Nations Capitol Professor Q Paige Graves 5/30/2017 United States Capitol Many of us know we became a nation in 1789, with that knowledge we take attention to the story of our freedom and the revealing of our Nation’s Capital. The Nation’s Capital stands as a monument to the American people and their government. For me, the Nation’s Capital brings forth an amazing symbol of success and honor, makes the heart of Americans feel the scene of greatness. This impressive architectural design was positioned in Washington D.C. upon an immense hill that sits 88 feet above the Potomac River. The U.S Capitol is 1.5 million square feet and has over 600 rooms. The architecture of this building was completely mind blowing at first …show more content…
Schwengel, Fred stated “The impress of each succeeding generation of free people can be felt from its walls and pictures”. This quote really stood out to me as I was looking at the pictures of freed people, a sense of relief and empowerment overwhelmed me. Their faces are remembered and on the walls of the U.S. Capitol they shall never be forgotten. The art pieces are also said to be memorials that when we look upon them we absorb the spirts barriers of freedom Schwengel (2004). If we adventure further down the memorial paintings we run across our sworn statement getting more into the context, the principals directed towards freedom are the Mayflower Compact, The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution. Starting with the Mayflower Compact, it originated when the Pilgrims sailed to find The New World on the Mayflower. The Pilgrims had intended to settle in Virginia. When they landed in Massachusetts instead, on November 1620, they realized they were outside the of the jurisdiction in Virginia charter. To establish their own dominance rule and to avoid a possible mutiny, the Pilgrim leaders drew up and signed an agreement known as the Mayflower …show more content…
The Pilgrims were to set sail to Plymouth, England. The voyage took 66 days. On November 21, 1620, the Mayflower reached the Cape Cod coast of America. The Pilgrim leaders led 41 of adult males aboard the ship to sign an agreement that would set up a government in Plymouth Colony. The agreement was called the Mayflower Compact. Many students are aware of The Declaration of Independence for me, the history behind is what is most fascinating. On July 9, 1776, Continental soldiers had come from Boston to defend New York City from the British march. The March was held at the Lower Manhattan grounds were General George Washington had commanded them to gather orderly at six o'clock to hear a declaration for American independence from Great Britain approved by Continental Congress. Armitage, David. (2014) Aemitage states that “Washington was waiting for quite some time for the Americans to feel and be independent”. To those who believed peace commissioners were on their way to the colonies to effect this reconciliation, Washington responded that the only people heading to the colonies were Hessian mercenaries. Even as his men waited to hear the proclamation read aloud to them, Washington knew that thousands of Hessians and even more redcoats were landing on Staten Island, preparing for an attack on New
"Mayflower and the Mayflower Compact." Plymouth Plantation. ©2003-2014 Plimoth Plantation. Web. 9 Feb 2014. .
Although the English were not the first Europeans to explore or colonize North America, their settlements along the Eastern seaboard became the thirteen colonies that later formed the United States. England relied on private trading companies to establish a presence in North America. Two of these groups, the Virginia Company was the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. “ The Jamestown colony was modeled after a military expedition, transplanting about 100 hardy Englishmen into the Virginia…”(Smith 3). And the voyage of the Mayflower, bringing people to Plymouth, Massachusetts.” ...1620-1647 describes this journey and provides a glimpse of the settler's life in what became New England.” (Bradford 5). Jamestown and Plymouth
On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed. The thirteen colonies were no longer under King George III rule. It was a new world that needed a new type of leadership. On July 12, 1776 the Second Congress proposed the Articles of Confederation. The articles were ratified by all thirteen states on March 1, 1781.
Why was the Declaration of Independence written? The Declaration of Independence was written in 1776. We all know that day as Independence Day. It was accepted on July 4, 1776. On that day, the United States had freedom. There was a long, hard process to get the Declaration of Independence where it needed to be. It took several people, and several reviews to get it just right.
The Virginia Co. helped them by giving them permission to make a settlement or plantation on the East side. This helped them be able to spread out. The Mayflower was the ship that the Puritans and Separatists came on. The Mayflower Compact was a document signed by 41 of the Separatists/ Saints giving them permission to settle there, keep peace and to give
The shot heard around the world happened in Lexington when the killed 8 colonist. Soon British retreated back to Boston fighting all the away. Finally the declaration of independence was written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson. An import aspect came to form this document was the French would side with the Americans if we separated from Britain. Only one state was against it, New York. He listed more than two dozen specific grievances about the king and about slavery. On July 4th the declaration of independence was a success and a moth later they went to sign the official parchment copy. The document was printed and read everywhere in celebration.
Intro- A group of separatists from England who were trying to separate themselves from the Church of England and fleeing religious persecution, were known as the Pilgrims. They fled to Holland, when that did not work out as planned they got permission from the London Company to form an American colony on their land, Jamestown. They were backed by investors and started packing supplies on two ships for the voyage.
Many Americans’ eyes were opened in 1776, when members of the Continental Congress drafted, signed, and published the famous document “The Declaration of Independence” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By declaring their independence, many of the colonists believed that slaves should have the same rights as the whites had. Abolition groups were formed, and the fight to end slavery begins.
While on the Mayflower, the settlers came to the realization that there would be no civil authority on the new land for them to follow. Resulting from that realization was the Mayflower Compact, it was designed to be their rule and guide to life on the new land. This was the first American State Paper; it provides the original statement of the principles of American democracy as we now know it. In addition it was the first self-government within the colonies and it regarded people as the source of power. The Mayflower Compact expresses four major ideas, a deep faith in God and his guidance, a deep loyalty to England and the king, a mutual regard for one another as equals, and the intent to establish equal laws to all men. It was the birth of constitutional liberty and became the official constitution of Plymouth Colony until Plymouth merged i...
In May of 1776 a resolution was passed at the Virginia Convention in Williamsburg that asked the thirteen American colonies to declare the United Colonies free and independent from the British crown. At the second continental congress the resolution passed and on June 11, 1776 a five-man committee led by Thomas Jefferson was established to write the Declaration of Independence. On July 4, 1776 the members of the second continental congress signed into existence one of the most influential documents in history.
The Declaration of Independence was written on July 4, 1776. On that day the 13 Colonies became free and Independent states. The Declaration of Independence states this “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to...
The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, 1620 on board the vessel Mayflower. The Mayflower Compact was signed by forty-one men on board the ship. The main person responsible for this was William Bradford. He said the reason for writing this is he was afraid of mutiny, and another reason was he thought they needed a form of self-government. This document was the first colonial agreement that formed a government by consent of the governed. The compact gave the settlers a plan to frame and enact laws for the general good of the organized settlement.
The document Declaration of Independence signed July 4, the year 1776 and written by one of the country’s ancestors Thomas Jefferson. It was a time in history that declared independence a manuscript written for this occasion which introduces five separate sections that include the introduction which states it is vital to take action on Britain for the colonies.
“By virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal law, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices” (Mayflower Compact), “Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” (Preamble to the Constitution), and “O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!” (Star Spangled Banner). Freedom is compared in all three quotes to both the historical documents and the historical poem due to each one meaning freedom that in America we are free and have a happy union. Both the historical documents and the historical poem have in common is unity and freedom, but they also have in common is
Our nation's revolution was a great achievement in U.S History. With the dawn of a new nation, there would have to be a central location to make the new decisions of our country. Our capitol has stood as the heart of our country since the late 1700s. The United States capitol is among the most architecturally impressive and symbolically important buildings in the world. For almost two centuries it has housed the meeting chambers of the senate and the House of Representatives. Begun in 1793, the capitol building has been built, burnt, rebuilt, extended, and restored. Today our capitol stands as a monument to the American people and their government. (AOC.gov)