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The English sovereigns shared in the profits of the trade and encouraged the
Virginians to buy as many black men as they could pay for . Before the American
Revolution , every one of the thirteen colonies held more or less slaves . But the ...
The English sovereigns shared in the profits of the trade and encouraged the
Virginians to buy as many black men as they could pay for . Before the American
Revolution , every one of the thirteen colonies held more or less slaves . But the ...
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Here then was the situation in 1621 : In Florida a few hundred Spaniards held a
fort ( St. Augustine ) on the coast ; at Quebec a small number of French Catholics
, who had gone there in 1608 , held another fort ; on the Hudson River a thrifty ...
Here then was the situation in 1621 : In Florida a few hundred Spaniards held a
fort ( St. Augustine ) on the coast ; at Quebec a small number of French Catholics
, who had gone there in 1608 , held another fort ; on the Hudson River a thrifty ...
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He empowered these two noblemen to collect all landrents and receive all
revenues ; and though they could not actually dispossess any settler who held
his estate by a clear title , they could compel him to prove his title 38 ( 1660-1673
.
He empowered these two noblemen to collect all landrents and receive all
revenues ; and though they could not actually dispossess any settler who held
his estate by a clear title , they could compel him to prove his title 38 ( 1660-1673
.
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To add to the miseries of the colonists , no general election had been held since
Governor Berkeley's restoration to office a period of thirteen years . Such a state
of things virtually deprived the colonists of representation in the Assembly .
To add to the miseries of the colonists , no general election had been held since
Governor Berkeley's restoration to office a period of thirteen years . Such a state
of things virtually deprived the colonists of representation in the Assembly .
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He held his estate “ as a perpetual inheritance , " and by handing it down in the
line of the eldest son could keep his vast property undivided in his family forever .
On the other hand , all emigrants taken or sent out to New Netherland by a ...
He held his estate “ as a perpetual inheritance , " and by handing it down in the
line of the eldest son could keep his vast property undivided in his family forever .
On the other hand , all emigrants taken or sent out to New Netherland by a ...
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Страница iv - States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
Страница ix - To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of...
Страница xiv - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Страница x - No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation ; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal ; coin Money ; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts ; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Страница 428 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Страница viii - The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day.
Страница xiv - 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.
Страница vii - 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 405 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Страница vi - I have, said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
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| Наслов | The Student's American History Leading facts of history series, David Henry Montgomery |
| Аутор | David Henry Montgomery |
| Издавач | Ginn, 1901 |
| Оригинал из | Универзитет Калифорније |
| Дигитализовано | 28 нов. 2007 |
| Дужина | 553 страница |
| Извоз навода | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |