Author: Frederic Ober
Publisher: Serapis Classics
ISBN: 3962559515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He led the first known European expedition to La Florida, which he named during his first voyage to the area in 1513.
Ponce de Leon (Serapis Classics)
Author: Frederic Ober
Publisher: Serapis Classics
ISBN: 3962559515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He led the first known European expedition to La Florida, which he named during his first voyage to the area in 1513.
Publisher: Serapis Classics
ISBN: 3962559515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. He became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown. He led the first known European expedition to La Florida, which he named during his first voyage to the area in 1513.
History of the United States (Serapis Classics)
Author: John Clark Ridpath
Publisher: Serapis Classics
ISBN: 3963134437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
On the day after the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, Andrew Johnson took the oath of office, and became President of the United States. He was a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, born in 1808. With no advantages of education, he passed his boyhood in poverty and neglect. In 1828 he removed to Tennessee and settled at Greenville. Here, through toil and hardship, he rose to distinction, and after holding minor offices was elected to Congress. As a member of the United States Senate in 1860-61, he opposed secession with all his powers, and continued to hold his seat as senator from Tennessee. On the 4th of March, 1862, he was appointed military governor of that State. This office he held until 1864, and was then nominated for the Vice-Presidency. Now, by the death of the President, he was called to assume the responsibilities of chief magistrate. On the ist of February, 1865, Congress adopted an amendment to the Constitution by which slavery was abolished and forbidden in all the States and Territories of the Union. By the 18th of the following December the amendment had been ratified by the legislatures of twenty- seven States, and was duly proclaimed as a part of the Constitution. The Emancipation Proclamation had been issued as a military measure; now the doctrines and results of that instrument were recognized and incorporated in the fundamental law of the land. The problem of reconstruction of the Southern States was a most serious one and the Republican party came near splitting asunder over it. As early as 1863 President Lincoln had formulated a plan by which any seceding State might be restored to the Union if one-tenth of its voters of 1860 should take an oath to support the Constitution and the laws and should set ...
Publisher: Serapis Classics
ISBN: 3963134437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
On the day after the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, Andrew Johnson took the oath of office, and became President of the United States. He was a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, born in 1808. With no advantages of education, he passed his boyhood in poverty and neglect. In 1828 he removed to Tennessee and settled at Greenville. Here, through toil and hardship, he rose to distinction, and after holding minor offices was elected to Congress. As a member of the United States Senate in 1860-61, he opposed secession with all his powers, and continued to hold his seat as senator from Tennessee. On the 4th of March, 1862, he was appointed military governor of that State. This office he held until 1864, and was then nominated for the Vice-Presidency. Now, by the death of the President, he was called to assume the responsibilities of chief magistrate. On the ist of February, 1865, Congress adopted an amendment to the Constitution by which slavery was abolished and forbidden in all the States and Territories of the Union. By the 18th of the following December the amendment had been ratified by the legislatures of twenty- seven States, and was duly proclaimed as a part of the Constitution. The Emancipation Proclamation had been issued as a military measure; now the doctrines and results of that instrument were recognized and incorporated in the fundamental law of the land. The problem of reconstruction of the Southern States was a most serious one and the Republican party came near splitting asunder over it. As early as 1863 President Lincoln had formulated a plan by which any seceding State might be restored to the Union if one-tenth of its voters of 1860 should take an oath to support the Constitution and the laws and should set ...
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Stanford Alumni, 1891-1955
Author: Stanford Alumni Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Languages : en
Pages : 650
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Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Department
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Dictionary Catalog of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island
Author: Brown University. Library
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference Dept
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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In the American Grain
Author: William Carlos Williams
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends
Author: Lucian Lamar Knight
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589800007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Includes DeSoto memorials, Georgia's state seals, and the first steamboat patent.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589800007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Includes DeSoto memorials, Georgia's state seals, and the first steamboat patent.