All men are created equal and endowed by their creator
And voting for land owned by white males
        
                    
             
        
        
        
<span>Because he believed that if our nation would survive then we would need a strong government and the government needed rules to go by or they would basically monarch us. On September 14, 1786 Alexander Hamilton wrote the call for the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to be held in May of 1787. George Washington was unanimously chosen to preside over the convention. Although he rarely spoke during the four month convention, his prestige gave it legitimacy. Also, after hours at the local taverns (visit City Tavern), Washington was very active in developing strategy behind the scenes. He had a major impact on the success of the Convention.</span>
        
             
        
        
        
D Voting Rights Act because it was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Wanted to unite all of South America into a single nation--> Simon Bolivar
Led a large group of American Indians and Mestizos against the Spanish--> Padre Miguel Hidalgo
Defeated Napoleons army to win independence from France--> Toussaint L'Ouverture
Supported Brazil's independence after Portugal was invaded by France--> Dom Pedro
These leaders were responsible for gaining the independence of their countries and/or regions from European colonial leaders. Bolivar liberated South America from Spain and Hidalgo did so for Mexico as well. L'Ourverture led the revolution in Haiti against the French. Pedro supported the only bloodless revolution in Brazil from the Portuguese. All of these movements occurred in the early 1800's which almost entirely ended 300 years of colonization in the Americas