congress meet ? 14 . What did it declare ? 15. Who made himself about this time famous by his speeches ? 16. How did the British troops in Boston get on with the people ? 17. What did the colonies get ready for ? 18. What steps did they ...
... Congress meet ? 14 . What did it declare ? 15. Who made himself about this time famous by his speeches ? 16. How did the British troops in Boston get on with the people ? 17. What did the colonies get ready for ? 18. What steps did they ...
Page 109
... Congress met in Philadelphia and chose George Washington as commander - in - chief of the American forces . Washington came to Boston soon after the battle of Bunker Hill and laid siege to the city . He made strong works on Dorchester ...
... Congress met in Philadelphia and chose George Washington as commander - in - chief of the American forces . Washington came to Boston soon after the battle of Bunker Hill and laid siege to the city . He made strong works on Dorchester ...
Page 111
... Congress of 1776 , Richard Henry Lee of Virginia moved that " These United Colonies are and ought to be free and independent . " John Adams of Massa- chusetts seconded the motion , and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia was ap- pointed to ...
... Congress of 1776 , Richard Henry Lee of Virginia moved that " These United Colonies are and ought to be free and independent . " John Adams of Massa- chusetts seconded the motion , and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia was ap- pointed to ...
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... Congress , one after another , fixed their signatures to the paper . There were Benjamin Franklin . little flashes of humor as there will sometimes be in the most serious matters . John Hancock remarked , " We must be unanimous , we ...
... Congress , one after another , fixed their signatures to the paper . There were Benjamin Franklin . little flashes of humor as there will sometimes be in the most serious matters . John Hancock remarked , " We must be unanimous , we ...
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Page 222 - In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests which give us the right and the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop.
Page 111 - Resolved, that these United Colonies are and ought to be free and independent States...
Page 222 - Spain from the island, and empowered the President to use the military and naval forces of the United States to carry the resolutions into effect.
Page 174 - Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was elected president, and Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, vicepresident, of the Confederate States of America.
Page 136 - He died in 1799; it was well said of him that he was " first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-countrymen." OUTLINE. The English colonists learned their own strength during the French and Indian War. They were not represented in the English Parliament, and objected to taxation without representation. Parliament passed in 1765 the Stamp Act. But it could not...
Page 209 - Maury furnished the brains, England gave the money, and I did the work.
Page 222 - First, that the people of the Island of Cuba are, and by right ought to be, free and independent.
Page 149 - But in 1820 an agreement was reached, known as the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was admitted as a slave State and Maine as a free State...
Page 130 - ... March. They are to hold for two years, but the precise hour for the commencement of that term of two years is nowhere fixed by constitutional or legal provision. It has been established by usage and by inference, and very properly established, that, since the first Congress commenced its existence on the first Wednesday in March, 1789, which happened to be the...
Page 222 - Cuba, and that after it had been pacified we would "leave the government and control of the island to its people...