When the Second Continental Congress met in June 1775, they were not prepared for what they found. Several months earlier on April 19 the war of words with Great Britain had become a shooting war. The individual colonies found themselves at war with one of the greatest military powers of the age. It would fall on the delegates of the Continental Congress to lead them the best they could with a strong united voice that would see them through the crisis, or maybe not. Congress was not really prepared to become a governmental body. These men who were sent to discuss issues and send petitions suddenly found themselves placed in the position of having to create a united front from thirteen separate entities. They would be tasked with coming up with a military response, building an army, and finding some way to pay for all of it. They were, to say the least, not always up to that task. While many of the men that served in congress had experience running business or even colonial government, the task set ahead of them was more than they had ever done before. In many of the tasks set before it, Congress either failed or nearly failed, nearly causing the still birth of the great republic.
Nowhere did Congress fail as abysmally as it did in trying to create some way to generate money that would support the war. There were several sources they would look to in an effort to pay the bills. Getting support from the states and foreign powers was one path they took. Steps were even taken to try and build a real economy that would see them through the war and perhaps thereafter. Each came with its own set of difficulties.
Answer:
C. People of different races could be restricted to separate areas in public places.
Explanation:
The 1857 Supreme Court case of Plessy vs. Ferguson held that separate but equal facilities are constitutional. This means that racial segregation is legally constitutional as long as it has equal facilities for both races.
This case was a result of an incident when Homer Adolph Plessy, a mixed-race man was traveling in a train bound for Louisiana. He sat at the whites-only section of the train for which he was asked to move to the blacks section which he refused. Convicted of breaking the law, Plessy filed a petition against Hon. John H. Ferguson, the judge who presided over the case. The court ruled in favor of the state with the conclusion that since the train had equal facilities for both races and convicted Plessy.
Thus, the correct answer is option C.
Answer:
C
Explanation:
because the transcripts would inform what has been done
Answer:
Edward VI
Explanation:
Edward became king at the age of nine, when his father died in January 1547. His father had arranged that a council of regency should rule on his behalf, but Edward's uncle, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, took power and established himself as protector.
U.S. participation in NATO was a break with tradition, since the United States for the first time set itself up to automatically get involved in foreign conflicts--something that was very unnerving for a country of people who for most of American's history had been very isolationist.
