Tweed was arrested for stealing a huge amount of money which was estimated to $25 million and $45 million from New York City taxpayers in 1877 but later political corruption, estimates ranged as high as $200 million. He was not able to make bail, but he did escaped one time from jail,but was got caught n was returned.
<span>Probably the strategic location in the mid Pacific, which was demonstated so much during the attack on Pearl Harbor. </span>
<span>Possibly getting sugar cane from there, pineapples, things like that, as well as tourism. But most likely it's position, close to midway between Asia and North America.
Source: </span>https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090323121715AAeFse2
The youngest member of the Constitutional Convention was Jonathan Dayton was just 26. The oldest member was Benjamin Franklin with 81 years old.
Black codes, restricted black freedom. Sharecropping, blacks were allowed to work on farms owned by whites but were only allowed a small portion of the profits……..
