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Ca. 1750
Venture
Smith Frees Himself and his Family
1750 Slave
Labor
in Carolina and Georgia
1750 - A German
Migrant
in Philadelphia
1753 Mary
Jemsion
is Captured By Indians
Sir William
Johnson Watches the Settlers Invade Indian Lands
1754
- Albany Plan of Union;
1764 - Great Britain : Parliament - The
Currency Act;
April 19
1764 - Great Britain : Parliament - The Sugar
Act;
September 29
1764 - Petition from the Massachusetts House
of
Representatives to the House of Commons; November 3
1764 - Petition of the Virginia House of
Burgesses to
the House of Commons: December 18
· 1765 - Great Britain : Parliament - The Stamp
Act, March
22
1765 - Great Britain : Parliament - The
Quartering Act;
May 15
1765 - Resolves of the Pennsylvania Assembly
on the
Stamp Act, September 21
1765
- Resolutions of the Congress of 1765; October 19
1765 - New York Merchants Non-importation
Agreement;
October 31
1766 - Great Britain : Parliament - The
Declaratory Act;
March 18
1766 - Great Britain : Parliament - An Act
Repealing the
Stamp Act; March 18
1767 - Great Britain : Parliament - The
Townshend Act,
November 20
1768 - Boston Non-Importation Agreement,
August 1
1768 - Resolutions of the Boston Town
Meeting; September
13
1768 - Massachusetts Circular Letter to the
Colonial
Legislatures; February 11
1768 - Circular Letter to the Governors in
America;
April 21
1770 George
Hewes’
Recollection of the Boston Massacre
1773 A
Shoemaker
and the Tea Party
1773 - Virginia Resolutions Establishing A
Committee of
Correspondence; March 12
1773 - Resolutions of the Massachusetts House
of
Representatives Agreeing to the Virginia Proposal; May 28
1773 - The Philadelphia Resolutions; October
16
1773 - Association of the Sons of Liberty in
New York;
December 15
1774 - Great Britain : Parliament - The
Boston Port Act
: March 31
1774 - Circular Letter of the Boston
Committee of
Correspondence; May 13
1774 - Great Britain : Parliament - The
Administration
of Justice Act; May 20
1774 - Great Britain : Parliament - The
Massachusetts
Government Act; May 20
1774 - Great Britain : Parliament - The
Quartering Act;
June 2
1774 - Great Britain : Parliament - The
Quebec Act:
October 7,
1774
- Declarations and Resolves of the First Continental Congress; October
14
1774 - The Articles of Association; October 20
1775
- Patrick Henry - Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death; March 23
1775
- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms; July 6
1775 - Resolution of Secrecy Adopted by the
Continental
Congress, November 9
1775 The War
for
Independence Through Seneca Eyes
Elizabeth
Fuller
Grows Up in Rural Massachusetts
Spy
Letters
from the American Revolution
1776 - Preamble and Resolution of the
Virginia
Convention, May 15
1776
- Lee's Resolution; June 7
1776
- Virginia Declaration of Rights; June 12
1776
- The Constitution of Virginia; June 29
1776
- Declaration of Independence; July 4
1776 - Plan of the Treaties with France of
1778;
September 17
1776 - Treaties with France : Instructions to
the Agent
September 24
1777 - Articles of Convention Between
Lieutenant-General
Burgoyne and Major General Gates; October 16
1778 - France : Treaties of 1778 and
Associated
Documents
1778 - Exchange of Notes Referring to
Articles 2 and 3
of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France of February 6, 1778
1778 - Ratification of the Treaties with
France -
Debates in Congress; May 2-6
1778 - Treaty With the Delawares; September 17
1780 - An Act for the Gradual Abolition of
Slavery -
Pennsylvania; March 1
1780 Cato
Petitions the Penn. Legislature to Remain Free
1780's Sarah
Osborn recalls the Revolutionary War
1780's Olaudah
Equiano Describes the Horrors of the Middle Passage
1781
- Articles of Confederation; March 1
1781 - Articles of Capitulation; October 18
1782 - Contract Between the King and the
Thirteen United
States of North America, signed at Versailles July 16, 1782
1782 - Preliminary Articles of Peace;
November 30
1783 - Declarations for Suspension of Arms
and Cessation
of Hostilities Jan. 20
1783 - Contract between the King and the
Thirteen United
States of North America February 25
1783 - Proclamation Declaring the Cesssation
of Arms;
April 11
1783 - The Paris Peace Treaty and
Associated
Documents
1784
- Report on Government for Western Territory; March 1
1784 - Treaty With the Six Nations; October 22
1786
- Proceedings of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal
Government
Annapolis Maryland; September 11-14
1787 - Report of Proceedings in Congress;
February 21
1787 - Variant Texts of the Virginia Plan,
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text A; May 29.
1787 - Variant Texts of the Virginia Plan,
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text B; May 29.
1787 - Variant Texts of the Virginia Plan,
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text C; May 29.
1787 - The Plan of Charles Pinckney (South
Carolina),
Presented to the Federal Convention, May 29
1787 - Variant Texts of the Patterson Plan
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text A; June 15
1787 - Variant Texts of the Patterson Plan
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text B; June 15
1787 - Variant Texts of the Patterson Plan
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text C; June 15
1787 - Variant Texts of the Hamilton Plan
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text. A; June 18
1787 - Variant Texts of the Hamilton Plan
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text. B; June 18
1787 - Variant Texts of the Hamilton Plan
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text. C; June 18
1787 - Variant Texts of the Hamilton Plan
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text. D; June 18
1787 - Variant Texts of the Hamilton Plan
Presented to
the Federal Convention, Text. E; June 18
1787 - Madison's Notes on Debates in the
Federal
Convention : May - September
1787 - Notes of Alexander Hamilton in the
Federal
Convention; June 1 - 26
1787
- Notes of Rufus King in the Federal Convention; May 31 - August 8
1787
- Northwest Ordinance; July 13
1787
- United States Constitution; September 17
1788 - Resolution of Congress Submitting
Ratifications
of the Constitution to a Committee; July 2
1788 - Resolution of the Congress Fixing Date
for
Election of a President, and the Organization of the Government Under
the
Constitution, in the City of New York; September 13
1789 - Resolution of the First Congress
Submitting
Twelve Amendments to the Constitution; March 4
1789 - Washington's First Inaugural Address;
April 30
1789 - The Judiciary Act; September 24
1790 - Washington's First Annual Message to
Congress;
January 8
1793 - Washington's Second Inaugural Address;
March 4
1793
- The Proclamation of Neutrality; April 22
1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion; August 7
1794 - The Jay Treaty; November 19
1795
- Greenville, Treaty of; August 3
1796 - Explanatory Article to Article 3 of
the Jay
Treaty May 5
1796
- Washington's Farewell Address
1797 - John Adam's Inaugural Address; March 4
1798 - Explanatory Article to Article 5 of
the Jay
Treaty March 15
1798
- The Alien and Sedition Acts : July 6 and 14
1798
- Virginia Resolution : December 24
1799
- Kentucky Resolution : December 3
1799 Shays
Rebellion in Massachusetts explained
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