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Founding Era

Chapter VIII: Republican Liberty 1801 ― 1817

Sage of Monticello 1801-1809


His Little Majesty 1809-1817


Federalist Regime 1789 ― 1801

Good Feelings 1817 ― 1829

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
12/18/1776
Constitution of North Carolina 1776
12/23/1776
The American Crisis Number I - Thomas Paine
02/05/1777
Georgia Constitution 1777
04/20/1777
New York Constitution 1777
07/08/1777
Constitution of Vermont 1777
02/06/1778
Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between The United States and France
03/19/1778
South Carolina Constitution 1778
09/17/1778
Treaty of Fort Pitt
06/18/1779
A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
03/01/1780
Pennsylvania Act to Abolish Slavery
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