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Title: A history of the United States
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Thomas, Allen Clapp, 1846-1920. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ityStudies in History and Political Science, iii. 7-54 ; B. A. Hinsdale, OldNorthwest, pp. 192-262; American History Leaflets, No. 22 ; Old SouthLeaflets, Nos. 15, 16, Washingtons Letters to Governors, etc. For theConstitutional Convention: Century Magazine, September, 1887 ; Magazineof American History, xiii. 313-345. For the Constitution : Document, Ap-pendix to this volume ; Old South Leaflets, No. 1 ; E. D. Mead, Old SouthManuals, The Constitution ; American History Leaflets, No. 8. Discussion :James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, i,. Chaps, i.-iv.; I. W. Andrews,Manual of the Constitution, Revised Edition ; H. S. Maine, Popular Govern-ment, pp. 196-254 ; E. J. Phelps, Nineteenth Century, xxiii. 297-316, 441-457 ;A. Johnston, New Princeton Review, iv. 175-190. 140. Land Claims. (1781.) — The war was at end; theindependence of the United States was acknowledged byEngland. At first sight all seemed accomplished. Inreality, perhaps the most difficult questions remained to be 132
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LAND CLAIMS. 133 solved. In fighting for independence the people had a com-mon interest at stake upon which all could unite; there wasno such issue before them now, and the petty jealousies,which had already shown themselves during the course ofthe struggle, became very prominent. The Articles of Con-federation, agreed upon by the Continental Congress in 1777,had only gone into effect in 1781 by the accession of Mary-land, whose adherence had been withheld on account of theownership of the western lands ceded by France in 1763.Maryland held that these lands were acquired by the com-mon effort of all the colonies, and therefore should be acommon possession. Six of the colonies — New Hampshire,Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, andMaryland — had boundaries fixed by their charters. Thewestern limits of the others were indefinite, though by thetreaty of Paris, 1763, the Mississippi was recognized as theeastern boundary of the Spanish possessions, thus puttingan end to t

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