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The new nation, 1783–1815. Trends in economic growth, 1700–1850. ... Boston dominated New England. Chicago, the nation's railroad hub, dominated the Midwest, New ...
1783–1788: 1789–1815 ... it also created a committee to craft a constitution for the new nation. Though some in Congress hoped for a strong centralized state, ...
The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781–1789. ISBN 9780930350154. Kerber, Linda K. (1979). Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9780807899847. Miller, John Chester (1948). Triumph of Freedom, 1775–1783. Little, Brown. ISBN 9781404748330.
The treaty pushed the new nation away from France and towards Great Britain. The French government concluded that it violated the Franco-American treaty of 1778, and that the U.S. government had accepted the treaty despite the overwhelming public sentiment against it. [111]
Based in New York City, the new government acted quickly to rebuild the nation's financial structure. Enacting Hamilton's program, the government assumed the Revolutionary War debts of the states and the national government, and refinanced them with new federal bonds.
1765–1783 Confederation period: 1783–1788: 1789–1815 ... Political Parties in a New Nation: The American Experience, 1776–1809 (1963), ...
November 25 – Evacuation Day (New York): The last British troops leave New York City and George Washington triumphantly returns, three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. November 29 – The 5.3 M fa New Jersey earthquake affects the Province of New Jersey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII ("Very strong").
The nation was at peace after 1783. The states gave Congress control of the western lands and an effective system for population expansion was developed. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 abolished slavery in the area north of the Ohio River and promised statehood when a territory reached a threshold population, as Ohio did in 1803. [42] [43]