A Junior Class History of the United States: To which are Added the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States ...Maynard, Merrill & Company, 1899 - 382 pages |
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... July , 1619 , dele- gates from each of the eleven plantations met at James- town . This was the first legislative assembly in the New World . 19. Introduction of Slavery . - Slavery was introduced . into the English colonies in 1619. In ...
... July , 1619 , dele- gates from each of the eleven plantations met at James- town . This was the first legislative assembly in the New World . 19. Introduction of Slavery . - Slavery was introduced . into the English colonies in 1619. In ...
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... ( July 4th ) . 21. What expedition was sent out ? What occurred ? 22. Who took the chief command ? What expedition did he lead in person ? His march ? du Quesne , led by Braddock himself . Confident of 1754 ] 107 FRENCH COLONIES AND WARS.
... ( July 4th ) . 21. What expedition was sent out ? What occurred ? 22. Who took the chief command ? What expedition did he lead in person ? His march ? du Quesne , led by Braddock himself . Confident of 1754 ] 107 FRENCH COLONIES AND WARS.
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... ( July ) . * - MONTREAL Longueuil F Chambly La Prairie St Johns * CANADA 9. Expedition against Canada . To prevent the British from using Canada as a base of operations , Con- gress , in 1775 , sent an expedition under Schuyler to take ...
... ( July ) . * - MONTREAL Longueuil F Chambly La Prairie St Johns * CANADA 9. Expedition against Canada . To prevent the British from using Canada as a base of operations , Con- gress , in 1775 , sent an expedition under Schuyler to take ...
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... July , Lee's resolution was passed by a large majority . On the 4th of July , the Declaration , drawn up by Thomas Jefferson , the chairman of the Committee , was unani- " In the hottest fire of the battle , the flag of Fort Sumter was ...
... July , Lee's resolution was passed by a large majority . On the 4th of July , the Declaration , drawn up by Thomas Jefferson , the chairman of the Committee , was unani- " In the hottest fire of the battle , the flag of Fort Sumter was ...
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... JULY was henceforth to be celebrated as the birth - day of the nation . 15. Battle of Long Island , Aug. 27. - About this time , the British , under General Howe , collected their forces on Staten Island , preparatory to an attack on ...
... JULY was henceforth to be celebrated as the birth - day of the nation . 15. Battle of Long Island , Aug. 27. - About this time , the British , under General Howe , collected their forces on Staten Island , preparatory to an attack on ...
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Page 146 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Page 4 - Stephen Hopkins William Ellery CONNECTICUT Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott NEW YORK William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris NEW JERSEY Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin...
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Page 94 - Where the dark scorpion gathers death around, Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake, Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.
Page 2 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 3 - He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 23 - To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction, the sovereigns had ordered their throne to be placed in public, under a rich canopy of brocade of gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen awaited his arrival, seated in state, with the prince Juan beside them, and attended by the dignitaries of their court, and the principal nobility of Castile...
Page 7 - Delaware, December 7, 1787. Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787. New Jersey, December 18, 1787. Georgia, January 2, 1788. Connecticut, January 9, 1788. Massachusetts, February 6, 1788. Maryland, April 28, 1788. South Carolina. May 23, 1788. New Hampshire, June 21, 1788.
Page 238 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 16 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States ; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.