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... took Puerto Rico , Guam and the Hawaiian Islands . But with the Philippines we had more trouble . The Fili- pino rebels against Spanish rule , who had assumed that our intervention was disinterested , turned their resistance against us ...
... took Puerto Rico , Guam and the Hawaiian Islands . But with the Philippines we had more trouble . The Fili- pino rebels against Spanish rule , who had assumed that our intervention was disinterested , turned their resistance against us ...
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... took action ; and when the United States did take action , the occasion for intervention was supplied by the Japanese , whose depredations in China had been threatening our commercial interests there and who had become a new power unit ...
... took action ; and when the United States did take action , the occasion for intervention was supplied by the Japanese , whose depredations in China had been threatening our commercial interests there and who had become a new power unit ...
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... took a long step forward in human progress . Why did not immediate anarchy follow , as when the French took such a step in regard to their king ? It was because the Puritans transferred to God all those rights and immunities , all that ...
... took a long step forward in human progress . Why did not immediate anarchy follow , as when the French took such a step in regard to their king ? It was because the Puritans transferred to God all those rights and immunities , all that ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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