<span>In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missourias a slave state and Maine as a free state.</span>
The important delegates at the first continental congress for virginia were <span>Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry,and Benjamin Harrison</span>
In 1950 it was 9% but increased to about 90% towards the end of the 1950’s sorry if this does not help
mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age." By this, he meant that the period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. ... It is easy to caricature the Gilded Age as an era of corruption, conspicuous consumption, and unfettered capitalism.