Ratification of the Constitution
The Administrations of George Washington
And John Adams

ASSIGNMENTS
Henretta: Chapter Seven:
A. Reviewing the Text: Three .
Primary Source Documents
1774 - 1789: Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention.
1787: Benj. Franklin Speech before Constitutional Convention.
1787: Elbridge Gerry: Reasons for not Signing the Federal Constitution.
1787: Federalist #10 (Madison)
1787: Federalist #21, On Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation (Hamilton)
1788: All Men are born Free and Equal: Massachusetts Yeoman oppose the "Aristocratickal" Constitution.
1788: Patrick Henry Speech in Opposition to Ratification of the Constitution.
1789: Broadside: An Act to Establish the Seat of Government of the United States.
1789: Judiciary Act of 1789
1789: Proposed Constitutional Amendments on Freedom of Religion.
1789: Thomas Tucker to George Tucker on the Dangers of the New Constitution.
1789: An Act to Establish the Seat of Government of the U.S.
1790: Judith Sargent Murray: "On the Equality of the Sexes."
1791: Alexander Hamilton on the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States.
1792: Letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington re: the Bank Controversy.
1794: The Whiskey Rebellion: Proclamation by George Washington.
1797: White Slaveowners Fear that the Haitian Revolution has arrived in Charleston, South Carolina.
1798: The Alien Act.
1798 - The Sedition Act of 1798.
1798: The Virginia Resolution.
1799: The Kentucky Resolution
1799: Petition of the People of Color, Freedmen of the City of Philadelphia.
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