A History of the People of the United StCosimo, Inc., 2006 M06 1 - 604 páginas Violence, insolence, and law-breaking were not frequent along the whole border. Five open boats, full of potash, attempted to make the run from Fort Niagara to Canada, and, despite the troops and the Collector, three succeeded. On Salmon river, in Oneida County, the crew of a revenue cutter behave so insolently that the people rose, seized them, and put them into the jail. At Lewiston twenty men came over from Canada and carried off a quantity of flour by force. -from "The Long Embargo" A bestseller when it was first published in 1883, this third volume of historian John Bach McMaster's magnum opus is a lively history of the United States that is as entertaining as it is informative. Eventually stretching to eight volumes, McMaster's epic was original in its emphasis on social and economic conditions as deciding factors in shaping a nation's culture: in addition to the words and actions of great men and the outcomes of significant skirmishes and battles, McMaster indulges his obsession with fascinating trivia, from how the booming American economy led to an epidemic of desertions of British soldiers to high-paying merchantman jobs to the great kerfuffle over the importation of Merino sheep from Portugal. Volume 3, spanning the years 1803 through 1812, is a compulsively readable account of the birth pangs of the new nation, and covers such intriguing and unlikely topics as the vagaries of voting laws in some states that enfranchised women and nonwhites, the dangerous and unguarded state of the Western frontier, early battles over slavery and freedom of the press, and more. OF INTEREST TO: readers of American history AUTHOR BIO: American historian JOHN BACH MCMASTER (1852-1932) taught atthe Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from 1883 to 1919. He also wrote Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters (1887) and A School History of the United States (1897), which became a definitive textbook. |
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... British impressment of American seamen Desertion of British seamen . Attempts to settle the difficulties . The Cambrian and the Pitt Case of the Aurora Instructions to Commissioners Monroe and Pinkney British blockade from Brest to the ...
... British impressment of American seamen Desertion of British seamen . Attempts to settle the difficulties . The Cambrian and the Pitt Case of the Aurora Instructions to Commissioners Monroe and Pinkney British blockade from Brest to the ...
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... British . More orders in council . European news in the United States Embargo proposed The bill passed and signed Tidings of the embargo First supplementary act CHAPTER XIX . Arrival of the British envoy His mission fails Pickering and ...
... British . More orders in council . European news in the United States Embargo proposed The bill passed and signed Tidings of the embargo First supplementary act CHAPTER XIX . Arrival of the British envoy His mission fails Pickering and ...
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... British consuls Quarrel with Jackson Federalist comments Republican criticism of Great Britain Resolutions in Congress Macon's Bill No. 1 The bill debated as a navigation act 342 , 343 • 343-346 344-346 346 , 347 347 . 348 349 349 • 349 ...
... British consuls Quarrel with Jackson Federalist comments Republican criticism of Great Britain Resolutions in Congress Macon's Bill No. 1 The bill debated as a navigation act 342 , 343 • 343-346 344-346 346 , 347 347 . 348 349 349 • 349 ...
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... British Government in confusion . Spanish colonies revolt Convention in West Florida . The colony revolts Madison accepts the proposal for annexation Governor Claiborne offends Skipwith Resistance overawed Revolution in East Florida ...
... British Government in confusion . Spanish colonies revolt Convention in West Florida . The colony revolts Madison accepts the proposal for annexation Governor Claiborne offends Skipwith Resistance overawed Revolution in East Florida ...
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... British Minister arrives The President and the Little Belt . Minister Foster is received , and begins negotiations Grounds for the British orders in council * Contradictory evidence concerning the French decrees Pretended repeal of the ...
... British Minister arrives The President and the Little Belt . Minister Foster is received , and begins negotiations Grounds for the British orders in council * Contradictory evidence concerning the French decrees Pretended repeal of the ...
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Campbells resolution debated and passed | 321 |
Resistance in New England | 331 |
Resolutions of the General Court of Massachusetts | 337 |
Note 115 | 341 |
Napoleon informed of the Nonintercourse | 362 |
The Macon Act reaches Paris | 369 |
Occupation of East Florida authorized | 378 |
Petitions for recharter | 385 |
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57 | |
63 | |
69 | |
87 | |
93 | |
100 | |
Hatred of a navy a Republican principle | 112 |
Criminal code of the Northwest | 113 |
Northwest Territory enters the second grade | 123 |
Tyrannical administration of Sargent | 131 |
Ohio road and school lands | 137 |
Exploration of Lewis and Clarke | 143 |
Attitude of the Federalists toward the | 156 |
看着 | 165 |
Trial of Judge Pickering | 172 |
Trial of Judge Chase | 181 |
Republican caucus | 187 |
Connecticut without a constitution | 193 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 200 |
Referred to a committee | 211 |
Armed merchantmen | 219 |
230 | 235 |
Case of the Aurora | 247 |
Smuggling in East Florida | 253 |
Desertions from the Melampus and the Halifax | 256 |
Jeffersons proclamation 262 | 262 |
Feeling in England | 269 |
European news in the United States | 275 |
American ships burned by the French | 279 |
First supplementary act 280 | 281 |
Burrs prospects bright | 287 |
Evasions of the embargo 293 | 293 |
Bibb proposes that Representatives wear homespun | 299 |
Embargobreaking on the lakes 304306 | 305 |
Napoleon seizes Spain and Portugal | 309 |
Spain revolts against Napoleon | 315 |
Nonimportation Bill recommitted | 391 |
Struggle with the minority in the House | 397 |
402406 | 406 |
Economic effects of the embargo | 417 |
Massachusetts made a Republican State | 423 |
Debate on a regular army | 433 |
2 | 457 |
CHAPTER XXII | 459 |
Coast survey | 467 |
Canal and road corporations seek aid | 475 |
Pittsburg 481 | 481 |
Introduction of the steamboat 486 | 487 |
Stevenss efforts in Philadelphia | 493 |
Imports of foreign manufactures | 499 |
Protection for infant industries 505 | 505 |
Schedule of the Nashville doctors | 510 |
Slavetrade requires more stringent measures | 516 |
36 | 545 |
Condition of the Western frontier in 1812 | 547 |
Office of the Federal Republican mobbed | 554 |
Petition for slavery in the Illinois country | 561 |
310 311 | 562 |
62 | 563 |
182 | 565 |
310 | 566 |
329 330 | 568 |
246 247 | 569 |
Government of the public lands | 570 |
0 | 571 |
10 11 | 573 |
Burr seeks revenge upon Hamilton | 574 |
Note 112 | 577 |
Limitation of suffrage | 578 |
206 | 579 |
48 | 581 |
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Página 35 - Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should he after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Página 138 - June next, all that part of the Indiana Territory which lies north of a line drawn east from the southerly bend, or extreme, of Lake Michigan, until it shall intersect Lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said lake to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a separate Territory, and be called Michigan.
Página 435 - I am now about to advance is at war, I know, with sentiments of the gentleman from Virginia: I am willing to receive the Canadians as adopted brethren; it will have beneficial political effects; it will preserve the equilibrium of the Government. When Louisiana shall be fully peopled, the Northern States will lose their power; they will be at the discretion of others; they can be depressed at pleasure, and then this Union might be endangered — I therefore feel anxious not only to add the Floridas...
Página 86 - That if any person shall, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for any military expedition or enterprise...
Página 56 - I have just received an offer from Mr. Burr, the actual Vice-president of the United States (which position he is about to resign) to lend his assistance to his Majesty's government in any manner in which they may think fit to employ him, particularly in endeavoring to effect a separation of the western part of the United States from that which lies between the Atlantic and the mountains, in its whole extent.
Página 86 - We of the jury say that Aaron Burr is not proved to be guilty under this indictment by any evidence submitted to us. We therefore find him not guilty.
Página 389 - What is the nature of this government? It is emphatically federal, vested with an aggregate of specified powers for general purposes, conceded by existing sovereignties, who have themselves retained what is not so conceded. It is said that there are cases in which it must act on implied powers. This is not controverted, but the implication must be necessary, and obviously flow from the enumerated power with which it is allied. The power to charter companies is not specified in the grant, and I contend...