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After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress, sitting in its temporary capital of York, Pennsylvania, agrees to adopt the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union on this day in 1777
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when the British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. They expected help from British ships sent from New York.
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2,000 farmers from western Massachusetts attacked the new federal arsenal at Springfield. The government soldiers returned fire, killing three of the farmers. This was the beginning of the end of the uprising known as Shays' Rebellion, named for Daniel Shays, the man who led the insurgents. Western farmers had made economic sacrifices during the Revolution, and they were outraged when creditors demanded that they pay their debts immediately.
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n Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America.
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three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.
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