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Major Events
First Continental Congress calls for abolition of slave trade
1774
Philadelphia Quakers found world’s first antislavery society
1775
New Jersey constitution temporarily gives women the vote
1776
Articles of Confederation adopted by Second Continental Congress
1777
Massachusetts adopts first constitution drafted in convention and ratified by popular vote
1780
Articles of Confederation put into effect
1781
Military officers form Society of the Cincinnati
1783
Land Ordinance of 1785
1785
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
1786
Shays’s Rebellion
1786
Meeting of five states to discuss revision of the Articles of Confederation
1786
Northwest Ordinance
1787
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
1787
Ratification by nine states guarantees a new government under the Constitution
1788