The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in DemocracyThis work discusses how politics, democracy, and the presidency evolved in the United States from 1789 to 1923. |
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... land , timber , minerals , water - power , could be developed in such a way as to make America the wisest as well as the richest of the nations and this was the end and meaning of Adams's ambition . By keeping the Western land in the ...
... land , timber , minerals , water - power , could be developed in such a way as to make America the wisest as well as the richest of the nations and this was the end and meaning of Adams's ambition . By keeping the Western land in the ...
Page 167
... land . In the jockeying for position that had been going on between North and South throughout the last generation , it was clearly seen that either section could buy the support of the West by the free distribution of public land ...
... land . In the jockeying for position that had been going on between North and South throughout the last generation , it was clearly seen that either section could buy the support of the West by the free distribution of public land ...
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... land . The grateful Negro Legislature appropriated over $ 800,000 . The land Commission then bought back the swamps and the sand for more than five dollars an acre , and solemnly put the Negroes on it . While the blacks were being made ...
... land . The grateful Negro Legislature appropriated over $ 800,000 . The land Commission then bought back the swamps and the sand for more than five dollars an acre , and solemnly put the Negroes on it . While the blacks were being made ...
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WASHINGTON | 3 |
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
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