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Revolutionary Era

Chapter IIII: Join or Die 1763 ― 1775

Binding the Colonies 1763-1766


The Rights of Englishmen 1766-1773


The Cause of America 1773-1775


Intercolonial Wars 1675 ― 1763

Independence 1775 ― 1784

Master Index

M/D/Y
Document
04/30/1492
Privileges Granted to Columbus by the Spanish Monarchy
08/03/1492
Columbus' Letter of His First Voyage
05/10/1497
Amerigo Vespucci First Voyage
07/22/1497
Decree from Spain to Cultivate American Colonies
03/05/1498
John Cabot Patent from King Henry VII
12/10/1513
The Prince - Machiavelli
08/16/1515
Letter from Nunez de Balboa about seeing the Pacific Ocean
10/30/1520
Cortes's Second Letter to Charles V
07/08/1524
Giovanni da Verrazano Letter of his First Voyage
06/11/1578
Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte
03/25/1584
Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
12/18/1603
Charter of Acadia
04/10/1606
First Charter of Virginia
05/23/1609
Second Charter of Virginia
03/12/1611
Third Charter of Virginia
10/11/1614
Charter of New Netherland
07/30/1619
House of Burgesses First Meeting and Resolves
08/20/1619
First African Slaves Sold in Virginia
11/03/1620
Charter of New England
11/11/1620
Mayflower Compact
07/24/1621
Ordinances for Virginia
08/10/1622
Grant of Maine 1622
11/05/1626
Dutch Purchase of Manhatten
03/18/1628
Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1628
06/07/1629
Charters of Freedoms and Exemptions
04/1630
Christain Charitie - ca John Winthrop
6/20/1632
Charter of Maryland
04/28/1634
Royal Commission for Regulating Plantations
05/06/1637
Declaration in Defense of an Order of Court
01/14/1639
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
06/04/1639
Fundamental Agreement of New Haven
03/16/1641
Government of Rhode Island 1641
12/10/1641
Massachusetts Body of Liberties
05/19/1643
The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
11/06/1643
Government of New Haven
07/03/1645
John Winthrop’s "Little Speech on Liberty" (1645)
09/21/1649
Maryland Toleration Act
02/18/1651
Barbados Declaration of Independence
04/1651
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
12/27/1657
Flushing Remonstrance
04/23/1662
Charter of Connecticut
03/24/1663
Charter of Carolina
07/15/1663
Rhode Island Royal Charter
02/10/1664
Concession and Agreement of New Jersey
09/29/1664
Dutch Surrender of New Netherlands to England
06/30/1665
Charter of Carolina
03/1/1669
Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
05/29/1676
Berkeley's Response to Bacon
07/30/1676
Bacon's Rebellion Declaration
07/11/1681
Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania
05/05/1682
Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
01/01/1683
Constitution of East New Jersey
02/02/1683
Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1683
06/12/1683
Randolph Condemns Massachusetts Bay Company
04/07/1686
Commission of Sir Andros for the Dominion of New England
12/1689
Second Treatise of Government - John Locke
12/1689
English Bill of Rights
10/07/1691
Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691
11/01/1696
Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1696
02/08/1697
Penn's Plan for Colonial Union
10/28/1701
Pennsylvania Charter of Privlieges
10/28/1701
Charter of Delaware
03/14/1713
Treaties of Utrecht
08/26/1725
Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay
06/09/1732
Charter of Georgia 1732
1739
A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
1748
The Spirit of Laws- Montesquieu
12/31/1750
A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers by Jonathan Mayhew
06/10/1751
Currency Act 1751
07/10/1754
Albany Plan
11/11/1755
Pennsylvania Assembly Reply to the Governor about Native Raids
1758
Law of Nations - Emerich de Vattel
10/12/1758
Two Penny Act
02/10/1763
Treaty of Paris 1763
10/07/1763
Royal Proclamation of Colonial Boundaries
1764
On Crimes and Punishments - Cesare Beccaria
1764
An Essay in Vindication of the Continental Colonies of America by Arthur Lee
01/30/1764
A Narrative of the Late Massacres by Ben Franklin
04/05/1764
The Sugar Act
04/19/1764
Currency Act 1764
05/24/1764
Instructions to Boston's Representatives
07/01/1764
Principles of Law and Polity by Francis Bernard
07/23/1764
A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies by Thomas Hutchinson
07/30/1764
THE RIGHTS OF THE British Colonies Asserted and proved.
09/03/1764
Sentiments of a British American by Oxenbridge Thacher
10/18/1764
New York Petition for the Repeal of the Sugar Act
10/24/1764
The Colonel Dismounted by Richard Bland
11/1764
Connecticut Petition by Thomas Fitch
11/03/1764
Petition from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the House of Commons
11/291764
Rhode Island's Petition on the Sugar & Currency Acts
11/30/1764
Rights of Colonies Examined by Stephen Hopkins
12/18/1764
Petition of the Virginia House of Burgesses to the House of Commons
1765
Commentaries on the Laws of England - William Blackstone
03/22/1765
The Stamp Act
05/15/1765
Quartering Act of 1765
05/29/1765
Virginia Resolutions Responding to the Stamp Act
06/08/1765
Massachusetts Circular Letter of 1765
07/04/1765
The Late Regulations by John Dickinson
09/1765
Objections to Taxation Considered by Soame Jenyns
09/21/1765
Pennsylvania Resolves on the Stamp Act
09/24/1765
Braintree Instructions
10/07/1765
Public Letter to the People of Massachusetts by B.W.
10/19/1765
Stamp Act Congress Resolves
10/25/1765
Massachusett's Reply to Governor Bernard
10/29/1765
Massachusetts Resolves Against the Stamp Act
10/31/1765
New York Merchant's Non-importation Agreement
11/29/1765
South Carolina Resolves Against the Stamp Act
12/10/1765
Connecticut Resolution on the Stamp Act
1766
An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies by Richard Bland
01/01/1766
Considerations of Imposing Taxes by Dulany
01/14/1766
William Pitt's Speech Against the Stamp Act
03/18/1766
The Repeal of the Stamp Act
03/18/1766
The Declaratory Act
05/23/1766
The Snare Broken by Mayhew
06/06/1766
Repeal of the Sugar Act
06/06/1766
Free Port Act
06/15/1767
New York Restraining Act (1st Townshend Act)
06/29/1767
Commissioners of Customs Act (3rd Townshend Act)
06/29/1767
Revenue Act of 1767 (2nd Townshend Act)
06/29/1767
Indemnity Act of 1767 (4th Townshend Act)
12/02/1767
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
02/11/1768
Massachusetts Circular Letters
07/06/1768
Vice-Admiralty Court Act (5th Townshend Act)
08/01/1768
Boston Non-Importation Agreement
09/22/1768
Boston Town Meeting Resolutions
05/16/1769
Virginia Resolves
05/17/1769
Virginia Nonimportation Agreement
07/22/1769
Charleston Non-Importation Agreement
04/12/1770
Repeal of Most of the Townshend Acts
05/1772
Calm and Respectful Thoughts on the Negative of the Crown by Zubly
12/03/1772
Beauties of Liberty by John Allen
1773
An Address on Slavery in America by Benjamin Rush
03/12/1773
Virginia Establishment of Colonial Correspondence
04/10/1773
Candidus
05/10/1773
The Tea Act
09/11/1773
Rules by which a Great Empire may be reduced to a small one
10/16/1773
Philadelphia Resolutions on the Tea Act
12/17/1773
New York Association of the Sons of Liberty
03/31/1774
Boston Port Act
05/14/1774
Observations &c. by Josiah Quincy II
05/20/1774
Adiministration of Justice Act
05/20/1774
Massachusetts Government Act
05/24/1774
Virginia Resolution to Fast and Pray for Boston
06/02/1774
Quartering Act
06/22/1774
Quebec Act
07/18/1774
Fairfax Resolves
08/01/1774
Thomas Jefferson A Summary View of the Rights of British America
09/05/1774
To the People of Great Britain
09/17/1774
Suffolk Resolves
09/28/1774
Galloway's Plan for Union
10/14/1774
First Continental Congress Resolutions
10/20/1774
Continental Association
10/26/1774
Petition to Repeal the Intolerable Acts
12/12/1774
Massachusettensis by Daniel Leonard
12/15/1774
A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress by Alexander Hamilton
01/23/1775
Novanglus - John Adams
02/15/1775
The Farmer Refuted by Alexander Hamilton
02/27/1775
Conciliatory Resolution
03/08/1775
African Slavery in America by Thomas Paine
03/22/1775
Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation
03/23/1775
Give me Liberty or give me Death
03/30/1775
The New England Restraining Act
05/29/1775
Letter to Canada
05/31/1775
The Charlotte Town Resolves
06/15/1775
Remarks on the Quebec Bill - Alexander Hamilton
06/19/1775
Washington's Commission
07/06/1775
Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms
07/08/1775
Olive Branch Petition
07/31/1775
Report on the Conciliatory Resolution
08/23/1775
King George III Suppressing Rebellion Proclamation
11/07/1775
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
11/09/1775
Resolution of Secrecy
11/10/1775
Establishment of the Marine Corps
01/05/1776
New Hampshire's Constitution 1776
01/10/1776
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
03/23/1776
Letter from Adams to Gates
03/26/1776
South Carolina's Constitution 1776
04/01/1776
John Adams, Thoughts on Government
04/12/1776
Halifax Resolves
05/15/1776
Preamble and Resolutions of the Virginia Convention
06/11/1776
Lee's Resolution
06/12/1776
Virginia Declaration of Rights
06/29/1776
Virginia Constitution 1776
07/02/1776
New Jersey Constitution
07/04/1776
Declaration of Independence
08/21/1776
Concord Town Resolutions on the Massachusetts Constitution
09/10/1776
Constitution of Delaware 1776
09/11/1776
Delaware's Declaration of Rights
09/28/1776
Constitution of Pennsylvania 1776
11/11/1776
Maryland Constitution 1776
1776
Constitution of North Carolina 1776
1776
The American Crisis Number I - Thomas Paine
1777
Georgia Constitution 1777
1777
New York Constitution 1777
1777
Constitution of Vermont 1777
1778
Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between The United States and France
1778
South Carolina Constitution 1778
1778
Treaty of Fort Pitt
1779
A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
1780
Pennsylvania Act to Abolish Slavery
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