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The ACS and American-Africans mutually agreed that Liberia was its own separate entity. The colony needed some form of formal process to realize its statehood. [9] Even before, declaring independence the ACS was helping Liberia draft a constitution. [9] The first referendum for independence occurred in November 1846.
The United States had a long history of intervening in Liberia's internal affairs, and had repeatedly sent naval vessels to help suppress insurrections by indigenous tribes before and after independence (in 1821, 1843, 1876, 1910, and 1915).
1846 Liberian independence referendum; 1847 Liberian constitutional referendum; 1849 Liberian constitutional referendum; 1861 Liberian constitutional referendum; 1869 Liberian term of office referendum; 1870 Liberian constitutional referendum; 1907 Liberian constitutional referendum; 1927 Liberian constitutional referendum; 1935 Liberian ...
A story provided by the Tippecanoe County Historical Association about Findley and Webster moved to Liberia as part of Indiana Colonization Society.
Liberia, officially the Colony of Liberia, later the Commonwealth of Liberia, was a private colony of the American Colonization Society between 1821, before becoming the self-proclaimed independent nation of the Republic of Liberia, after declaring independence on July 26 of 1847, but was not recognized by the United States until September 23, 1862
History of Liberia; Early history; Pepper Coast; Colonial period; American Colonization Society; Colony of Liberia; Republic of Maryland-in-Africa; Americo-Liberian rule; 1846 independence referendum
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Article One of the Constitution enshrined civil liberties similar to those protected by the Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution. Approved in a referendum on 27 September 1847, the Constitution was amended several times from 1847 to 1980. Among these amendments, the term length of the president was extended to four years in 1907 and ...