New Primary History of the United StatesB.F. Johnson Publishing Company, 1899 - 238 pages |
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... took possession of the lands discovered by Co- lumbus , and founded colonies on them . The Spaniards were very anxious to get rich , and they treated the Indians very cruelly . They made slaves of them in the West Indies , and worked ...
... took possession of the lands discovered by Co- lumbus , and founded colonies on them . The Spaniards were very anxious to get rich , and they treated the Indians very cruelly . They made slaves of them in the West Indies , and worked ...
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... took three to England . When the Cabots got back , King Henry was so delighted with what they told him that he gave them £ 10 ( $ 50 ) for their discovery . Henry was a very stingy king , so this gift shows you how highly he prized what ...
... took three to England . When the Cabots got back , King Henry was so delighted with what they told him that he gave them £ 10 ( $ 50 ) for their discovery . Henry was a very stingy king , so this gift shows you how highly he prized what ...
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... took nearly all of South America except Brazil , and wanted to get all of North America . They already had Central America , Mexico and Florida . They had found a great deal of gold in South America and Mexico , and many men had become ...
... took nearly all of South America except Brazil , and wanted to get all of North America . They already had Central America , Mexico and Florida . They had found a great deal of gold in South America and Mexico , and many men had become ...
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... took with him . killed him . But it was the work of La Salle which gave France the claim to Louisiana . QUESTIONS . - 1 . Tell what you know of Balboa . 2. What did he discover ? 3. What did he claim for the King of Spain ? 4 . Who was ...
... took with him . killed him . But it was the work of La Salle which gave France the claim to Louisiana . QUESTIONS . - 1 . Tell what you know of Balboa . 2. What did he discover ? 3. What did he claim for the King of Spain ? 4 . Who was ...
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... 2. Francis Drake . In the sixteenth century the English were often at war with the Spaniards . There was one bold English sailor who often stopped the Spanish ships at sea and took from them large sums OF THE UNITED STATES . 29.
... 2. Francis Drake . In the sixteenth century the English were often at war with the Spaniards . There was one bold English sailor who often stopped the Spanish ships at sea and took from them large sums OF THE UNITED STATES . 29.
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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...