(1783) Annapolis named nation's capital (1784) Congress in Annapolis ratified Treaty of Paris, ended Revolutionary War (1788) Maryland became seventh U. S. state (1791) Maryland donated land for new capital in Washington, D.C. (1796) Law passed forbidding import of slaves for sale; permitted voluntary emancipation
The Maryland State House housed the workings of the United States government from November 26, 1783, to August 13, 1784, and the Treaty of Paris was ratified there on January 14, 1784, so Annapolis became the first peacetime capital of the U.S.
They signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
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