Roose's Companion and Guide to Washington and Vicinity - Couverture rigide

Wyeth, Samuel Douglas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1357507658 ISBN 13 : 9781357507657

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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No American citisen should remain contentedly ignorant of the history of the District of Columbia, and of the events which led to its selection for the permanent seat of the Federal Government. The Continental Congress opened its first session in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 5, 1774, and the succeeding year it also met in that city. For several seasons the fortune of war caused its migration from place to place. In Dec. 20, 1776, it met in Baltimore $but again, March 4, 1777, it met in Philadelphia. In Sept. 27, 1777, it convened at Lancaster, Pa., and Sept. 30, 1777, at York, Pa. July 2, 1778, it returned to Philadelphia, where it continued to meet until 1783, when it was expelled by a mob, which the State authorities did not suppress. Congress then adjourned to Princeton, N. J., June 30, 1783. Not. 16, 1783, it met at A nnapolis, Md. and it was while in session here that General Washington, Dec. 23, resigned his commission as general-in-chief of the army at the close of the revolutionary contest. Nov. i, 1784, it met at Trenton, N. J., from which it adjourned to meet Jan. 11, 1785, in New York city. This last continued its place of meeting until the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, in 1788. It was in the city of New York the First Federal Congress assembled and the electoral votes were counted for the election of the first President of the United States. Gen. Washington was inaugurated President on the balcony of Federal Hall, (the site of the present New York Custom-house,) A pril 30, 1789. The question where the permanent seat of government should be located gave rise to anxious debates even in the Continental Congress 5and in the Convention which framed the Constitution the subject was waived because graver issues demanded the attention of that body, and it was deemed hazardous to decide upon what necessarily involved great local irritatio
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1357507658
• ISBN 13: 9781357507657
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible