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**__Bill of Rights(1791)-__**The state legislatures twelve amendments to the constitution.3-12 known as the Bill of Rights.
===On September 25,1789, the U.S. congress passed a set of personal rights, and proposed them to the state. They demanded that there be a bill of rights that would describe the freedoms of the American people. Five state conventions agreed to ratify the Constitution only on the condition that there would be amendments added immediately.===

====**__Declaration of Independence__**-Approved on July 4,1776 by the second contenental congress meeting in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall) which severed the colonies ties to the British crown.====

====**__Articles of Confederation-__**The Continental congress adopted the first constitution on November 15,1777. The ratification of Articles of confederation did not happen until the date March 1 ,1787. The articles created a weak central government which left most of the power with the States and government. The articles also created a loose confederation of sovereign states. The need for a more eiffencent Federal Government became obvious and eventually led to the Constitutional convention of 1787. The Articles of Confederation was replaced by the present U.S. constitution on March 4,1789.====

====**__Treaty of Alliance with France-__**On February 6, 1778 the Treaty of Alliance with France was signed and it created a military alliance between the U.S. and France against Great Britain. The treaty required that neither France or the U.S. could agree to a separate peace with Great Britian and that american independence be a condition of any future peace agreement.====

====**__The Constitution of the United States-__**Members of the Constitution al Convention signed the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Constitutional Convention convened in response to disatisfaction with the articles of Confederation and need for strong centralized government. After 4 months of secret debates and many comprimises the purposed constitution was submitted to the states for approval ,although the vote was close in some states, the Constitution was eventually ratified and the new federal government came into existence in 1789. The constitution established the U.S. government as it exists today.====

====**__Treaty of Paris-__**The Revolutionary War was ended by the Treaty of Paris, recognized American Independence and established borders for the new nation. After the British defeat at Yorktown, peace talk began in Paris, April 1782 between Richard Oswarld representing Great Britian and the american peace commissoners. Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams. The american negotiaters were joined by Henry Laurens two days before the preliminary articles. Articles of peace were signed on November 30th 1782. The Treaty of Paris, formally ending the war was not signed until September 3rd 1783. The continental congress which was temporarily situated in Annapolis, Maryland, at the time, ratified the Treaty of Paris on January 14th, 1784.====

**__Dunmore's Proclamation__**
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__Thomas Paine__
__Thomas Paine-__ Wrote two well known documents that go by the names of Common Sense and The Crisis. Common sense challenged the authority of the british government and royal monarchy. It also was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. The Crisis was a collection of articles which supported for an independent and self-governing america through the many severe crisis of the Revolutionary War.