Each week, american artifacts visits a historic places. Wed traveled to learn about Congress Hall, the Meeting Place untilngress from 1790 1800. Our guide is park Ranger Matthew 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 130,000ted 100,000 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 constitution while philadelphia was the capital. Secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally the commitment to the constitution by coming to congress in this building and officially announcing we have changed our constitution, which of worst, the bill of rights is a which of
30,000 people. We had a population of the first census of we had 106 members of 3. 70 5 million. 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 constitution while philadelphia was the capital. Secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the commitment to the constitution by coming to the amendments to the constitution by coming to congress in this building and officially announcing we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history. But also the amendment process itself. We are proving that part of the constitution works, that we can update and make changes to the constitution without having to start completely over from the beginning. But really this building, to a large degree, it is creating the american polit
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 constitution while philadelphia was the capital. Secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the commitment to the constitution by coming to congress in this building and officially announcing we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our history. But also the amendment process itself. We are proving that part of the constitution works, t