Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... Congress , 19 October 1765 From Dickinson's Farmer's Letters , 1767-8 • ✓Indian Diplomacy . From the Proceedings of a Congress of the Six Nations March 1768 · • · before Sir William Johnson , • 7 March 1768 From the Report of the Board ...
... Congress , 19 October 1765 From Dickinson's Farmer's Letters , 1767-8 • ✓Indian Diplomacy . From the Proceedings of a Congress of the Six Nations March 1768 · • · before Sir William Johnson , • 7 March 1768 From the Report of the Board ...
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... Congress , 1774 The Association . 20 October 1774 · · From John Adams's Novanglus , No. VII . January 1775 Franklin on the Galloway Plan and North Resolution , 1775 Letters of Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee , 1775 Declaration of Causes of ...
... Congress , 1774 The Association . 20 October 1774 · · From John Adams's Novanglus , No. VII . January 1775 Franklin on the Galloway Plan and North Resolution , 1775 Letters of Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee , 1775 Declaration of Causes of ...
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... Congress ( p . 209 ) . The last and most important act of British Western policy before the war was the Quebec Act of 1774 ( p . 103 ) . Coming out as it did contemporaneously with the Coercive Acts , this law was believed by the ...
... Congress ( p . 209 ) . The last and most important act of British Western policy before the war was the Quebec Act of 1774 ( p . 103 ) . Coming out as it did contemporaneously with the Coercive Acts , this law was believed by the ...
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... Congress showed foresight and statesman- ship . The western land problem1 had , in the first place , an important ... Congress urged the others to do likewise . On 10 October 1780 Congress I Channing , United States , iii , chapter xvii ...
... Congress showed foresight and statesman- ship . The western land problem1 had , in the first place , an important ... Congress urged the others to do likewise . On 10 October 1780 Congress I Channing , United States , iii , chapter xvii ...
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... Congress was hampered by Indian hostility , frontier lawlessness , local interference , and lack of money . Congress feebly attempted to regulate the fur trade . It obtained land cessions from the Iroquois and the North - west Indians ...
... Congress was hampered by Indian hostility , frontier lawlessness , local interference , and lack of money . Congress feebly attempted to regulate the fur trade . It obtained land cessions from the Iroquois and the North - west Indians ...
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