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So how was the nation made? Why did people rebel against one nation and start their own? THE MAKING OF A NATION answers these and other questions about American history.
We will tell the story of how a group of farmers, businessmen and lawyers wrote a document they called the Constitution of the United States. On September seventeenth, seventeen eighty-seven, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met one last time to sign it.
The Constitution became a guide not just for Americans, but also for other governments in creating democracies.
We will explore why the writers of the Constitution included guarantees of freedom of speech and religion, and the right to a fair and public trial.
We will also talk about the reasons for the American Revolution. One of the most important reasons was the idea that citizens of a country should have a voice in its decisions.
British citizens in the American colonies paid taxes but had no representatives in the British Parliament. Taxation without representation would lead to growing anger in the American colonies.
Suffragettes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
The leaders of the revolt made important changes. For example, all free men who owned land and paid taxes were permitted to vote. Not until nineteen twenty, however, did the Constitution guarantee women the right to vote.
Later, another change lowered the voting age for Americans from twenty-one to eighteen.
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