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. On January 5 1776 New Hampshire ratified the first state constitution in May 1776 Congress voted to suppress all forms of crown authority to be replaced by locally created authority Virginia South Carolina and New Jersey created their constitutions before July 4 Rhode Island and Connecticut simply took their existing royal charters and deleted all references to the crown the new states were all committed to republicanism with no inherited offices They decided what form of government to create and also how to select those who would craft the constitutions and how the resulting document would be ratified On 26 May 1776 John Adams wrote James Sullivan from Philadelphia:. .

. 4.10 Slave rebellions Historians typically begin their histories of the American Revolution with the British coalition victory in the Seven Years' War in 1763 the North American theater of the Seven Years' War is commonly known as the French and Indian War in the United States; it removed France as a major player in North American affairs and led to the territory of New France being ceded to Great Britain Lawrence Henry Gipson writes:, The selection of a location for the capital resurfaced in the summer of 1790 At the same time Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was pushing for Congress to pass a financial plan a key provision of Hamilton's plan involved the Federal government assuming states' debts incurred during the American Revolutionary War Northern states had accumulated a huge amount of debt during the war amounting to 21.5 million dollars and wanted the federal government to assume their burden the Southern states whose citizens would effectively be forced to pay a portion of this debt if the Federal Government assumed it balked at this proposal Some states including Virginia had paid almost half of their debts and felt that their taxpayers should not be assessed again to bail out the less provident Further they argued that the plan exceeded the scope of the new Constitutional government James Madison then a representative from Virginia led a group of legislators from the south in blocking the provision and preventing the plan from gaining approval. 8 Reconstruction From the Mexican Cession the New Mexico Territory received most of the present-day state of Arizona most of the western part of the present-day state of New Mexico and the southern tip of present-day Nevada (south of the 37th parallel) the territory also received most of present-day eastern New Mexico a portion of present-day Colorado (east of the crest of the Rocky Mountains west of the 103rd meridian and south of the 38th parallel); all of this land had been claimed by Texas, Lincoln's campaign team carefully projected his image as an ideal candidate Michael Martinez wrote:!