Individual Acts that brought change (1776-1820)

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  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense published anonymously in Philadelphia

  • 1776 4 July Continental Congress issues the Declaration of Independence

  • Dec. 26 Washington crosses the Delaware and captures Trenton from Hessians

  • Ratification of the Articles of Confederation

  • Sept. 3 The United States and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Paris

  • Shays’s Rebellion

    Massachusetts rebellion led by the Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays against high taxes.

  • U.S. presidential election, 1792: George Washington reelected president, John Adams vice president

  • Eli Whitney invents cotton gin

  • New Jersey abolishes slavery

  • British troops burn Washington, D.C. but are forced back at Baltimore

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