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The New Nation · A Chronology

The New Nation: A Chronology

The first decades of the American republic. From the weakness of the Confederation and the framing of the Constitution, through Washington’s precedents and the Jeffersonian era, to the Era of Good Feelings — the events of the founding generation, year by year.

1781
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