MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW US GOVERNMENT
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Massachusetts
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Rhode Island
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Delaware
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Georgia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rhode Island’s role in the drafting and ratification of the US Constitution was unlike other states. Rhode Island was the only state not to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rhode Island boycotted the Constitutional Convention. America’s littlest state had a big independence streak. Rhode Island, distrustful of a powerful federal government, was the only one of the 13 original states to refuse to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
Detailed explanation-3: -From May 25 to September 17, 1787, 55 delegates from 12 states convened in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention. Rhode Island was the only state that refused to send representatives to the convention, which assumed as its primary task the revision or replacement of the Articles of Confederation.
Detailed explanation-4: -A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in May of 1787.
Detailed explanation-5: -Rhode Island was the only state that refused to send delegates.