Table of Contents
Magna Carta
The Mayflower Compact
The Fundamental Orders of
1639
The First
Thanksgiving Proclamation
| Time Line -- America during the Age of Revolution | |
| 1764 Sugar Act. Currency Act. Beginnings of Colonial Opposition. |
1765 Quartering Act. Stamp Act. Organized Colonial Protest. |
| 1766 Repeal of the Stamp Act. Declaratory Act. Resistance to the Quartering Act in New York. |
1767 Townshend Acts. Nonimportation. "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" |
| 1768 Massachusetts Circular Letter. |
1769 Virginia's Resolutions. |
1770 |
1771 |
| 1772 Attack on the "Gaspee." Committees of Correspondence. |
1773 Tea Act. Boston Tea Party. |
| 1774 Coercive Acts. Quartering Act. The Colonies Organize Protest. The First Continental Congress. New England Prepares for War. |
1775 New England Restraining Act. New England Resists. Lexington and Concord. The Second Continental Congress. George Washington is named commander-in-chief. Bunker Hill. Olive Branch Petition. Congress Treats with the Indians. Congress Creates a Navy. Congress Searches for Foreign Aid. |
| 1776 "Common Sense." The British Evacuate Boston. Congress Authorizes the Colonies to Write Constitutions. Congress Declares Independence. Battle of Long Island. Congress Names Commissioners to Treat with Foreign Nations The Battle of White Plains. Retreat through New Jersey. Battle of Trenton. |
1777 Battle of Princeton. America Has a Flag. The British Attack Philadelphia. Saratoga. The "Conway Cabal." Articles of Confederation. |
| 1778 France and America Become Allies. The British Attempt to Make Peace. John Paul Jones Wins Victories. The Battle of Monmouth. |
1779 The British Attack in North and South. Spain Joins the War. |
| 1780 The British Take Charleston, South Carolina. A Mutiny in the Continental Army. The Treason of Benedict Arnold. |
1781 Congress Creates a Department of Finance. The Articles of Confederation Are Ratified. The Battle of Yorktown. |
| 1782 Peace Negotiations Begin in Paris. |
1783 The Army Complains. Congress Ratifies the Preliminary Articles of Peace. The Loyalists and British Evacuate New York. The American Army Disbands. Congress Is Threatened. |
| 1784 The Western Territories. Congress Creates a Board of Finance. New York the Temporary Capital. |
1785 Congress Lacks Power over Commerce. Conference at Mount Vernon. Land Ordinance. |
| 1786 The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Attempts to Revise the Articles of Confederation. Annapolis Convention. |
1787 The Constitutional Convention. Northwest Ordinance. Congress Receives the Constitution. "The Federalist." and "Antifederalist" Papers |
| 1788 The Constitution Is Ratified by Nine States. Congress Steps Aside for a New Government. |
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Patrick Henry, Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death.
Declaration of The Causes And Necessity of Taking up Arms.
Proclamation of Rebellion.
Reply of the United Colonies to the Declaration of Rebellion.
The Tory Act.
The Declaration of Independence
The Articles of Confederation
Letter of The President
of The Federal Convention, to The
President of Congress, Transmitting The Constitution
The Address
and Reasons of Dissent
Of the Minority of the Convention
Of the State of Pennsylvania
Richmond,
State of Virginia
In Convention
President
George Washington's Farewell Address
Mr.
Justice Story's Commentaries on the Constitution
Library of Congress site for other early federal materials
Another Site with Interesting Documents on American Political History
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