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Title: Building the nation : events in the history of the United States, from the Revolution to the beginning of the war between the states
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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WASHINGTON RESIGNING HIS COMMISSION. They were held together by an agreement, or articles of confederation.The clear-headed men saw that, to be a nation, they must have a writtenconstitution. In 1TS7 fifty delegates from the thirteen States met in convention inPhiladelphia. General Washington was elected President. There wereperplexing questions. Some of the States were large, others small: ought 2 IS BUILDING THE NATION. (Chap. I.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON. (BY TRUMBULL.) the small ones to have equal voice with the large ones in government?They decided that there should be a Senate and House of Representatives—two Senators from each State, no matter what its size or how man)7 in-habitants it contained; but the Representatives were to be elected accord-ing to population. 1787.) . BEGINNING. 19 That vessel which sailed up James River in 1G20 with negroes onboard which had been stolen in Africa, and were sold to the planters atJamestown, now sailed into the Convention. The negroes were severalhundred thousand. The merchants of Newport, Rhode Island, and Boston, before the Rev-olution, made a great deal of money by sending their ships to the WestIndies for molasses, which they transported to Boston and Newport, dis-tilled into rum, and then sent the ships with the rum to Africa, wherethey purchased negro slaves, brought them to the West Indies, Charleston,Savannah, or Norfolk, sold them to the planters, then loaded their

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