WHY IS THIS NOT TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOL -MAYBE MYTH BUT I AM GOING TO RESEARCH TIL I AM SATISFIED THAT IT A MYTH
I FOUND IT ON THE COMPUTER IS THIS A MYTH/REALITY?
FROM DOING RESEARCH,I AM BEGINNING TO WONDER WHAT IS HID AND WHY SO MANY BLACKS FOUGHT IN THE UNION ARMY AND UP NORTH THEY WAS MOSTLY FREEMEN AND WHY SO MANY SLAVE AND FREE BLACKS BUILT THE WHITE HOUSE
WHATIS THE LOGIC HERE????
John Hanson, http://www.browserdefender.com/getdomain/www.marshallhall.org George Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States- UNDER THE CONSTITUTION
Let me start black history month a few weeks early. Barack Obama has plans of running for President of the United States, But will he be the first Black President or the 8th Black President? I know this posting will stir controversty but George Washington was not the first President of the U.S. Let's take a look at history. WHAT ELSE HAS BEEN LOSTIN HISTORY A "Black" Man, A Moor, John Hanson Was the First President of the United States! 1781-1782 A.D.??? George Washington was really the 8th President of the United States! George Washington was not the first President of the United States. In fact, the first President of the United States was one John Hanson. Don't go checking the encyclopedia for this guy's name - he is one of those great men that are lost to history. If you're extremely lucky, you may actually find a brief mention of his name. The new country was actually formed on March 1, 1781 with the adoption of The Articles of Confederation. This document was actually proposed on June 11, 1776, but not agreed upon by Congress until November 15, 1777. Maryland refused to sign this document until Virginia and New York ceded their western lands (Maryland was afraid that these states would gain too much power in the new government from such large amounts of land). Once the signing took place in 1781, a President was needed to run the country. John Hanson was chosen unanimously by Congress (which included George Washington). In fact, all the other potential candidates refused to run against him, as he was a major player in the revolution and an extremely influential member of Congress. As the first President, Hanson had quite the shoes to fill. No one had ever been President and the role was poorly defined. His actions in office would set precedent for all future Presidents. He took office just as the Revolutionary War ended. Almost immediately, the troops demanded to be paid. As would be expected after any long war, there were no funds to meet the salaries. As a result, the soldiers threatened to overthrow the new government and put Washington on the throne as a monarch. All the members of Congress ran for their lives, leaving Hanson as the only guy left running the government. He somehow managed to calm the troops down and hold the country together. If he had failed, the government would have fallen almost immediately and everyone would have been bowing to King Washington. In fact, Hanson sent 800 pounds of sterling siliver by his brother Samuel Hanson to George Washington to provide the troops with shoes. Hanson, as President, ordered all foreign troops off American soil, as well as the removal of all foreign flags. This was quite the feat, considering the fact that so many European countries had a stake in the United States since the days following Columbus. Hanson established the Great Seal of the United States, which all Presidents have since been required to use on all official documents. President Hanson also established the first Treasury Department, the first Secretary of War, and the first Foreign Affairs Department. Lastly, he declared that the fourth Thursday of every November was to be Thanksgiving Day, which is still true today. The Articles of Confederation only allowed a President to serve a one year term during any three year period, so Hanson actually accomplished quite a bit in such little time. Six other presidents were elected after him - Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788) - all prior to Washington taking office. So what happened? Why don't we ever hear about the first seven Presidents of the United States? It's quite simple - The Articles of Confederation didn't work well. The individual states had too much power and nothing could be agreed upon. A new doctrine needed to be written - something we know as the Constitution. And that leads us to the end of our story. George Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today. And the first seven Presidents are forgotten in history.
Posted by Thaddeus Augustus Matthews at 1/19/2007 12:18:00 AM 168 comments: pepper said... thad,my brother white people are not ready for this,they still think Jesus had blond hair and blue eyes
12:48 AM Anonymous said... so I was right, but if you google john hanson they show him as white.
Portrait of John Hanson, attributed to John Hesselius, c. late 1760s President of the Continental Congress In office November 5, 1781 – November 3, 1782 Preceded by Thomas McKean Succeeded by Elias Boudinot
Born April 14, 1721(1721-04-14) near Port Tobacco, Maryland Died November 22, 1783 (aged 62) Prince George's County, Maryland Signature John Hanson (April 14 [O.S. April 3] 1721 – November 22, 1783) was a merchant and public official from Maryland during the era of the American Revolution. After serving in a variety of roles for the Patriot cause in Maryland, in 1779 Hanson was elected as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He signed the Articles of Confederation in 1781 after Maryland finally joined the other states in ratifying them. In November 1781, he became the first President of Congress to be elected under the terms of the Articles of Confederation.[1] Because of this, he has sometimes been described as the first President of the United States. He is the subject of several myths.
A “Black” Man, A Moor, John Hanson Was the First President of the United States! 1781-1782 A.D.??? George Washington was really the 8th President of the United States! George Washington was not the first President of the United States. In fact, the first President of the United States was one John Hanson. Don’t go checking the encyclopedia for this guy’s name - he is one of those great men that are lost to history. If you’re extremely lucky, you may actually find a brief mention of his name. The new country was actually formed on March 1, 1781 with the adoption of The Articles of Confederation. This document was actually proposed on June 11, 1776, but not agreed upon by Congress until November 15, 1777. Maryland refused to sign this document until Virginia and New York ceded their western lands (Maryland was afraid that these states would gain too much power in the new government from such large amounts of land). Once the signing took place in 1781, a President was needed to run the country. John Hanson was chosen unanimously by Congress (which included George Washington). In fact, all the other potential candidates refused to run against him, as he was a major player in the revolution and an extremely influential member of Congress. As the first President, Hanson had quite the shoes to fill. No one had ever been President and the role was poorly defined. His actions in office would set precedent for all future Presidents. He took office just as the Revolutionary War ended. Almost immediately, the troops demanded to be paid. As would be expected after any long war, there were no funds to meet the salaries. As a result, the soldiers threatened to overthrow the new government and put Washington on the throne as a monarch. All the members of Congress ran for their lives, leaving Hanson as the only guy left running the government. He somehow managed to calm the troops down and hold the country together. If he had failed, the government would have fallen almost immediately and everyone would have been bowing to King Washington. In fact, Hanson sent 800 pounds of sterling siliver by his brother Samuel Hanson to George Washington to provide the troops with shoes. Hanson, as President, ordered all foreign troops off American soil, as well as the removal of all foreign flags. This was quite the feat, considering the fact that so many European countries had a stake in the United States since the days following Columbus. Hanson established the Great Seal of the United States, which all Presidents have since been required to use on all official documents. President Hanson also established the first Treasury Department, the first Secretary of War, and the first Foreign Affairs Department. Lastly, he declared that the fourth Thursday of every November was to be Thanksgiving Day, which is still true today.
The Articles of Confederation only allowed a President to serve a one year term during any three year period, so Hanson actually accomplished quite a bit in such little time. Six other presidents were elected after him - Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788) - all prior to Washington taking office. So what happened? Why don’t we ever hear about the first seven Presidents of the United States? It’s quite simple - The Articles of Confederation didn’t work well. The individual states had too much power and nothing could be agreed upon. A new doctrine needed to be written - something we know as the Constitution. And that leads us to the end of our story. George Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today. And the first seven Presidents are forgotten in history.
I AM NOT STILL CONVINCE ABOUT THIS BECAUSE IF JOHN HANSON BLACK OR WHITE
WHY HE IS NOT MENTION HERE-WHY IS HE EXCLUDED FROM THIS GROUP OF MEN
BLACK Peyton Randolph Index of Related InformationEdmond BurkeJohn DickinsonGeorge IIIPatrick HenryJohn JayRobert LivingstonWilliam G. LivingstonRobert Carter NicholasLord NorthEdmund PendletonPeyton Randolph-----Events and Things------First Continental CongressRaleigh TavernPrime Ministry of Lord NorthGaspee AffairSons of LibertyCommittees of CorrespondenceFrench & Indian WarNon-importation AgreementsBoston MassacreVice-Admiralty CourtsAlbany ConventionA Tax StampA Proclamation by the King — 1775Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions — 1765Instructions for the DeputiesFirst Virginia ConstitutionVirginia Declaration of RightsStamp Act Congress — 1765Galloway's Plan for the Union of GB & the ColoniesArticles of Association, 1774-----Laws and Resolutions-----Boston Non-importation AgreementTea ActSugar ActCurrency ActProclamation of 1763Stamp ActQuartering Act of 1765Declaratory ActTownshend ActIntolerable ActsBoston Port ActAdministration of Justice ActMassachusetts Government ActQuartering Act of 1774Quebec ActDeclaration and Resolves NEXT > The Prime Ministry of Lord NorthFirst Continental CongressProceedings of the First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies. The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britain, but their aims were not uniform at all. Pennsylvania and New York sent delegates with firm instructions to seek a resolution with England. The other colonies voices were defensive of colonial rights, but pretty evenly divided between those who sought legislative parity, and the more radical members who were prepared for separation. Virginia's delegation was made up of a most even mix of these and not incidentally, presented the most eminent group of men in America. Colo. George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Colo. Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and at the head of them Peyton Randolph — who would immediately be elected president of the convention.
The objectives of the body were not entirely clear but, with such leadership as was found there, a core set of tasks was carried out. It was agreeable to all that the King and Parliament must be made to understand the grievances of the colonies and that the body must do everything possible to communicate the same to the population of America, and to the rest of the world.
The first few weeks were consumed in discussion and debate. The colonies had always, up to this time, acted as independent entities. There was much distrust to overcome. The first matter to be considered by all was A Plan of Union of Great Britain and the Colonies, offered by Joseph Galloway of Pennsylvania. The plan was considered very attractive to most of the members, as it proposed a popularly elected Grand Council which would represent the interests of the colonies as a whole, and would be a continental equivalent to the English Parliament. Poised against this would be a President General, appointed by the crown, to represent the authority of the king in America. Conflict in Boston overcame the effort at conciliation. The arrival of the Suffolk County (Boston) resolves just prior to the vote on the Plan of Union, caused it to be discarded by a narrow margin.
On October 14, the Declaration and Resolves established the course of the congress, as a statement of principles common to all of the colonies. Congress voted to meet again the following year if these grievances were not attended to by England.
Several days later, on the 20th, came The Association, which was patterned after the Virginia Association and others that followed. This was a pact for nonimportation of English goods, to establish mechanisms throughout the colonies to enforce and regulate the resistance to Great Britain, and to keep the channels of communication open. It was to become effective on December 1, 1774 unless parliament should rescind the Intolerable Acts.
By the end of 1774Delegates New Hampshire:John Sullivan, Nathaniel Folsam Massachusetts Bay: John Adams, Samuel Adams, Thomas Cushing, Robert Treat Paine Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Ward Connecticut:Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Silas Deane New York:Isaac Low, John Alsop, John Jay, James Duane, William Floyd, Henry Wisener, S. Bocrum New Jersey:James Kinsey, William Livingston, Stephen Crane, Richard Smith Pennsylvania:Joseph Gallaway, John Dickinson, Charles Humphreys, Thomas Miffin, Edward Biddle, John Morton, George Ross Delaware:Caesar Rodney, Thomas Keane, George Readv Maryland:Matthew Tilghman, Thomas Johnson, William Paca, Samuel Chase Virginia:Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Patrick Henry, Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, Edmund Pendleton North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, R. Caswell South Carolina:Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge
Burning of WashingtonFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
"The Taking of the City of Washington in America" 1814 engraving
Date August 24, 1814 Location Washington, D.C. Result British razing of Washington, D.C. Belligerents Great Britain United States Commanders Robert Ross George Cockburn none Strength 4,250 [1] none Casualties and losses 1 KIA Several Killed from Weather [2] None
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Craney Island – St. Michaels – Chesapeake Bay Flotilla – Bladensburg – Washington – Alexandria – Caulk's Field – North Point – BaltimoreThe Burning of Washington took place on August 24, 1814, during the War of 1812 between the British Empire and the United States of America. British forces occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to many public buildings. The facilities of the U.S. government, including the White House, were largely destroyed, though strict discipline and the British commander's orders to burn only public buildings are credited with preserving the city's private buildings. Historians assert that the attack was in retaliation for the American looting of York, Upper Canada (now Toronto) after the Battle of York in 1813, and the burning down of the Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada. The British Army commanders said they chose to attack Washington "on account of the greater political effect likely to result,".[3] Governor-General Sir George Prevost of Canada wrote to the Admirals in Bermuda calling for a retaliation for the American sacking of York and requested their permission and support in the form the provision of naval resources. At the time, it was considered against the civilized laws of war to burn a non-military facility and the Americans had not only burned the Parliament but also looted and burned private homes and warehouses. [4] Further proof of the retaliation was that after the limited British burning of some public facilities, the British left. There was no territory that they wanted to occupy and no military facility that they had planned to attack.
The White House was set ablaze causing extensive damage. Only the exterior walls remained, and they had to be torn down and mostly reconstructed due to weakening from the fire and subsequent exposure to the elements, except for portions of the south wall. A legend emerged that during the rebuilding of the structure white paint was applied to mask the burn damage it had suffered, giving the building its namesake hue. This is unfounded as the building had been painted white since its construction in 1798. Of the many spoils taken from the White House when it was ransacked by British troops, only two have been recovered — a painting of George Washington, rescued by then-first lady Dolley Madison, and a jewelry box returned to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939 by an old man who said his grandfather had taken it from
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