HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - CHARLES A BEARD Part 4 pdf

... from the Gulf of Mexico to the southern boundary of Minnesota, and a new commonwealth on the Pacific Ocean where American emigrants had raised the Bear flag of California. THE ADVANCE OF THE ... construction of roads and canals. Early in Jefferson's administration, Congress dedicated a part of the proceeds from the sale of lands to building highways...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... right appear the French-Canadian, the Alaskan, the Latin- American, the German, the Italian, the Anglo-American, and the American Indian, squaw and warrior. In the place of honor in the center of ... have deliberately aimed at standards of maturity. The study of a mere narrative calls mainly for the use of the memory. We have aimed to stimulate habits of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... Opecacano, a brother of Powhatan, the friend of the Jamestown settlers, launched a general massacre; and in 1 644 he attempted a war of extermination. In 1675 the whole frontier was ablaze. Nathaniel ... Captain John Barry materially change the situation. They demonstrated the skill of American seamen and their courage as fighting men. They raised the rates of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... was, certainly, as strong as that of Hamilton; but they regarded the state, rather than the national government, as the proper center of power and affection. Indeed, a large part of the rank ... coldly. The demand that the United States aid France under the old treaty of alliance he answered by proclaiming the neutrality of America and warning American ci...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... advocates of the Far South and the so-called pro-slavery Democrats of the Douglas type, there was a chasm which no appeals to party loyalty could bridge. As the spokesman of the West, Douglas ... the United States Bank in Andrew Jackson's day, they were suspicious of men from the East. Accordingly, they did not favor the candidacy of Seward, the leadi...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... man excluded from state and federal offices, and the fourteenth amendment was a bar to their return. All civil and military places under the authority of the United States and of the states ... had circumvented it in the age of Jacksonian Democracy. The states had enacted and the Supreme Court, after the death of John Marshall, had sustained laws charteri...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... faith, the Democrats, with Mr. Bryan at the head, raised their standard of battle. The Heated Campaign. The campaign which ensued outrivaled in the range of its educational activities and the ... the union as soon as any shadow of a claim to statehood could be advanced. As long as a region was merely one of the territories of the United States, the appoi...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... day of his inauguration, that of the Panama Canal, was a heritage from his predecessor. The idea of a water route across the isthmus, long a dream of navigators, had become a living issue after ... A Century of American Diplomacy; American Diplomacy in the Orient. W.F. Reddaway, The Monroe Doctrine. J.H. Latané, The United States and Spanish America. A...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... of Madero, Villa, a bandit of generous pretensions, and Zapata, a radical leader of the peons. Without the support of the United States, Huerta was doomed. In the summer of 19 14, the dictator ... 38 8-3 95; Ogg, pp. 28 4- 3 04. The First Phases of the European War.—Haworth, pp. 39 5 -4 12; Ogg, pp. 32 5-3 43 . The Campaign of 1916.—Haworth, pp....

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21

... railways (42 5 -4 31). 3. Relations to the East and Europe ( 44 3 -4 47 ). 4. American power in the Pacific ( 44 7 -4 49 ). The Wars of American History I. Indian wars (5 7-5 9). II. Early colonial wars: ... 22 8-2 30). 3. The Homestead act and its results ( 368, 43 2 -4 33). 4. The cattle range and cowboy (43 1 -4 32). 5. Disappearance of free land ( 4...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 13:21