The Constitution of the United States went into effect June 21, 1788. Like much contemporary legislation, it guaranteed the rights of the gov- ernment to govern. It guaranteed no individual rights whatsoever and since individual liberty was what many had risked all to attain, this seemed, at ...
1826The first American railroad was built in Quincy. 1827Francis Leiber opened the first swim school in America. Among the first to enroll was John Quincy Adams. 1831The first abolitionist newspaper, “The Liberator”, was published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison. 1837Samuel Morse invented t...
Delegate to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from District of Bexar, 1836; signer, Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas Republic Senate from District of Bexar, 1836-37. Catholic. First schoolmaster in San Antonio, Texas. Died in San Antonio, Bexar County, Tex....
The French Republic (République Française)—more commonly known as France—occupies 212,918 square miles, making it the largest country in Western Europe and slightly smaller than the state of Texas. It is hexagonal in shape, with half its borders, or 1,920 miles, made up of coastline. ...
the British government appointed a Royal Commission of Inquiry, which found Eyre's penalty "excessive, barbarous, reckless, and criminal." On December 1, 1865, the secretaries of state for the colonies tore up the Jamaican Constitution and recommended a Crown Colony government for the island. The...