Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... provinces , Canada and the Floridas , were determined with a view to keeping settlers and Indians apart . The line of demarcation , as Mr. Alvord has proved , was not intended as a permanent barrier to Westward expansion . The colonists ...
... provinces , Canada and the Floridas , were determined with a view to keeping settlers and Indians apart . The line of demarcation , as Mr. Alvord has proved , was not intended as a permanent barrier to Westward expansion . The colonists ...
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... ' and audacious encroach- ments of the backwoodsmen , and proposing a bill for their deportation . Minutes of Provincial Council of Penn . , ix . 408 . , ' Paxton Boys ' took a cowardly revenge by wiping xxii INTRODUCTION.
... ' and audacious encroach- ments of the backwoodsmen , and proposing a bill for their deportation . Minutes of Provincial Council of Penn . , ix . 408 . , ' Paxton Boys ' took a cowardly revenge by wiping xxii INTRODUCTION.
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... province the physical , social , and religious differences between seaboard and frontier were even more pronounced than in Pennsylvania . The highlanders were mostly Germans and Ulstermen who had come in from the north , by following ...
... province the physical , social , and religious differences between seaboard and frontier were even more pronounced than in Pennsylvania . The highlanders were mostly Germans and Ulstermen who had come in from the north , by following ...
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... province from its lethargy , he made a clever use of the Boston town meeting ( pp . 87-96 ) . First drawing the Governor's fire to obtain the appointment of a committee of correspondence Adams and Warren drafted a statement of the ...
... province from its lethargy , he made a clever use of the Boston town meeting ( pp . 87-96 ) . First drawing the Governor's fire to obtain the appointment of a committee of correspondence Adams and Warren drafted a statement of the ...
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... province , as had been hoped , these Acts demonstrated a parliamentary power more dangerous to colonial liberty than mere taxing ; and thus rallied twelve continental colonies to Massachusetts . On the invitation of the Virginia House ...
... province , as had been hoped , these Acts demonstrated a parliamentary power more dangerous to colonial liberty than mere taxing ; and thus rallied twelve continental colonies to Massachusetts . On the invitation of the Virginia House ...
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