Who was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence?
Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Born in 1737, he was 95 years old when he died in 1832.
The sequence of 16 pamphlets The American Crisis, published 1776-83, was written by Revolutionary War patriot Thomas Paine. Who wrote The Present Crisis? The anti-slavery poem was written in 1844 by Massachusetts poet James Russell Lowell. Who wrote Six Crises? The 1962 memoir was written by former vice-president and future president Richard Nixon.
American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson originated the phrase “the shot heard round the world” in his poem “Concord Hymn” (1836). The poem memorialized the Battle of Lexington and Concord of 1775, the first battle of the War of Independence.
Prohibition of the manufacture and sale of liquor was known as the “Noble Experiment”. It was put into effect by the 18th Amendment in 1920 and lasted until repeal by the 21st Amendment in 1933.
George K. Kennan, then a member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, wrote the pseudonymous article in the magazine Foreign Affairs that first outlined the policy of containing Soviet expansion in 1947.
Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto became the first European to reach the Mississippi River during a treasure-hunting expedition in 1539-42. Sailing from Havana, Cuba, De Soto landed at Tampa Bay, Florida, and traveled by a meandering route through what are now Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. After crossing the river and reaching what…
The “Thunderer of Waters” is the Indian name for Niagara Falls, New York.