A Junior Class History of the United States: To which are Added the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States ...Maynard, Merrill & Company, 1899 - 382 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 70
Page 11
... Western Hemisphere . These , they know , represent the two halves of the surface of the earth , which is round Map Questions .- ( See map , page 10. ) Where are the Bahama Islands ? The West Indies ? Where is Guanahani , called by ...
... Western Hemisphere . These , they know , represent the two halves of the surface of the earth , which is round Map Questions .- ( See map , page 10. ) Where are the Bahama Islands ? The West Indies ? Where is Guanahani , called by ...
Page 12
... Western Continent . 2. The Western Continent . - Now , although we know of events that happened in the Eastern Continent thousands of years ago , scarcely anything was known of the Western Continent , or of its inhabitants , until about ...
... Western Continent . 2. The Western Continent . - Now , although we know of events that happened in the Eastern Continent thousands of years ago , scarcely anything was known of the Western Continent , or of its inhabitants , until about ...
Page 14
... west- ward across the vast ocean , where no ships had ever before been known to go . The ob- ject of this undertaking was to find a short way to a certain rich country in the southeastern part of Asia and the islands near it , called ...
... west- ward across the vast ocean , where no ships had ever before been known to go . The ob- ject of this undertaking was to find a short way to a certain rich country in the southeastern part of Asia and the islands near it , called ...
Page 15
... west coast of Africa , hoping to be able , if they could sail far enough , to find a way around it , and thus render the passage of the Isthmus of Suez unnec- essary . The foremost in encouraging this undertaking was Prince Henry of ...
... west coast of Africa , hoping to be able , if they could sail far enough , to find a way around it , and thus render the passage of the Isthmus of Suez unnec- essary . The foremost in encouraging this undertaking was Prince Henry of ...
Page 20
... west- ward , but without dis- covering land . They saw nothing but the vast ocean all around them . Then the sailors became alarmed , and re- solved they would go no farther . They even threatened to throw their brave admiral into the ...
... west- ward , but without dis- covering land . They saw nothing but the vast ocean all around them . Then the sailors became alarmed , and re- solved they would go no farther . They even threatened to throw their brave admiral into the ...
Other editions - View all
A Junior Class History of the United States; to Which Are Added the ... John J. (John Jacob) Anderson No preview available - 2012 |
Common terms and phrases
1st Clause 2d Clause 4th Clause admitted adopted afterward American appointed army ARTICLE Articles of Confederation attack battle Battle of Monmouth Boston British called Cape captured caused Charleston claimed coast colonies Columbus command commenced Confederate Connecticut Constitution Cornwallis Cuba declared defeated Delaware elected electors England English expedition fleet Florida force Fort Sumter forts France French Georgia governor Grant Henry House Hudson hundred inaugurated President Indians James Jersey John John Adams king Lake Lake Champlain land March Martin Van Buren Massachusetts Mexicans Mexico Mississippi Monroe nation North ocean patriots peace Penn persons Philadelphia Plymouth Port power has Congress result retreat Rhode Island River sailed Savannah SEAL Senate sent settled settlement settlers ships soldiers South Carolina Spain Spaniards surrender territory thousand tion took treaty troops Union United vessels vice-president victory Virginia votes voyage Washington West William William McKinley York
Popular passages
Page 146 - I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country...
Page 4 - Stephen Hopkins William Ellery CONNECTICUT Roger Sherman Samuel Huntington William Williams Oliver Wolcott NEW YORK William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris NEW JERSEY Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin...
Page 4 - MARYLAND Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll, of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr. Francis Lightfoot Lee Carter Braxton NORTH CAROLINA William Hooper Joseph Hewes John Penn SOUTH CAROLINA Edward Rutledge Thomas Heyward, Jr. Thomas Lynch, Jr. Arthur Middleton GEORGIA Button Gwinnett Lyman Hall George Walton...
Page 94 - Where the dark scorpion gathers death around, Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake, Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.
Page 2 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 3 - He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 23 - To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction, the sovereigns had ordered their throne to be placed in public, under a rich canopy of brocade of gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen awaited his arrival, seated in state, with the prince Juan beside them, and attended by the dignitaries of their court, and the principal nobility of Castile...
Page 7 - Delaware, December 7, 1787. Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787. New Jersey, December 18, 1787. Georgia, January 2, 1788. Connecticut, January 9, 1788. Massachusetts, February 6, 1788. Maryland, April 28, 1788. South Carolina. May 23, 1788. New Hampshire, June 21, 1788.
Page 238 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 16 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States ; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.