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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
r. The first commander-in-chief of the Continental navy was a native of Rhode Island, Esek Hopkins, and the first naval squadron sent against the enemy at the beginning of the Revolution sailed from Providence. When the various colonies were forming new State constitutions (1776-79), Rhode Island went forward in its independent course under its old charter from Charles II.; and it was the last of the thirteen States to ratify the national Constitution, its assent not being given until May 29, 1790, or more than a year after the national government went into operation. Under the charter of Charles II. the lower House of the legislature consisted of six deputies from Newport, four each from Providence, Portsmouth, and Warwick, and two from each of the other towns. The right of suffrage was restricted to owners of a freehold worth $134, or renting for $7 a year, and to their eldest sons. These restrictions, as they became more and more obnoxious, finally produced open discontent.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State sovereignty. (search)
s God, which declares that the safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed. Thus the matter stood when the Constitution to form a more perfect union was adopted, not, as has been most unjustifiably asserted, by the people of the United States in mass, but by the people of the States, each acting in its own convention and ratifying at different dates, the first being Dec. 7, 1787, the last May 29, 1790. In view of facts so generally known, or (if not so) accessible to every reader of American history, it is surprising that some have contended that the Union was formed by the people of the United States as one body politic. Though the States by a voluntary compact created a general government and delegated to it enumerated powers, reserving all else to themselves, it has been attempted to deduce from these limited grants a supremacy for the agent over the States, and, consequently,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
he unpaid war debt ($21,500,000) of the States. The last proposition was strongly opposed, but was finally carried: Senate, 14 to 12: House, 34 to 28.] North Carolina cedes her western territory to the United States......Feb. 25, 1790 An act ordering a census passed......March 1, 1790 Franklin dies at Philadelphia, aged eighty-four......April 17, 1790 Act of Congress for the government of the Southwest Territory......May 26, 1790 Rhode Island ratifies the Constitution......May 29, 1790 [The last of the thirteen colonies.] An act passed by 32 to 29—House—authorizing the acquisition of the District of Columbia for the seat of government......July 10, 1790 First national census begun; population enumerated as of......Aug. 1, 1790 Treaty with the Creek Indians......Aug. 7, 1790 Tariff bill amended by increasing duties......Aug. 10, 1790 Second session adjourns......Aug. 12, 1790 General Harmar's and Colonel Hardin's expedition against the Indians defea
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
even States, assigning reasons for opposing the Constitution, setting forth its attachment to its democratic charter, and the fear that it would be limited by the new federal system......September, 1789 Act passed repealing the legal tender act of 1786, and promising to redeem the paper at the rate of 15 to 1......Oct. 12, 1789 After long and bitter opposition the convention assembled at Newport, adopts the federal Constitution and bill of rights by 34 to 32, 5 P. M. Saturday......May 29, 1790 Providence Bank, the oldest in the State, goes into operation......1791 First known copyright granted under the United States law is made to Rev. William Patten, of Newport, for a book entitled Christianity the true theology......May 9, 1795 Marine corps of artillery chartered at Providence......1801 College of Rhode Island changed to Brown University in honor of Nicholas Brown......1804 British occupy Block Island......1813 Commodore Oliver H. Perry leaves Newport to ta