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Vor 19 Stunden · In this video, we delve into the fascinating life and lasting impact of Benjamin Franklin, a key figure in American history and one of the Founding Fathers o...
Vor einem Tag · The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [3] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the national frame and constrains the powers of the federal government.
Vor einem Tag · The first American, English, and Russian trading ships first appeared in California a few years before 1820. The classic book Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr. provides a good first hand account of this trade. From 1825 to 1848 the average number of ships traveling to California increased to about 25 ships per year ...
Vor einem Tag · The American Revolution (1775–83) was an insurrection carried out by 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies, which won political independence and went on to form the United States of America. The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and many North American colonists.
Vor 2 Tagen · The Constitution was written during the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 55 delegates to a Constitutional Convention that was called ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation (1781–89), the country’s first written constitution.
Vor einem Tag · One of the first Europeans to employ the term “Revolution” for what took place in America in a positive light was the Welsh minister and pamphleteer Richard Price. In 1783, in a personal letter to American Benjamin Rush, Price wrote, “The struggle has been glorious on the part of America; and it has now issued just as I wished it to issue; in the emancipation of the American States and ...
Vor 2 Tagen · history of Latin America, history of the region from the pre- Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.
