A New History of the United States: The Greater Republic; Embracing the Growth and Achievements of Our Country from the Earliest Days of Discovery and Settlement to the Present Eventful Year ...Butler & Alger, 1899 - 647 páginas |
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... hundred years is a brief interval in the long epoch of human history , yet within that short period the United States has developed from a handful of hardy men and women , thinly scattered along our Atlantic coast , into a vast and ...
... hundred years is a brief interval in the long epoch of human history , yet within that short period the United States has developed from a handful of hardy men and women , thinly scattered along our Atlantic coast , into a vast and ...
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... hundred years afterwards , New York and Philadelphia had over one million each , and Chicago , a city not sixty years old , shared with them this honor . As for cities surpassing those of a century before , they were hundreds in number ...
... hundred years afterwards , New York and Philadelphia had over one million each , and Chicago , a city not sixty years old , shared with them this honor . As for cities surpassing those of a century before , they were hundreds in number ...
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... hundred and eighty thousand miles of length has no rival in any country upon the earth . To it may be added the Morse system of telegraphy , the telephone and phonograph , the electric light and electric motor , and all that wonderful ...
... hundred and eighty thousand miles of length has no rival in any country upon the earth . To it may be added the Morse system of telegraphy , the telephone and phonograph , the electric light and electric motor , and all that wonderful ...
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... hundred years . AMERIGO VESPUCCI . few years . THE MOUND BUILDERS . Nevertheless , the country was peopled with savages , who lived by hunting and fishing and were scattered over the vast area from the Pacific to the Atlan- tic and from ...
... hundred years . AMERIGO VESPUCCI . few years . THE MOUND BUILDERS . Nevertheless , the country was peopled with savages , who lived by hunting and fishing and were scattered over the vast area from the Pacific to the Atlan- tic and from ...
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... hundred years ago . Other leading powers were England , France , and Holland , and all of them soon began a scramble for new lands on the other side of the Atlantic . Spain , hav- ing been the first , had a great advantage , and she was ...
... hundred years ago . Other leading powers were England , France , and Holland , and all of them soon began a scramble for new lands on the other side of the Atlantic . Spain , hav- ing been the first , had a great advantage , and she was ...
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A. P. Hill Adams advance American attack battle became began Boston British campaign Captain captured Carolina cavalry Charleston Colonel colonies command Commodore compelled Confederacy Confederate Congress Cornwallis crossed declared defeat defense Democrat early enemy England expedition Federal fighting fire fleet followed force France French garrison gave governor Grant guns harbor hundred Indians Island Jackson James Jefferson John John Adams Johnston killed land leader Lincoln Longstreet March Martin Van Buren Maryland Massachusetts McClellan Mexican miles military Mississippi Missouri Missouri Compromise night North officers Ohio ordered party passed patriots Pennsylvania Philadelphia Potomac President PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION prisoners reached reinforcements Republican retreat Richmond river Senate sent settlement Sherman ships shot slavery soldiers soon South South Carolina Spain Stonewall Jackson surrender Tennessee territory tion took town treaty troops Union army United United States Senate vessels Vice-President victory Virginia Washington West Whig William wounded York
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Página 165 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad ; of your safety ; of your prosperity ; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Página 389 - I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Página 166 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 548 - Whereas, the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States...
Página 582 - The inhabitants of the territories over which Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty shall be secured in the free exercise of their religion.
Página 581 - Spain cedes to the United States the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies and the island of Guam in the Marianas or Ladrones.
Página 582 - ... individual, of every kind, of either Government, or of its citizens or subjects, against the other Government, that may have arisen since the beginning of the late insurrection in Cuba and prior to the exchange of ratifications of the present treaty, including all claims for indemnity for the cost of the war. The United States will adjudicate and settle the claims of its citizens against Spain relinquished in this article.
Página 582 - The Spaniards residing in the territories over which Spain by this treaty cedes or relinquishes her sovereignty shall be subject in matters civil as well as criminal to the jurisdiction of the courts of the country wherein they reside, pursuant to the ordinary laws governing the same; and they shall have the right to appear before such courts, and to pursue the same course as citizens of the country to which the courts belong.
Página 588 - Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun, the pulsing of its surf-beat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud...
Página 548 - First— That the people of the island of Cuba are, and of right ought to be, free and independent. Second— That it is the duty of the United States to demand, and the government of the United States does hereby demand, that the Government of Spain at once relinquish its authority and government in the island of Cuba, and withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban...