A Brief History of the United States: For SchoolsA.S. Barnes & Company, 1871 - 292 страница |
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... formed . The colonists , having homes , now became Virginians . All freemen had the right to vote . Religious toleration was enjoyed . Virginia became almost an independent republic . Slavery Introduced . — In 1620 † the captain of a ...
... formed . The colonists , having homes , now became Virginians . All freemen had the right to vote . Religious toleration was enjoyed . Virginia became almost an independent republic . Slavery Introduced . — In 1620 † the captain of a ...
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For Schools Joel Dorman Steele. friend of the English , the Indians formed a plan for the exter- mination of the colony . So secretly was this managed that on the very morning of the massacre ( March 22 , 1622 ) they visited the houses ...
For Schools Joel Dorman Steele. friend of the English , the Indians formed a plan for the exter- mination of the colony . So secretly was this managed that on the very morning of the massacre ( March 22 , 1622 ) they visited the houses ...
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... formed ( 1643 ) under the title of THE UNITED COLONIES OF NEW ENG- LAND . This was a famous league in colonial times . The object was a common protection against the Indians and the encroachments of the Dutch and French settlers . King ...
... formed ( 1643 ) under the title of THE UNITED COLONIES OF NEW ENG- LAND . This was a famous league in colonial times . The object was a common protection against the Indians and the encroachments of the Dutch and French settlers . King ...
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... formed a confederation of the tribes against the common foe . It was secretly agreed to fall at once upon all the British posts . Eight forts were thus surprised and cap- tured . * Thousands of persons fled from their homes to avoid the ...
... formed a confederation of the tribes against the common foe . It was secretly agreed to fall at once upon all the British posts . Eight forts were thus surprised and cap- tured . * Thousands of persons fled from their homes to avoid the ...
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... formed a hamlet apart , with its gardens and poultry yards . There were large sheds for curing to- bacco , and mills for grinding corn and wheat . Everything necessary for ordinary use was produced on the plantation . Their tobacco was ...
... formed a hamlet apart , with its gardens and poultry yards . There were large sheds for curing to- bacco , and mills for grinding corn and wheat . Everything necessary for ordinary use was produced on the plantation . Their tobacco was ...
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Страница xxxii - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
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Страница xxvi - When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers ; and shall have the sole power of impeachment. SECTION 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six years; and each senator shall have one vote.
Страница xxvii - No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. The vice-president of the United States shall be president of the senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.
Страница xxiv - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Страница 191 - I could not do it. Many a piece did I commit to memory, and recite and rehearse in my own room, over and over again, yet, when the day came, when the school collected to hear declamations, when my name was called, and I saw all eyes turned to my seat, I could not raise myself from it.
Страница xxiv - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Страница 100 - I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.
Страница xxiii - Agreeably to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into their further consideration the Declaration ; and, after some time, the president resumed the chair, and Mr.
Страница 113 - I only regret that I have but one life to give to my country.