Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States: Illustrated, Volume 2Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart American Educational Alliance, 1916 - United States |
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... authority of Parliament over the col- CHAPTER III . 1767-1769 . THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE RISES . Exultation over repeal of Stamp Act ... 247-248 The poem Virginia Hearts of Oak .. Political leaders and orators ... Pitt becomes Prime ...
... authority of Parliament over the col- CHAPTER III . 1767-1769 . THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE RISES . Exultation over repeal of Stamp Act ... 247-248 The poem Virginia Hearts of Oak .. Political leaders and orators ... Pitt becomes Prime ...
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... authority . At this time there were in the colony a num- ber of restless spirits who caused the authorities much trouble . Among these were Jacob Leisler and his son- - - in - law , Jacob Milborne . When the news reached New York that ...
... authority . At this time there were in the colony a num- ber of restless spirits who caused the authorities much trouble . Among these were Jacob Leisler and his son- - - in - law , Jacob Milborne . When the news reached New York that ...
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... authority gone , re- tired to Albany where he held out against Leisler and his party , † while the lieutenant governor , Nicholson , departed for England to see the king and make his report in person . ‡ The attack on Schenectady and ...
... authority gone , re- tired to Albany where he held out against Leisler and his party , † while the lieutenant governor , Nicholson , departed for England to see the king and make his report in person . ‡ The attack on Schenectady and ...
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... authority to overawe the mem- bers into granting his demands and said that he would not leave the prov- ince until the royal orders had been obeyed . He then directed the trained bands to be assembled and his com- mission to be read to ...
... authority to overawe the mem- bers into granting his demands and said that he would not leave the prov- ince until the royal orders had been obeyed . He then directed the trained bands to be assembled and his com- mission to be read to ...
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... authorities placed a number of the negroes under arrest and committed them to prison . Gradually more wit- nesses came forward and still more negroes were accused , and several white men were also said to be con- nected with the plot ...
... authorities placed a number of the negroes under arrest and committed them to prison . Gradually more wit- nesses came forward and still more negroes were accused , and several white men were also said to be con- nected with the plot ...
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