was murdered during the early morning on 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1916 at the home of Felix Yusupov. He died of three gunshot wounds, one of which was a close-range shot to his forehead.
In New York, it was "Ellis Island" were immigrants were processed into this country, since many immigrants arrived with very little background information, and had to be "sorted".
<span>Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants, accused of murdering a serf-payer at a shoe factory in South Braintree, Mass., On April 15, 1920. The legal process caused an international scandal and sparked protests in Europe And Latin America, due to the scarce and insufficient evidence.
Despite requests for clemency from all over the world, including the Pope, the sentence remained unchanged and the defendants were executed in the electric chair on August 23, 1927.</span>
Bill of Rights
A faction of the men at the Constitutional Convention believed the government document needed to explicitly include rights protecting individuals from a too powerful government. Jefferson led this group called the Anti-Federalists and argued the elite and a central government could not be trusted without adding rights that would protect individuals and the state from a tyranny.
The Constitution was ratified under the condition that a Bill of Rights would be added and ratified shortly after. The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution and provide explicit rights protecting individuals.
