Why did the framers institute the electoral college? a. to avoid the cost and organizational nightmares of a large-scale national popular election. b. no one had held popular elections before, and the framers did not see a need to set a precedent. c. to avoid disorder and regional favoritism by allowing impartial, knowledgeable men to select a president. d. to prevent congressmen and justices from seizing power.

They believed that ordinary people didn't have the intelligence, education, and experience to pick the best leaders.

1. darius the great     persia  

2. piankhi       nubia

3. ezana       aksum

4.     nebuchadnezzar     babylonia

5. shalmaneser iii     assyria

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.