New Primary History of the United StatesB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899 - 238 pages |
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... Quakers bought the western part . William Penn was one of these Quakers . Finally , all of the proprietors gave up their rights , and the different parts were united into one colony under the manage- 1702 ment of the English Crown . New ...
... Quakers bought the western part . William Penn was one of these Quakers . Finally , all of the proprietors gave up their rights , and the different parts were united into one colony under the manage- 1702 ment of the English Crown . New ...
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... Quakers came . You know that the people who are usually called Quakers , call them- selves " Friends . " They are always good people , and do not believe in wars . These Quakers never did any harm in New England , but they were ordered ...
... Quakers came . You know that the people who are usually called Quakers , call them- selves " Friends . " They are always good people , and do not believe in wars . These Quakers never did any harm in New England , but they were ordered ...
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... Quakers to death . 4. John Eliot . - The people of New England did all they could for the Indians . There was one man who was so active in trying to make Christians of the Indians , that he has often been spoken of as the " Apostle to ...
... Quakers to death . 4. John Eliot . - The people of New England did all they could for the Indians . There was one man who was so active in trying to make Christians of the Indians , that he has often been spoken of as the " Apostle to ...
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... Quakers ? 9. What treatment did the Quakers receive from the Puritans ? 10. Who took away from the Puritans the power to persecute the Quakers ? 11. Who was called the Apostle to the Indians ? 12. Tell of the work of John Eliot among ...
... Quakers ? 9. What treatment did the Quakers receive from the Puritans ? 10. Who took away from the Puritans the power to persecute the Quakers ? 11. Who was called the Apostle to the Indians ? 12. Tell of the work of John Eliot among ...
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... Quakers , who were badly treated in England on account of their way of worshipping God . 3. Quakers and Pennsylvania . - In 1682 , about 2,000 of these Quakers came over to settle on Penn's land , 1701 which was called Pennsylvania ...
... Quakers , who were badly treated in England on account of their way of worshipping God . 3. Quakers and Pennsylvania . - In 1682 , about 2,000 of these Quakers came over to settle on Penn's land , 1701 which was called Pennsylvania ...
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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...