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This political and mercantile protest was one of the key events in the lead up to the American Revolutionary War and, ultimately, American independence -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
The Declaration of Independence was primarily signed on August 2, 1776, by 56 delegates of the Second Continental Congress -
The Winter at Valley Forge, from 1777 to 1778, was a period of immense hardship for George Washington's Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War -
The United States Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth state to approve it. This event officially established the Constitution as the framework for the United States government, replacing the Articles of Confederation
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The cause of George Washington's death was a throat infection. On December 12, Washington was out on horseback supervising farm activities and it began to snow. Upon returning home, he did not change out of his wet clothes and went straight to dinner. -
The Articles of Confederation were ratified on March 1, 1781, when Maryland became the 13th state to approve the document -
The Battle of Yorktown, fought from September 28 to October 19, 1781, was a decisive land and sea campaign in the American Revolutionary War, resulting in the surrender of British General Cornwallis and his army
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George Washington's first presidential inauguration took place on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City. He was sworn in as the first President of the United States, marking the beginning of the new government under the newly ratified Constitution
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Washington did not publicly deliver his Farewell Address. It first ap- peared on September 19, 1796, in the Philadelphia Daily American -
Because each state could choose its own day to elect its electors in 1800, before Election Day on December 3, when electors "meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves" in accordance with the Constitution -
Marbury v. Madison (1803) is a landmark Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review, the power of the judiciary to declare laws passed by Congress unconstitutional