Archives for March 2019

USA Acquires Florida

This series has three easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Andrew Jackson Enters Florida.IntroductionThrough the acquisition of

My master is called the King of France, and he is the mightiest among the chiefs beyond the great water.Previously in The Discovery of the Great

March 11, 2019 4 Comments

Today's installment concludes The Hartford Convention,the name of our combined selection from Simeon E. Baldwin and John S. Barry. The concluding

The adoption of the report of the committee of the Legislature, and the calling of the convention, which assembled shortly after in Hartford,

The not unnatural implication from such expressions was that absolute necessity . . . might justify secession, even during the pending

The War of 1812 increased the general sense of injustice and wrong, but legislative protests were still kept within bounds.Continuing The Hartford

The proposition does not seem to have been communicated even to a majority of the Federalists in Congress.Continuing The Hartford Convention,with

This series has six easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Peace Movement Against the War of 1812.IntroductionAlthough this

The Sioux, consoled by their promises to return with goods for trade, did not oppose their departure; and they set out together, eight white men in