All posts tagged "constitutional convention"
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10.3K1Politics and MilitaryJames Mitchell Varnum Wins the Right to a Jury Trial for Rhode Island
James Mitchell Varnum fought against English rule in the American Revolution as one of George Washington’s generals. Then shortly after the war...
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18.6KNew HampshireThe Catholic Test – When New Hampshire Outlawed Catholics
New Hampshire’s Constitution, adopted in 1784, had some of the toughest restrictions on religious freedom in the new United States. It stated...
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15.1K2Politics and MilitaryHow Providence’s Federal Hill Got Its Name
When a makeshift army in 1788 busted up a Fourth of July oxen roast at the base of a hill in Providence,...
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22.6KNew HampshireNew Hampshire’s Constitutional Convention Creates a New Nation
In February 1788, George Washington was staying close to home at Mount Vernon, anxiously awaiting news from New Hampshire. The state’s constitutional...
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5.5K1New HampshireMoses French Leads the Paper Money Riot in New Hampshire in 1786
Today, banks have lobbyists and economists to convince the central banks to create money. In 1786, no such niceties existed. That created...
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21.2K9Connecticut6 Revolutionary Taverns
The American Revolution probably wouldn’t have happened had it not been for the Revolutionary taverns where patriots and Loyalists gathered to talk...
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