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... tion Act - 1875 ... 476 624. Trouble with the Sioux : Custer's Massacre - 1876 . 476 625. Amnesty Bill - 1872 : Withdrawal of Troops from the South- 1874 to 1877 .. 477 626. The Credit Mobilier and Other Scandals : The Whiskey Ring ...
... tion Act - 1875 ... 476 624. Trouble with the Sioux : Custer's Massacre - 1876 . 476 625. Amnesty Bill - 1872 : Withdrawal of Troops from the South- 1874 to 1877 .. 477 626. The Credit Mobilier and Other Scandals : The Whiskey Ring ...
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... tion . " For eighteen long , weary years he importuned monarchs and merchants , courts and bankers , for ships and men , that he might set out upon the western route to Asia . He sent his brother , Bartholomew , to England , but King ...
... tion . " For eighteen long , weary years he importuned monarchs and merchants , courts and bankers , for ships and men , that he might set out upon the western route to Asia . He sent his brother , Bartholomew , to England , but King ...
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... tion , or possible death in an attempt to cut his way out . His prisoner , Montezuma , having been accidentally killed by his own subjects in a parley , his last hope was gone . In a desperate and bloody encounter , he cut his way ...
... tion , or possible death in an attempt to cut his way out . His prisoner , Montezuma , having been accidentally killed by his own subjects in a parley , his last hope was gone . In a desperate and bloody encounter , he cut his way ...
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... tion of students of history . To it is due : ( 1 ) The discovery of the Straits of Magellan ; ( 2 ) the discovery and possession of the far - away Philippine Islands , which for nearly five cen- turies remained in undisputed possession ...
... tion of students of history . To it is due : ( 1 ) The discovery of the Straits of Magellan ; ( 2 ) the discovery and possession of the far - away Philippine Islands , which for nearly five cen- turies remained in undisputed possession ...
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... tion at his own expense and set sail on a voyage of discovery in search of a northwest passage to Asia . While he failed in his object , he seems to have skirted the coast of North America and touched upon the shores of Greenland . He ...
... tion at his own expense and set sail on a voyage of discovery in search of a northwest passage to Asia . While he failed in his object , he seems to have skirted the coast of North America and touched upon the shores of Greenland . He ...
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Page 237 - No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president: neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 374 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 184 - 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. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 185 - ... full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
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Page 236 - President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows. Clause 2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. Clause 3...
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