Today in History 2

Question 1

Sept 5, 1774

First Continental Congress Convenes.

Answer 1

In response to the British parliament’s enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies.

Met at Carpenter’s Hall

Question 2

sept 9, 1850

California becomes the 31st state.

Answer 2

After a rancorous debate between slave state and free soil advocates, congress finally accepted California as a free labor state under the compromise of 1850, beginning the state’s long reign as the most powerful economic and political force in the west.

Question 3

Sept 10, 1833

Andrew Jackson shuts down Second Bank of the US.

Answer 3

Jackson announces the government will no longer use the Second bank of the US. He used his executive power to remove all federal funds from the bank, in the final salvo of what is referred to the “Bank War.”

Question 4

Sept 16, 1940

Franklin Roosevelt approves military draft

Answer 4

Roosevelt signs the selective service and training act, which requires all male citizens between 26 and 35 to register for the military draft

first peace time draft

Question 5

sept 17, 1862

Rebels and Yankees clash at the battle of antietam

Answer 5

Although it was a tactical draw, it forced Lee to end his invasion of the North and inspired President Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

Bloodiest day in American History

Question 6

Sept 27. 1779

John Adams appointed to negotiate peace terms with British

Answer 6

The continental Congress appoints John Adams to Travel to France as minister plenipotentiary in charge of negotiating treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain during the Revolutionary war.

Question 7

Sept 26, 1960

Kennedy and Nixon square off in a televised debate

Answer 7

The debate ushered in an era in which television would dominate political campaigns. Kennedy clearly “won” the debate, a fact attributable to his comfort level with new medium and “telegenic” good looks.

Question 8

Sept 24, 1789

First supreme court

Answer 8

THe judiciary act of 1789 is passed by congress and sighed by President George Washington, establishing the supreme court of the United States as a tribunal made up of 8 supreme court justices who were to serve on court till death or retirement. that day President washington nominated John Jay to preside as Chief Justice.

Question 9

sept 30, 1962

Riots over desegregation of ole miss

Answer 9

James H. Meredith, an African American, is escorted onto the university of Mississippi campus by US Marshals, setting off a deadly riot.