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Modern Era Chapter XXVI: Crisis of Populism 2017 ― Today Make America Great Again 2017-2021 Build Back Better 2021-2025 America First 2025-Today Previous Chapter Next Chapter War on Terror 2001 ― 2017 Yet to Happen 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

Progressive Era Chapter XV: Gilded Age 1885 ― 1897 His Obstinacy 1885-1889 Tariff President 1889-1893 Depression President 1893-1897 Previous Chapter Next Chapter Reconstruction 1865 ― 1885 New Nationalism 1897 ― 1913 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

Revolutionary Era Chapter V: Independence 1775 ― 1784 Dissolving the Bands 1775-1776 The Great Revolution 1776-1782 Novus Ordo Seclorum 1782-1784 Previous Chapter Next Chapter Join or Die 1763 ― 1775 More Perfect Union 1784 ― 1789 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

World Wars Era Chapter XVIIII: Great Depression 1929 ― 1941 Who but Hoover 1929-1933 New Deal 1933-1941 Previous Chapter Next Chapter Roaring Twenties 1921 ― 1929 World War II 1941 ― 1945 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

Founding Era Chapter VIII: Republican Liberty 1801 ― 1817 Sage of Monticello 1801-1809 His Little Majesty 1809-1817 Previous Chapter Next Chapter Federalist Regime 1789 ― 1801 Good Feelings 1817 ― 1829 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

World Wars Era Chapter XVIII: Roaring Twenties 1921 ― 1929 Return to Normalcy 1921-1923 Keep Cool 1923-1929 Previous Chapter Next Chapter World War I 1913 ― 1921 Great Depression 1929 ― 1941 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

Founding Era Chapter VI: More Perfect Union 1784 ― 1789 Prolusion 1784-1787 Convention 1787 Ratification 1787-1788 Transition 1788-1789 Previous Chapter Next Chapter Independence 1775 ― 1784 Federalist Regime 1789 ― 1801 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

Antebellum Era Chapter X: Common Man 1829 ― 1841 Old Hickory 1829-1837 Matty Van 1837-1841 Previous Chapter Next Chapter Good Feelings 1817 ― 1829 Manifest Destiny 1841 ― 1849 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

Cold War Era Chapter XXI: Containment 1945 ― 1961 The Buck Stops Here 1945-1953 New Look 1953-1961 Previous Chapter Next Chapter World War II 1941 ― 1945 Detente 1961 ― 1977 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

Modern Era Chapter XXV: War on Terror 2001 ― 2017 Compassionate Conservatism 2001-2009 Change We Can Believe In 2009-2017 Previous Chapter Next Chapter End of History 1989 ― 2001 Crisis of Populism 2017 ― Today 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

Antebellum Era Chapter VIIII: Good Feelings 1817 ― 1829 Spirit of Nationality 1817-1825 The American System 1825-1829 Previous Chapter Next Chapter Republican Liberty 1801 ― 1817 Common Man 1829 ― 1841 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