CSPAN3 American Artifacts February 15, 2016
National historical park. Our guide is matthew ifo. Ranger ifill in the years that washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as the temporary capital. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives each representative at that point in our history represented 130,000 people. We had 106 members of the house would fit in this room and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as a capital, we are taking the story of a new constitution and doing things like adding a new state to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become part of our co...
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