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Thomas Paine creates common sense
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This was the first assembly for the states to start making their own constitutions. This first convention was in Pennsylvania. Many states after this started having the same type of conventions. This sparked the method in which the state constitutions were written and approved.
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Washington crosses the Delaware river
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The first slave abolition law was passed in Pennsylvania. This was a gradual law that slowly took away bondage. It said that all children born to slave mothers after March 1780 would be freed when they turned 28.
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Congress Ratified Treaty of PAris, ending the Revolution.
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1st Secretary of State
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Shays
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In 1787 the delegates in the Philadelphia signed the Constitution. After this it was sent out to all of the states. Many states ratified quickly but New Hampshire in 1788 was the ninth state to ratify which put the constitution into effect. This was important because it created a strong central government in the U.S. and helped fix many problems. It gave power to the Federal government, which helped them tax and raise armies.
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Massachusetts became a state.
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This was important because George Washington was the first president. He appointed Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson in his cabinet. He was an independent and he often listened to Hamilton and Jefferson but usually sided with Hamilton. Hamilton was a federalist, which made the federalist vision show through and made the federal government stronger.
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Created a six-person Supreme Court
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This was important because it was one of the main missing things in the constitution. Without this being added the American people would be missing some of the basic rights they deserve.
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This was important because it created a central place for the federal government's money
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Kentucky became a state
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton Gin.
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This treaty established Great Britain as America's primary trading partner.
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John Adams sent three men to negotiate with France. When those three men got there, France wanted 250,000 dollars each just to talk with them and if America refused they would consider it an act of war.
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This was important because it was a conflict between France and America, which complicated many things in Europe.
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These gave many powers to the federal government and took away some rights of the people.
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Chooses Jefferson as President
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Ohio became a state.
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This established Judicial Review. This case made it so that courts cold decide what cases they wanted to hear and what cases they didn't want to hear.
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his was when America was trying to trade in the Mediterranean and pirates attacked them. President Jefferson sent troops over seas to free the hostages.
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This was when President Jefferson bought land west of the Mississippi River. This was important because it almost doubled the size of America. It also sparked conflicts with the Indians and Great Britain.
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They explored the Louisiana Purchase, to find a passage.
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Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickins in a duel.
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This was important because it didn't allow any trade with other countries.
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Robert Fulton patents the Steamboat.
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Lousiana became a state
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This was important because it was the first time that America won a war without the help of any other country.
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This was important because it was the Federalist getting together because of their loss of power.
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Indiana became a state
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Mississippi became a state
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Illinous became a state.
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Alabama became a state
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Maine became a state
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This was important because it solved the problem of what states in the Louisiana Purchase would become slave states and which ones would become free states.
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This was important because it shows the rest of the world that America is not just some small country to be taken advantage of.
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Scott Francis Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
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Erie Canal was made which helped trade out