Italy surrender is announced sep 8 1943
Its membership dropped sharply, Started at 60,000 members in 1919,down to 24,000 by 1928.
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The reasons why Congress wanted a written Declaration of Independence are The Congress hoped other colonists would join the Revolution, The colonists hoped to get aid from foreign nations and the soldiers needed a good reason for fighting. Not everybody wanted to be independent, so this declaration could get the support of other colonists. The soldiers were mostly farmers and it gave them a very good reason to fight for. Moreover, being an independent nation, the United States could ask foreign nations for money and supplies. There were federalists and Anti-Federalists, so not everybody agreed on certain issues
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the famous book called Uncle Tom's Cabin.
This book follows the journey of a man named Uncle Tom, who happens to be a slave in America for a long period of time. During this book, it describes the harsh realities that slaves in America face on a daily basis. Harriet Beecher Stowe, an advocate of abolishing the institution of slavery, wrote this book in hopes of bringing to light the inhumane treatment of slaves in America. She succeeded in her mission.
Northerners read this book, shocked at the realities these slaves faced during this period in American history. Southerners felt that it was an inaccurate representation of life in the South. Regardless, this continued to fuel tension so much that when President Abe Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he said "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!" This sentence alone shows how critical this book was to the start of the Civil War.
Consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic (509 to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the highest level of the cursus honorum (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politicians aspired)
