Unlike Britain, France, and Russia, the United States has never faced a full on war on its own soil (although some include the War of 1812 in this category)--due mostly to the fact that the US has been so well protected by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Electricity is what powers our everyday lives! We use it to power lightbulbs so we can see at night, and it also powers streetlights so we can drive in the dark. Heck, without electricity we wouldn't have cars in the first place! The very computer you asked this question on wouldn't exist either!
Electricity made a whole new type of transportation able to be created! It also made instant communication with one another possible! The world as you know it today would not be possible without electricity, it does much more than I mentioned in this answer too!
The federal government should be limited in power
When we think of the President of the United States, many people do not realize that we are actually referring to presidents elected under the U.S. Constitution. Everybody knows that the first president in that sense was George Washington. But in fact the Articles of Confederation, the predecessor to the Constitution, also called for a president- albeit one with greatly diminished powers. Eight men were appointed to serve oneyear terms as president under the Articles of Confederation. In November 1781, John Hanson became the first President of the United States in Congress Assembled, under the Articles of Confederation.
