That would be the speaker of the house
In this period, the minutemen were created. They could be ready for battle in a moments notice.
Paul Revere, was a horseback rider who spread the word that the British were coming. He warned a group of minutemen multiple different times, along with countless number of other horseback riders.
<span> basically, it was so environmentally hazardous
that they had to move</span>
Direct democracy is when everyone in a country votes on something. People's rights might be denied because it would be a tyrannical rule of the majority. For example, there's only 15% African-Americans in the US. If the 85% Caucasian population decided to vote something that was against the rights of the African-Americans, they wouldn't be able to oppose this because they would be a minority.
This term was known as popular sovereignty and resulted in debate over many decades in both State legislatures and the United States congress. It led to tension across the free and slave states, even leading to a event known as Bleeding Kansas in which the residents would determine whether to be free or slave
