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Chapter 7: Crisis And Constitution |
1777 Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation
1781 Articles of Confederation ratified
1784 Spain closes the Mississippi River: hoped to lure Americans living in the Old Southwest into the Spanish empire
1785 Jay-Gardoqui Treaty negotiated but not ratified: sectional tensions enflamed by the treaty’s provisions
1786 Shays’ Rebellion: farmers rise in armed protest
Annapolis convention: calls for revising the Articles
1787 Congress adopts the Northwest Ordinance
Constitutional Convention: delegates draft an entirely new framework for the national government
1787-1788 Publication of the Federalist Papers
1791 Bill of Rights adopted: in response to the concerns of the Anti-federalists
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