Regard to the trade of Great Britain, the increase of our people, and the employment and support it will afford to great numbers of our own poor, as well as foreign persecuted Protestants.
The Coinage Act of 1792 was entered into law on April 2. It proclaimed the creation of the United States Mint. Philadelphia<span> at that time was the nation's capital; therefore the first mint facility was built there.</span>
D) <span>John Brown, an extreme abolitionist, tried to end the entire institution of slavery by attacking a federal armory in hopes to arm slaves in 1859—the raid failed.</span>
<u>Each of the civil rights events listed took place in the following locations:</u>
- Birmingham: demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins. All these activities integrated the so-called Birmingham Campaign, as it was one of the most segregated cities in the US.
- Washington D.C. : Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech delivered during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 in front of 250,000 supporters of the Civil Rights Movement. It constituted a direct claim for the end of racism
- Selma: police attacked peaceful marchers outside this city. The march which was peaceful in the beginning is nowadays known as the Bloody Sunday.
- Watts: terrible riots took place here in 1965. A roadside incident escalated to a conflict with police and ended up causing six days of unrest.
- Little Rock: students tried to integrate a school. This conflict required the involvement of the Supreme Court that issued the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared segregated schools to be unconstitutional.
- Montgomery: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the bus in 1956 and it gave rise to the Montgomery bus boycott.
