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... lives in such a mysterious and perilous undertaking . Three vessels were finally fitted out , the Santa Maria , Three in charge of Columbus himself , and the Niņa and the vessels are Pinta , in charge of the Pinzon brothers , navigators ...
... lives in such a mysterious and perilous undertaking . Three vessels were finally fitted out , the Santa Maria , Three in charge of Columbus himself , and the Niņa and the vessels are Pinta , in charge of the Pinzon brothers , navigators ...
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... live in magnificent stone houses and to use household utensils made of solid gold and silver . These reports beguiled Coronado and his followers into the interior . They found the " Seven Cities , " but they also found that the people ...
... live in magnificent stone houses and to use household utensils made of solid gold and silver . These reports beguiled Coronado and his followers into the interior . They found the " Seven Cities , " but they also found that the people ...
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... live with the Indians , and are spoken of to this day as Raleigh's " lost colony . " - 48. Trading Companies , when Individuals failed , were organized to found Colonies . It soon became evident that colonization in America was too ...
... live with the Indians , and are spoken of to this day as Raleigh's " lost colony . " - 48. Trading Companies , when Individuals failed , were organized to found Colonies . It soon became evident that colonization in America was too ...
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... live as Englishmen . They made arrangements with the Virginia Company for the planting of a colony near the present location of New Jersey . On Novem- A part of the congregation left Holland in 1620 and stopped in England on the way to ...
... live as Englishmen . They made arrangements with the Virginia Company for the planting of a colony near the present location of New Jersey . On Novem- A part of the congregation left Holland in 1620 and stopped in England on the way to ...
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... lives . This was one of the fiercest Indian battles ever fought on American soil . Finally Philip and his army , greatly reduced in numbers , were driven into a swamp near the bay , and on August 12 , 1676 , the great leader was shot ...
... lives . This was one of the fiercest Indian battles ever fought on American soil . Finally Philip and his army , greatly reduced in numbers , were driven into a swamp near the bay , and on August 12 , 1676 , the great leader was shot ...
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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.