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Conflict between Americans colonists and British soldiers began.
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The Declaration of Independece is first drafted.
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The Continental Congress conviened to discuss the revision of the Declaration of Independence.
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The USA gains its Independence from Great Britain.
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John Hancock sent George Washington a copy of the resolution concerning the Declaration of Independence to the Revolutionary army.
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The copy of the Declaration of Independence was signed by most of the delegates.
Elbridge Gerry, Oliver Wolcott, Lewis Morris, Thomas McKean, and Matthew Thornton all signed the proclamation on a later date. -
The Federal Convention revised the Articles of Confederation.
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A quorum of seven states were obtained.
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The Joint Resolution of the Bill of Rights is passed by Congress.
It proposed the twelve–not ten–amendments. -
The first Congress of the USA proposed 12 ammendments to the state legislatures.
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The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution as the first ten amendments.
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The Treaty of the Louisiana Purchase was signed in Paris.
It was ratified on October 20, 1803. -
The bloodiest single day in USA's history.
That bloody day marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. 623,000 lives were lost and the battle took place a year and a half into the Civil War. -
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
He declared that "all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious areas "are and henceforward shall be free." -
Congress formally proposed the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery.
It was ratified on December 6, 1865. -
The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights is formally sent to the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
