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7.2 South Branch Potomac River Loyalist expatriation General Washington; Return to Mount Vernon Corwin Amendment Ottawa Ontario Canada (1857), Letter to Lafayette Slaves transported to America:!

2 Origins of the war Countries that currently have multiple capital cities. In 1990 a United States Senate joint resolution to change Dulles's name to Washington Eisenhower was proposed by Senator Bob Dole but it didn't pass. March 1861 inaugural at the Capitol building the dome above the rotunda was still under construction! Before returning to private life in June 1783 Washington called for a strong union Though he was concerned that he might be criticized for meddling in civil matters he sent a circular letter to all the states maintaining that the Articles of Confederation was no more than "a rope of sand" linking the states He believed that the nation was on the verge of "anarchy and confusion" was vulnerable to foreign intervention and that a national constitution would unify the states under a strong central government. When Shays' Rebellion erupted in Massachusetts on August 29 1786 over taxation Washington was further convinced that a national constitution was needed. Some nationalists feared that the new republic had descended into lawlessness and they met together on September 11 1786 at Annapolis to ask Congress to revise the Articles of Confederation One of their biggest efforts however was getting Washington to attend. Congress agreed to a Constitutional Convention to be held in Philadelphia in Spring 1787 and each state was to send delegates. . 3.1 Slave trade Historian Richard B Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as key Founding Fathers: John Adams Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton John Jay Thomas Jefferson James Madison and George Washington. Jefferson Madison and Washington were slave owners Franklin Hamilton and Jay were leading opponents of slavery Adams Jefferson and Franklin were members of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence Hamilton Madison and Jay were authors of the Federalist Papers advocating ratification of the Constitution the constitutions drafted by Jay and Adams for their respective states of New York (1777) and Massachusetts (1780) were heavily relied upon when creating language for the U.S Constitution. Jay Adams and Franklin negotiated the Treaty of Paris (1783) that would end the American Revolutionary War. Washington was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and was president of the Constitutional Convention All held additional important roles in the early government of the United States with Washington Adams Jefferson and Madison serving as president Jay was the nation's first chief justice Hamilton was the first secretary of the treasury and Franklin was America's most senior diplomat and later the governmental leader of Pennsylvania.