The Signing of the Articles of Confederation

The Signing of the Articles of Confederation

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation were made so that Congress would become the single branch of the national government, but it would have limited powers to protect the liberties of the people. Each colonies then had one vote in the Congress. Congress was a bit like the heart and the colonies were the legs, sending in votes. The Continental Congress appointed one person from each colony to be in the Committee of Thirteen. The Committee of Thirteen were the people that created and signed the Articles of Confederation. Each individual had a huge part in history, but since there were so many people, I wrote about a few of the people's lives and how they were able to sign the Articles of Confederation.

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  1. Samuel Huntington of Connecticut

    Samuel Huntington was born July 3, 1731 and died Jan. 5, 1796. Huntington was a political leader, a lawer and a Connecticut singer, and later was a signer for the Declaration of Independence. As a self tought lawer, he opened up a practice in 1764, and he became a member in the Connecticut legislature, serving there till 1784. He also was a king's attorney, and was appointed to the committee responsible for the colony's defense, as well as to its delegation to the Continental Congress. His biggest sucess was when he served as president of the Congress. He lived to 65 years old.

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  2. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts Bay

    Elbridge Gerry was born in Marblehead Massachusetts on July 17, 1744. Gerry was a Graduate of Harvard College and he studied to be a merchant, graduating in 1762. The next year he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature. In 1774 he was selected to attend the Provincial Congress and then appointed to the Continental Congress, where he was engaged in committee concerns. Elbridge went to the Constitutional Convention in 1798 but was against the new Federal Constitution and refused to sign it. He was also in 1810 elected the governor of Massachusetts. He was criticized for redistricting the state to the advantage of his own political party, which was Democratic. His biggest achievement was being elected for Vice President for the United States, where he died in his office on November 23, 1814, at the age of 70.

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  3. Nicholas Van Dyke of Delaware
    Born in New Castle County, Delaware, on September 25, 1738, a delgate to the State conostitutional convention and for a period of time president of Delaware, Nicholas was a important figure. He studied law in Piladelphia, PA, was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in July 1776, was also a member of the concil of Delaware in 1777 and served as a speaker in 1779. Nicholas served as President of Delaware from Febuary 1, 1783, to October 27, 1786. He died in New Castle County on February 19,1789. Nicholas died where he was born.

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  4. Edward Langworthy of Georgia
    Edward Langworthy was born in Savannah Georgia, in 1738 and grew up to be a important political figure. He attended a school in connection with the Bethesda Orphan House, where he was an inmate. He later became an instuctor in the institution, assisted in organizing the Georgia Council of Safety and became secretary of the council December 11, 1775. Langworthy was a member of the Continental Congress in 1777 to 1779, and was a signer of the Articles of Confederation. He moved in 1791 to Baltimore, Maryland, where he died on November 2, 1802.

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  5. Daniel Carroll of Maryland
    Born on July 22, 1730 in Upper Marlboro, Carroll was educated at the Jesuit School at the Bohemia Manor. He went to Saint Omer's College in France and later returned to become a member of the Continental Congress in 1781. He signed the Articles of Confederation, and became a delgate to the convention that framed the Federal Constituion. Carroll was also the first State senate of Maryland and he took an active part in fixing parts of government. His biggest acheivment was when he was appointed by President Washington as one of the commissioners to locate the District of Colombia.He then resigned in 1795 and died 1796.

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  6. Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire
    Josiah Bartlett was born at Amesbury, Massachusetts in 1729. Throughout his life he studied the science of medicine, practiced as a physician, and was involved in politics.he was elected a member of the Colonial Legislature, also a member of the Committee of Safety, and later signed the Declaration of Independence. He was the 2nd to sign it. Bartlett was elected president, then governor, of New Hampshire. He died May 19, 1795.

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  7. Nathaniel Scudder of New Jersey
    Born at Monmouth Court House, Nathaniel was meant to be a leader. He graduated from Princeton College and studied medicine and started practice in 1751. He was a member of the Committee of Safety, and a lieutenant colonel of the New Jersey Militia in 1776 and was a member of Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779. He was killed in Monmouth County while resisting an invading party of the British army.

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  8. James Duane of New York
    James Duane was born in 1733. He was an active patriot and also a delgate to the first Congress. In 1789 he was appointed judge of the district court of New York. He was the first mayor of New York, and he was a distinguished citizen. James Duane died in 1797.

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  9. John Penn of North Carolina
    John Penn was a native in the province of Virginia, and was born on March 17, 1741. He was an only child. He did not have a great education, due to his parents, but when his father died, a man took him in. He taught him all the education he missed, and when Penn was 21, Penn became a practitioner of law.He then later moved to North Carolina in 1774. The next year he was elected a member of the Continental Congress. He was always there, and he was re-elected in the next three years. He died, on September, 1788, and he only lived to 46 years.

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  10. Joseph Reed of Pennsylvania
    Joseph Reed was an important figure of the Revolution. He was born on August 27, 1741, in New Jersey. In 1751, at the age of 16, he graduated from Priceton College. He studied law, he started his practice in Philadelphia. He was very successful. In 1774 he was appointed on the Committee of Correspondence. He was, in the same year also the president of the first provincial convention. He was also a adjutant-general, and was in the military. He was a faithful patriot. He died in 1785.

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  11. Richard Hutson
    As many other people who signed the Articles of Confederation, Richard graduated from Princeton College after being born in 1748. He became a well known judge, lawyer and politian. He was active in state politics and was in the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779. During the Revolutionary War he was captured by the British and imprisoned from 1780 to 1782. Hudson served as a Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. He died in 1795.

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  12. John Collins of Rhode Island
    Born on 1717, John Collins was a member of the Continental Congress in 1778 to 1780 and Governor of Rhode Island from 1782 to 1783. While he was governor, he cast the deciding vote in the Rhode Island Senate to form a convention to vote upon the adoption or rejection of the Constitution. He was elected for the first Congress, but he refused. He died in 1795.

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  13. Francis Lightfoot Lee of Virginia
    On the 14 of October in 1734, Francis was born. He was educated at his house by Da man named Dr. Craig. In 1765 he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he worked till 1775. He joined the group that called for a general congress and a Virginia Convention in 1774. It was in that convention and the same year that he was sent to the first Continental Congress. He represent his state there till 1779, and then retired. He later died in 1797.

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  14. People who signed the Articles of Confederation
    These are only a few of the people who signed the Articles of Confederation. Each of these people represented different states. I really enjoyed making this blog (even though it took forever) and I hope you enjoy it. It might of taken a while to read!

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