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The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new frame of ...
August 7 Treaty of New York: Treaty with the Creek 7 Stat. 35: 7 Creek: 1791 March 3 Act of Congress 1 Stat. 221: Piankeshaw, Kaskaskia: 1791 July 2 Treaty of Holston: Treaty with the Cherokee 7 Stat. 39: 8 Cherokee: 1792 February 17 Treaty of Philadelphia: Additional article to the Treaty with the Cherokee 7 Stat. 42: Cherokee: 1792 April 23
Treaty of Shackamaxon. Coordinates: 39.966°N 75.129°W. Penn's Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West, painted 1771/2. The Treaty of Shackamaxon, also called the Great Treaty and Penn's Treaty, was a treaty between William Penn and Tamanend of the Lenape signed in 1682. [1] Tamanend and Penn gifted each other and the people they represented ...
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. On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who had convened at the ...
Treaty 7 is an agreement between the Crown and several, mainly Blackfoot, First Nation band governments in what is today the southern portion of Alberta. The idea of developing treaties for Blackfoot lands was brought to Blackfoot chief Crowfoot by John McDougall in 1875. [1] It was concluded on September 22, 1877, and December 4, 1877. [2]
Treaty of Friendship between the United States and the Regency of Algiers. Treaty of safety and peace between Hassan Pasha Dey of Algeria and George Washington, regarding the freedom of ships and not allowing the sale of Algerian ships to countries that are at war with America, September 05, 1795. Signed. September 5, 1795. ( 1795-09-05) Parties.
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. It was debated by the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between July 1776 and November 1777, and finalized by the ...
The United States Constitution has served as the supreme law of the United States since taking effect in 1789. The document was written at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention and was ratified through a series of state conventions held in 1787 and 1788. Since 1789, the Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times; particularly important ...