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1784-1788: Washington is very busy with projects to improve Mount Vernon and to connect the frontier settlements with seaports on the Potomac River. General and Mrs. Washington agree to raise her two youngest grandchildren.
George Washington is chosen to preside over the Constitutional Convention and signs the new Constitution. Over the next year, he will be very active in encouraging the states to ratify this document.
The Treaty of Paris is signed on September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolution. (1783) |