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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 ...
While North and South were able to find common ground to gain the benefits of a strong Union, the unity achieved in the Constitution masked deeply rooted differences in economic and political interests. After the 1787 convention, two discrete understandings of American republicanism emerged.
Delaware and New Jersey ratified in 1787, and Georgia ratified on January 2, 1788, all by unanimous votes. Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland, and South Carolina all ratified by large majorities over the winter and spring of 1788. It was more controversial in other states, with Massachusetts only ratifying by a narrow vote of 187–168.
February 5 – South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. February 6 – American Revolutionary War: In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France, signaling official recognition of the new republic.
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 ...
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000. ISBN 1-57003-325-0. Chidsey, Donald Barr. The War in the South: the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution, an Informal History. New York: Crown Publishers, 1969. Coker, P. C., III. Charleston's Maritime Heritage, 1670–1865: An Illustrated History.
All the leaders of the new nation were committed to republicanism, and the doubts of the Anti-Federalists of 1788 were allayed with the passage of a Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to the Constitution in 1791. [3] The first census enumerated a population of 3.9 million. Only 12 cities had populations of more than 5,000; most people ...
May 23 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 8th U.S. state (see History of South Carolina). June 21 – New Hampshire ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 9th U.S. state (see History of New Hampshire), the Constitution goes into effect.