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The 1790 Naturalization law determined that "free white persons" could naturalize after two years of residency, and established that the children of citizens would also be citizens. Soon after, in 1795, Congress extended the residency period to five years, and in 1798 extended the residency requirement even further, to fourteen years.

Pratheepan Gulasekaram
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Staying Healthy is the Best PolicyModified from "Honesty is the Best Policy" Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Dr. Janu Dominic SwamiKannu Kaul Nehru
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Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 16: November 1789 to July 1790
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