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... Columbus Other Expeditions to the New World The Exploration of the Interior PHYSICAL FEATURES · IV . THE COLONIZATION OF THE SOUTH Virginia . Maryland The Carolinas . Georgia V. THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES Plymouth • • Massachusetts Bay ...
... Columbus Other Expeditions to the New World The Exploration of the Interior PHYSICAL FEATURES · IV . THE COLONIZATION OF THE SOUTH Virginia . Maryland The Carolinas . Georgia V. THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES Plymouth • • Massachusetts Bay ...
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... Columbus Statue at Genoa Columbus's Departure from Palos Continental Paper Money . Cotton Gin , Modern . Cotton Gin , The First Culebra Cut , Panama Davis , Jefferson * PAGE 245 287 124 Facing 331 450 386 296 367 302 91 Facing 298 • 174 ...
... Columbus Statue at Genoa Columbus's Departure from Palos Continental Paper Money . Cotton Gin , Modern . Cotton Gin , The First Culebra Cut , Panama Davis , Jefferson * PAGE 245 287 124 Facing 331 450 386 296 367 302 91 Facing 298 • 174 ...
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... Columbus . 2. Trade Routes to the East 3. The Voyages of Columbus . 4. Magellan's Expedition 5. Physical Map of the United States 6. Grants of Land to the London and Plymouth Colonies 7. The Southern Colonies 8. The New England Colonies ...
... Columbus . 2. Trade Routes to the East 3. The Voyages of Columbus . 4. Magellan's Expedition 5. Physical Map of the United States 6. Grants of Land to the London and Plymouth Colonies 7. The Southern Colonies 8. The New England Colonies ...
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... Columbus in 1492 should be looked upon as the outgrowth of that remarkable revival in learning , industry , commerce , and navigation which took place in the latter part of the Middle Ages . The stream of civilization had penetrated to ...
... Columbus in 1492 should be looked upon as the outgrowth of that remarkable revival in learning , industry , commerce , and navigation which took place in the latter part of the Middle Ages . The stream of civilization had penetrated to ...
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... Columbus about five hundred years later . 17. The Discovery of America by Columbus grew out of the Renaissance . It was stated in the previous chapter that the discovery of America grew out of that remarkable revival in learning ...
... Columbus about five hundred years later . 17. The Discovery of America by Columbus grew out of the Renaissance . It was stated in the previous chapter that the discovery of America grew out of that remarkable revival in learning ...
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Page xxxii - ... on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Page xxix - Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page xxv - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 409 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure We are met on a great battle-field of that war We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live...
Page 475 - He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. 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.
Page xxi - The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.
Page 145 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 475 - Fras. Hopkinson, John Hart, Abra. Clark. Pennsylvania. Robt. Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benja. Franklin, John Morton, Geo. Clymer, Jas. Smith, Geo. Taylor, James Wilson, Geo. Ross.
Page xxviii - No Person held to Service or Labor in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labor, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labor may be due.
Page 476 - States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. ARTICLE I. SECTION I. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested In a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.