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The Stamp Act was passed by the English parliament
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The state rejected whether the Bill of Rights should be at the front of the constitution
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Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the Constitution and the first to recommend a set of amendments to the Constitution.
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James Madison introduced a list of amendments to the constitution
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President Washington sent copies of the 12 amendments adopted by Congress to the states.
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Twelve amendments were sent to the states for their approval, ten of which were ratified and became known as the U.S. Bill of Rights.
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three-fourths of the states had ratified 10 of these, now known as the “Bill of Rights.”
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Supreme Court struck down an act of congress
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Women had the right to vote
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Three states ratified the first ten Amendments