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... Trade Routes and Voyages of Discovery Frontispiece facing Farthest Extent of Spanish Explorations in North America in XVI Century First Efforts of France and England Physical Features of Early Virginia Chief New England Settlements by ...
... Trade Routes and Voyages of Discovery Frontispiece facing Farthest Extent of Spanish Explorations in North America in XVI Century First Efforts of France and England Physical Features of Early Virginia Chief New England Settlements by ...
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... trade , and begot new interest in the lands of the East . Across central Asia and around the eastern and southern coasts to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea and thence by land , goods were now carried to the cities of the Black and ...
... trade , and begot new interest in the lands of the East . Across central Asia and around the eastern and southern coasts to the Persian Gulf and Red Sea and thence by land , goods were now carried to the cities of the Black and ...
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... Trade Routes Land Routes Sea Routes AUSTRALIA In this memorable epoch the art of printing began to disseminate ... TRADE ROUTES AND VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY . FARTHEST EXTENT OF SPANISH EXPLORATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA IN XVI. EUROPEAN ...
... Trade Routes Land Routes Sea Routes AUSTRALIA In this memorable epoch the art of printing began to disseminate ... TRADE ROUTES AND VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY . FARTHEST EXTENT OF SPANISH EXPLORATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA IN XVI. EUROPEAN ...
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... trade was strictly regulated . Twice a year government fleets sailed from Cadiz or Seville for Vera Cruz , Cartagena , and Porto Bello , and the trade of the merchants was limited to these semiannual voyages . All colonial exports had.
... trade was strictly regulated . Twice a year government fleets sailed from Cadiz or Seville for Vera Cruz , Cartagena , and Porto Bello , and the trade of the merchants was limited to these semiannual voyages . All colonial exports had.
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... trading and fishing vessels to visit the New England coast . Among a number of stations which its licensees had established was one at Cape Ann . In 1628 some of the owners of this station purchased lands from the reorganized Plymouth ...
... trading and fishing vessels to visit the New England coast . Among a number of stations which its licensees had established was one at Cape Ann . In 1628 some of the owners of this station purchased lands from the reorganized Plymouth ...
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Page 209 - Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the state governments extends over the several states.
Page 136 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights: Resolved, NCD 1.
Page 124 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 311 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Page 282 - France, make the first cannon which shall be fired in Europe the signal for tearing up any settlement she may have made, and for holding the two continents of America in sequestration for the common purposes of the United British and American nations.
Page 141 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Page 336 - Americans will pay, which the exhausted state of the continent renders very unlikely ; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence contrary to the natural course of things.
Page 282 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Page 238 - If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.
Page 173 - States shall be divided or appropriated : of granting letters of marque and reprisal, in times of peace : appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures ; provided, that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.