New Primary History of the United StatesB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899 - 238 pages |
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... Geography questions indi- cates , they should be used by the teacher before ques- tioning the pupils upon the text . The questions on the text are intended to be a guide both to the pupil and to the teacher . Before using these ...
... Geography questions indi- cates , they should be used by the teacher before ques- tioning the pupils upon the text . The questions on the text are intended to be a guide both to the pupil and to the teacher . Before using these ...
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Susan Pendleton Lee. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES PERIOD I. DISCOVERIES . GEOGRAPHY QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER I. Map of Europe - 1 . In what part of Europe is Norway ? 2. In what direction is Iceland from Norway ? Greenland from Iceland ? 3 ...
Susan Pendleton Lee. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES PERIOD I. DISCOVERIES . GEOGRAPHY QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER I. Map of Europe - 1 . In what part of Europe is Norway ? 2. In what direction is Iceland from Norway ? Greenland from Iceland ? 3 ...
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Susan Pendleton Lee. 2. Old Ideas of Geography . — You know that the world is ... geography ; and some of them began to think that the earth might be round ... questions about all the countries they had visited . He wished very much to ...
Susan Pendleton Lee. 2. Old Ideas of Geography . — You know that the world is ... geography ; and some of them began to think that the earth might be round ... questions about all the countries they had visited . He wished very much to ...
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... GEOGRAPHY QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER II . Map of Europe - 1 . On what arm of the Mediterranean Sea is Venice ? 2. In what part of England is Bristol ? Map of the World - 3 . If you were to sail due west from England , what part of North ...
... GEOGRAPHY QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER II . Map of Europe - 1 . On what arm of the Mediterranean Sea is Venice ? 2. In what part of England is Bristol ? Map of the World - 3 . If you were to sail due west from England , what part of North ...
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... GEOGRAPHY QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER III . Map of North America - 1 . What gulf is west of the West Indies ? 2. What isthmus connects North and South America ? 3. What ocean lies west of America ? 4. What State is nearest Porto Rico ? 5. In ...
... GEOGRAPHY QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER III . Map of North America - 1 . What gulf is west of the West Indies ? 2. What isthmus connects North and South America ? 3. What ocean lies west of America ? 4. What State is nearest Porto Rico ? 5. In ...
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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...