Answer: A new permanent
Explanation:
On July 16, 1790, a compromise between Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison—known as the Residence Act—was passed, declaring George Washington's selection of a site on the Potomac River as the nation's new permanent capital. As part of the agreement, the federal government assumed the states' debts.
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She was expelled from school for pouring a bowl of chili on a racist boy's head.
Explanation:
Minnijean Brown is an African American activist. She was one of Little Rock Nine, a group of nine African American teenager students who in 1957 were admitted extraordinarily to a white-only school, the Little Rock Central High School.
Minnijean, still an activist, was suspended from school after only three months, in December 1957, for pouring a bowl full of chili on white students, after many of them discriminated her.
As an adult and after getting married, Minnijean continued to be an activist for the protection of minority rights. She lived in Canada between 1980 and 1990, involved in the activism of some students at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, after graduating from Carleton University in Ottawa. Recently, Minnijean moved to Little Rock again, where she lives with her mother and sister.
Answer:
The local elites, the <em>criollos</em>, had wealth, lands and social position, but they lacked political power and were discriminated because they were born in the colonial territories; their families were of Spanish origin, but as they were born in the colonies, they were seen as socially inferior to the <em>peninsulares</em>, Spanish born in Spain and who were the only eligible to the top posts of the colonial administration. Besides, Spanish restrictions and Madrid monoply of trade impeded increased trade and its benefits with other economies. They also got inspired by the fight of the American colonies and the independence of the United States, as well by the French Revolution and its ideals. Many heroes of Latin American independence fought with the Napoleonic armies in Europe convinced they were fighting to spread the libertarian ideals of France. Besides, the decadence of Spain added another reason to dream about independence. The leaders of Latin American revolutions were <em>criollos.</em>
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