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Assumption

Alexander Hamilton's plan to restore U.S. financial credit abroad.

Constitutional Convention

The secretive gathering in Philadelphia, PA, in 1787, intended to address serious problems that arose in the U.S. following its successful war of independence from Britain.

Continental Congress

The body that governed the British thirteen colonies and independent United States during the revolutionary period, 1774-89.

Residency

The debate over where the permanent U.S. capital should be located

Slavery

A subject never mentioned by name in the U.S. Constitution

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