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! ! For more than thirty years however the 1776 New Jersey State Constitution gave the vote to "all inhabitants" who had a certain level of wealth including unmarried women and blacks (not married women because they could not own property separately from their husbands) until in 1807 when that state legislature passed a bill interpreting the constitution to mean universal white male suffrage excluding paupers. 4.5 Valley Forge and Monmouth Benjamin Franklin began his political career as a city councilman and then Justice of the Peace in Philadelphia He was next elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly and was sent by them to London as a colonial agent which helped hone his diplomatic skills.

9.1 Ideology behind the Revolution New Jersey 11,423 12,422 10,851 7,557 2,254 674 236 18 Slaves shipped to those regions that are part of the present-day United States. During the early spring of 1791 Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant began working on a plan for the capital city that identified the future sites of the "Congress House" (the United States Capitol) and the "President's House" (the White House). Design competitions were then held to solicit designs for each of those structures Architect James Hoban was selected to design the President's House while no satisfactory drawings were submitted for the Capitol a late submission by William Thornton was selected for the Capitol. Stephen Hallet was hired to oversee construction which got underway in September 1793 Hallet proceeded to make alterations to the design against the wishes of Washington and Jefferson and was subsequently dismissed George Hadfield was hired in October 1795 as superintendent of construction but resigned three years later in May 1798 due to dissatisfaction with Thornton's plan and quality of work done thus far.