1787 to 1788
1787: Senate Created -- September 17, 1787. ... On that day in 1788, the Pennsylvania legislature elected the nation's first two U.S. senators—Robert Morris ...
The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Revolution in Government
Between 1788 and 1808 the number of African slaves imported into the United States exceeded 200,000, only about 50,000 fewer than the total number of slaves ...
American Newspapers during Ratification, 1787-1788
Newspapers played a crucial role in the Revolutionary war and continued to be prominent through the Ratification Period. Although the public debate at the ...
Virtual Exhibit: Ratification of the U.S. Constitution, 1787-1791
As soon as 9 states had ratified the Constitution (June 21, 1788) it went into effect. On March 4, 1789 the 1st Congress of the new Constitution was seated, and ...
Federalist Papers | George Washington's Mount Vernon
... 1787 and August 1788, and were intended to build public and political support for the newly constructed Constitution which was sent to the States for ...
Volume 1 of John Adams' A Defence of the Constitutions of Gove …
... American citizens as an ardent federalist thinker. Volumes 2 and 3 of the Defence appeared in August 1787 and January 1788, respectively. Given the work's ...
A brawl between Federalists and anti-Federalists, 1788
In 1787 and 1788, debates over the ratification of the Constitution took place in towns and villages across the country. To gain support, both Federalists ...
US Constitution 1787 - Minnesota Secretary Of State
7, 1787; Pennsylvania, Dec. 12, 1787; New Jersey, Dec. 18, 1787; Georgia, Jan. 2, 1788; Connecticut, Jan. 9, 1788; Massachusetts ...
The Ratification Debate on the Constitution - Bill of Rights Institute
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Main, Jackson Turner. The Anti-Federalists: Critics of the ...
The People Debate the Constitution, 1787- 1788 (2010) &a
PAULINE MAIER, RATIFICATION: THE PEOPLE DEBATE THE CONSTITUTION, 1787-. 1788 (Simon & Schuster 2010). Pp. 608. Hardcover. $30.00. JACK RAKOVE, REVOLUTIONARIES: ...
Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the “Other” Federalists, 1787 ...
Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the “Other” Federalists, 1787-1788, edited by Colleen A. Sheehan and Gary L. McDowell (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998) ...
ArtI.S1.2.3 The Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
at 530 (quoting James Wilson from the Pennsylvania ratifying convention from Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution 1787–1788, at 302 (John Bach McMaster & ...
U.S. Constitution: Articles, Ratifying & Summary
... 1787. (People who supported the Constitution became known as ... In February 1788, a compromise was reached under which Massachusetts ...
In late November 1787, the Maryland Legislature set the first week in April 1788 as the time for elections to a convention in Annapolis charged with considering ...
Constitution Day - Husson University
This day commemorates the September 17, 1787, signing of the United States Constitution.Written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789.
The Anti-Federalist Papers - Historical Society of the New York Courts
1788; Brutus, no. 16, 10 Apr. 1788. Cato, no. 1, 27 Sept. 1787; Cato, no.
Rhode Island was the only state not to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. ... Votes of Rhode Island cities and towns on passage of the US ...
Constitution, 1787–1791 - America in Class
Sections in CONSTITUTION · - Francis Hopkinson, "The New Roof," allegory and poem, 1787, 1788 · - Federal Committee of Albany, New York, The 35 Anti-Federal ...
New Hampshire's Ratification of the Constitution
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution, putting it into effect.
Creating the Constitution - UO Libraries' Research Guides
... 1787 and May 1788. The Federalist Papers were written and published to urge New Yorkers to ratify the proposed United States Constitution ...