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The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and it’s influences
They acted as six independent nations under one central government. They had representatives, called sachems. They met at the Grand Council of the Confederacy, where they debated and discussed a wide variety of issues, but a key difference in their form of government and the United States was…
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Fast Facts: The start of NY
At this time in United States history, the United States was still at war with the British Empire and did not yet have its own Constitution. The Articles of Confederation had not yet been fully ratified, meaning the country was still in a very early and unstable stage of government.