<span>Jefferson first rose to fame during the Revolutionary War as a member of the Second Continental Congress. There, he authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, generally seen as a model for the First Amendment. From there, he became the Governor of Virginia and held other positions in government before his election as President in 1800. In this role, Jefferson opposed a strong central government, preferring to leave power to the states.</span>
This was apart of the intolerable acts, there are many other acts included in the intolerable acts.
Well, a simile can include "like" or "as," so you could say, "The Continental Army's victory in the American Revolution was as powerful as a bolt of lightning." Unless you have to use "like," then it could be, "The Continental Army's victory in the American Revolution was like a power-punch to their enemies."
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20,000 people lived there during the eruption.
The first computer or ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer) which the University of Pennsilvania built to do ballistics calculations for the U.S. and other early computers proved to many universities and corporations that these machines were useful because They could solve problems in 30 seconds that otherwise would have taken 12 hours by hand.
For this reason, most of the first computers in the United States were purchased by universities and corporations in spite of the space ,manpower and the tremendous investment of money, they demanded in this early stages.
