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☆☆☆☆☆George Washington was elected as president of the constitution convention.
He was nominated for the position by Robert Morris of Pennsylvania.
George Washington was elected President of the Constitutional Convention. He would go on to serve as the country's 1st President.
True. Under the Articles of Confederation the government had no power to collect taxes.
A strong central government
A number of countries used it as an opportunity to fight Great Britain.
The African-Americans tried to escape from the South because the South had slave states. They tried to get to the North because those were free states.
Representative democracy has an advantage in comparison to direct democracy, because the more citizens you have, the more difficult it becomes for them all to get together and make a collective decision about anything. It is not impossible, and even in our representative system we sometimes hold a referendum so that everybody can make their wishes known, however, it is not feasible to hold a referendum every time the government needs to make a decision about anything.
Elected officials could study issues carefully.
Correspondence Publishing Committee was created in 1951.
If you defended British soldiers who were in the Boston Massacre in court, you are John Adams.
Paul Revere and Samuel Adams were successful in portraying the Boston Tea Party.
Forming organizations to help one another
