Historical Documents: 1751-1800
1754 -- Albany Plan of Union
by Benjamin Franklin
May 9, 1754 -- Join or Die, Pennsylvania Gazette cartoon
by Benjamin Franklin
1761 -- Against the Writs of Assistance
by James Otis
October 19, 1765 -- Stamp Act
by the government of Great Britain
October 2, 1765 -- Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress
by the Stamp Act Congress
1767 -- Letter II From a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
by John Dickinson
March 5, 1774 -- Boston Massacre Oration
by John Hancock
1774 -- American Patriots
Anonymous (British artist)
January, 1775 -- Novanglus No. 7
by John Adams (under the pen name Novanglus)
March 8, 1775 -- African Slavery in America
by Thomas Paine
March 23, 1775 -- Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
by Patrick Henry
July 6, 1775 -- Declaration on Taking up Arms
by John Dickinson
August 23, 1775 -- Proclamation of Rebellion
by King George III
1776 -- The True Interest of America Impartially Stated in Certain Strictures on a Pamphlet Intitled Common Sense
by Charles Inglis
June 12, 1776 -- Virginia Declaration of Rights
by the Virginia House of Burgesses
July 4, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence
by Thomas Jefferson
August 1, 1776 -- American Independence
by Samuel Adams
October 14, 1777 -- Resolves
by the First Continental Congress
November 15, 1777 -- Articles of Confederation
Late 1770s -- The British and Their Worthy Allies
Anonymous
October 19, 1781 -- Articles of Capitulation
Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
1782 -- Commerce between Master and Slave
by Thomas Jefferson
1783 -- Treaty of Paris
Treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain
June 20, 1785 -- Memorial and Remonstrance
by the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia
September 14, 1786 -- Annapolis Convention
by the Commission to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government
July 13, 1787 -- Northwest Ordinance
by Congress (under the Articles of Confederation)
1787 -- Disapproving and Accepting the Constitution
by Benjamin Franklin
1787 -- Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy
by Benjamin Franklin
September 17, 1787 -- Constitution of the United States
September 17, 1787 -- Letter of Transmittal of the U.S. Constitution
by Federal Convention President George Washington
October 6, 1787 -- State House Yard Speech on the Constitution
by James Wilson
November 23, 1787 -- Federalist Papers: Federalist #10
by James Madison
January 30, 1788 -- Federal Superstructure, Massachusetts Centinel cartoon
Anonymous
June 7, 1788 -- Answering Patrick Henry
by Francis Corbin
April 30, 1789 -- First Inaugural Address
by George Washington
1789 -- 27th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1789, ratified 1992
1791 -- Bill of Rights
April 22, 1793 -- Proclamation of Neutrality
by George Washington
1793 -- Fugitive Slave Law
Congress
1794 -- 11th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1794, ratified 1798
November 9, 1794 -- Jay Treaty
Treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain
1795 -- Treaty of Greenville
Treaty between the U.S. and Ohio Valley tribes
1790s -- Wha Wants Me
by Isaac Cruikshank (British artist)
September 19, 1796 -- Farewell Address
by George Washington
March 4, 1797 -- Inaugural Address
by John Adams
1798 -- Sedition Act
Congress
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