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In 1776, Washington was not lingering over Boston’s triumph. He is, as he tells Joseph Reed , “hurried in dispatching one Brigade after another for New York.” In the same letter , he reflects on politics as well as war, observing that “ Common Sense ” is working “a powerful change” in Virginia minds. In 1789, the first U.S. House of Representatives, meeting in New York City, reached a quorum and elected Pennsylvania Representative Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg as it

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In 1776, Washington was not lingering over Boston’s triumph. He is, as he tells Joseph Reed , “hurried in dispatching one Brigade after another for New York.” In the same letter , he reflects on politics as well as war, observing that “ Common Sense ” is working “a powerful change” in Virginia minds. In 1789, the first U.S. House of Representatives, meeting in New York City, reached a quorum and elected Pennsylvania Representative Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg as it

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"The private attachments of one man might easily be satisfied; but to satisfy the private attachments of a dozen, or of twenty men, would occasion a monopoly of all the principal employments of the government in a few families, and would lead more directly to an aristocracy or an oligarchy than any measure that could be contrived." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 77

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Thomas Peterson-Mundy In 1774, the Boston Port Act was passed by the British Parliament, demanding repayment for the tea destroyed four months earlier during the Boston Tea Party. It was the first of what the British themselves called the Coercive Acts (in America, the Intolerable Acts), intended to bring the 13 colonies to heel. In 1776, in a letter , Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams , urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forg

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"There is nothing so apt to agitate the passions of mankind as personal considerations whether they relate to ourselves or to others, who are to be the objects of our choice or preference." Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper No. 76

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Kansas Election 1855 In 1775, Hoping to keep the New England colonies dependent on the British, King George III formally endorsed the New England Restraining Act. In 1776, Washington continued organizing the army’s next move. He directs that a detachment from the artillery regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Knox be ready to march on Monday, the same artillery Knox had delivered to Boston from Fort Ticonderoga, whose cannon helped force the British evacuation. In 1822, the

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Leon Thrasher In 1774, Britain passed the second Coercive Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, which revoked the Massachusetts colonial charter and removed certain democratic elements of the government. In 1776, Juan Bautista de Anza, one of the great western pathfinders of the 18th century, arrived at the future site of San Francisco with 247 colonists. In 1776, Washington reflected on the British departure from Boston in a letter to Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Reed . Gen

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