New Primary History of the United StatesB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899 - 238 pages |
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... West , 1861 .. 183 XL . War on the Sea and in Virginia , 1862 . 187 XLI . War in Virginia , 1862 ..... 192 XLII . War in the East , 1863 - War in the West , 1863 .... 195 XLIII . Close of the War .. 199 Period VII . Since the War ...
... West , 1861 .. 183 XL . War on the Sea and in Virginia , 1862 . 187 XLI . War in Virginia , 1862 ..... 192 XLII . War in the East , 1863 - War in the West , 1863 .... 195 XLIII . Close of the War .. 199 Period VII . Since the War ...
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... Lee. O EAST INDIES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES PERIOD I. DISCOVERIES . GEOGRAPHY. 00000000 000 00000 GELAND EUROPE ASIA THE KNOWN - WORLD IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY . 000000 40 A N 105 Longitude West 120 MT.BAKER D Spokane.
... Lee. O EAST INDIES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES PERIOD I. DISCOVERIES . GEOGRAPHY. 00000000 000 00000 GELAND EUROPE ASIA THE KNOWN - WORLD IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY . 000000 40 A N 105 Longitude West 120 MT.BAKER D Spokane.
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... Western Continent , containing North and South America on the other . But long ago the very wisest people did not know ... west . A great many ships came to Genoa , and Christo- pher Columbus would go down to the wharves and talk to the ...
... Western Continent , containing North and South America on the other . But long ago the very wisest people did not know ... west . A great many ships came to Genoa , and Christo- pher Columbus would go down to the wharves and talk to the ...
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... west- ward . 5. The Queen of Spain Helps Columbus . - Colum- bus thought that he could get to India by going to the west , and , like a brave man , made up his mind to try it . He was very poor , and could not himself provide for such a ...
... west- ward . 5. The Queen of Spain Helps Columbus . - Colum- bus thought that he could get to India by going to the west , and , like a brave man , made up his mind to try it . He was very poor , and could not himself provide for such a ...
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Susan Pendleton Lee. west , King John would not help Columbus . Columbus then applied to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain . Ferdi- nand did not think that Columbus could reach India by sailing to the west . The wise men of the Spanish ...
Susan Pendleton Lee. west , King John would not help Columbus . Columbus then applied to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain . Ferdi- nand did not think that Columbus could reach India by sailing to the west . The wise men of the Spanish ...
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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...