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HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - CHARLES A. BEARD Part 10 ppsx

... 99, 108 Adamson law, 590 Aguinaldo, 497 Alabama, admission, 227 Alabama claims, 480 Alamance, battle, 92 Alamo, 280 Alaska, purchase, 479 Albany, plan of union, 62 Algonquins, ... (492). 5. In the Caribbean region (51 2-5 19). 6. In the Pacific (44 7-4 48, 481). 7. The rôle of the American navy (515). The Westward Advance of the People I. Beyond the Appalachians. 1. Government ... Development of the United States I. The land and natural resources. 1. The colonial land system: freehold, plantation, and manor (2 0-2 5). 2. Development of the freehold in the West (22 0-2 21, 22 8-2 30)....

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... right appear the French-Canadian, the Alaskan, the Latin-American, the German, the Italian, the Anglo-American, and the American Indian, squaw and warrior. In the place of honor in the center of ... have deliberately aimed at standards of maturity. The study of a mere narrative calls mainly for the use of the memory. We have aimed to stimulate habits of analysis, comparison, association, reflection, ... said of Puritanism. The Plymouth Pilgrims had cast off all allegiance to the Anglican Church and established a separate and independent congregation before they came to America. The Puritans,...

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... Opecacano, a brother of Powhatan, the friend of the Jamestown settlers, launched a general massacre; and in 1644 he attempted a war of extermination. In 1675 the whole frontier was ablaze. Nathaniel ... Captain John Barry materially change the situation. They demonstrated the skill of American seamen and their courage as fighting men. They raised the rates of British marine insurance, but they ... constantly falling prey to daring privateers and fleet American war vessels. The sea, on the other hand, offered an easy means of transportation between points along the coast and gave ready access...

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - CHARLES A. BEARD Part 3 pot

... was, certainly, as strong as that of Hamilton; but they regarded the state, rather than the national government, as the proper center of power and affection. Indeed, a large part of the rank ... coldly. The demand that the United States aid France under the old treaty of alliance he answered by proclaiming the neutrality of America and warning American citizens against hostile acts toward ... his administration. The Sharpness of the Partisan Conflict.—As a result of the clash of opinion, the people of the country gradually divided into two parties: Federalists and Anti-Federalists,...

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - CHARLES A. BEARD Part 4 pdf

... southern boundary of Minnesota, and a new commonwealth on the Pacific Ocean where American emigrants had raised the Bear flag of California. THE ADVANCE OF THE MIDDLE BORDER Missouri.—When the ... the national character of the union. The War on the United States Bank.—If events forced the issue of nationalism and nullification upon Jackson, the same could not be said of his attack on the ... him away at the ripe old age of eighty-five. The Election of John Quincy Adams (1824). The campaign of 1824 marked the end of the "era of good feeling" inaugurated by the collapse of...

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - CHARLES A. BEARD Part 5 pps

... advocates of the Far South and the so-called pro-slavery Democrats of the Douglas type, there was a chasm which no appeals to party loyalty could bridge. As the spokesman of the West, Douglas ... the United States Bank in Andrew Jackson's day, they were suspicious of men from the East. Accordingly, they did not favor the candidacy of Seward, the leading Republican statesman and ... Mechanics' Free Press of Philadelphia in 1829. But the triumph was illusory. Dissensions appeared in the labor ranks. The old party leaders, particularly of Tammany Hall, the Democratic party...

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... man excluded from state and federal offices, and the fourteenth amendment was a bar to their return. All civil and military places under the authority of the United States and of the states ... had circumvented it in the age of Jacksonian Democracy. The states had enacted and the Supreme Court, after the death of John Marshall, had sustained laws chartering banking companies and authorizing ... man's heritage. The capital invested in these railways was enormous beyond the imagination of the men of the stagecoach generation. The total debt of the United States incurred in the...

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - CHARLES A. BEARD Part 7 doc

... international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese empire." This was a friendly warning to the world that the United States ... machinery. Again it assumed the form of the cattle ranch embracing tens of thousands of acres. Again it was a vast holding of diversified interest, such as the Santa Anita ranch near Los Angeles, a ... eight states, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of adjoining states, the rainfall was so slight that the ordinary crops to which the American farmer...

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - CHARLES A. BEARD Part 8 ppt

... Latané, The United States and Spanish America. A. C. Coolidge, United States as a World Power. A. T. Mahan, Interest of the United States in the Sea Power. F.E. Chadwick, Spanish-American War. ... two years later, made them a part of his program, and in the same year South Dakota adopted them. In 1902 Oregon, after a strenuous campaign, added a direct legislation amendment to the state ... at the front. Alaska was purchased from Russia; attempts were made to extend American influence in the Caribbean region; a Samoan island was brought under the flag; and the Hawaiian islands...

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... a League of Nations to keep the peace. In the treaty drawn at the close of the war the first part was a covenant binding the nations in a permanent association for the settlement of international ... United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the ... "is the high-water mark in the history of taxation. Never before in the annals of civilization has an attempt been made to take as much as two-thirds of a man's income by taxation."...

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