A History of the American People
ripped the wound open and caused massive bleeding from which he nearly died and which recurred occasionally all the rest of his ...
Indians seem to have preferred tribalism when they had the choice. In that case, said the settlers, you must move west, to where ...
most articulate spokesman of the Southerners, wanted every unassimilable Indian driven west of the Mississippi. Jackson agreed w ...
pre-Victorian melodrama. When John Woods, a militiaman of eighteen, refused an order, and grabbed a gun when arrested, Jackson h ...
first real hero since Washington. When he reached New Orleans on December i he found it virtually undefended. He worked swiftly. ...
one, drawn up at the end of his life, consisted of thirteen men, including Jackson, Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, w ...
over from the War of Independence, to be absorbed by the United States in due course. Henceforth the road to expansion for both ...
PART THREE ‘A General Happy Mediocrity Prevails’ Democratic America, 1815 -1850 ...
Right at the end of his life, Benjamin Franklin wrote a pamphlet giving advice to Europeans planning to come to America. He said ...
hand over £10 at a Liverpool shipping counter and go aboard. The ship provided him with water, nothing else, and of course it mi ...
were bills of exchange paid for by other bills of exchange, which thus raced around rapidly from one debtor to another, accumula ...
far from land.' Cheves decided that the worst of all outcomes was for the SBUS to go bust too, so he intensified the deflationar ...
Why did the immigrants come? One reason was increasingly cheap seapassages. Another was food shortages, sometimes widening into ...
about four miles in length and one mile wide ... complete with pure springs of cold water in abundance.' Once a cabin, 16 by 24 ...
General Jackson bid for a potentially valuable town lot, no one bid against him. He acquired his estate and became a reasonably ...
He was right and the proof that the American free system worked is the historic fact-the rapid and successful settlement of the ...
A typical growth-point was Indianapolis. It was laid out in 1821. The next year it had one two- story house. By 1823 it still ha ...
children, one of them being Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin-believed that this revivalist spirit was essentia ...
tribulations overcome by courage and persistence, fits into frontier life well and the movement attracted thousands. Smith was m ...
of America's greatest newspapers, the Christian Science Monitor. It quickly spread into 3,200 branches in forty-eight countries. ...
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