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 |
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... governor of Cuba . He soon suc- DE SOTO ceeded in collecting a company of gay cavaliers , all brave , and thirsting for conquest and riches like himself , and caused ten vessels to be equipped for the voyage . With these and his little ...
... governor of Cuba . He soon suc- DE SOTO ceeded in collecting a company of gay cavaliers , all brave , and thirsting for conquest and riches like himself , and caused ten vessels to be equipped for the voyage . With these and his little ...
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... governor of Mexico in 1540 , ascended the Colorado River beyond the Gila ( he ' - lah ) ; and Coronado ( ko - ro - nah ' - do ) , also sent at the same time , wandered for three years over the regions now known as Arizona , New Mexico ...
... governor of Mexico in 1540 , ascended the Colorado River beyond the Gila ( he ' - lah ) ; and Coronado ( ko - ro - nah ' - do ) , also sent at the same time , wandered for three years over the regions now known as Arizona , New Mexico ...
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... governor . A severe storm scattered the fleet , and the vessel containing the three commissioners was wrecked on the ... governor , ruled the colony ( 1610 ) . 13. What change occurred ? Who was appointed governor ? Who were sent in ...
... governor . A severe storm scattered the fleet , and the vessel containing the three commissioners was wrecked on the ... governor , ruled the colony ( 1610 ) . 13. What change occurred ? Who was appointed governor ? Who were sent in ...
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... governor , Lord Delaware , who had arrived with more emigrants and supplies . This inspired them with fresh hope and courage , and they returned . Under Lord Dela- ware , who was a prudent and kind - hearted man , the colony prospered ...
... governor , Lord Delaware , who had arrived with more emigrants and supplies . This inspired them with fresh hope and courage , and they returned . Under Lord Dela- ware , who was a prudent and kind - hearted man , the colony prospered ...
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... governor for many years , and had been quite popular ; but the people became dissatisfied with him because he carried out so strictly the oppressive measures of England , and also because he took no sufficient means to suppress the ...
... governor for many years , and had been quite popular ; but the people became dissatisfied with him because he carried out so strictly the oppressive measures of England , and also because he took no sufficient means to suppress the ...
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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.