At the Battle of Bunker Hill, the colonists used the physical geography of the area to their advantage by firing on the British from a relatively safe position on the "high ground" of the battlefield.
<span> Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union </span>candidate <span>John Bell in the 1860 election.</span>
The cause of the increasingly tense relations between the mexican government and the american residents in texas after 1830 was mainly the increasing american immigration, that brought with it many cultural and social conflicts, since the Mexican natives became the minority in Texas, reaching only 7800 against the 30,000 English-speaking inhabitants, bringing as a consequence a conflict for the independence of Texas and then the annexation to the United States of America.
What is a true statement about the us constitution?....well .... George Washington is not mentioned in the text of the US Constitution, however he was President of the Constitutional Convention, and a signatory to the document. George Washington became President of the United States by election a year after the constitution was ratified.
The oldest constitution still in use is the Constitution of San Marino established in 1600; nearly two centuries before the US constitution. and The US Constitution was inspired in part by the Magna Carta, but is very different in format and detail.
Thomas Jefferson was not a delegate to the Constitutional Convention which wrote the US Constitution; at the time he was the US Ambassador to France so had no part in writing that document..
Actually, it is unlikely that Henry uttered those precise words. The phrase was first attributed to him in 1816, more than 40 years after the revolution. Regardless, Henry’s speech encouraged Virginia legislators to provide troops to the Revolutionary War effort, helping to create the Continental Army less than three months later. After the revolution, Henry became the first governor of the state of Virginia.
