The process by which the Constitution was approved by the states is known as ratification.
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The first action taken by Congress was that of passing an act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths.
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- New York City was chosen as the temporary capital of the United States and the first Congress met here in March 1789.
- The issues on the unwritten agenda were that of creating a treasury, a war machinery, a foreign affairs department, a sound tax system, a strong judiciary, etc.
- All of these issues were considered by the Congress one by one and the offices for the same were established by passing necessary laws through the next few meetings of the Congress.
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In crossing the Thames River in a ferry boat that carried both passengers and their horses, she wrote in an entry dated “Thirsday, Octobr ye 5th”: “Here, by reason of a very high wind, we mett with great difficulty in getting over—the Boat tos’t exceedingly, and our horses capper’d at a very surprizing Rate, and set us all in a fright.”
The following day, after traveling for miles over roads that were “very bad, incumbered with rocks and mountainous passages,” Sarah Knight came to “a bridge under which the river ran very swift, my horse stumbled, and very narrowly escaped falling into the water, which extremely frightened me.”
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