What happened in 1867 in Canada? What was the greatest weakness of the Articles of Confederation? What were the causes of the American Revolution? What important power did the national government lack under the Articles of Confederation?
What happened in 1867 in Canada? What was one important success of the Articles of Confederation? What was a major problem with the central government under the Articles of Confederation? What powers did the confederation government have?
They were also concerned that Jesuit missionaries had converted large numbers of Indians in Canada to Catholicism, making the Indian converts potential allies of France and enemies of the English. Ironically, the Catholic population would grow in Massachusetts due largely to Irish immigration starting ...
October 18, 1867 The U.S. takes possession of the Alaska territory. The U.S. had purchased it from the Russians in March for about 2¢ an acre. Referred to critics of the purchase as Seward's Folly, in reference to U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward, who negotiated the tr...
It’s unclear which wound killed him or if the head wound happened before or after he died. In the heat of battle, it’s unlikely the warrior who shot Custer knew he’d just killed a U.S. Army icon. Even so, once word spread that Custer was dead, many Native Americans claimed to...
Queen Elizabeth herself noted an earlier precedent. Speaking in 1959, she said that the 1867 confederation of Canada had made it the "first independent country within the British Empire… So, it also marks the beginning of that free association of independent states w...
When the table paused over 8, [redacted] with some excitement interrupted to report that something extraordinary had happened. He was aware that the pointer had rested over W and then moved to 8. When it came to 8 he remembered all of a sudden that the teacher whose name he was trying ...
43 It just so happened that Hostell offered a mass to the Virgin Mary and the pregnant woman went into labor that night, creating an opportunity for the baby’s christening the next day: Hostell, “Report,” 248. 44 Baegert, Letters, 219. 45 Baegert, Observations, 125. 46 ...
It also happened to spell "SOS" in Morse code. Everyone agreed it was way better than "SSSDDD," which is what the Italians were pushing for at the International Radiotelegraph Convention in November of 1906. The term SOS was voted in as the official international distress signal and went ...
What happened in 1867 in Canada? What happened before the Civil Rights Act of 1868? What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848? What is sectionalism? What happened in 1884 in world history? What happened at the Constitutional Convention of 1836?