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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ns the Missouri bill to the House with slavery clause struck out and Senator Thomas's territorial proviso inserted......March 2, 1820 Committee of conference advises the Senate to recede from its amendment to the Maine bill, and the House to pass the Senate Missouri bill; House strikes out from the Missouri bill the prohibition of slavery, 90 to 84, and inserts the Thomas proviso, 134 to 42......March 2, 1820 Maine admitted (the twenty-third State) by act of Congress approved......March 3, 1820 Congress authorizes the people of Missouri to form a State government......March 6, 1820 Duel between Com. Stephen Decatur and Com. James Barron at Bladensburg, Md.......March 22, 1820 Congress abolishes the sale of public lands on credit......April 24, 1820 Congress organizes the first committee on agriculture......May 3, 1820 Congress authorizes a loan of $3,000,000......May 15, 1820 First session adjourns......May 15, 1820 Daniel Boone dies at Charrette, Mo., aged
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
rn coast divided into two great districts......March 2, 1819 About seventy towns petition the legislature for separation, and bill passed granting it......June 19, 1819 Under separation act, after an election in July, and the proclamation of the governor, Aug. 24, a convention of 269 delegates at Portland elects William King president, and appoints a committee of thirty-three to report a constitution......Oct. 11, 1819 Congress admits Maine into the Union; capital, Portland......March 3, 1820 Within seventeen months Governor King, commissioner under the Spanish treaty, resigns his office to Mr. Williamson, president of the Senate, who six months after, being elected to Congress, surrenders it to Mr. Ames, speaker of the House. The president of the next Senate was Mr. Rose, who acted as governor one day, until Governor Parris was inducted......1820-21 Waterville College (afterwards Colby University) established at Waterville 1820 Maine Historical Society incorporate