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Cambridge (Mass.), Shays’ Rebellion at, 94.

Canada, Loyalists go to, 19; Articles of Confederation on admitting, 67.

Channing, Edward, History of the United States, cited, 21 (note), 61 (note).

Cherronesus, 69.

Combe, George, Tour of the United States, quoted, 45.

Commerce, before Revolution, 24; conditions after Revolution, 24-27; commercial treaties, 26; development of trade with Far East, 28; phases of United States foreign trade, 28-29; domestic trade, 29-30; policy of reprisal, 97-99.

Committees of Correspondence, 49.

Confederation, the, 35 et seq., 108; see also Articles of Confederation.

Congress, Continental, advises States to adopt governments, 38; prints constitutions, 41; Declaration of Independence, 49, 63, 143-144, 167-174; Articles of Confederation, 49-50, 51, see also Articles of Confederation; Franklin’s plan of union, 50-51; composition, 85; financial problems, 85-86.

Congress, Federal, 52-53; powers and duties, 53-54; and Northwest Territory, 62; national system of coinage, 63-64; Land Ordinance (1785), 64-66, 71; Jefferson’s Ordinance of 1784, 69-71, 75; Ordinance of 1787, 72-80, 190-200; inefficiency, 81-84, 127; Revenue Amendment, 87; financial crisis, 87-88; commercial amendment of 1784, 98-99; calls Federal Convention, 106; reception of Constitution, 145-146; votes that presidential electors be chosen (1788), 63.

Congress, United States, Constitutional powers and limitations, 127-129, 130, 131, 136; objection to excessive power of, 161; revenue act (1789), 159.

Connecticut, State government, 44; ratification of Constitution, 149-150.

Constitution, development of, 108 et seq., 125 et seq.; great compromise of, 121-123, 127; transmitted to Congress, 145-146; contest over ratification, 146 et seq.; framed by propertied interests, 162-163; text, 201-218; bibliography, 221-222.

Cook, Captain James, 28.

Cornwallis, General Edward, surrender at Yorktown (1781), 5.

Crevècœur, letter to Jefferson, 165.

Cutler, Manasseh, 73-74.