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| Who found the world's first anti-slavery society? |
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| was adopted by the United States Congress on May 20, 1785. Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress did not have the power to raise revenue by direct taxation of the inhabitants of the United States. Therefore, the immediate goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original colonies acquired from Britain at the end of the Revolutionary War. |
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| The First Continental Congress |
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| was a body of representatives appointed by the legislatures of twelve North American colonies of Great Britain in 1774. |
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| What year did the Articles of Confederation go into effect? |
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| The New Jersey Constitution |
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| What constitution temporarily gave women the vote? |
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| was an armed uprising in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. |
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| Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia |
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| took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, to address problems in The United States of America following independence from Great Britain. Although it was purportedly intended only to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention of many of the Convention's proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was from the outset to create a new government rather than "fix" the existing one. It was not since The Annapolis Conference that the states had seriously considered the situation of the Articles of Confederation. |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| Who adopted the Articles of Confederation in 1777? |
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