Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal ConstitutionSamuel Eliot Morison |
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... Peace Commission of 1778 Resolution of Congress on Public Lands and New States , 10 October 1780 . Ordinance of Congress on Public Lands , 20 May 1785 Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty , October 1785 The Background of Shays's ...
... Peace Commission of 1778 Resolution of Congress on Public Lands and New States , 10 October 1780 . Ordinance of Congress on Public Lands , 20 May 1785 Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty , October 1785 The Background of Shays's ...
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... Peace of 1763 was an important stage in this problem , eliminating France from the contest ( save as a diplomatic factor ) , and dividing the West , by the Mississippi river , between the British and the Spanish empires . Her new ...
... Peace of 1763 was an important stage in this problem , eliminating France from the contest ( save as a diplomatic factor ) , and dividing the West , by the Mississippi river , between the British and the Spanish empires . Her new ...
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... peace between warring tribes , and with Pontiac's followers . They established an almost continuous line of demarcation , considerably to the west of the line of 1763 , between the Indians ' hunting grounds and lands open to white ...
... peace between warring tribes , and with Pontiac's followers . They established an almost continuous line of demarcation , considerably to the west of the line of 1763 , between the Indians ' hunting grounds and lands open to white ...
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... peaceful survivors of the Conestogo Indians , whose ancestors had made the celebrated ' treaty that was never broken ' with William Penn.1 The Boys ' then marched on Philadelphia , with the intention of putting more refugees to the ...
... peaceful survivors of the Conestogo Indians , whose ancestors had made the celebrated ' treaty that was never broken ' with William Penn.1 The Boys ' then marched on Philadelphia , with the intention of putting more refugees to the ...
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... peace negotiations . The American commissioners stood out for the Mississippi boundary , and obtained it so far as 1 P. C. Phillips , The West in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution ( University of Illinois , 1912 ) . England was ...
... peace negotiations . The American commissioners stood out for the Mississippi boundary , and obtained it so far as 1 P. C. Phillips , The West in the Diplomacy of the American Revolution ( University of Illinois , 1912 ) . England was ...
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