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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.
The two contested issues were the following: first, the argument over the location of the permanent residency of the United States capital and second, the solution for the debt incurred from the American Revolution. By 1790, the capital of the Nation had been temporarily located in Philadelphia for a decade. While solidifying the strength of ...
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The dawn of American democracy didn’t come in 1776, with the Declaration of Independence. It didn’t come in 1788, when the Constitution was ratified by the states, or in 1789, when George ...
Between 1790 and 1815 the United States struggled to be taken seriously as an international political and economic power, even as rapid internal growth began to change the character of the nation. When George Washington (1789 – 1797) was inaugurated as the first U.S. president in 1789, the United States was still dealing with the tremendous ...
First Annual Address to Congress. On January 8, 1790, President George Washington delivered the very first Annual Message to a Joint Session of Congress (now known as the State of the Union address), in the Senate chamber of Federal Hall in New York City. 1 The address fulfilled Article II, Section 3, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which ...
The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere.
The 1790 census was the first federally sponsored count of the American people. One of the most significant undertakings of George Washington's first term as president, the census fulfilled a constitutional mandate and was interpreted by many as evidence of national prosperity and progress. No one knew precisely how many people lived in the ...
