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There was a time during the time period from 1775 to about 1781 and this was when the continental congress had they had met in the Philadelphia as well as other cities and they didn’t have any thing that would form the basis of the constitution. And this constitution had a long way for it be plan out. So the articles of the confederation they had been very had for the 13 colonies to agree with anything so they disagreed on the boundaries of the land in the west of all the states. And when these articles had been ratified they had been a new phase of war thay was going to be close

The americans livening in the colonies they had wanted a contract that would have give the principles that had been basic. And they had all shared the state constitutions …show more content…
There had been this man who had owned slaves and he had wrote that all people are by nature equal and free as well as independent. And what he had meant was that all the americans that were white had been equal to the British people and they could not be denied to any of the services that the british people had. And the slaves to the british as well as to the americans they were technical not apart of society. Then it had been about a couple of months later that they had said that the black people weren’t really considered equals in there society. Then in some states they had said that all the white and the black people were considered equal in there …show more content…
What the gradual emancipation was it was a law that was established in the 1780s if a slave women had given birth to an baby after march 1 it would have freedom when they reached the age of 28. And not around 1847 in the state of Pennsylvania they had fully abolished slavery in their state. Then after this the states of Rhode Island as well Connecticut they had also adopted the gradual emancipation law during the years I of 1784. Then about the year later in New York they as well had given the salves the emancipation but they had expanded their rights

In this treaty it had been signed the pro british as well as the Iroquois confederacy and what this was it was 6 tribes that had claimed the land of New York as well as the Massachusetts and they wanted this land because they wanted more territory and they didn’t want to give it to the Americans. So then in the end the americans had got the the land and the Indians and the Indians had to leave and they were

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