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National Association of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The United Daughters of the Confederacy ( UDC) is an American neo-Confederate [ 1] hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, and the promotion of the pseudohistorical ...
Children. 7, including Thomas. Signature. Robert Morris Jr. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806) was an English-born American merchant, investor [ 2] and politician who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and he ...
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. It was debated by the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between July 1776 and November 1777, and finalized by the ...
John Hanson (April 14 [ O.S. April 3] 1721 – November 15, 1783) was an American Founding Father, merchant, and politician from Maryland during the Revolutionary Era. In 1779, Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress after serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland. He signed the Articles of ...
Federalist No. 15 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the fifteenth of The Federalist Papers. [1] It was published by The Independent Journal (New York) on December 1, 1787, under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published at the time. [2] No. 15 addresses the failures of the Articles of Confederation to ...
In Missouri, more than 137,000 children age 5 and younger are enrolled in Imagination Library. They receive a free book by mail every month.
signed the Articles of Confederation. William Clingan (c.1721 – May 9, 1790) was a Founding Father of the United States, lawyer, and jurist. As a delegate in the Continental Congress for Pennsylvania from 1777 to 1779, he signed the Articles of Confederation. Upon his death he was buried in the Upper Octorara Church Cemetery in Parkesburg ...
Nathaniel Gorham (May 27, 1738 – June 11, 1796; sometimes spelled Nathanial) was an American Founding Father, merchant, and politician from Massachusetts. He was a delegate from the Bay Colony to the Continental Congress and for six months served as the presiding officer of that body under the Articles of Confederation.