Insurrection at Massachusetts....

Convention at Philadelphia....

A form of government submitted to the respective states, as ratified by eleven of them....
Correspondence of General Washington respecting the chief magistracy....

He is elected president....

Meeting of the first congress.
{1783 to 1787} While the friends of the national government were making these unavailing efforts to invest it with a revenue which might enable it to preserve the national faith, many causes concurred to prepare the public mind for some great and radical change in the political system of America.
[Sidenote: Misunderstandings between Great Britain and the United States.] Scarcely had the war of the revolution terminated, when the United States and Great Britain reciprocally charged each other with violations of the treaty of peace.