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May 14 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin arriving to write a new Constitution for the United States. May 25 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates begin to convene a Constitutional Convention intended to amend the Articles of Confederation. However, a new Constitution for the United States is eventually produced.
The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio and also known as the Ordinance of 1787), enacted July 13, 1787, was an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States.
It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states, and limits the expansion of slavery. [1] July 18 – The United States ratifies its first treaty with the Sultanate of Morocco. [1] August 9 – South Carolina cedes to the United States its claims to a 12-mile wide strip of land that runs across northern Alabama and Mississippi. [1]
Map of the United States in 1789. Settlement of Trans-Appalachia grew during the Revolutionary War, increasing from a few thousand to 25,000 settlers. [78] Westward expansion stirred enthusiasm even in those who did not move west, and many leading Americans, including Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay, purchased lands in the west. [79]
Timeline of the American Revolution—timeline of the political upheaval culminating in the 18th century in which Thirteen Colonies in North America joined together for independence from the British Empire, and after victory in the Revolutionary War combined to form the United States of America.
Constitutional development in the United States Supreme Court during the 1790s (PhD). Drew University. Galluzzo, Anthony Michael (2008). Revolutionary Republic of letters : Anglo-American radical literature in the 1790s (PhD). UCLA. Irwin, Douglas A. and Richard Eugene Sylla, eds. Founding choices : American economic policy in the 1790s ...
The United States (blue) was bordered by the United Kingdom (yellow) to the north and Spain (brown) to the south and west. In the decade after the end of the Revolutionary War, the United States benefited from a long period of peace in Europe, as no country posed a direct threat and immediate threat to the United States.
The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [367] [375] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...