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... questions were being thickly planted , but for the time no such questions appeared . The continent was the theatre of European ambition , strife , and endeavor . Three great nations played each an important part in the drama— Spain ...
... questions were being thickly planted , but for the time no such questions appeared . The continent was the theatre of European ambition , strife , and endeavor . Three great nations played each an important part in the drama— Spain ...
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... question where the boundary line should be drawn between Florida and the Carolinas and Georgia , and the question was never put at rest until she yielded the whole peninsula in 1763. France at first claimed the Atlantic coast south of ...
... question where the boundary line should be drawn between Florida and the Carolinas and Georgia , and the question was never put at rest until she yielded the whole peninsula in 1763. France at first claimed the Atlantic coast south of ...
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... questions that thronged upon the dullest minds , and that the brightest could not answer . Father Marquette had been stationed at Saint - Esprit , where he heard much of the mysterious river to find which had become the ambition of ...
... questions that thronged upon the dullest minds , and that the brightest could not answer . Father Marquette had been stationed at Saint - Esprit , where he heard much of the mysterious river to find which had become the ambition of ...
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... question that this map sug- gests is , that La Salle actually discovered the Illinois in 1672 . Marquette returned to the Indian town of Kaskaskia after his first visit , to establish the mission of the Immaculate Concep- tion , but his ...
... question that this map sug- gests is , that La Salle actually discovered the Illinois in 1672 . Marquette returned to the Indian town of Kaskaskia after his first visit , to establish the mission of the Immaculate Concep- tion , but his ...
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... question ; and the terms of peace affected the welfare and destiny of America more than of any other part of the globe . In 1629 , when the colonies of both powers were in their very infancy , David Kirk captured Quebec and sent the ...
... question ; and the terms of peace affected the welfare and destiny of America more than of any other part of the globe . In 1629 , when the colonies of both powers were in their very infancy , David Kirk captured Quebec and sent the ...
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Page 213 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 264 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Page 416 - The said territory, and the States which may be formed therein, shall forever remain a part of this Confederacy of the United States of America, subject to the Articles of Confederation, and to such alterations therein as shall be constitutionally made; and to all the Acts and Ordinances of the United States in Congress assembled, conformable thereto.
Page 264 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 414 - ... and return their names to Congress, one of whom, Congress shall appoint and commission for the residue of the term; and every five years, four months at least before the expiration of the time of service of the members of council, the said house shall nominate ten persons, qualified as aforesaid, and return their names to Congress...
Page 414 - The representatives thus elected shall serve for the term of two years and in case of the death of a representative or removal from office, the governor shall issue a writ to the county or township for which he was a member, to elect another in his stead to serve for the residue of the term.
Page 413 - Previous to the organization of the General Assembly the Governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers, in each county or township, as he shall find necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order in the same.
Page 263 - And in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Page 411 - Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purpose of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
Page 415 - As soon as a legislature shall be formed in the district, the council and house assembled, in one room, shall have authority, by joint ballot, to elect a delegate to Congress, who shall have a seat in Congress, with a right of debating, but not of voting, during this temporary government.