Book/Printed Material American history and government,
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- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 3 of American history and government, -ov^ 4 O V o (y 7
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 4 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 5 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 6 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 7 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 8 of American history and government, GEORGE WASHINGTON From portrait by Rembrandt Peale, in the room of the Vice-President at the Capitol in Washington. By the friends and contemporaries of Washington this portrait was considered the best. On...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 9 of American history and government, AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT BY MATTHEW PAGE ANDREWS, M.A. AUTHOR OF PEOPLE S EDITION OF THE CONSTITUTION. HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, A HERITAGE OF FREEDOM, A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNITED...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 10 of American history and government, I COPYRIGHT, 1 92 1, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA. U. S. A. m 18 1921
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 11 of American history and government, KNOW THE PAST AND THOU CANST INTERPRET THE FUTURE. Pittacus of Mitylene HISTORIE HATH TRIUMPHED OVER TIME, WHICH BESIDES IT NOTHING BUT ETERNITY HATH TRIUMPHED OVER. Sir Walter Raleigh THOU THAT TEACHEST,...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 12 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 13 of American history and government, PREFACE In the writing of American liistor}^ certain things are to be striven for, while certain other things are to be avoided. A mere narrative of events is not in accord with...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 14 of American history and government, vi PREFACE life, have endorsed or approved those passag^es which present a new treatment or a different perspective and proportion. Again, the author of a brief history may gather and present all...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 15 of American history and government, CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Genesis of the United States 1 II. Beginnings of New England 35 III. Beginnings of the Middle Colonies, the Carolinas, and Georgia 64 rV. A Century of Colonial...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 16 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 17 of American history and government, ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE George Washington, by Rembrandt Peale Frontispiece Sir Edwin Sandys 5 Landing at Jamestown, 1607 9 Signatures of Captain George Percy and Captain John Smith 13 Statue of Pocahontas 18 Cohimbus...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 18 of American history and government, X ILLUSTRATIONS Patrick Henry 140 Tablet Erected to Commemorate the Ladies Tea Party 142 Henry Laurens 144 John Hancock 146 Samuel Adams 147 British Retreat from Concord 148 American Soldier in Uniform...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 19 of American history and government, ILLUSTRATIONS xi John Tyler 271 Chicago in 1832 273 James K. Polk _ 274 Storming of the Fortress of Chapultepec, 1847 278 Zachary Taylor 282 Millard Filhnore 282 Franklin Pierce 283 James...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 20 of American history and government, xii ILLUSTRATIONS Reclaiming Arid Lands in the West by Reservoirs and Irrigation 387 WilUam H. Taft 390 Woodrow Wilson 393 Oblique View of Capitol and Congressional Library, Washington 395 Weaving Tree Cloth,...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 21 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 22 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 23 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 24 of American history and government,
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 25 of American history and government, AMERICAN HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT CHAPTER I Genesis of the United States In North America, settlement by Europeans began long* afte Columbus set foot in the West Indies on October 12, 1492. In...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 26 of American history and government, 2 GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES Florida, in 1565, and at Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1582. In the same century, the French attempted some early set- tlements on the coast of...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 27 of American history and government, WILL OF KINGS VS. POPULAR SELF-GOVERNMENT 3 largely or altogether created by the people. Hence, in Europe, in 1914, there were two ideas of governnient in more or less direct opposition to...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 28 of American history and government, 4 GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES Frequently meeting under the shadow of one of the monuments erected by James I to the divine right of kings, these far-sighted men created a company...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 29 of American history and government, JAMES I VS. SIR EDWIN SANDYS The latter, therefore, planned to set up in America what was described by them as a ^^free popular State, whose inhabitants should have ^no Government putt...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 30 of American history and government, 6 GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES out. But no attempt at settlement could be undertaken without the permission of the King, who, fortunately, was persuaded that there might be great mines of...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 31 of American history and government, SAILING OF THE FIRST COLONY 7 were preparing to enjoy the festivities of the Christmas and New Year season, a small band of one hundred and five adventurous spirits set sail from...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 32 of American history and government, 8 GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES was Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, the powerful patron of the great dramatist. Two years later, when Shake- speare learned of the wreck and final rescue...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 33 of American history and government, THE NEW LAND; ITS RESOURCES AND DANGERS 9 a coach and four horses might pass beneath and be- tween the trees they expressed, also, their astonishment over the flocks of ^Svild turkeys,...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 34 of American history and government, 10 GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES C.Hatteraf t;ROATOAN I l-l »0»TES CO., h.Y. Longitude 78° West from Greenwich 76° Map of Jamestown and the neighboring settlements prior to the settlement of Maryland...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 35 of American history and government, THE NEW LAND; ITS RESOURCES AND DANGERS 11 progressive, wJio first proposed (1609) the calling of a Colonial Parliament. Moreover, the high grasses on the low-lying peninsula at Jamestown made it comparatively...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 36 of American history and government, 12 GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES in equal measuire, reg ardless of individual merits or abilities. In such cases, experience has shown that the lazy or indifferent are not likely to exert...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 37 of American history and government, CAPTAIN JOHN MARTIN AND OTHER LEADERS 13 sible accounts of Virginia have colored all our early histories, and it is only in very recent years that we have come to realize how...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 38 of American history and government, 14 GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES Smith was an excellent cartographer and prepared many good mai)s of what he saw. In December, 1607, on one of his exploring trips up the various...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 39 of American history and government, THE FIRST CHARTER OF SELF-GOVERNMENT 15 The year 1609, however, is particularly memorable in the story of the early development of American liberty. In that year. Captains Archer and Ratcliffe, taking with...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 40 of American history and government, 16 GENESIS OF THE UNITED STATES The fleet that bore the First Charter set sail from Eng- land on June 12, 1609. Near the Bermuda Isles, it encoun- tered the storm immortalized...
- Contributor: Andrews, Matthew Page - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921