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Formally ended the Revolutionary War
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Landmark statute adopted in the first session of the First United States Congress establishing the U.S. federal judiciary.
The Supreme Court was given exclusive original jurisdiction over all civil actions between states, or between a state and the United States, as well as over all suits and proceedings brought against ambassadors and other diplomatic personnel. -
Signed into law by President George Washington on July 4, 1789, was the first substantive legislation passed by the first Congress.
This act, together with the Collection Act of 1789, operated as a device both to protect trade and to raise revenues for the federal government. -
National Bank
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Cotton Gin was created
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