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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
Minnesota, The first Europeans who trod its soil were two Huguenots, Sieur Groselliers and Sieur Radisson, who, in search of a northwest passage to China, passed through this region in 1659. Returning to Montreal in 1660 with sixty canoes laden with skins, they excited others to go in search of peltries, and this was the beginning of the French furtrade which afterwards interfered with the Hudson Bay Company. To secure this trade, which the English were grasping, Daniel Greysolon du Luth, a native of Lyons, left Quebec in September, 1678, with twenty men, and entered Minnesota. The next year Father Hennepin and two others, who were a part of La Salle's expedition, penetrated the country far above the falls of St. Anthony. The territory was formally taken possession of in the name of the French monarch, by Perrot and his associates, in 1689. They built a fort on the west shore of Lake Pepin; and Le Seur built another fort, in 1695, on an island in the Mississippi, just below
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morrill, Justin Smith 1810- (search)
n his pathetic exhortation to Americans on the selfishness and moral aspects of the question, urging protectionists to be good as well as great, Mr. Gladstone forgets he and his countrymen are not entirely without sin, and may not, therefore, cast the first stone across the Atlantic even to hit Americans. But others have not forgotten that free-trade was begotten by greed for the trade of the world, that it was the British war power which forced, and continues to force, the opium trade upon China, by which the Indian government obtains an annual income of nearly $40,000,000; that the religion of Great Britain, politically established, may have something too much of perfunctory support through the union of Church and State; that its laws of primogeniture were ordained to make the first-born rich and all the rest of the family poor; and that the soil of the United Kingdom is in fewer hands than that of any other country in Europe. To refute the charge against protection of a tendenc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Naturalization. (search)
Children of naturalized citizens. The children of persons who have been duly naturalized, being under the age of twenty-one years at the time of the naturalization of their parents, shall, if dwelling in the United States, be considered as citizens thereof. Citizens' children who are born abroad. The children of persons who now are or have been citizens of the United States are, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, considered as citizens thereof. Chinese. The naturalization of Chinamen is expressly prohibited by section 14, chapter 126, laws of 1882. Protection abroad to naturalized citizens. Section 2,000 of the revised statutes of the United States declares that all naturalized citizens of the United States while in foreign countries are entitled to and shall receive from this government the same protection of persons and property which is accorded to nativeborn citizens. The right of suffrage. The right to vote is confirme
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
the new navy, every English journal, from the London Times down, pooh-poohed the idea that a modern man-of-war could be built in an American yard, modern high-powered engines in an American machine-shop, or modern breech-loading cannon in an American forge. Many of the English shipbuilders rubbed their hands in actual anticipation of orders from this government for the ships and guns we needed, and they blandly assured us that they would give us quite as favorable terms as were accorded to China, Japan, and Chile. And, to their shame be it said, there were officers of our navy who not only adopted this view, but did all they could to commit our government to the pernicious policy. In 1885, when Secretary Whitney took control of the Navy Department, the ef- United States protected cruiser Chicago, one of the first ships of the New Navy, as she appeared when first built. forts of English ship-builders to secure at least a share of the work were renewed, By this time the English w
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pacific exploring expedition. (search)
Pacific exploring expedition. The acquisition of California opened the way for an immense commercial interest on the Pacific coast of the United States, and in the spring of 1853 Congress sent four armed vessels, under the command of Captain Ringgold, of the navy, to the eastern shores of Asia, by way of Cape Horn, to explore the regions of the Pacific Ocean, which, it was evident, would soon be traversed by American steamships plying between the ports of the western frontier of the United States and Japan and China. The squadron left Norfolk May 31, with a supply-ship. The expedition returned in the summer of 1856. It made many very important explorations, among them of the whaling and sealing grounds in the region of the coast of Kamtchatka and Bering Strait.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peace conference, universal (search)
conference of Brussels, which has remained unratified to the present day. 8. To accept in principle the employment of good offices, of mediation and facultative arbitration in cases lending themselves thereto, with the object of preventing armed conflicts between nations; to come to an understanding with respect to the mode of applying these good offices, and to establish a uniform practice in using them. The following governments were represented: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, Spain, Sweden and Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States of America. The United States were represented by the lion. Andrew D. White, ambassador to Berlin; the Hon. Seth Low, president of Columbia University; the Hon. Stanford Newel, minister to The Hague; Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N.; Capt. William Crozier, U. S.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Peyton, John Lewis 1824- (search)
Peyton, John Lewis 1824- Author; born in Staunton, Va., Sept. 15, 1824; graduated at the University of Virginia Law School in 1845; removed to Chicago, Ill., about 1855. He was made agent for the Southern Confederacy in Europe in 1861, and soon afterwards ran the blockade at Charleston, S. C. He remained abroad till 1880. He is the author of A statistical view of the State of Illinois; Pacific Railway communication and the trade of China; The American crisis; Over the Alleghanies and across the prairies; History of Augusta county, Va., etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Philippine Islands, (search)
France, and onethird as great as in Japan and China. Various smaller islands, including the Care) that the islands contain the following: Chinese (principally in Manila）75,000 Moors or Moham Around Manila there has been some mixture of Chinese and Spanish blood with that of the natives, r and small-pox, both of which are brought from China. Mineral wealth. Very little is known coflour, of which more than two-thirds came from China and less than one-third from the United States$11,000,000, was exported, the greater part to China, Great Britain, and Australia. The hemp is the manufactured tobacco 70 per cent. goes to China and Singapore, 10 per cent. to England, and 5 lars, silver.) Articles.Spain.Great Britain.China.Germany.United States.Other Countries.Total. mmerce1,400,700 Cedulas (poll tax)5,600,000 Chinese poll tax510,190 Tribute from Sultan of Jolo2, U. S. A.; Col. Charles Denby, ex-minister to China; and Prof. Dean C. Worcester, of the Universit[3 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Political parties in the United States. (search)
ternal improvements; State banks; removal of deposits; sub-treasury; State rights; free-trade; tariff for revenue only; annexation of Texas; Mexican War; compromise of 1850; Monroe doctrine; Dred Scott decision; fugitive slave law; acquisition of Cuba; frugal public expense; free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Opposed agitation of the slavery question in any form or place; coercion of the seceded States; the amelioration of the condition of the freed negroes; freedmen's bureau; Chinese immigration; strong government; opposes in general the policy of the other party in power. Whig party, 1834-54 Formed from a union of the National Republicans and disrupted Democratic-Republicans. Elected two Presidents: Harrison and Taylor. Favored non-extension of slavery; slavery agitation—i. e., right of petition and free circulation of anti-slavery documents; a United States bank; protective tariff; vigorous internal improvements; compromise of 1850. Opposed the Seminole War;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pownall, Thomas 1720-1805 (search)
ce, where no laws lock up the artisan, and said, The moment that the progress of civilization is ripe for it, manufactures will grow and increase with an astonishing exuberancy. Referring to ship-building, he said: Their commerce hath been striking deep root ; and referred to ocean and inland navigation as becoming our vital principle of life, extended through our organized being, our nature. Before long, he said, the Americans will be trading in the South Sea, in the Spice Islands, and in China. . . . Commerce will open the door to immigration. By constant intercommunion, America will every day approach nearer and nearer to Europe. Unless the great potentates of Europe can station cherubim at every avenue with a flaming sword that turns every way to prevent man's quitting this Old World, multitudes of their people, many of the most useful, enterprising spirits, will emigrate to the new one. Much of the active property will go there, too. He alluded to the folly of the sovere
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