CHRONOLOGY

1783

  • – Newburgh Conspiracy.

1784

  • – Treaty of Fort Stanwix.

1785

  • – Ordinance of 1785.
  • – Treaty of Fort McIntosh.
  • – Congress calls for large requisition.

1786

  • – Shays’s Rebellion begins.

1787

  • – Shays’s Rebellion is crushed.
  • – Northwest Ordinance.