The formed NASA as a response to the advancing Soviet space program and to claim bragging rights over the Soviets.
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The Constitutional Convention took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans.
A land with different territories under a single rule is an empire.