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2 giorni fa · Within three days of its signing on September 17, 1787, the Constitution was submitted to the Congress of the Confederation, then sitting in New York City, the nation's temporary capital. The document, originally intended as a revision of the Articles of Confederation, instead introduced a completely new form of government.
- September 17, 1787
- June 21, 1788
- March 4, 1789, (234 years ago)
- United States of America
2 giorni fa · United States Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (in the engrossed version but also the original printing), is the founding document of the United States.
- June–July 1776
- July 4, 1776; 247 years ago
1 giorno fa · The Constitution was written during the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by 55 delegates to a Constitutional Convention that was called ostensibly to amend the Articles of Confederation (1781–89), the country’s first written constitution.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 giorni fa · Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted and ratified the Constitution of the United States and established the U.S. federal government.
2 giorni fa · In 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance, a partial victory for Jefferson that terminated slavery in the Northwest Territory. Jefferson freed his slave Robert Hemings in 1794 and he freed his cook slave James Hemings in 1796. Jefferson freed his runaway slave Harriet Hemings in 1822.
14 mag 2024 · He received his B.A. from Tufts and his Ph.D. from Harvard. His works include The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969), which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History
2 giorni fa · On December 7, 1787, Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, earning it the nickname "The First State".
