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Page 141 - Indiana in 1816, Mississippi in 1817, Illinois in 1818, Alabama in 1819, Maine in 1820, Missouri in 1821. The admission of the last-named state was a portentous event, for it suddenly brought the slavery question into the foreground.
Page 218 - ... the election, a dispute arose as to which candidate was entitled to the electoral votes of Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida. For several months the question was a burning one in Congress and among the people ; but Congress finally agreed to refer the matter to a commission of fifteen men — five Senators, five Representatives, and five Justices of the Supreme Court. This commission decided that the votes of the disputed States should be counted for Mr. Hayes. He was therefore declared...
Page 107 - They had declared themselves free, and nothing but independence would now satisfy them. The British then tried to bribe American generals to betray their country. They offered General Joseph Reed, of Philadelphia, fifty thousand dollars if he would forsake his country's cause. General Reed sent back the noble answer, " I am not worth purchasing ; but, such as I am, the King of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy me.
Page 166 - LINCOLN. Secession of the Southern States (1860). — Abraham Lincoln was elected in November, 1860; but his term of office did not begin until the following March. As soon as the election was over, several of the Southern States prepared to leave the Union. A great many of the leading men of the South had always held that the Union was not perpetual, but only a league or partnership among the States, and that any State had the right to withdraw from the Union whenever it chose to do so. The people...
Page 231 - This great rise in exchange and the slight revival in silver securities occurred simultaneously with the passage of the Sherman Act of July, 1890, by which the United States was to purchase four and a half million ounces of silver per month.
Page 86 - ... share in the policy which brought about and carried on the Revolutionary War. For instance, in Barnes's Primary History of the United States (undated, but brought down to the end of the Spanish War) we read : " The English people after a time became jealous of the prosperity of the colonists, and began to devise plans by which to grasp for themselves a share of the wealth that was thus rolling in. ... Indeed, the English people acted from the first as if the colonies existed only for the purpose...
Page 59 - Pennsylvania, of which it remained a part for twenty years. The people of Delaware then (1703) received the right to choose a separate legislature of their own, but still continued under the control of Pennsylvania. They afterward declared their independence of Pennsylvania and formed a government for themselves. PENNSYLVANIA. William Penn. — The territory west of the Delaware River was granted to William Penn by the English king, Charles II., in payment of a large debt due his father. William...
Page 214 - He continued his efforts, and at last, in 1866, after many failures and discouragements, succeeded in his great enterprise. The cable was laid by the Great Eastern, the largest steam-ship ever built in the world. Since that time, many other cables have been stretched under the ocean, and now we would not know how to get along without them. Politics. — As the time for the next election approached, the Republicans nominated General US Grant for President, while the Democrats nominated Horatio Seymour,...
Page 231 - South Dakota, Montana, and Washington in 1889, and Idaho and Wyoming in 1890.
Page 186 - Pines, fought on the last day of May and the first day of June. The losses were heavy on both sides and the result was indecisive. Johnston was wounded, and in consequence, after an interval, during which General GW Smith commanded, Robert E.