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The continental congress directed the states to write their own constitutions Pennsylvania being one of the first to do so.
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The articles were to create union.The total united front of the states dint come until 1781, even though they were wrote in 1777.
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Members meet in Philadelphia Pennsylvania to strengthen the federal government.The new constitution replaced the articles of confederation.
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Tempers were flaming when the government placed taxes on housing in eastern Pennsylvania to raise money for the funds of the war of 1812.The tax only placed taxes on the size of widows because they thought it wouldn’t effect smaller poorer houses and low income families as much.People believed it was unfair and were unhappy.
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After the original Constitution stopped fitting for the colonial government, so they meet again and rewrote a new one to fit the states better.
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Farmers were upset because the produce they grew was being used to make whiskey and other liquors which had taxes placed on them so no one was buying them ,so the farmers weren’t making any money.
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This war was fought on three different fronts.In D.C. while threatening to take Baltimore.The Great Lakes region.The last is the south through New Orleans and parts of the Mississippi.
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The forces placed on the fronts of Lake Erie were commanded by Commodore Oliver Perry , in the at the time small town of Erie.
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The Treaty of Ghent was about the end of the war.This treaty officially ended the war of 1812 , but the news didn’t reach the south very quickly.
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After the war before news reached New Orleans they were still fighting.The British had the city trapped and all sides from the Mississippi.
