 | United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 512 pages
...added to our domain by force of arms, as a sequel to the adventurous expedition of George Rogers Clarke and his frontier riflemen. Later the treaties of Jay...those generations was the deed of the men who, with pack-train or wagontrain, on horseback, on foot, or by boat upon the waters, pushed the frontier ever... | |
 | Grace Raymond Hebard - 1904 - 268 pages
...States. It has been said this act was by far the greatest work of our people during the years intervening between the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. CHAPTER V. EXPLORERS. Several years before the appropriation was made by Congress for this purchase... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 - 788 pages
...Government and always excepting its preservation, determined the character of our national life—determined that we should be a great expanding Nation instead...or wagon train, on horseback, on foot, or by boat, pushed the frontier ever westward across the continent. Never before had the world seen the kind of... | |
 | United States. President, Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 - 798 pages
...about the acquisition of the vast territory beyond the Mississippi, stretching westward to the Paci which in that day was known as Louisiana. This immense...or wagon train, on horseback, on foot, or by boat, pushed the frontier ever westward across the continent. Never before had the world seen the kind of... | |
 | United States. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission - 1906 - 570 pages
...among those daring and hardy nations who risk much with the hope and desire of winning high potation among the great powers of the earth. As is so often...answering them; but the greatest feat of our forefathers or those generations was the deed of the men, who with pack train or wagon train, on horseback, on... | |
 | Grace Raymond Hebard - 1911 - 282 pages
...Purchase. It has been said that this act was by far the greatest work of our Government during the years between the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. Technically, France did not occupy Louisiana at the time of the purchase. The transfer from Spain had... | |
 | Roland Greene Usher - 1914 - 440 pages
...its framers. XV THE WAR OF 1812 ONE great difficulty we meet in studying the long period bebetween the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 lies in the necessity of remembering that the colonial issues were not completely settled in... | |
 | Grace Raymond Hebard - 1919 - 314 pages
...States. It has been said this act was by far the greatest work of our people during the years intervening between the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. CHAPTER V. Explorers. Several years before the appropriation was made by Congress for this purchase... | |
 | Peter A. Coclanis, Stuart Weems Bruchey - 1999 - 260 pages
...democratization of American politics and political culture, Lacy K. Ford, Jr., argues that between the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War, the US political system was transformed from a "quasi-aristocratic" system to one characterized by... | |
 | Joseph McSorley - 1972 - 320 pages
...Protestant State Church. New Hampshire disqualified all non-Protestants for State office until 1877.* Between the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War the population grew ten times larger; and Catholics became a hundred times more numerous. Thus, instead... | |
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Pacific, which in that day was known as Louisiana. This immense region was admittedly the territory of a foreign power, of a European kingdom. None of our people had ever laid claim to a foot of it. Its acquisition could in no sense be treated as rounding... 