A History of the American People
characteristic of the Shakers in their American manifestation that they took the principle of minimalist government to its ultim ...
building' and the parents, at home, topped it up with whichever sectarian trimmings they thought fit (or none). Naturally there ...
subjects to America to promote the takeover. This, combined with labor disputes brought about the willingness of poor Catholic i ...
religiously determined law, there was no reason why Jews should operate a separate legal system, except on matters which could b ...
cost of cotton yarn had fallen by go percent. Then came a second wave of mechanical innovation. By the early 1860s the price of ...
Whitney's determination to introduce this system was adamantine and was laughed at by the British and French ordnance officers t ...
institution which would die out naturally or be easy to abolish. Madison `spoke often and anxiously of slave property as the wor ...
problem by repatriating freed blacks to Africa. This was not just a humbugging tactical move on the part of conscience-stricken ...
Charles Woodmason, said the cabins swarmed with children' butin many places have naught but a gourd to drink out of, not a plate ...
was joined by a white man in chains and a deputy sheriff. The man was about to be hanged for killing a slave in a card-game. The ...
as a slave state, thus keeping the balance in the Senate 26-26. This was agreed on March 2, 1820 by a narrow vote in the House. ...
Adams did not deny the humbug of much Northern opposition to slavery but brushed it aside and concentrated on the main issue: th ...
This second tradition, upheld for so long by the Virginia patricians, the Washingtons and Madisons, now fell firmly into the cap ...
have experienced no difficulty in becoming president every time he chose to run. As it was, having arrived in Kentucky in 1797 a ...
Bank of the United States. It just so happened he was paid the huge retainer of $6,000 a year to fight the SBUS's cases in Kentu ...
legislature solemnly pledging never to enact laws depriving any citizen of his rights under the US Constitution (February 1821). ...
December 14, 1825. The two men had met to discuss appointments to the Customs, always contentious because of the rising volume o ...
or pro-consul in the South. As such, he had destroyed Indian power there and, in effect, confiscated their lands. No one objecte ...
he addressed to himself are a curious mixture of naivety, shrewdness, insight, and prejudice. His tone of voice, in speech and w ...
House of Representatives, which picked the winner from the top three, voting by states. That, in practice, made Clay, Speaker of ...
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