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... East that came in the fifties because of the discovery of gold in California , in the sixties to advance sectional principles , and in the seventies to win cheap lands , and it has no connection with the foreign migration that has ...
... East that came in the fifties because of the discovery of gold in California , in the sixties to advance sectional principles , and in the seventies to win cheap lands , and it has no connection with the foreign migration that has ...
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... work may add to the increasing interest in western history . Too often in school and col- lege the history of the United States is taught as if the nation was still situated east of the Alleghanies , and X THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.
... work may add to the increasing interest in western history . Too often in school and col- lege the history of the United States is taught as if the nation was still situated east of the Alleghanies , and X THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.
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... east vast stretches of unused lands , enough apparently , to support all the emigrants and their children for many generations . The difficulties of the journey over the moun- tains or down the rivers were very great , and there were ...
... east vast stretches of unused lands , enough apparently , to support all the emigrants and their children for many generations . The difficulties of the journey over the moun- tains or down the rivers were very great , and there were ...
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Curtis Manning Geer. the east , on the Wabash , there was another centre for settle- ment in the trading post St. Vincent , though this did not become a permanent town till 1734. These small , widely scattered settlements could hardly be ...
Curtis Manning Geer. the east , on the Wabash , there was another centre for settle- ment in the trading post St. Vincent , though this did not become a permanent town till 1734. These small , widely scattered settlements could hardly be ...
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... east of the mountains and on the banks of the eastward flowing rivers because of the great obstacles to their further advance . The first of these hindrances was the possession of the country by the French . They claimed by the treaty ...
... east of the mountains and on the banks of the eastward flowing rivers because of the great obstacles to their further advance . The first of these hindrances was the possession of the country by the French . They claimed by the treaty ...
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Page 409 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government: provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 409 - States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that Government certain defsnite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own selfgovernment; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Page 305 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 80 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws, and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Page 346 - Provided always, That the three foregoing propositions herein offered are on the conditions that the convention of the said State shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States...
Page 412 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the Federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 409 - ... thereby guarding in the same sentence, and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, insomuch, that whatever violates either, throws down the sanctuary which covers the others, and that libels, falsehoods, and defamation, equally with heresy and false religion, are withheld from the cognizance of federal tribunals.
Page 350 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within, and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of government, to be adopted by the people of said republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, in order that the same may be admitted...
Page 409 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original States and the people and States in the said territory...
Page 84 - That, after the year 1800 of the Christian era-, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.