Forests cover about 26 percent of North America's land area and represent more than 12 percent of the world's forests. The United States is the fourth most forested country in the world with 226 million hectares. Canada's forest area has not grown during the past decade but forests in the United States have increased by almost 3.9 million hectares.
The promise of a Bill of Rights to do just that helped to assuage the Anti-Federalistsâ concerns. The newly elected Congress drafted the Bill of Rights on December 25, 1789. Virginiaâs ratification on this day in 1791 created the three-fourths majority necessary for the ten amendments to become law.
Fun Fact: President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with at least 75 pens, which he gave to members of Congress who supported the bill as well as civil rights leaders, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.y fellow citizens, we have come now to a time of testing. â President Lyndon B. Johnson, upon signing the Civil Rights Act. On June 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, which was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.