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... COLONIES The Revolution of 1688 Rise of Parliamentary Government British Mercantilism in the Eighteenth Century The Crown and the Colonies The Conflict of British and American Opinion CHAPTER VI . THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ...
... COLONIES The Revolution of 1688 Rise of Parliamentary Government British Mercantilism in the Eighteenth Century The Crown and the Colonies The Conflict of British and American Opinion CHAPTER VI . THE STRUGGLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ...
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... colonies ripened into independent states , with their own institutions and ideals bearing the impress of the American environment , ready to make their contribution to the world order . Down to the fifteenth century European life ...
... colonies ripened into independent states , with their own institutions and ideals bearing the impress of the American environment , ready to make their contribution to the world order . Down to the fifteenth century European life ...
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... colonies should enrich herself only ; hence foreigners were entirely excluded , and even Spanish trade was strictly regulated . Twice a year government fleets sailed from Cadiz or Seville for Vera Cruz , Cartagena , and Porto Bello ...
... colonies should enrich herself only ; hence foreigners were entirely excluded , and even Spanish trade was strictly regulated . Twice a year government fleets sailed from Cadiz or Seville for Vera Cruz , Cartagena , and Porto Bello ...
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... colonies were divided into viceroyalties , with subdivisions for local administra- tion . In 1600 , the viceroyalty of New Spain comprised Mexico , Central America , and Venezuela ; that of Peru the South Ameri- can settlements below ...
... colonies were divided into viceroyalties , with subdivisions for local administra- tion . In 1600 , the viceroyalty of New Spain comprised Mexico , Central America , and Venezuela ; that of Peru the South Ameri- can settlements below ...
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... Colonies in America would doubtless supply all of these necessities and give the kingdom an economic self - sufficiency which might be a matter of life or death in time of war . Besides , they were convinced that their country was ...
... Colonies in America would doubtless supply all of these necessities and give the kingdom an economic self - sufficiency which might be a matter of life or death in time of war . Besides , they were convinced that their country was ...
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Page 173 - States shall be divided or appropriated : of granting letters of marque and reprisal, in times of peace : appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures ; provided, that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Page 209 - Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the state governments extends over the several states.
Page 136 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights: Resolved, NCD 1.
Page 124 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 311 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Page 141 - Lest this declaration should disquiet the minds of our friends and fellow-subjects in any part of the empire, we assure them that we mean not to dissolve that union which has so long and so happily subsisted between us, and which we sincerely wish to see restored.
Page 336 - Americans will pay, which the exhausted state of the continent renders very unlikely ; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence contrary to the natural course of things.
Page 282 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...
Page 372 - Would any one believe that I am master of slaves of my own purchase ? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living here without them. I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them.
Page 282 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.