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Ratification Day in the United States is the anniversary of the congressional proclamation of the ratification of the Treaty of Paris, on January 14, 1784, at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland, by the Confederation Congress, which marked the official end of the American Revolutionary War. [1]
Based on preliminary articles with the British negotiators made on November 30, 1782, and approved by the "Congress of the Confederation" on April 15, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was further signed on September 3, 1783, and ratified by the Confederation Congress then sitting at the Maryland State House in Annapolis on January 14, 1784.
The first such ordinance was the Land Ordinance of 1784, enacted April 23, 1784. [5] Thomas Jefferson was its principal author. The ordinance called for the land (recently confirmed as part of the United States by the Treaty of Paris ) west of the Appalachian Mountains , north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River to eventually be ...
January 14 – The Confederation Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain to end the American Revolutionary War. February – The Massachusetts Bank, a predecessor of BankBoston , is established as the first federally chartered joint-stock bank in the U.S.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. "American history" redirects here. For the history of the continents, see History of the Americas. Further information: Economic history of the United States Current territories of the United States after the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was given independence in 1994 This ...
1784. January 14: The Treaty of Paris is ratified; May 7: Thomas Jefferson is appointed as a minister to France; August 19: Congress adjourns to move to Trenton, New Jersey; November 1: Congress reconvenes at Trenton, at the French Arms Tavern; December 24: Congress adjourns to move to New York City; 1785
Lord North took the uncharacteristic role of conciliator for the drafting of a resolution which was passed on February 20, 1775. It was an attempt to reach a peaceful settlement with the Thirteen Colonies immediately prior to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War; it declared that any colony that contributed to the common defense and provided support for the civil government, and the ...
In 1784, Virginia formally ceded its claims north of the Ohio River, and Congress created a government for the region now known as the Old Northwest with the Land Ordinance of 1784 and the Land Ordinance of 1785. These laws established the principle that Old Northwest would be governed by a territorial government, under the aegis of Congress ...