Jacob Shallus was granted the honor of writing the constitution. He did so with a quill pen. Where Was It Held, Who Attended, and What Happened? The Philadelphia Convention began on May 25th, 1787. Since it was difficult to travel significant distances in the 1700s, attendees arrived at...
1787),Massachusetts(February 6, 1788),Virginia(June 25, 1788), andKentucky(June 1, 1792). The first three were among the original 13 colonies (Kentucky was part of Virginia until it became the 15th state). All four use the wordcommonwealthin their official name: theCommonwealth...
The map illustrates the military situation as the founders knew it, in 1787, when at Philadelphia they drafted the Constitution. At that time the general government of the “United States” was known as the Continental Congress, a body made up of representatives of the several “States” which...
Those twelve days of Christmas happened when Pope Gregory XIII ordered Catholics to observe a new calendar year starting in 1582, which added 10 days to account for the fact that the Julian calendar started by Julius Caesar in 46 BC had been gradually growing out of sync with the cycles of ...
Benjamin Franklin spent the decades of the 1750's and 60's in England and traveling abroad to promote the interest of the American Colonies, but returned home unable to reconcile growing tensions between England and the colonies. Franklin served as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress an...
What was one advantage the Constitution had over the Articles of Confederation? What was one good thing about the Articles of Confederation? What happened as a result of the Articles of Confederation? What powers did the Articles of Confederation give Congress? What were the strengths and weakness...
9. What founding document said theAmerican colonies were free from Britain?什么创始文件说美国殖民地摆脱了英国的统治? Declaration of Independence独立宣言 10. Name two important ideas from the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.从《独立宣言》和《美国宪法》中列举两个重要的思想。
This is not about excusing what happened in the past. As we have said, the West is alive to its sins, and has made steps to set things right. The true reason that this is happening is that we of the West still breath the atmosphere engendered by our once almost universal Judaeo-Chris...
In essence, the trait viewpoint suggests that leadership is inherent in a few select Chapter 1: Leadership—What Is It? people and that leadership is restricted to only those few who have special talents with which they are born (Yukl, 2006). Some examples of traits are the ability to ...