Puritans
“Many of the Pilgrims were members of a Puritan sect known as the Separatists. They believed that membership in the Church of England violated the biblical precepts for true Christians, and they had to break away and form independent congregations that adhered more strictly to divine requirements.”
Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered the <em>Wheeling, West Virginia</em> speech on February 9, 1950. Right there he reminded Abraham Lincoln’s phrase “when a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be from enemies from without, but rather because of enemies from within.”
This argument was a key moment in McCarthy speech because he grabbed the audience’s attention and made a clear point from the beginning. As Lincoln's did in his “Lyceum Address”, Senator McCarthy warned that the danger to the U. S. was not foreign menaces but domestic.
The speech was delivered in Lincoln Day, and when he stated that they were there to “celebrate the one hundred forty-first birthday of one of the greatest men in American history”, he wanted to reinforce that Lincoln was an outstanding man who influenced America and warned about the internal problems of the country.
It began with the Spanish and Portuguese transatlantic slave trade.
The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence<span>, adopting the </span>United States Declaration of Independence<span> on July 4, 1776. The Congress acted as the </span>de facto<span> national government of what became the United States by raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties such as the </span>Olive Branch Petition.<span>[1]</span>
