REAL United States History

Test Your Knowledge Today, September 17th, we celebrate Constitution Day--the day the Founding Fathers signed the US Constitution in 1787. Significantly, many of the delegates directly involved in writing the Constitution credit God for that document. For example, Alexander Hamilton said: "For my own part, I sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God could never have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests." So as we celebrate the Constitution and acknowledge God for His goodness in helping America become the longest on-going constitutional republic in the world, take time to: 1) read the Constitution and 2) learn more about this document and the people who were involved in its creation.  Take this quiz and test your knowledge! 1. What state was the first to ratify the Constitution? 2. What are the five rights guaranteed in the First Amendment of the Constitution? 3. When was the Constituti...

From The WallBuilders comes an article that happened on September 5th, 1774. First Continental Congress On September 5, 1774, the First Continental Congress met at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. Among the delegates who attended were George Washington, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Jay, and many other notables. This meeting had been called to address the increasing British tyranny, including the Intolerable Acts, which had  ended self-government in Massachusetts and shut down the port of Boston to commercial shipments. On the second day of the gathering, Congress got down to business. There was a call to open the meeting with prayer, but a strong debate ensued. Some doubted whether they could or should all pray together since there was such a diversity of denominations present among them (some Lutherans, Congregationalists, Quakers, Anglicans, and others). But Samuel Adams ended the debate when he announced that he was not a bigot and could therefore...