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U.S. Govt. Under the constitution begins.
Washington is inaugurated. Suggestions for addressing the president include "Excellency" and "Highness." Washington states U.S. neutrality after the French Revolution begins in Paris. -
First Census: Us population totals to 3.9 Million
Congress meets in Philadelphia and plans a new capital on the Potomac. First petition to Congress to emancipate slaves is submitted by Quakers. Seneca chief Cornplanter appeals to Pres. Washington to abide by the land boundaries set in the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix. Judith Sargent Murray publishes "On the Equality of the Sexes." Benjamin Franklin dies in Phil. Samuel Slater's mill begins spinning cotton -
Bill of rights is ratified
First Bank of the United States is charted for twenty-year period. Vermont enters the Union as the 14th state. Secy. of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton submits his report on manufactures to congress. Benjamin Banneker writes Jefferson to apply the Declaration's principles to enslaved people. U.S. troops are defeated by the Miami Indians in Ohio after sent by Washington to respond to the massacre of settles at Big Bottom. Kentucky enters the Union as the 15th state -
Presidential Election
Washington and Adams are re-elected president and Vice pres. Washington declares US neutrality as war breaks out between France and Great Britain. Indians of the Northwest confederacy entreat U.S. to keep the Ohio River as the boundary of Indians' lands. Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin. Cotton productions soars.
