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The Virginia House Of Burgesses' Struggle For Power From 1619-1689, Nathanael Kreimeyer
The Virginia House Of Burgesses' Struggle For Power From 1619-1689, Nathanael Kreimeyer
Masters Theses
After experiencing the freedom to choose representatives for the House of Burgesses in 1619, Virginian freemen and freeholders would resist living under a political system that did not allow them to participate in choosing their leaders. In 1619, the Virginia Company set up a new kind of governmental legislature in Virginia where every freeman and freeholder held the right to vote for their representative. Over time, the representatives came to see their legislature as equal with the British Parliament and believed it held the right to make its own laws and choose its own leaders. By Bacon's Rebellion in 1675-1676, …
Railroads And Coal: Resource Extraction In Indian Territory, 1866-1907, Robert J. Voss
Railroads And Coal: Resource Extraction In Indian Territory, 1866-1907, Robert J. Voss
Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This dissertation examines the history of the interaction of railroads and coal during the end of the nineteenth century in what is today eastern Oklahoma. The Indian territory presented complex opportunities and challenges for railroad developers, coal operators, miners, railroad workers, and Native Americans. Using primary sources, such as published and unpublished accounts of both prominent and typical Native Americans and Euro-Americans, congressional debates, railroad company annual reports, railroad company correspondence, account books, treaties, court cases, and maps, this dissertation explores the process of railroad and coal company incursion in the region and the conflicts that resulted. All participants in …
Government And Politics Newsletter, Issue 9, Sacred Heart University
Government And Politics Newsletter, Issue 9, Sacred Heart University
Government and Politics Newsletter
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