Progressive Era Chapter XVI: New Nationalism 1897 ― 1913 New Exceptionalism 1897-1901 Square Deal 1901-1909 New Justice 1909-1913 Previous Chapter Next Chapter Gilded Age 1885 ― 1897 World War I 1913 ― 1921 Filter by Era Select Era Filter by Type Select Type Reset Year Month Day Document 1492 4 30 Privileges Granted to Columbus by the Spanish Monarchy 1492 8 3 Columbus' Letter of His First Voyage 1497 5 10 Amerigo Vespucci First Voyage 1497 7 22 Decree from Spain to Cultivate American Colonies 1498 3 5 John Cabot Patent from King Henry VII 1513 12 10 The Prince - Machiavelli 1515 8 16 Letter from Nunez de Balboa about seeing the Pacific Ocean 1520 10 30 Cortes's Second Letter to Charles V 1524 7 8 Giovanni da Verrazano Letter of his First Voyage 1578 6 11 Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte 1584 3 25 Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh 1603 12 18 Charter of Acadia 1606 4 10 First Charter of Virginia 1609 5 23 Second Charter of Virginia 1611 3 12 Third Charter of Virginia 1614 10 11 Charter of New Netherland 1619 7 30 House of Burgesses First Meeting and Resolves 1619 8 20 First African Slaves Sold in Virginia 1620 11 3 Charter of New England 1620 11 11 Mayflower Compact 1621 7 24 Ordinances for Virginia 1622 8 10 Grant of Maine 1622 1626 11 5 Dutch Purchase of Manhatten 1628 3 18 Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1628 1629 6 7 Charters of Freedoms and Exemptions 1630 4 Christain Charitie - ca John Winthrop 1632 6 20 Charter of Maryland 1634 4 28 Royal Commission for Regulating Plantations 1637 5 6 Declaration in Defense of an Order of Court 1639 1 14 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1639 6 4 Fundamental Agreement of New Haven 1641 3 16 Government of Rhode Island 1641 1641 12 10 Massachusetts Body of Liberties 1643 5 19 The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England 1643 11 6 Government of New Haven 1645 7 3 John Winthrop’s "Little Speech on Liberty" (1645) 1649 9 21 Maryland Toleration Act 1651 2 18 Barbados Declaration of Independence 1651 4 Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes 1657 12 27 Flushing Remonstrance 1662 4 23 Charter of Connecticut 1663 3 24 Charter of Carolina 1663 7 15 Rhode Island Royal Charter 1664 2 10 Concession and Agreement of New Jersey 1664 9 29 Dutch Surrender of New Netherlands to England 1665 6 30 Charter of Carolina 1669 3 1 Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina 1676 5 29 Berkeley's Response to Bacon 1676 7 30 Bacon's Rebellion Declaration 1681 7 11 Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania 1682 5 5 Frame of Government of Pennsylvania 1683 1 1 Constitution of East New Jersey 1683 2 2 Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1683 1683 6 12 Randolph Condemns Massachusetts Bay Company 1686 4 7 Commission of Sir Andros for the Dominion of New England 1689 12 Second Treatise of Government - John Locke 1689 12 English Bill of Rights 1691 10 7 Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691 1696 11 1 Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1696 1697 2 8 Penn's Plan for Colonial Union 1701 10 28 Pennsylvania Charter of Privlieges 1701 10 28 Charter of Delaware 1713 3 14 Treaties of Utrecht 1725 8 26 Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay 1732 6 9 Charter of Georgia 1732 1739 A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume 1748 The Spirit of Laws- Montesquieu 1750 12 31 A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers by Jonathan Mayhew 1751 6 10 Currency Act 1751 1754 7 10 Albany Plan 1755 11 11 Pennsylvania Assembly Reply to the Governor about Native Raids 1758 Law of Nations - Emerich de Vattel 1758 10 12 Two Penny Act 1763 2 10 Treaty of Paris 1763 1763 10 7 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 1764 1 30 A Narrative of the Late Massacres by Ben Franklin 1764 4 5 The Sugar Act 1764 4 19 Currency Act 1764 1764 5 24 Instructions to Boston's Representatives 1764 7 1 Principles of Law and Polity by Francis Bernard 1764 7 23 A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies by Thomas Hutchinson 1764 7 30 THE RIGHTS OF THE British Colonies Asserted and proved. 1764 9 3 Sentiments of a British American by Oxenbridge Thacher 1764 10 18 New York Petition for the Repeal of the Sugar Act 1764 10 24 The Colonel Dismounted by Richard Bland 1764 11 Connecticut Petition by Thomas Fitch 1764 11 3 Petition from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the House of Commons 1764 11 29 Rhode Island's Petition on the Sugar & Currency Acts 1764 11 30 Rights of Colonies Examined by Stephen Hopkins 1764 12 18 Petition of the Virginia House of Burgesses to the House of Commons 1765 Commentaries on the Laws of England - William Blackstone 1765 3 22 The Stamp Act 1765 5 15 Quartering Act of 1765 1765 5 29 Virginia Resolutions Responding to the Stamp Act 1765 6 8 Massachusetts Circular Letter of 1765 1765 7 4 The Late Regulations by John Dickinson 1765 9 Objections to Taxation Considered by Soame Jenyns 1765 9 21 Pennsylvania Resolves on the Stamp Act 1765 9 24 Braintree Instructions 1765 10 7 Public Letter to the People of Massachusetts by B.W. 1765 10 19 Stamp Act Congress Resolves 1765 10 25 Massachusett's Reply to Governor Bernard 1765 10 29 Massachusetts Resolves Against the Stamp Act 1765 10 31 New York Merchant's Non-importation Agreement 1765 11 29 South Carolina Resolves Against the Stamp Act 1765 12 10 Connecticut Resolution on the Stamp Act 1766 An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies by Richard Bland 1766 1 1 Considerations of Imposing Taxes by Dulany 1766 1 14 William Pitt's Speech Against the Stamp Act 1766 3 18 The Repeal of the Stamp Act 1766 3 18 The Declaratory Act 1766 5 23 The Snare Broken by Mayhew 1766 6 6 Repeal of the Sugar Act 1766 6 6 Free Port Act 1767 6 15 New York Restraining Act (1st Townshend Act) 1767 6 29 Commissioners of Customs Act (3rd Townshend Act) 1767 6 29 Revenue Act of 1767 (2nd Townshend Act) 1767 6 29 Indemnity Act of 1767 (4th Townshend Act) 1767 12 2 Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer 1768 2 11 Massachusetts Circular Letters 1768 7 6 Vice-Admiralty Court Act (5th Townshend Act) 1768 8 1 Boston Non-Importation Agreement 1768 9 22 Boston Town Meeting Resolutions 1769 5 16 Virginia Resolves 1769 5 17 Virginia Nonimportation Agreement 1769 7 22 Charleston Non-Importation Agreement 1770 4 12 Repeal of Most of the Townshend Acts 1772 5 CALM AND RESPECTFUL THOUGHTS on the NEGATIVE of the CROWN by Zubly 1772 12 3 Beauties of Liberty by John Allen 1773 An Address on Slavery in America by Benjamin Rush 1773 3 12 Virginia Establishment of Colonial Correspondence 1773 4 10 Candidus 1773 5 10 The Tea Act 1773 9 11 Rules by which a Great Empire may be reduced to a small one 1773 10 16 Philadelphia Resolutions on the Tea Act 1773 12 17 New York Association of the Sons of Liberty 1774 3 31 Boston Port Act 1774 5 14 Observations &c. by Josiah Quincy II 1774 5 20 Adiministration of Justice Act 1774 5 20 Massachusetts Government Act 1774 5 24 Virginia Resolution to Fast and Pray for Boston 1774 6 2 Quartering Act 1774 6 22 Quebec Act 1774 7 18 Fairfax Resolves 1774 8 1 Thomas Jefferson A Summary View of the Rights of British America 1774 9 5 To the People of Great Britain 1774 9 17 Suffolk Resolves 1774 9 28 Galloway's Plan for Union 1774 10 14 First Continental Congress Resolutions 1774 10 20 Continental Association 1774 10 26 Petition to Repeal the Intolerable Acts 1774 12 12 Massachusettensis by Daniel Leonard 1774 12 15 A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress by Alexander Hamilton 1775 1 23 Novanglus 1775 2 15 The Farmer Refuted by Alexander Hamilton 1775 2 27 Conciliatory Resolution 1775 3 8 African Slavery in America by Thomas Paine 1775 3 22 Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation 1775 3 23 Give me Liberty or give me Death 1775 3 30 The New England Restraining Act 1775 5 29 Letter to Canada 1775 5 31 The Charlotte Town Resolves 1775 6 15 Remarks on the Quebec Bill by Alexander Hamilton 1775 6 19 Washington's Commission 1775 7 6 Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms 1775 7 8 Olive Branch Petition 1775 7 31 Report on the Conciliatory Resolution 1775 8 23 King George III Suppressing Rebellion Proclamation 1775 11 7 Lord Dunmore's Proclamation 1775 11 9 Resolution of Secrecy 1775 11 10 Establishment of the Marine Corps 1776 1 5 New Hampshire's Constitution 1776 1776 1 10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense 1776 3 23 Letter from Adams to Gates 1776 3 26 South Carolina's Constitution 1776 1776 4 1 John Adams, Thoughts on Government 1776 4 12 Halifax Resolves 1776 5 15 Preamble and Resolutions of the Virginia Convention 1776 6 11 Lee's Resolution 1776 6 12 Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776 6 29 Virginia Constitution 1776 1776 7 2 New Jersey Constitution 1776 7 4 Declaration of Independence 1776 8 21 Concord Town Resolutions on the Massachusetts Constitution 1776 9 10 Constitution of Delaware 1776 1776 9 11 Delaware's Declaration of Rights 1776 9 28 Constitution of Pennsylvania 1776 1776 11 11 Maryland Constitution 1776 1776 12 18 Constitution of North Carolina 1776 1776 12 23 The American Crisis Number I by Thomas Paine 1777 2 5 Georgia Constitution 1777 1777 4 20 New York Constitution 1777 1777 7 8 Constitution of Vermont 1777 1778 2 6 Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between The United States and France 1778 3 19 South Carolina Constitution 1778 1778 9 17 Treaty of Fort Pitt 1779 6 18 A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom 1780 3 1 Pennsylvania Act to Abolish Slavery

Emancipation Era Chapter XIIII: Reconstruction 1865 ― 1885 Treason Made Odious 1865-1869 Let Us Have Peace 1869-1877 Southern Redemption 1877-1885 Previous Chapter Next Chapter Civil War 1860 ― 1865 Gilded Age 1885 ― 1897 Filter by Era Select Era Filter by Type Select Type Reset Year Month Day Document 1492 4 30 Privileges Granted to Columbus by the Spanish Monarchy 1492 8 3 Columbus' Letter of His First Voyage 1497 5 10 Amerigo Vespucci First Voyage 1497 7 22 Decree from Spain to Cultivate American Colonies 1498 3 5 John Cabot Patent from King Henry VII 1513 12 10 The Prince - Machiavelli 1515 8 16 Letter from Nunez de Balboa about seeing the Pacific Ocean 1520 10 30 Cortes's Second Letter to Charles V 1524 7 8 Giovanni da Verrazano Letter of his First Voyage 1578 6 11 Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte 1584 3 25 Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh 1603 12 18 Charter of Acadia 1606 4 10 First Charter of Virginia 1609 5 23 Second Charter of Virginia 1611 3 12 Third Charter of Virginia 1614 10 11 Charter of New Netherland 1619 7 30 House of Burgesses First Meeting and Resolves 1619 8 20 First African Slaves Sold in Virginia 1620 11 3 Charter of New England 1620 11 11 Mayflower Compact 1621 7 24 Ordinances for Virginia 1622 8 10 Grant of Maine 1622 1626 11 5 Dutch Purchase of Manhatten 1628 3 18 Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1628 1629 6 7 Charters of Freedoms and Exemptions 1630 4 Christain Charitie - ca John Winthrop 1632 6 20 Charter of Maryland 1634 4 28 Royal Commission for Regulating Plantations 1637 5 6 Declaration in Defense of an Order of Court 1639 1 14 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1639 6 4 Fundamental Agreement of New Haven 1641 3 16 Government of Rhode Island 1641 1641 12 10 Massachusetts Body of Liberties 1643 5 19 The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England 1643 11 6 Government of New Haven 1645 7 3 John Winthrop’s "Little Speech on Liberty" (1645) 1649 9 21 Maryland Toleration Act 1651 2 18 Barbados Declaration of Independence 1651 4 Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes 1657 12 27 Flushing Remonstrance 1662 4 23 Charter of Connecticut 1663 3 24 Charter of Carolina 1663 7 15 Rhode Island Royal Charter 1664 2 10 Concession and Agreement of New Jersey 1664 9 29 Dutch Surrender of New Netherlands to England 1665 6 30 Charter of Carolina 1669 3 1 Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina 1676 5 29 Berkeley's Response to Bacon 1676 7 30 Bacon's Rebellion Declaration 1681 7 11 Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania 1682 5 5 Frame of Government of Pennsylvania 1683 1 1 Constitution of East New Jersey 1683 2 2 Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1683 1683 6 12 Randolph Condemns Massachusetts Bay Company 1686 4 7 Commission of Sir Andros for the Dominion of New England 1689 12 Second Treatise of Government - John Locke 1689 12 English Bill of Rights 1691 10 7 Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691 1696 11 1 Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1696 1697 2 8 Penn's Plan for Colonial Union 1701 10 28 Pennsylvania Charter of Privlieges 1701 10 28 Charter of Delaware 1713 3 14 Treaties of Utrecht 1725 8 26 Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay 1732 6 9 Charter of Georgia 1732 1739 A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume 1748 The Spirit of Laws- Montesquieu 1750 12 31 A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers by Jonathan Mayhew 1751 6 10 Currency Act 1751 1754 7 10 Albany Plan 1755 11 11 Pennsylvania Assembly Reply to the Governor about Native Raids 1758 Law of Nations - Emerich de Vattel 1758 10 12 Two Penny Act 1763 2 10 Treaty of Paris 1763 1763 10 7 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 1764 1 30 A Narrative of the Late Massacres by Ben Franklin 1764 4 5 The Sugar Act 1764 4 19 Currency Act 1764 1764 5 24 Instructions to Boston's Representatives 1764 7 1 Principles of Law and Polity by Francis Bernard 1764 7 23 A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies by Thomas Hutchinson 1764 7 30 THE RIGHTS OF THE British Colonies Asserted and proved. 1764 9 3 Sentiments of a British American by Oxenbridge Thacher 1764 10 18 New York Petition for the Repeal of the Sugar Act 1764 10 24 The Colonel Dismounted by Richard Bland 1764 11 Connecticut Petition by Thomas Fitch 1764 11 3 Petition from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the House of Commons 1764 11 29 Rhode Island's Petition on the Sugar & Currency Acts 1764 11 30 Rights of Colonies Examined by Stephen Hopkins 1764 12 18 Petition of the Virginia House of Burgesses to the House of Commons 1765 Commentaries on the Laws of England - William Blackstone 1765 3 22 The Stamp Act 1765 5 15 Quartering Act of 1765 1765 5 29 Virginia Resolutions Responding to the Stamp Act 1765 6 8 Massachusetts Circular Letter of 1765 1765 7 4 The Late Regulations by John Dickinson 1765 9 Objections to Taxation Considered by Soame Jenyns 1765 9 21 Pennsylvania Resolves on the Stamp Act 1765 9 24 Braintree Instructions 1765 10 7 Public Letter to the People of Massachusetts by B.W. 1765 10 19 Stamp Act Congress Resolves 1765 10 25 Massachusett's Reply to Governor Bernard 1765 10 29 Massachusetts Resolves Against the Stamp Act 1765 10 31 New York Merchant's Non-importation Agreement 1765 11 29 South Carolina Resolves Against the Stamp Act 1765 12 10 Connecticut Resolution on the Stamp Act 1766 An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies by Richard Bland 1766 1 1 Considerations of Imposing Taxes by Dulany 1766 1 14 William Pitt's Speech Against the Stamp Act 1766 3 18 The Repeal of the Stamp Act 1766 3 18 The Declaratory Act 1766 5 23 The Snare Broken by Mayhew 1766 6 6 Repeal of the Sugar Act 1766 6 6 Free Port Act 1767 6 15 New York Restraining Act (1st Townshend Act) 1767 6 29 Commissioners of Customs Act (3rd Townshend Act) 1767 6 29 Revenue Act of 1767 (2nd Townshend Act) 1767 6 29 Indemnity Act of 1767 (4th Townshend Act) 1767 12 2 Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer 1768 2 11 Massachusetts Circular Letters 1768 7 6 Vice-Admiralty Court Act (5th Townshend Act) 1768 8 1 Boston Non-Importation Agreement 1768 9 22 Boston Town Meeting Resolutions 1769 5 16 Virginia Resolves 1769 5 17 Virginia Nonimportation Agreement 1769 7 22 Charleston Non-Importation Agreement 1770 4 12 Repeal of Most of the Townshend Acts 1772 5 CALM AND RESPECTFUL THOUGHTS on the NEGATIVE of the CROWN by Zubly 1772 12 3 Beauties of Liberty by John Allen 1773 An Address on Slavery in America by Benjamin Rush 1773 3 12 Virginia Establishment of Colonial Correspondence 1773 4 10 Candidus 1773 5 10 The Tea Act 1773 9 11 Rules by which a Great Empire may be reduced to a small one 1773 10 16 Philadelphia Resolutions on the Tea Act 1773 12 17 New York Association of the Sons of Liberty 1774 3 31 Boston Port Act 1774 5 14 Observations &c. by Josiah Quincy II 1774 5 20 Adiministration of Justice Act 1774 5 20 Massachusetts Government Act 1774 5 24 Virginia Resolution to Fast and Pray for Boston 1774 6 2 Quartering Act 1774 6 22 Quebec Act 1774 7 18 Fairfax Resolves 1774 8 1 Thomas Jefferson A Summary View of the Rights of British America 1774 9 5 To the People of Great Britain 1774 9 17 Suffolk Resolves 1774 9 28 Galloway's Plan for Union 1774 10 14 First Continental Congress Resolutions 1774 10 20 Continental Association 1774 10 26 Petition to Repeal the Intolerable Acts 1774 12 12 Massachusettensis by Daniel Leonard 1774 12 15 A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress by Alexander Hamilton 1775 1 23 Novanglus 1775 2 15 The Farmer Refuted by Alexander Hamilton 1775 2 27 Conciliatory Resolution 1775 3 8 African Slavery in America by Thomas Paine 1775 3 22 Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation 1775 3 23 Give me Liberty or give me Death 1775 3 30 The New England Restraining Act 1775 5 29 Letter to Canada 1775 5 31 The Charlotte Town Resolves 1775 6 15 Remarks on the Quebec Bill by Alexander Hamilton 1775 6 19 Washington's Commission 1775 7 6 Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms 1775 7 8 Olive Branch Petition 1775 7 31 Report on the Conciliatory Resolution 1775 8 23 King George III Suppressing Rebellion Proclamation 1775 11 7 Lord Dunmore's Proclamation 1775 11 9 Resolution of Secrecy 1775 11 10 Establishment of the Marine Corps 1776 1 5 New Hampshire's Constitution 1776 1776 1 10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense 1776 3 23 Letter from Adams to Gates 1776 3 26 South Carolina's Constitution 1776 1776 4 1 John Adams, Thoughts on Government 1776 4 12 Halifax Resolves 1776 5 15 Preamble and Resolutions of the Virginia Convention 1776 6 11 Lee's Resolution 1776 6 12 Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776 6 29 Virginia Constitution 1776 1776 7 2 New Jersey Constitution 1776 7 4 Declaration of Independence 1776 8 21 Concord Town Resolutions on the Massachusetts Constitution 1776 9 10 Constitution of Delaware 1776 1776 9 11 Delaware's Declaration of Rights 1776 9 28 Constitution of Pennsylvania 1776 1776 11 11 Maryland Constitution 1776 1776 12 18 Constitution of North Carolina 1776 1776 12 23 The American Crisis Number I by Thomas Paine 1777 2 5 Georgia Constitution 1777 1777 4 20 New York Constitution 1777 1777 7 8 Constitution of Vermont 1777 1778 2 6 Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between The United States and France 1778 3 19 South Carolina Constitution 1778 1778 9 17 Treaty of Fort Pitt 1779 6 18 A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom 1780 3 1 Pennsylvania Act to Abolish Slavery

Colonial Era Chapter II: Nova Britannia 1603 ― 1675 Jacobean Age 1603-1625 Caroline Age 1625-1649 Interregnum 1649-1660 Restoration 1660-1675 Previous Chapter Next Chapter La Conquista 1492 ― 1603 Intercolonial Wars 1675 ― 1763 Filter by Era Select Era Filter by Type Select Type Reset Year Month Day Document 1492 4 30 Privileges Granted to Columbus by the Spanish Monarchy 1492 8 3 Columbus' Letter of His First Voyage 1497 5 10 Amerigo Vespucci First Voyage 1497 7 22 Decree from Spain to Cultivate American Colonies 1498 3 5 John Cabot Patent from King Henry VII 1513 12 10 The Prince - Machiavelli 1515 8 16 Letter from Nunez de Balboa about seeing the Pacific Ocean 1520 10 30 Cortes's Second Letter to Charles V 1524 7 8 Giovanni da Verrazano Letter of his First Voyage 1578 6 11 Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte 1584 3 25 Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh 1603 12 18 Charter of Acadia 1606 4 10 First Charter of Virginia 1609 5 23 Second Charter of Virginia 1611 3 12 Third Charter of Virginia 1614 10 11 Charter of New Netherland 1619 7 30 House of Burgesses First Meeting and Resolves 1619 8 20 First African Slaves Sold in Virginia 1620 11 3 Charter of New England 1620 11 11 Mayflower Compact 1621 7 24 Ordinances for Virginia 1622 8 10 Grant of Maine 1622 1626 11 5 Dutch Purchase of Manhatten 1628 3 18 Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1628 1629 6 7 Charters of Freedoms and Exemptions 1630 4 Christain Charitie - ca John Winthrop 1632 6 20 Charter of Maryland 1634 4 28 Royal Commission for Regulating Plantations 1637 5 6 Declaration in Defense of an Order of Court 1639 1 14 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 1639 6 4 Fundamental Agreement of New Haven 1641 3 16 Government of Rhode Island 1641 1641 12 10 Massachusetts Body of Liberties 1643 5 19 The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England 1643 11 6 Government of New Haven 1645 7 3 John Winthrop’s "Little Speech on Liberty" (1645) 1649 9 21 Maryland Toleration Act 1651 2 18 Barbados Declaration of Independence 1651 4 Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes 1657 12 27 Flushing Remonstrance 1662 4 23 Charter of Connecticut 1663 3 24 Charter of Carolina 1663 7 15 Rhode Island Royal Charter 1664 2 10 Concession and Agreement of New Jersey 1664 9 29 Dutch Surrender of New Netherlands to England 1665 6 30 Charter of Carolina 1669 3 1 Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina 1676 5 29 Berkeley's Response to Bacon 1676 7 30 Bacon's Rebellion Declaration 1681 7 11 Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania 1682 5 5 Frame of Government of Pennsylvania 1683 1 1 Constitution of East New Jersey 1683 2 2 Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1683 1683 6 12 Randolph Condemns Massachusetts Bay Company 1686 4 7 Commission of Sir Andros for the Dominion of New England 1689 12 Second Treatise of Government - John Locke 1689 12 English Bill of Rights 1691 10 7 Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691 1696 11 1 Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1696 1697 2 8 Penn's Plan for Colonial Union 1701 10 28 Pennsylvania Charter of Privlieges 1701 10 28 Charter of Delaware 1713 3 14 Treaties of Utrecht 1725 8 26 Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay 1732 6 9 Charter of Georgia 1732 1739 A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume 1748 The Spirit of Laws- Montesquieu 1750 12 31 A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers by Jonathan Mayhew 1751 6 10 Currency Act 1751 1754 7 10 Albany Plan 1755 11 11 Pennsylvania Assembly Reply to the Governor about Native Raids 1758 Law of Nations - Emerich de Vattel 1758 10 12 Two Penny Act 1763 2 10 Treaty of Paris 1763 1763 10 7 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 1764 1 30 A Narrative of the Late Massacres by Ben Franklin 1764 4 5 The Sugar Act 1764 4 19 Currency Act 1764 1764 5 24 Instructions to Boston's Representatives 1764 7 1 Principles of Law and Polity by Francis Bernard 1764 7 23 A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies by Thomas Hutchinson 1764 7 30 THE RIGHTS OF THE British Colonies Asserted and proved. 1764 9 3 Sentiments of a British American by Oxenbridge Thacher 1764 10 18 New York Petition for the Repeal of the Sugar Act 1764 10 24 The Colonel Dismounted by Richard Bland 1764 11 Connecticut Petition by Thomas Fitch 1764 11 3 Petition from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the House of Commons 1764 11 29 Rhode Island's Petition on the Sugar & Currency Acts 1764 11 30 Rights of Colonies Examined by Stephen Hopkins 1764 12 18 Petition of the Virginia House of Burgesses to the House of Commons 1765 Commentaries on the Laws of England - William Blackstone 1765 3 22 The Stamp Act 1765 5 15 Quartering Act of 1765 1765 5 29 Virginia Resolutions Responding to the Stamp Act 1765 6 8 Massachusetts Circular Letter of 1765 1765 7 4 The Late Regulations by John Dickinson 1765 9 Objections to Taxation Considered by Soame Jenyns 1765 9 21 Pennsylvania Resolves on the Stamp Act 1765 9 24 Braintree Instructions 1765 10 7 Public Letter to the People of Massachusetts by B.W. 1765 10 19 Stamp Act Congress Resolves 1765 10 25 Massachusett's Reply to Governor Bernard 1765 10 29 Massachusetts Resolves Against the Stamp Act 1765 10 31 New York Merchant's Non-importation Agreement 1765 11 29 South Carolina Resolves Against the Stamp Act 1765 12 10 Connecticut Resolution on the Stamp Act 1766 An Inquiry Into the Rights of the British Colonies by Richard Bland 1766 1 1 Considerations of Imposing Taxes by Dulany 1766 1 14 William Pitt's Speech Against the Stamp Act 1766 3 18 The Repeal of the Stamp Act 1766 3 18 The Declaratory Act 1766 5 23 The Snare Broken by Mayhew 1766 6 6 Repeal of the Sugar Act 1766 6 6 Free Port Act 1767 6 15 New York Restraining Act (1st Townshend Act) 1767 6 29 Commissioners of Customs Act (3rd Townshend Act) 1767 6 29 Revenue Act of 1767 (2nd Townshend Act) 1767 6 29 Indemnity Act of 1767 (4th Townshend Act) 1767 12 2 Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer 1768 2 11 Massachusetts Circular Letters 1768 7 6 Vice-Admiralty Court Act (5th Townshend Act) 1768 8 1 Boston Non-Importation Agreement 1768 9 22 Boston Town Meeting Resolutions 1769 5 16 Virginia Resolves 1769 5 17 Virginia Nonimportation Agreement 1769 7 22 Charleston Non-Importation Agreement 1770 4 12 Repeal of Most of the Townshend Acts 1772 5 CALM AND RESPECTFUL THOUGHTS on the NEGATIVE of the CROWN by Zubly 1772 12 3 Beauties of Liberty by John Allen 1773 An Address on Slavery in America by Benjamin Rush 1773 3 12 Virginia Establishment of Colonial Correspondence 1773 4 10 Candidus 1773 5 10 The Tea Act 1773 9 11 Rules by which a Great Empire may be reduced to a small one 1773 10 16 Philadelphia Resolutions on the Tea Act 1773 12 17 New York Association of the Sons of Liberty 1774 3 31 Boston Port Act 1774 5 14 Observations &c. by Josiah Quincy II 1774 5 20 Adiministration of Justice Act 1774 5 20 Massachusetts Government Act 1774 5 24 Virginia Resolution to Fast and Pray for Boston 1774 6 2 Quartering Act 1774 6 22 Quebec Act 1774 7 18 Fairfax Resolves 1774 8 1 Thomas Jefferson A Summary View of the Rights of British America 1774 9 5 To the People of Great Britain 1774 9 17 Suffolk Resolves 1774 9 28 Galloway's Plan for Union 1774 10 14 First Continental Congress Resolutions 1774 10 20 Continental Association 1774 10 26 Petition to Repeal the Intolerable Acts 1774 12 12 Massachusettensis by Daniel Leonard 1774 12 15 A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress by Alexander Hamilton 1775 1 23 Novanglus 1775 2 15 The Farmer Refuted by Alexander Hamilton 1775 2 27 Conciliatory Resolution 1775 3 8 African Slavery in America by Thomas Paine 1775 3 22 Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation 1775 3 23 Give me Liberty or give me Death 1775 3 30 The New England Restraining Act 1775 5 29 Letter to Canada 1775 5 31 The Charlotte Town Resolves 1775 6 15 Remarks on the Quebec Bill by Alexander Hamilton 1775 6 19 Washington's Commission 1775 7 6 Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms 1775 7 8 Olive Branch Petition 1775 7 31 Report on the Conciliatory Resolution 1775 8 23 King George III Suppressing Rebellion Proclamation 1775 11 7 Lord Dunmore's Proclamation 1775 11 9 Resolution of Secrecy 1775 11 10 Establishment of the Marine Corps 1776 1 5 New Hampshire's Constitution 1776 1776 1 10 Thomas Paine's Common Sense 1776 3 23 Letter from Adams to Gates 1776 3 26 South Carolina's Constitution 1776 1776 4 1 John Adams, Thoughts on Government 1776 4 12 Halifax Resolves 1776 5 15 Preamble and Resolutions of the Virginia Convention 1776 6 11 Lee's Resolution 1776 6 12 Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776 6 29 Virginia Constitution 1776 1776 7 2 New Jersey Constitution 1776 7 4 Declaration of Independence 1776 8 21 Concord Town Resolutions on the Massachusetts Constitution 1776 9 10 Constitution of Delaware 1776 1776 9 11 Delaware's Declaration of Rights 1776 9 28 Constitution of Pennsylvania 1776 1776 11 11 Maryland Constitution 1776 1776 12 18 Constitution of North Carolina 1776 1776 12 23 The American Crisis Number I by Thomas Paine 1777 2 5 Georgia Constitution 1777 1777 4 20 New York Constitution 1777 1777 7 8 Constitution of Vermont 1777 1778 2 6 Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between The United States and France 1778 3 19 South Carolina Constitution 1778 1778 9 17 Treaty of Fort Pitt 1779 6 18 A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom 1780 3 1 Pennsylvania Act to Abolish Slavery

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< Back Adam Levinson Advisor Adam Levinson is a full-time practicing lawyer who blogs about American legal history on the free history website Statutesandstories.com. Chief Justice Holmes referred to the law as a “magic mirror,” reflecting our present and past. Statutesandstories.com was originally built around Adam's collection of antiquarian legal texts, including the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Acts of the First Congress. Today, the website casts a wide net to blog about laws and other “stories” that arise from and reflect American history. Adam graduated with a BA in history from the University of Michigan and earned a JD from the University of Miami, where he was an articles and comments editor for the University of Miami Law Review. He is licensed to practice law in Florida and California. In 2024 Adam was awarded a Scholarly Fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Heading into "America 250" he is leading an initiative to install a historic marker to honor Miss Dally's boarding house, the location where Gouverneur Morris boarded during the Constitutional Convention.

< Back National Constitution Center Educational Nonprofit The National Constitution Center brings the Constitution to life for visitors of all ages. A private, nonprofit organization, the Center serves as America’s leading platform for constitutional education and debate. As the MUSEUM OF WE THE PEOPLE , the Center brings the Constitution to life for visitors of all ages through interactive programs and exhibits. As AMERICA’S TOWN HALL , the Center brings the leading conservative and liberal thought leaders together to debate the Constitution on all media platforms. As a HEADQUARTERS FOR CIVIC EDUCATION , the Center delivers the best educational programs and online resources that inspire citizens and engage all Americans in learning about the U.S. Constitution.

< Back David Tubbs Advisor Professor David Tubbs earned his PhD. in politics at Princeton University, concentrating in political philosophy, constitutional law, and Russian studies. He began advising in Fall 2024. In his scholarship, Professor Tubbs writes on topics in political philosophy and constitutional law and contemporary controversies in public policy. His book, Freedom’s Orphans , was published by Princeton University Press in 2007. His shorter essays and book reviews have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal , Los Angeles Times , Academic Questions , Public Discourse , Touchstone , First Things , National Review , The American Spectator , and The New Criterion . Professor Tubbs teaches a range of courses at King’s, including Constitutional Law; Statesmanship; Civil Rights; Public Policy; International Politics; and Enlightenment & Liberal Democracy. He also regularly serves as an advisor to students working on their senior theses. He has lectured in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. He was previously Visiting Faculty Fellow at Irkutsk State University in Irkutsk, Russia, and the W.H. Brady Visiting Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. In spring 2014 Professor Tubbs was Visiting Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University. In academic year 2017-18, he was the Ann & Herbert W. Vaughn Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton. He is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of History at Princeton University.

< Back Jack Miller Center Educational Nonprofit The Jack Miller Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to reinvigorating education in America’s founding principles and history, an education vital to thoughtful and engaged citizenship. By building talent pipelines for university scholars of the American political tradition, the Jack Miller Center seeks to leverage the influence of its growing academic network into a stronger movement for civic education at every level.

< Back Megan Krause Volunteer Megan Krause is an American Historical Researcher at Tarpeia. She recently graduated from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Theology and Religious Studies. She is most captivated by the Early Republic era and religious history. In her free time Megan enjoys experimenting with new recipes, walking the beaches of Lake Michigan, and playing with her two dogs, Finnigan and Ridley. She is excited to develop her research with Tarpeia because she firmly believes, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it (George Santayana).”

< Back Liam Reilley Volunteer Liam Reilley is an American History Researcher at Tarpeia . Liam currently resides in Avon, OH. He has a dog named Finn. He has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a minor in History from Baldwin Wallace University. Currently, he works as a Legal Assistant at a small law firm. His main historical interests include, US Presidential History(he can name all the US Presidents in order), WW1 and WW2,US Civil War, US Pop Culture in the latter half of the 20th century, The Cold War, along with many different other eras of our nation’s history. His hobbies include running, walking, biking, watching baseball, watching documentaries, and having fun with friends and family.

< Back Cydnee Melville Proctor Cydnee Melville is an American History Researcher at Amending America. Cydnee resides in Denver, Colorado with two children, Zeus the Goldendoodle and two cats named Sophie and Jules Vern. She has a bachelor’s degree in European history and master's degree in public history. Before she became a historian, she was a culinary chef for over 21 years. Her interests include Military War, European History, Norse Mythology, Greek Mythology, Culinary History, and Cryptozoology. She also recently completed an online exhibit and thesis called, “An Examination of Haiti After the Haitian Revolution: Destruction of a Nation.” Her hobbies include snowboarding, world traveling, reading, beer making, cooking, and watching documentaries.

< Back Mark Shubert Chair Mark L. Shubert is the Chair of Tarpeia (Amending America ltd.) During my freshman year at The King's College (December 2019), I started a small website which covered the Constitution and the historical context surrounding its creation, ratification, and early implementation. The more research I included the more I was compelled to add which grew the site from a small scholarly project to what it is today. In May of 2022 I took the website idea and incorporated it as a nonprofit 501(c)(3). I received notice from the government of my charity status while I was in Rome and so I added a second name to the org "Tarpeia" named after the Tarpeian Rock on the south side of the Capitoline Hill. I began a Youtube channel to upload videos which I embed onto the site since storing videos on Youtube is free while storing videos directly on websites is costly. I graduated college in May of 2023 with a Bachelors degree in Finance and minored in Economics and Politics. I studied finance and economics despite having a passion in history and politics because most political issues today could be solved with sound financial management. My college, The King's College, is currently not enrolling any students due to financial issues. I am an Eagle Scout, sadly Troop 76 disbanded. I am a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. My family on my mother's paternal side came over to America in 1630 on the flagship of the Winthrop fleet called the Arabella. I have volunteered at the Humane Society, Habitat for Humanity, Red Cross, American Legion, Veteran's Affairs, and the Boy Scouts. My aims for this charity are to: compile the best online repository of primary source documents that is comprehensive, meaningful, and user-friendly in regards to navigation and reading; curate the best online curriculum covering American history and civics in a constructive, educationally-professional manner; revise and publish academic papers that enrich our shared understanding of American history which includes exploring topics and people of the past who are neglected and correcting historiographies which intentionally or unintentionally promote an incorrect or even insidious appreciation of past peoples or concepts; become an educational vender in all states and territories; be a center of a consortium of educational institutions and educators with shared values; lastly, raise the standard of every student's, every teacher's, and every scholar's understanding of American history. These are my aims; I know these are your aims as well. Let us work together to achieve our shared goals. I am inspired by those around me including a recent member of the team, Conor , who is my Consigliere and friend. Thank you.