Documents in Year 1789                     

Links of Interest:

• America's Founding Primary Source Documents:

The U.S. Constitution was written in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by delegates from 12 states, in order to replace the Articles of Confederation with a new form of government. It created a federal system with a national government composed of three separated powers (Executive, Judicial, Legislative), and included both reserved and concurrent powers of states. See the Federalist Papers, which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote to convince the colonies to sign the Constitution. It took until 1790 for all 13 colonies to accept The Constitution.

• George Washington, First U.S. President

(1789-1797)

• George Washington's Inaugural Address

• Statehood

North Carolina (12 of 50 States) Admitted 21 November 1789, see 1790 for next state...

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• Education: State Institutions of higher education established:

University of Georgia (1785) - South

• University of North Carolina (1789) - South

University of Tennessee (1794)- South
University of South Carolina (1801) - South
Indiana University (1820) - Midwest
University of Michigan (1837) - Midwest
University of Wisconsin (1848) - Midwest

Source: Foundations of American Education, Sixth Edition page 140 / L. Dean Webb, Arlene Metha. Published by Pearson Education. 2010 see 1794 for next event...

• Military:

  French Revolution (1789-1799)

In 1789 France was shaken by revolution and King Louis XVI guillotined in 1793. Britain was once more at war with France. America not involved.

• First overland crossing of North America 1789-1793

by Canadian Alexander Mackenzie (subarctic)
Viola, Herman I, North American Indians, Crown Publishers, New York: New York, 1996

• Wild West/Frontier

Daniel Boone moves his family to Point Pleasant in the Ohio Valley (modern day West Virginia). He represents Kentucky County in the Virginia Legislature which meets in Richmond, Virginia from approximately 1789-1792. He is promoted to lieutenant colonel for the militia in 1791.

My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone

This free ebook preview provides a major portion of an interview of Nathan Boone, the youngest son of frontiersman, Daniel Boone. He and his wife recollect interesting stories they knew about his father's exploits on the American frontier. (see page 87-92)