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On November 11, 1620, 39 adults male colonist and two indentured servants signed the compact although it wasn't call Mayflower Compact at that time. There are specified basic rules for the colonist, and established the foundation for the settlers.

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On May 19, 1643.
Each colony was given equal power, and each decision at the meeting need to required six votes to pass.
Decided to defend against the Native Americans, French, Dutch.

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In 1696, 36 men with power to accept or reject laws, require the power to make laws.
William Penn still believed strongly in representative government, so he reluctantly changed the way Pennsylvania was governed. Also he think that citizen idea is more important than his own opinion.

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On July 10, 1745 and propose by Ben Franklin.
It's Congress and it representative from each colony.
Plan had been rejected.

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It happened in New York between October 7 and 25, 1765. They began to put a lot of tax stamps on all legal docx,  business agreement, and  newspaper.
American felt that British is doing unfairly on them, so they started to rebel.

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On September 5, 1774 in Philadelphia.
They want to have equal right as British, but they think that they still belong to British.
They sent the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to George III to let him know that they won't give up any of the right that they need. They urged boycott.

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On May 10, 1775 there are Sixty five representatives from each of the thirteen original colonies gathered to take control of the war.
They started to want to be Independence, and they gather together and become United State.

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On July 4, 1776.
There are five men call Ben Franklin,  John Adams,  Roger Sherman,  Robert Livingston,  Thomas Jefferson sketch the declaration.
This is the first time that American have the chance to choose their own leader.

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It approved in 1777 by 2nd Continental Congress , but it ratified in 1781 by 13 colonies.
There are some issue about the taxes and trade, and this will have the basic Constitution.
Although it did not work properly, it still created by 13 colonies.

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During September 11-14, 1786.
This was the first convention that each sate want to solve the trade issue.
The attendance was very low, there are just 5 out of 13 show in the meeting.

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The next year after the meeting in Annapolis, which is in 1787, all the states gathered together and decided to rewrite the Articles of Confederation. There were 55 delegates who represented each state to attend this event. Because of this meeting, the Constitution was finally drafted and ready to publish which changed these colonists into an united nation.

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Great Compromise: Represented in Congress

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Great Compromise: Represented in Congress

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During the Conceptional Convention, there was a conflict between small and big states. The big states would like the number of representatives depend on population, however the small states wanted the number of representatives based on the state itself. Due to this problem, the Congress decided that there would be two kinds of representatives, one was based on population which is House of the Representatives for nowadays, and another one was based on the state itself, which is Senates for now.

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Great Compromise: Slave counted as person

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Great Compromise: Slave counted as person

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The second issue that they discovered was that whether a slave was a person. The southern states considered slaves should be counted in the population, however the northern states did not want the slaves to be counted as part of their population. Eventually, they reached the compromise that slave would be counted as 3/5 of a person.

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Great Compromise: Commerce & Slave Trade

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Great Compromise: Commerce & Slave Trade

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Since southern states economy was based on the slave trade and exported goods, they were afraid that the Congress would ban the slave trade and taxed on the exportation of their goods. Because of this, the Congress agreed to not having any power to tax any states' exportation and would not involve slave trade until 1808.

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After the Constitution was drafted, there should be 9 states to sign in order to activate it. Eventually, New Hampshire signed to be the 9th one to admit the Constitution, then Virginia and New York signed and compromise. Then George Washington was elected as the first president of the United States and led them together and united.