The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado pptx

... here they have been The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado 1 destruction was senseless and useless, and was probably only a blind and instinctive reaction against hardships. Those ... experience. There is an instance of a priest from Santa Clara, sued before the alcalde of San José for a breach of contract. His plea w...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... those of seaboard Virginia but of America. Many are the great men who have owed their debt to a mother's loving helpfulness and alert understanding. Marshall, on the other hand, was his father's ... Marshall accepted the appointment. The task despaired of by Jay and abandoned by Ellsworth was at last in capable hands. CHAPTER II. Marshall's Early Years...

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... cede also the islands of Grenada and the Grenadines, the islands of St. Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago, and the River Senegal with all of its forts and factories; and that she would for the future ... taxes. The advantages promised by an increase of the revenue are all fallacious and delusive. You will lose more than you will gain. Britain already reaps the...

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... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other. As in the parallel case of ... Greenback candidates. Approximately two-thirds of the strength of the party was in the Middle West and one-third in the East. That the movement, even in the East...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... large part to the mother country. She established councils and committees of trade and plantations, and, by the seizure of New Netherland in 1664 and the grant of the Carolinas and the Bahamas ... man, had made the grand tour of the Continent, and was familiar with official traditions and the ways of the court. Soon after his arrival in England, he bec...

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... miles east and west. This is the Great Slave Lake; Hearne speaks of it as Athaspuscow Lake. The latter name is the same as that now given to another lake (Athabaska of Canadian maps) the word ... he was one of 'Nelson's men' and had fought at Copenhagen and Trafalgar, his feats as an explorer in the unknown wilds of North America and the torrid seas...

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... protect the ports, and to increase the naval armament; and Adams was placed in a much better position to maintain neutrality than Washington had been. Fear of another outbreak of yellow fever accelerated ... Maclay as a lawyer's wrangle. The bill was put into shape by the Senate, and reached the House toward the close of the session when the struggle ove...

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... six electoral votes of California and came near getting the three votes of Oregon also. In the popular vote of the whole country, Garfield had a plurality of less than ten thousand in a total ... and industry. In times of war, the Treasury served as a financial conduit; peace had now made it a catch basin whose excess accumulations embarrassed the Treasur...

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... deep-laid plot had menaced the rights and liberties of the French-Canadian people; and their anger was roused against what Neilson described as &apos ;the handful of intrigants' who had planned ... this affair spread rapidly through the parishes, and greatly encouraged the Patriotes to resist the arrest of Papineau and his lieutenants. Papineau, Nelson, Brown, a...

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