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History of the United States by Charles A. Beard, 663 Pages
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Scotch flourished for many years enjoying in peace their own form of religion and growing prosperous in the manufacture of fine linen and woolen cloth. Then the blow fell. Toward the end of the seventeenth century their religious worship was put under the ban and the export of their cloth was forbidden by the English Parliament. Within two decades 'twenty thousand Scotch- Irish left Ulster alone, for America; and all during the eighteenth century the migration continued to be heavy. Although no exact record was kept, it is reckoned that the Scotch-Irish and the Scotch who came directly from Scotland, composed one-sixth of the entire American population on the eve of the Revolution. These newcomers in America made their homes chiefly in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Settlements or German And Scotch-irish Maryland Virginia and Immigrants ' r" '''.'' the Carolmas. Coming late upon the scene, they found much of the land immediately upon the seaboard already taken up. For this reason most of them became frontier people settling the interior and upland regions. There they cleared the land, laid out their small farms, and worked as " sturdy yeomen on the soil," hardy, industrious, and independent in spirit, sharing neither the luxuries of the rich planters nor the easy life of the leisurely merchants. To their agriculture they added woolen and linen manufactures, which, flourishing in the supple fingers of their tireless women, Wph.ebc.co..k.t made heavy inroads upon the trade of the English merchants in the colonies. Of their labors a poet has sung: " O, willing hands to toil; Strong natures tuned to the harvest-song and bound to the kindly soil; Bold pioneers for the wilderness, defenders in the field." The Germans. — Third among the colonists in order of nume... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Product Details
Unknown Binding: 663 pages
Publisher: The Macmillan company (1922)
Language: English
ASIN: B00087UJ4C
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: Charles A. Beard |
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: PDF |
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: 7.48MB |
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: Minh Anh |
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: 15.06.2011 |
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: 334 |
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: 27 |
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