Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... Congress and the Constitutional Convention. 1780: Pennsylvania declares that all black children born ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

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A small Pennsylvania town is up in arms over a proposal to turn an abandoned Civil War-era school into a shelter for hundreds of migrant families — with residents and lawmakers vowing to put a ...

Pennsylvania has elections for governor, Senate and in 17 US House districts, having lost a seat after the 2020 census. Neither the governor nor Senate races features an incumbent on the ballot ...

Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two -- Pennsylvania and South Carolina -- voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York abstained. John Hancock, President of the ...

Some Pennsylvania state taxes are high compared to other states, including the Commonwealth's gas tax. Property taxes In Pennsylvania are also relatively high when compared to those in other states.

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Based on recent Pennsylvania elections, more than 10,000 ballots in this year’s general election might be thrown out over bad or missing envelope dates, which could be enough to swing the ...

By Mattathias Schwartz Pennsylvania’s highest court on Friday threw out a lower-court ruling that would have required election officials in the state’s two most-populous counties to count ...

Pennsylvania voters could have their mail-in ballots thrown out if they do not write accurate dates on envelopes they use to return them under a state Supreme Court ruling issued Friday that could ...