A History of Latin AmericaAbingdon Press, 1919 - 302 strani |
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administration agricultural Argentina army audiencia Aztecs became began Bolivar Bolivia Brazil Brazilian Buenos Ayres capital captured Caracas cent Central America century Chapter chief Chile Chilean church civil coast Colombia colonists Columbus command Congress conquest constitution corregidor Cortes Creoles Cuba Diaz economic Ecuador elected encomienda English established European expedition finally forces French German gold governor Granada Guatemala Haiti Hispaniola hundred Inca independence Indians Indies island Isthmus Jesuits Juarez Junta king land Latin America liberal Lima ment Mexican Mexico miles military Monroe Doctrine mountains natives Negro Nicaragua officials overthrow Pan-American Panama Paraguay period Peru Peruvian Pizarro Plata population Portugal Portuguese president provinces Quito railroad READING REFERENCES republics revolution royal royalist sailed San Martin Santa Anna Santiago Santo Domingo sent ships slaves soon South America Spain Spaniards Spanish colonies succeeded territory thousand tion town trade treaty troops United Uruguay Venezuela viceroy voyage
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Stran 264 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Stran 10 - THE hosts of Don Rodrigo were scattered in dismay, When lost was the eighth battle, nor heart nor hope had they ; He, when he saw that field was lost, and all his hope was flown, He turned him from his flying host, and took his way alone.
Stran 265 - We consider that the independence and the equal rights of the smallest and weakest members of the family of nations deserve as much respect as those of the great empires. We pretend to no right, privilege, or power that we do not freely concede to each one of the American Republics.
Stran 286 - The United States of America and the Republic of Colombia, being desirous to remove all the misunderstandings growing out of the political events in Panama in November 1903; to restore the cordial friendship that formerly characterized the relations between the two countries...
Stran 273 - American continent, and to this belligerent we are bound by a traditional friendship and by a similarity of political opinion in the defense of the vital interests of America and the principles accepted by international law.
Stran 119 - The encomienda has been denned as " a right, conceded by royal bounty to well-deserving persons in the Indies, to receive and enjoy for themselves the tributes of the Indians who should be assigned to them, with a charge of providing for the good of those Indians in spiritual and temporal matters, and of inhabiting and defending the provinces where these encomiendas should be granted to them.
Stran 265 - To save themselves from Yankee imperialism, the American democracies would almost accept a German alliance, or the aid of Japanese arms; everywhere the Americans of the North are feared.
Stran 33 - It was in Portugal," says Ferdinand Columbus, "that the admiral began to surmise that if men could sail so far south, one might also sail west and find lands in that direction.
Stran 273 - ... act of the Brazilian Congress, with reference to the present struggle for peace and liberty, was received in the United States. I am sure that I speak in the name of my fellow countrymen when I express my warm admiration for this act, and the hope that it is the forerunner of the attitude to be assumed by the rest of the American states.
Stran 177 - Our constitutions are books, our laws paper, our elections combats, and life itself a torment. We shall arrive at such a state that no foreign nation will condescend to conquer us, and we shall be governed by petty tyrants.