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George Washington was born in Westmoreland country, Virginia. His family was a wealthy farming family. -
George Washington inherited slaves after his dad, Augustine Washington, was dead. -
George Washington became a professional surveyor for the Culpeper country when he was 17. -
George Washington was a commander of the Virginia militia which is a voluntary army. He created surveys and maps.
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He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses as a representative of Frederick County. -
He brought resolutions before the Burgesses protesting the “Taxation without representation” -
Washington denounced the slave trade on moral grounds in the Fairfax Resolves. -
He led the colonial forces to victory over the British and became a national hero.
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The Second Continental Congress convenes. Washington attends as a delegate from Virginia. -
Washington makes his acceptance speech in Congress. As a gesture of civic virtue, he declines a salary but requests that Congress pay his expenses at the close of the war -
Washington assumes command of the main American army in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it has been laying siege to British-occupied Boston. -
At first, Washington didn’t think that Slavery was wrong. However after the revolutionary war, his view on slavery changed. He thought that it should stop.
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George Washington was elected president of the convention that wrote the U.S constitution -
George Washington was elected for the first U.S. president. He influenced the path for developing politics, military, and economy.
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Washington wrote a will and he left direction s for the emancipation after Martha Washington’s death, of all the slaves who belonged to him. -
He died because of acute bacterial epiglottitis when he was 67. -
He made the 22nd amendment to the constitution. It was “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”
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