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.
<span>A hierarchy based on power and origins emerged, with those with the most European blood at the top</span>
The main issues that were compromised on in the Constitutional Convention were:
- The Great Compromise, creating a bicameral Congress
- The 3/5ths Compromise, making slaves count as 3/5ths of a person
- Commerce Compromise, mandating that tariffs were only to be allowed on imports from foreign countries and not exports from the U.S., and that interstate commerce would be regulated by the federal government.
- Compromise on Trade of Enslaved People, when Northern states agreed to wait until 1808 before Congress would be able to ban the trade of enslaved people in the U.S.
- The Electoral College compromise, when the two sides debating at the convention compromised with the creation of the Electoral College, which is made up of electors roughly proportional to population.
The correct answer is C. Corazon Aquino - (woman). Her son is the current president of Philippines, too. She was the first president of the re-established Republic of the Philippines.
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Maryland was the first colony of private characteristics and served as a refuge for Catholics, having established religious tolerance legally already in its initial period.
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Lord Baltimore used the patroon system to govern Maryland.
