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... Proposed boundaries of Ohio . Act . The bargain with the United States . delegates . St. Clair's address . Dismissal of St. Clair from office . His later history . The constitution . Impotence of the governor . Slavery . Land taxation ...
... Proposed boundaries of Ohio . Act . The bargain with the United States . delegates . St. Clair's address . Dismissal of St. Clair from office . His later history . The constitution . Impotence of the governor . Slavery . Land taxation ...
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... proposed . District of Louisiana under Indiana jurisdiction . Difficulties as to Territory of New Orleans . The Territorial Council . Pas- sage of the bill . Claiborne and Wilkinson . The remon- strance from the citizens of Louisiana ...
... proposed . District of Louisiana under Indiana jurisdiction . Difficulties as to Territory of New Orleans . The Territorial Council . Pas- sage of the bill . Claiborne and Wilkinson . The remon- strance from the citizens of Louisiana ...
Page xix
... proposed suffrage articles . A constitution adopted . Wisconsin admitted . The early immigration . The later . Their influence on the slavery question . XVIII ADMISSION OF IOWA , MINNESOTA , AND NEBRASKA . · 311-334 Early settlement of ...
... proposed suffrage articles . A constitution adopted . Wisconsin admitted . The early immigration . The later . Their influence on the slavery question . XVIII ADMISSION OF IOWA , MINNESOTA , AND NEBRASKA . · 311-334 Early settlement of ...
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... proposed States . Changes in Enabling Acts . Development of State constitutions . XXII IMMIGRATION INTO THE NORTHWEST PAGES • 379-409 The Eng- Reasons Early migration to the Northwest . The French . lish . Natives of other States in the ...
... proposed States . Changes in Enabling Acts . Development of State constitutions . XXII IMMIGRATION INTO THE NORTHWEST PAGES • 379-409 The Eng- Reasons Early migration to the Northwest . The French . lish . Natives of other States in the ...
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... proposed terms of granting lands to the officers or soldiers , because there are no lands belonging solely and exclusively to this State . The purchase of lands might eventually involve this State in an expense exceeding its ability ...
... proposed terms of granting lands to the officers or soldiers , because there are no lands belonging solely and exclusively to this State . The purchase of lands might eventually involve this State in an expense exceeding its ability ...
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admission admitted Alleghanies American appointed Assembly became boundary Britain British ceded cession Chillicothe Clair Clark clause colonies committee condition Congress Connecticut Constitution convention Cumberland River Cutler delegates district east eastern elected emigrants established expedition favor formed France Franklin French gave George Rogers Clark governor granted houses hundred acres Illinois country important independent Indians inhabitants Jefferson journey Kaskaskia Kentucky Lake land claims laws leader legislative legislature Little Miami River Louisiana Louisiana Purchase Manasseh Cutler matter ment Miami Michigan miles Mississippi Mississippi River Missouri mountains nation navigation neighbors North Carolina northern Northwest Territory officers Ohio Company Ohio River Ordinance of 1787 organized Orleans party passed pioneer population possession purchase question Revolution settled settlements settlers Sevier slavery slaves southern Spain Spanish Tennessee tion township tract trading treaty Union United valley village Vincennes Virginia vote Watauga western lands westward Wisconsin
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Page 409 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government: provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 409 - States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that Government certain defsnite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own selfgovernment; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Page 305 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 80 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws, and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Page 346 - Provided always, That the three foregoing propositions herein offered are on the conditions that the convention of the said State shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States...
Page 412 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the Federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 409 - ... thereby guarding in the same sentence, and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, insomuch, that whatever violates either, throws down the sanctuary which covers the others, and that libels, falsehoods, and defamation, equally with heresy and false religion, are withheld from the cognizance of federal tribunals.
Page 350 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within, and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of government, to be adopted by the people of said republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, in order that the same may be admitted...
Page 409 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original States and the people and States in the said territory...
Page 84 - That, after the year 1800 of the Christian era-, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.