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It ended on September 17, 1787, the day the Frame of Government drafted by the convention's delegates to replace the Articles was adopted and signed. The ratification process for the Constitution began that day, and ended when the final state, Rhode Island, ratified it on May 29, 1790.
December 7, 1787 Delaware: 30 0 2 December 11, 1787 Pennsylvania: 46 23 3 December 18, 1787 New Jersey: 38 0 4 January 2, 1788 Georgia: 26 0 5 January 9, 1788 Connecticut: 128 40 6 February 6, 1788 Massachusetts: 187 168 7 April 26, 1788 Maryland: 63 11 8 May 23, 1788 South Carolina: 149 73 9 June 21, 1788 New Hampshire: 57 47 10 June 25, 1788 ...
The Forging of the Union, 1781–1789. New American Nation Series. HarperCollins Publishers. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1965). The Oxford History of the American People. New York: Oxford University Press. Murrin, John M. (2008). Liberty, Equality, Power, A History of the American People: To 1877. Wadsworth Publishing Company. ISBN 9781111830861.
These negotiations and the ratification of the treaty in January 1784 officially ended the American Revolutionary War. According to the Library of Congress, two stipulations decided upon were ...
Pennsylvania ratified on December 12, 1787, by a vote of 46 to 23 (66.67%). New Jersey ratified on December 19, 1787, and Georgia on January 2, 1788, both unanimously. The requirement of ratification by nine states, set by Article Seven of the Constitution, was met when New Hampshire voted to ratify, on June 21, 1788.
The body adopted the Lee Resolution for Independence on July 2, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence two days later, on July 4, 1776, proclaiming that the former colonies were now independent sovereign states. The Second Continental Congress served as the provisional government of the U.S. during most of the Revolutionary War.
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. [1] Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, [2] the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new ...
Delaware – December 7, 1787 30 0 100% 2 Pennsylvania – December 12, 1787 46 23 67% 3 New Jersey – December 18, 1787 38 0 100% 4 Georgia – January 2, 1788 26 0 100% 5 Connecticut – January 9, 1788 128 40 76% 6 Massachusetts – February 6, 1788 187 168 53% 7 Maryland – April 28, 1788 63 11 85% 8 South Carolina – May 23, 1788