1800s, President John Adams orders the federal government to pack up and leave Philadelphia and set up shop in the nation’s new capital in Washington, D.C.
The Stock Market crash of 1929 made employment, in essence, nonexistent.
Companies went out of business, credit dried up, and nobody could afford to pay wages.
United States control of Puerto Rico’s government with Puerto Ricans
becoming U.S. citizens after 1917; the Philippines providing a naval
base to guard U.S. trade in Asia, which in turn provided some
improvement in Filipino schools, roads, and healthcare.
Because she loved the narrator and he loved her
