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	List of state leaders in 1784 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Mifflin, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (1783-1784) (not a head of state)
		Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Minister of State of Denmark (1772-1784)
		Andreas Peter, Minister of State of Denmark (1784-1797)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1784 (366 words)

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		It is in the western section of the State and is bounded by the states of South Carolina and Georgia and Macon, Swain, Haywood and Transylvania counties.
		It is in the western section of the State, and is bounded by Yancey, Buncombe and Haywood counties and the state of Tennessee.
		It is in the western section of the State and is bounded by the state of Tennessee and Avery, McDowell and Yancey counties.
	statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /NC/CNTYOUT/CNTYMAPS/COUNT4.HTM (2159 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: State of New York
		The great central plain of the State, lying between the mountainous districts of the south and west and the Great Lakes and the Adirondacks and the eastern mountain ranges on the north and east, is renowned for the fertility of its soil and the extent of its manufactures.
		It enacted that the law of the State should be constituted of the Common Law of England and of the Acts of the Legislature of the Colony of New York, as together forming the law of the colony on 19 April, 1775 (the day of the battle of Concord and Lexington).
		The State institutions for the care of the insane and juvenile delinquents are numerous, and the almshouses, hospitals, and other charitable agencies under the care of the counties and other municipalities abound throughout the State.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11029a.htm (11160 words)

	USIA - Portrait of the USA, Ch. 3
		Although on the surface the Jacksonian Era was one of optimism and energy, the young nation was entangled in a contradiction.
		After Abraham Lincoln, a foe of slavery, was elected president in 1860, 11 states left the Union and proclaimed themselves an independent nation, the Confederate States of America: South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
		The most serious issue of the day was the revelation that the United States had secretly sold arms to Iran in an attempt to win freedom for American hostages held in Lebanon and to finance antigovernment forces in Nicaragua at a time when Congress had prohibited such aid.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/factover/ch3.htm (4528 words)

	SSC - TEKS and TAKS - TEKS Glossary - Grade 5
		In 1866, ten of the eleven Confederate states refused to ratify, but the Military Reconstruction Act, passed by Congress on March 2, 1867, required all seceded states to ratify the amendment as a condition of their readmission into the union, and to extend the right to vote to the freedmen.
		In 1868, the required number of states ratified the 14th Amendment which declared that all persons born in the United States (except Indians) were citizens, that all citizens were entitled to equal rights regardless of their race, and their rights were protected by due process of the law.
		Representation is proportional to each state's population in the House of Representatives while states have equal representation in the Senate.
	www.tea.state.tx.us /ssc/teks_and_taas/teks/gloss5.htm (3943 words)

	History of New York State (Before 1900) - I Love New York - The Official New York State Tourism Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The State Convention that drew up the Constitution created a Council of Safety which governed for a time and set the new government in motion.
		Alexander Hamilton was a leader in the movement which ended in the development of the Federal Constitution, and he was active in its ratification.
		The Erie Canal was replaced by the Barge Canal in 1918; and the system of waterways was further expanded by the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
	www.iloveny.state.ny.us /kids/history_pre_1900.asp (632 words)

	1783 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar).
		September 3 - American Revolutionary War ends: Treaty of Paris - A treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain is signed in Paris, ending the war.
		United Empire Loyalists flee to Canada from the new United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1783 (581 words)

	ScienceDaily: Chemistry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When three states meet based on the conditions, it is known as a triple point and since this is invariant, it is a convenient way to define a set of conditions.
		In quantum mechanics (several applications in computational chemistry and quantum chemistry), the Hamiltonian, or the physical state, of a particle can be expressed as the sum of two operators, one corresponding to kinetic energy and the other to potential energy.
		The most fundamental concept in chemistry is the law of conservation of mass, which states that there is no detectable change in the quantity of matter during an ordinary chemical reaction.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/chemistry (3829 words)

	Facts - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		As soon as the United States acquired Florida, it began urging the Indians there to leave their lands and relocate along with other southeastern tribes to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma.
		Some Seminole leaders signed a treaty in 1832, and part of the tribe moved.
		With Osceola in prison, the United States was confident the war would end soon.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /facts/history/seminole/wars.cfm (634 words)

	NYS DOS, Kids' Room, New York State History, Page 2 of 2
		New Yorkers are rightfully proud of their state's many achievements and contributions.
		It was conquered by the English in 1664 and was then named New York in honor of the Duke of York.
		Albany became the capital of the State in January 1797.
	www.dos.state.ny.us /kidsroom/nysfacts/hstry1.html (582 words)

	Interactive State House
		Its leader, John Winthrop, carried the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company which established Massachusetts as a private business venture chartered by the Crown.
		John Adams was the leading expert on constitutional law during the revolution, and was the document's primary author.
		He was an intellectual leader of the revolution, serving in diplomatic roles in Holland and France before election as Vice President, and the Second United State President.
	www.mass.gov /statehouse/articles/murals.htm (1009 words)

	3rd JD - Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Schoharie, Sullivan & Ulster Counties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For example, the attempted prosecution of seditious libel of the author of a pamphlet which criticized the Assembly failed for lack of a witness, since the accused could not be forced to testify against himself (King v.
		Therefore, the Revolutionary leaders who met in Kingston (Ulster County) to establish a permanent state government in April 1777 did not express dissatisfaction with the courts.
		John Jay was chosen the State's first Chief Judge, and later the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
	www.courts.state.ny.us /courts/3jd/Supreme/history.shtml (1858 words)

	Rhode Island History: Chapter 3
		The state's individualism, its democratic localism, and its tradition of autonomy caused it to resist thecentralizing tendencies of the federal Constitution.
		Such a plea was aided by the prestige and integrity of the new national leaders, especially Washington, and by congressional passage of a Bill of Rights to safeguard individual liberties from federal invasion.
		The proposed federal assumption of state debts was a carrot, and the economic coercion exerted upon alien Rhode Island by the new central government (a tariff and a demand for debt payment) was a stick.
	www.rilin.state.ri.us /studteaguide/RhodeIslandHistory/chapt3.html (1560 words)

	Unit Three: 1783-1800
		All powers not stated specifically in the Constitution were reserved to the states as stated in the Tenth Amendment.
		Caused by the inability of the ruling class and clergy to solve the states problems, the hunger of the workers, the taxation of the poor, and the American Revolution, it led to the establishment of the First Republic and the end of the monarchy.
		British prize courts, in response, stated that neutrals could not engage in wartime trade with a country if they were not permitted to trade with that country at times of peace.
	www.salemwitchtrials.com /history/1783-1800.htm (5340 words)

	Religion and the State Governments (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition)
		Knowing that in the egalitarian, post-independence era, the public would no longer permit single denominations to monopolize state support, legislators devised "general assessment schemes." Religious taxes were laid on all citizens, each of whom was given the option of designating his share to the church of his choice.
		In the revised creed, adopted by the Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1788, "nursing fathers" was elevated from an explanatory footnote--(note f), as it appears here, to the body of the text in the section on the duties of the civil magistrate.
		Isaac Backus (1724-1806) was the leader of the New England Baptists.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/religion/rel05.html (2467 words)

	Simon Kenton - Frontier Hero
		Simon was recruited to serve in the campaign led by Lord Dunmore, governor of the colonies of New York and Virginia appointed by the King of England, to quell the Indian threats to pioneers on the frontier.
		While chaos reigned in Kentucky, the Revolutionary War concluded in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris, and the new nation turned its attention to the orderly settlement of the land north and west of the Ohio River.
		Trouble was brewing for the new state and the young nation, on the sea as well as on the frontier.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /parks/explore/magazine/fallwin2003/simonkenton.htm (3658 words)

	Meyer-Chapter 3
		The leaders appear to have claimed large plots of land on the basis of the headrights of those whom they had brought to America.
		Fortunately, the land grant records in the office of the North Carolina Secretary of State in Raleigh are “nearly complete” for the colonial period and in a good state of preservation.
		When Duncan Campbell, one of the leaders of the group of 350 that migrated to North Carolina in 1739, returned to Argyllshire in 1741, he attempted to find a pastor for the flock of transported High-landers.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hp/colonial/Bookshelf/Monographs/Scots/scots3.htm (8702 words)

	Native Americans:Historic:The Illinois:Society:Neighbors:The Americans
		Although many of the war's key battles took place east of the Allegheny Mountains, the fate of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys was determined by frontier settlers who had crossed the Alleghenies and were living in Virginia's newly formed county of Kentucky.
		Indian raids instigated by British leaders at Detroit (Michigan) were threatening the survival of these settlements.
		By treaty, the United States took possession of most of the land that had been British territory east of the Mississippi River and south of the Great Lakes.
	www.museum.state.il.us /muslink/nat_amer/post/htmls/soc_amer.html (508 words)

	"Albert P. Blaustein, "The U.S. Constitution: America's Most Important Export" Issues of Democracy, March 2004"
		In 1783, the American minister in Paris, Benjamin Franklin, obtained from the French minister for foreign affairs official authorization for a Paris printing of Constitutions des Treize Etats de l'Amerique.
		Venezuela and Argentina are federal states as are Mexico and Brazil, both of whose national charters were established in 1824.
		Liberia, which had been settled by freed slaves from the United States, adopted a constitution in 1847, which was written in major part by a professor from the Harvard Law School.
	usinfo.state.gov /journals/itdhr/0304/ijde/blaustein.htm (2322 words)

	The History Place - An Unlikely Victory 1777-1783
		- The flag of the United States consisting of 13 stars and 13 white and red stripes is mandated by Congress; John Paul Jones is chosen by Congress to captain the 18 gun vessel Ranger with his mission to raid coastal towns of England.
		The Supreme Court of Massachusetts abolishes slavery in that state.
		The Treaty of Paris is signed by the United States and Great Britain.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/revwar-77.htm (3002 words)

	Louisiana Secretary of State/LA Governors-Pg.27-JOHNSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At this time, the legislature moved the seat of government to Donaldsonville in a compromise between the Anglo-American leaders who wanted the capital out of New Orleans and the Creoles who wanted to retain the seat of government within a French area.
		That visit allayed the bitter Creole-Anglo split, but Johnson was to inflame the conflict once again by taking the side of the "Anglos" in a dispute about cotton and sugar cultivation.
		The creation of two financial institutions promoted prosperity during Johnson's term: the Louisiana State Bank and the Consolidated Association of Planters of Louisiana.
	www.sec.state.la.us /27.htm (228 words)

	THE CONTINENTAL LINE, MILITIA, AND STATE TROOPS
		Throughout the month of October, 1777, the delay incident to collecting œ10,000 apportioned to be raised by the former Congress had given to the leaders of the new movement much anxiety.
		From the militia of the State, from time to time, occasion required that volunteers be called into service to repel raids, protect the sea coast, and perform a variety of duties upon territory which was continually the theater of strife.
		To serve from June to December, 1779, one thousand militia were called out for defense of the frontiers of the State, while on the 9th of October, 1779, four thousand men were called into the field to serve until December 20 of that year.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/nj/state1/continental_line.htm (3419 words)

	Facts - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs
		In 1819, Florida was ceded to the United States in the Adams-Onis Treaty.The formal change of flags came in 1821, and Florida was formally organized as a U.S. Territory with a legislative council in 1822.
		In fact, Tallahassee was the only Confederate state capital east of the Mississippi River that was not captured by Union forces.
		He was serving the remainder of the term of Bob Graham, who had resigned as governor to become a United States Senator.
	dhr.dos.state.fl.us /facts/stats/faq (776 words)

	Corps of Discovery - The Leaders
		Notes on the State of Virginia was an answer to European critics of America, (specifically to questions posed by the Frenchman François Barbé Marbois, who claimed that Europe surpassed America in intellect, physical beauty, abundance of flora and fauna, and all other matters).
		These statements, released as though they were the opinions of the individual states (and they did sum up the way the majority of the people felt in those states), declared the ability of a state legislature to render a Federal law with which they did not agree to be null and void.
		The Barbary states of Tripoli, Algiers, Morocco and Tunis charged the United States and several European countries a certain yearly fee for the use of the Mediterranean Sea; if this "tribute" was not paid, ships from the offending countries were boarded and seized, their cargoes confiscated and sold by the North Africans.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/CorpsOfDiscovery/TheLeaders/Jefferson/Jefferson.htm (7161 words)

	American Revolution - Likeness of New Hampshire War Heroes & Personages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cilley was born at Fitzwilliam; General Enoch Poor, born at Andover, Massachusetts, came north to fight the French in Nova Scotia in 1755 before becoming a member of the New Hampshire Provincial Congress (twice) and then a Revolutionary War leader.
		Josiah Bartlett was from Kingston, on the coast, and William Whipple was from Kittery, Maine and had been in the coastal trade before the Revolution, but the majority of New Hampshire's military leaders during the American Revolution were frontiersmen.
		This collection of Revolutionary War leaders was built up by the State of New Hampshire during the 1870s, as part of the process of collecting past leaders of New Hampshire.
	www.state.nh.us /nhdhr/warheroes/american1.html (267 words)

	NJDARM: Saving America's Treasures, The American Revolution in New Jersey, Themes
		Matters of security and the effort to root out Loyalists were vested in the state’s Council of Safety during the early war years.
		The Council of Safety was the state’s primary organ for “expediting laws” to promote the patriot cause and for suppressing treasonous activity against the newly established state government.
		Shopkeepers Licenses, 1781 (99 leaves to be treated) – To prevent commerce with the British and their sympathizers, the state required shopkeepers in counties bordering the enemy territory of New York to petition for a license to sell goods, and to provide witnesses attesting to their loyalty to the newly formed state government.
	www.state.nj.us /state/darm/links/satthemes.html (1161 words)

	List of state leaders in 1783 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elias Boudinot, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (1782-1783)
		Thomas Mifflin, President of the United States in Congress Assembled (1783-1784)
		Prime Minister - Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Minister of State of Denmark (1772-1784)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1783 (383 words)

	Augusta.com Picture Story
		He became a colonel in the state militia during the Revolutionary War and was wounded in December 1778 when the British attacked Savannah.
		He was elected governor of Georgia by the state assembly in November 1779 and became chief justice of the state in 1783.
		He served as governor again in 1789 and was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1795 to fill the un-expired term of James Jackson.
	www.augusta.com /leaders/slideshow_national/slide53.html (265 words)

	History & Genealogy - Manuscripts - Guide to Manuscripts Materials Pt. 1
		Included are chapters on the church's early organization, pastorships, missionary work, the Baptist State Convention, factions within the church, and the church during the Civil War.
		Letterbooks, 1795-99, 1800-04, kept by John Overton (1766-1833) of Nashville, while he was a collector of internal revenue in the District of Tennessee for the United States government.
		Copies of letters sent by the Chief of Engineers, serving ex officio as Inspector of the United States Military Academy, and by officers of the Corps of Engineers under his orders, relating to the affairs of the Academy.
	www.state.tn.us /tsla/history/manuscripts/mguide01.htm (5154 words)

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