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Eighty-nine of the nation's 364 railroads went bankrupt. [436] In 1874, hoping inflation would stimulate the economy, Congress passed the Ferry Bill. [437] Many farmers and workingmen favored the bill, which would have added $64 million in greenbacks to circulation, but some Eastern bankers opposed it because it would have weakened the dollar ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Concord has a total area of 0.25 square miles (0.65 km 2), all land. [2] Most of the village drains southward to a tributary of Coon Run, which flows west toward the Illinois River. The northernmost part of the village drains to headwaters of Mud Creek, a north-flowing tributary of Indian Creek, which runs ...
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on American television and in the world, and after 73 years of broadcasting it is fifth on the list of longest-running American television serie
"Colony Collapse" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the American television satirical sitcom Arrested Development. It is the 60th overall episode of the series, and was written by series creator Mitchell Hurwitz and executive producer Jim Vallely , and directed by executive producer Troy Miller and Hurwitz.
In May 2013, Illinois' state (public) universities, colleges, and community colleges agreed, pending formation and passage of the legislation before the end of the state's legislative session, at Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and other members' repeated urging, to gradually assume more of the burden- half of a percent of the retirement ...
The chief surviving town is Albion, Illinois, although some of Birkbeck's followers joined the Owenite utopian community at New Harmony, Indiana after his death. The well funded and organized English settlement was important both for its influence on pioneer agriculture and the influence of its leaders on rejecting slavery in Illinois .
William Dawes Jr. (April 6, 1745 – February 25, 1799) was an American soldier, and was one of several men who, in April 1775, alerted minutemen in Massachusetts of the approach of British regulars prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution. [1]
Little changed procedurally once the Articles of Confederation went into effect, as ratification did little more than constitutionalize what the Continental Congress had been doing. That body was renamed the Congress of the Confederation ; but most Americans continued to call it the Continental Congress, since its organization remained the same.