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Events relating to the american revolution
In the Treaty of Paris, negotiated by Adams, Franklin and Jay, the British government recognizes US independence
Delegates meeting in Philadelphia agree a final draft for a US consitution, to be submitted to the states for ratification
The Federalist Papers, in support of the Constitution and mainly written by Alexander Hamilton, begin appearing in New York
The constitution of the United States is ratified by the states, but it is immediately agreed that amendments will be desirable
George Washington, unanimously elected first president of the United States, is inaugurated on Wall Street in New York
The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper
Longfellow's narrative poem Paul Revere's Ride dramatizes a turning point at the start of the American Revolution
