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March 1 – The United States Continental Congress implements the Articles of Confederation, forming its Perpetual Union as the United States in Congress Assembled. March 8 – American Revolution – Skirmish at Waters Creek; March 15 – American Revolution – Battle of Guilford Court House: American General Nathanael Greene loses to the ...
Blake, John B. "The origins of public health in the United States." American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health 38.11 (1948): pp.1539-1550. online; Bonner, Thomas N. The Kansas Doctor: A Century of Pioneering (Kansas UP, 1959) pp 120--171, argues Kansas was a national leader in public health in 1904-1923.
George Washington by Charles Willson Peale, 1776.. The New World of the Western Hemisphere was devastated by the 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic.Estimates based on remnant settlements say at least 130,000 people were estimated to have died in the epidemic that started in 1775.
The Confederation period was the era of the United States' history in the 1780s after the American Revolution and prior to the ratification of the United States Constitution. In 1781, the United States ratified the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union and prevailed in the Battle of Yorktown, the last major land battle between British ...
After recovering from his wounds, Pyle helped to nurse many other wounded men, patriots and loyalists alike, back to health, for which service Governor Alexander Martin would later pardon Pyle's loyalist activities. [6] The governor was not rescued by the patriots, and was successfully imprisoned on James Island. [8]
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution , the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America , between 1776 and 1789.
"Economic Survey of the United States 2008: Health Care Reform" by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published in December 2008, said that: [70] Tax benefits of employer-based insurances should be abolished. The resulting tax revenues should be used to subsidize the purchase of insurance by individuals.
1781 in the United States by state or territory (13 C) 1781 disestablishments in the United States (2 C, 1 P) 1781 establishments in the United States (11 C, 1 P)