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5 days ago · Democratic-Republican. The 1814–15 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between April 26, 1814, and August 10, 1815. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 14th United States Congress convened on December 4, 1815.
4 days ago · Collections of primary sources related to the American Revolution and the creation of the constitution. Alexander Hamilton Papers American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789
- Theresa Mudrock
- 2009
1 day ago · White House, the office and residence of the president of the United States at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C. Since the administration of George Washington (1789–97), who occupied presidential residences in New York and Philadelphia, every American president has resided at the White House.
2 days ago · Yale was founded in 1701 and is the third oldest university in the United States. It was originally chartered by the colonial legislature of Connecticut as the Collegiate School and was held at Killingworth and other locations. In 1716 the school was moved to New Haven, and in 1718 it was renamed Yale College in honour of a wealthy British ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. [3] It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution, on March 4, 1789. Originally including seven articles, the Constitution delineates the frame of the federal government.
20 hours ago · The United States is a country in North America that is a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 conterminous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of Hawaii, in the mid-Pacific Ocean.
5 days ago · The verb ‘reform’ and the nouns ‘reformer’ and ‘reformation’, deployed in political and religious controversy for several centuries, increased in currency from the mid-eighteenth century. To ‘reform’ largely implied reformation – the return to a former, less corrupted order, or the revival and regeneration of manners and habits.
