An Elementary History of Our CountryHoughton Mifflin Company, 1914 - 256 pages |
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... SLAVERY 129 141 154 168 183 197 XXI . THE CIVIL WAR 208 · XXII . THE LATTER YEARS OF THE CENTURY XXIII . THE UNITED STATES AS A WORLD POWER XXIV . OUR COUNTRY TO - DAY 229 241 251 · INDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY IMPORTANT DATES IN ...
... SLAVERY 129 141 154 168 183 197 XXI . THE CIVIL WAR 208 · XXII . THE LATTER YEARS OF THE CENTURY XXIII . THE UNITED STATES AS A WORLD POWER XXIV . OUR COUNTRY TO - DAY 229 241 251 · INDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY IMPORTANT DATES IN ...
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... slavery introduced into America . 1620 Massachusetts first settled at Plymouth . 1623 New Hampshire first settled at Dover . 1625 Maine first settled at Pemaquid Point . 1630 Boston founded . 1634 Maryland first settled at St. Mary's ...
... slavery introduced into America . 1620 Massachusetts first settled at Plymouth . 1623 New Hampshire first settled at Dover . 1625 Maine first settled at Pemaquid Point . 1630 Boston founded . 1634 Maryland first settled at St. Mary's ...
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... slavery . The Virginians were cultivating great plantations of tobacco , and they needed many laborers . It became the custom in England to send over shiploads of criminals to serve the planters for a term. SPEAKER'S CHAIR , HOUSE OF ...
... slavery . The Virginians were cultivating great plantations of tobacco , and they needed many laborers . It became the custom in England to send over shiploads of criminals to serve the planters for a term. SPEAKER'S CHAIR , HOUSE OF ...
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... slaves . So began that slavery which , two centuries later , had so much to do with bringing about the great Civil War that came near making our United States the divided states . Thus in the same year an English colony first began to ...
... slaves . So began that slavery which , two centuries later , had so much to do with bringing about the great Civil War that came near making our United States the divided states . Thus in the same year an English colony first began to ...
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... slaves were brought from Africa . The occupations of the two parts of Caro- Division of the Caroli- lina were so unlike and the first settlements so far apart , that what one portion of the country wanted was often quite different from ...
... slaves were brought from Africa . The occupations of the two parts of Caro- Division of the Caroli- lina were so unlike and the first settlements so far apart , that what one portion of the country wanted was often quite different from ...
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Page 248 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 142 - You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British regulars fired and fled, How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
Page 222 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition ; also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 43 - I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their dripping-pans and their chamber-pots are pure gold, and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold. All the prisoners they take are fettered in gold. And for rubies and diamonds, they go forth on holidays and gather them by the sea-shore to hang on their children's coats and stick in their caps, as commonly as our children wear saffron gilt brooches and groats with holes in them.
Page 135 - ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...