Important Facts From First President of Unite States

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Important Facts from First President of Unite States

1. Born in Westmoreland Country Virginia, United States.


2. He is elected to represent the Virginia House of Burgesses for Frederick County
3. In 1756 the Seven Years' War occurred, which was a series of international conflicts that
occurred between the beginning of 1756 and the end of 1763 to establish control over
Silesia and for colonial supremacy in North America and India.

4. In 1756 George Washington married the widow of Colonel Parke Custis.

5. In 1775 he is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army.

6. On July 14th 1776 the independence of the United States was proclaimed, a historical fact
documented when the delegates presented the reasons why the American colonies
wanted to break ties with Great Britain.

7. Washington was the person most responsible for the military campaigns of the War of
Independence from 1775 to 1783 and the main architect of the construction of that
country from its democratic foundations.

8. On September 17th 1787, the constitution is completed, where Benjamin Franklin delivers
a speech on unanimity so that the Constitution will enter into force, being ratified by nine
states.

9. George Washington is unanimously chosen by the voters in the presidential election in


1789, and on April 30th of that same year he was sworn in as the first president of the
United States in New York, the country's capital at the time.

10. Thanks to the George Washington government, the government adapted the Declaration
of Human Rights in the form of ten amendments to the new constitution.

11. In 1790 the Bank of the United States was created.

12. In 1793 he is elected again for a second term.

13. In 1774, the trade agreement with Great Britain, known as the Jay Treaty, was signed.

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