HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - CHARLES A BEARD Part 8 ppt

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - CHARLES A. BEARD Part 8 ppt

... Latané, The United States and Spanish America. A. C. Coolidge, United States as a World Power. A. T. Mahan, Interest of the United States in the Sea Power. F.E. Chadwick, Spanish-American War. ... two years later, made them a part of his program, and in the same year South Dakota adopted them. In 1902 Oregon, after a strenuous campaign, added a direct legislation amendment to the state ... at the front. Alaska was purchased from Russia; attempts were made to extend American influence in the Caribbean region; a Samoan island was brought under the flag; and the Hawaiian islands...

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... 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 analysis, comparison, association, reflection, ... HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES PART I. THE COLONIAL PERIOD CHAPTER I THE GREAT MIGRATION TO AMERICA The tide of migration that set in toward the shores of North America during the early...

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... Opecacano, a brother of Powhatan, the friend of the Jamestown settlers, launched a general massacre; and in 1644 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 British marine insurance, but they ... constantly falling prey to daring privateers and fleet American war vessels. The sea, on the other hand, offered an easy means of transportation between points along the coast and gave ready access...

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... 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 citizens against hostile acts toward ... his administration. The Sharpness of the Partisan Conflict.—As a result of the clash of opinion, the people of the country gradually divided into two parties: Federalists and Anti-Federalists,...

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... him away at the ripe old age of eighty-five. The Election of John Quincy Adams ( 182 4). The campaign of 182 4 marked the end of the "era of good feeling" inaugurated by the collapse of ... 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 MIDDLE BORDER Missouri.—When the ... Criticisms of the Bank.—Macdonald, Documentary Source Book, pp. 32 0-3 29. Financial Aspects of the Bank Controversy.—Dewey, Financial History of the United States, Sections 8 6 -8 7; Elson, History of the...

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... 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 leading Republican statesman and ... size and interest rate, until in October, at the end of the war, the debt stood at $2,2 08, 000,000. The total cost of the war was many times the money value of all the slaves in the Southern states. ...

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... 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 ... William Penn. The Homestead Act of 186 2.—In the immigration measure guaranteeing a continuous and adequate labor supply, the manufacturers saw an offset to the Homestead Act of 186 2 granting ... 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 chartering banking companies and authorizing...

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... naval power in distant seas, the same could not be said of the State Department or naval officers. In 187 2 Commander Meade, of the United States navy, alive to the importance of coaling stations ... machinery. Again it assumed the form of the cattle ranch embracing tens of thousands of acres. Again it was a vast holding of diversified interest, such as the Santa Anita ranch near Los Angeles, a ... eight states, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of adjoining states, the rainfall was so slight that the ordinary crops to which the American farmer...

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... shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class at the expiration ... United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the ... made them an object of American concern as early as 186 7, when a treaty of purchase was negotiated only to be rejected by the Senate of the United States. In 1902 a second arrangement was made,...

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... 177 5-1 783 (9 9-1 35). V. The War of 181 2, 181 2-1 81 5 (19 3-2 01). VI. The Mexican War, 184 5-1 84 8 (27 6-2 84 ). VII. The Civil War, 186 1-1 86 5 (34 4-3 75). VIII. The Spanish War, 189 8 ( 48 5-4 97). ... Adams, J.Q., 247, 319 Adams, Samuel, 90, 99, 1 08 Adamson law, 590 Aguinaldo, 497 Alabama, admission, 227 Alabama claims, 480 Alamance, battle, 92 Alamo, 280 Alaska, ... Settlement of the Oregon boundary question, 184 6 ( 28 4-2 86 ). 8. Purchase of Alaska from Russia, 186 7 (479). 9. Acquisition of Tutuila in Samoan group, 189 9 ( 48 1-4 82 ). 10. Annexation of Hawaii, 189 8...

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