The Constitutional Convention happened in 1787 in Philadelphia. The intent of the convention was to establish the U.S. Constitution. Each state, regardless of its number of delegates had a single vote. Thirty-nine of the fifty-five delegates supported the adoption of the new Constitution. Rhode Island was against the Convention and therefore sent no representation.
Of the present delegates, the 16 representatives who refused to sign the Constitution were:
Oliver Ellsworth - Connecticut
William Houstoun - Georgia
William L. Pierce - Georgia
Luther Martin - Maryland
John F Mercer - Maryland
Elbridge Gerry - Massachusetts
Caleb Strong - Massachusetts
William C. Houston - New Hampshire
John Lansing Jr - New York
Robert Yates - New York
William R Davie - North Carolina
Alexander Martin - North Carolina
George Mason - Virginia
James McClurg - Virginia
Edmund J. Randolph - Virginia
George Wythe - Virginia
Walt Whitman supported the Mexican-American War. He justified his support of the war with the concept of manifest destiny. This was the idea that the USA was destined to stretch from coast to coast on the North American continent. Dominated by Anglo-Saxons, the USA had a mission to spread civilization and institutions across the American continent. Whitman believed that it was America's duty to rid Mexico off its misery, inefficiency, her burlesque against freedom and superstition.
Why might the Social Security Act be considered the most important achievement of the New Deal? The social Security Act might be the most important achievement because it provided immediate aid to the people with no jobs and to the families, children, and elderly.
union busting
"As soon as men and women began to organize themselves into unions, the employers were quick and cruel to act against them"
