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The Spirit Of '76 Is Found 1976 marks the 200th year of freedom for our nation. Education has been a part of that freedom in Salisbury since the town’s establishment in 1867. The first principal of the first four room frame building was Professor O. P. Davis, who taught over 200 students. Two hundred years of education through all the generations marks the opportunity for us to celebrate our nation’s bicentennial. Previous generations have been determined in their motive toward the preservation of our nation. The younger generation of today should fulfill the opportunities the previous generations provided for them. The bicentennial symbolizes more than our nation’s 200th birthday. It symbolizes how we, as a nation, have progressed in achievement and growth. It reminds us of the past that has built our present and gives us a future to hope for. We hope that as our country’s children, we will prosper in its land and assist in its future!
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3 “. . . Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” Patrick Henry 3 Following the victory at Yorktown, Washington refused the offer of his troops to become king and returned to Philadelphia to aid with the establishment of a permanent government for the new republic—a loose alliance of sovereign states held together by the Articles of Confederation. An envoy composed of Benjamin Franklin. John Adams and John Jay was sent to negotiate with the British. It was not until 1783 that the peace agreement, known as the Treaty of Paris, was signed, guaranteeing the sovereignty of the United States of America. The Articles of Confederation, despite many weaknesses, served to un- ify the states until 1787 when a special convention was held at Independence Hall in Philadelphia to revise them. The meeting was attended by fifty-five of the most-prominent men of the day. Twenty- nine of the delegates representing a majority of the states met on May 25 and decided to draft an entirely new constitution rather than am- mend the Articles of Confederation. The meeting then became known as the Constitutional Convention. 4 The men who assembled for the Constitutional Convention were an illustrious group with nearly every delegate a person of prominence in his home state. A large majority favored a strong central government. After four months of debate, on September 17, 1787, the new constitu- tion was completed. In a little more than four months, six states had ratified the new constitution. Despite the good beginning, the fight for ratification was bitter and it was not until September 13, 1788. that the necessary two-thirds majority of the states had approved the docu- ment and Congress could call for states to choose their electors and congressmen. Several of the states had ratified the constitution with the provision that it would be amended. Thus, as one of its first official acts under the new constitution, the Congress added the first ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights. Washington was un animously elected President and a new nation was launched on a course of democracy.
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