Compendium

Colonization Era Chapter I

Iberian Hegemony 1492-1603

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Colonization Era Chapter II

French, Dutch, & English Colonies 1603 - 1675

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Colonization Era Chapter III

Colonial Development & Conflicts 1675 - 1763

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Revolutionary Era Chapter I

Taxes, Petitions, & Reprisals 1763-1775

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Revolutionary Era Chapter II

War for Independence 1775-1783

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Early Republic Era Chapter I

Reconstitution 1783-1789

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Early Republic Era Chapter II

Federalism 1789-1801

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Early Republic Era Chapter III

Democratic-Republicanism 1801-1817

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Good-Feelings Era Chapter I

Good Feelings 1817-1829

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Good-Feelings Era Chapter II

Common Man 1829-1841

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Good-Feelings Era Chapter III

Westward Expansion 1841-1849

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Civil War & Reconstruction Era Chapter I

Sectional Crisis 1849-1860

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Civil War & Reconstruction Era Chapter II

Civil War 1860-1865

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Civil War & Reconstruction Era Chapter III

Reconstruction 1865-1885

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Progressive Era Chapter I

Robber Barons 1885-1897

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Progressive Era Chapter II

Progressive Presidents 1897-1913

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World Wars Era Chapter I

World War I 1913-1921

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World Wars Era Chapter II

Roaring Twenties 1921-1929

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World Wars Era Chapter III

Great Depression 1929-1941

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World Wars Era Chapter IIII

World War II 1941-1945

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Cold War Era Chapter I

Endiguement 1945-1961

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Cold War Era Chapter II

Detente 1961-1977

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Cold War Era Chapter III

Ruine 1977-1989

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Modern Era Chapter I

American Hegemony 1989-2001

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Modern Era Chapter II

War on Terror 2001-2017

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Modern Era Chapter III

Today 2017-2025

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Date	Documents
04/30/1492	Privileges Granted to Columbus by the Spanish Monarchy
02/15/1493	Columbus Letter on the First Voyage to the New World
07/22/1497	Decree from Spain to Cultivate American Colonies
03/05/1498	John Cabot Patent from King Henry VII
10/15/1498	Amerigo Vespucci Letter of his First Voyage
12/10/1513	The Prince
08/16/1515	Nunez de Balboa's Letter to the Spanish King about Discovering the Pacific Ocean
10/30/1520	Cortez's Second Letter to Charles V
07/08/1524	Giovanni da Verrazano Letter of his First Voyage
06/11/1578	Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte
03/25/1584	Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh
12/18/1603	Charter of Acadia
04/10/1606	First Charter of Virginia
05/23/1609	Second Charter of Virginia
03/12/1611	Third Charter of Virginia
10/11/1614	Charter of New Netherland
07/30/1619	House of Burgesses
08/20/1619	First Slaves Sold In Virginia
11/03/1620	Charter of New England
11/11/1620	Mayflower Compact
07/24/1621	Ordinances for Virginia
08/10/1622	Grant of Maine 1622
11/05/1626	Dutch Purchase of Manhatten
03/18/1628	Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1628
06/07/1629	Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions
06/20/1632	Charter of Maryland
04/28/1634	Royal Commission for Regulating Plantations
05/06/1637	Declaration in Defense of an Order of Court
01/14/1639	Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
06/04/1639	Fundamental Agreement of Connecticut
03/19/1641	Government of Rhode Island 1641
12/10/1641	Massachusetts Body of Liberties
05/19/1643	The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
11/06/1643	Government of New Haven
07/03/1645	John Winthrop’s "Little Speech on Liberty" (1645)
09/21/1649	Maryland Toleration Act
02/18/1651	Barbados Declaration of Independence
04/23/1662	Charter of Connecticut
03/24/1663	Charter of Carolina
07/15/1663	Rhode Island Royal Charter
02/10/1664	Concessions and Agreement of New Jersey
09/29/1664	Dutch Surrender of New Netherlands to England
03/01/1669	Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
05/29/1676	Berkeley's Response to Bacon
07/30/1676	Bacon's Rebellion Declaration
07/11/1681	Concessions of the Province of Pennsylvania
05/05/1682	Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
01/01/1683	Constitution of East New Jersey
02/02/1683	Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1683
06/12/1683	Randolph condemns Massachusettes Bay Company
04/07/1686	Commission of Sir Andros for the Dominion of New England
10/07/1691	Charter of Massachusetts Bay Colony 1691
11/01/1696	Pennsylvania Frame of Government 1696
02/08/1697	Penn's Plan for Colonial Union
10/28/1701	Charter of Delaware
10/28/1701	Pennsylvania Charter of Privlieges
08/26/1725	Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay
06/09/1732	Charter of Georgia 1732
01/01/1748	The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu
06/10/1751	Currency Act 1751
07/10/1754	Albany Plan
11/11/1755	Pennsylvania Assembly Reply to Governor about Native Raids
10/12/1758	Two Penny Act
02/10/1763	Treaty of Paris 1763
10/07/1763	Royal Proclamation of Colonial Boundaries
01/01/1764	The Colonel Dismounted by Richard Bland
04/05/1764	The Sugar Act
04/19/1764	Currency Act 1764
07/01/1764	Principles of Law and Polity by Francis Bernard
07/23/1764	A Brief State of the Claim of the Colonies by Thomas Hutchinson
07/30/1764	Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
09/03/1764	Sentiments of a British American by Oxenbridge Thacher
10/18/1764	New York Petition to Repeal the Sugar Act
11/03/1764	Petition from the Massachusetts House of Representatives to the House of Commons
11/30/1764	The Rights of Colonies Examined by Stephen Hopkins
12/18/1764	Petition of the Virginia House of Burgesses to the House of Commons
01/01/1765	Consideration on Imposing Taxation by Dulany
03/22/1765	The Stamp Act
05/15/1765	Quartering Act of 1765
05/29/1765	Virginia Resolutions Responding to the Stamp Act
06/08/1765	Massachusetts Circular Letter of 1765
07/04/1765	The Late Regulations by John Dickinson
09/01/1765	Objections to Taxation Considered, by Soame Jenyns
09/21/1765	Pennsylvania Resolves on the Stamp Act
09/24/1765	Braintree Instructions
10/19/1765	Stamp Act Congress
10/29/1765	Massachusetts Resolves Against the Stamp Act
10/31/1765	New York Merchant's Non-Importation Agreement
12/10/1765	Connecticut Resolutions on the Stamp Act
01/01/1766	Inquiry into the Rights of British Colonies by Richard Bland
03/18/1766	The Repeal of the Stamp Act
03/18/1766	The Declaratory Act
11/20/1767	Townshend Act
12/02/1767	Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
02/11/1768	Massachusetts Circular Letters
08/01/1768	Boston Non-Importation
09/22/1768	Boston Town Meeting Resolutions
05/16/1769	Virginia Resolves Against the Townshend Acts
05/17/1769	Virginia Nonimportation Agreement
07/22/1769	Charleston Non-Importation Agreement
12/03/1772	Beauties of Liberty by John Allen
03/12/1773	Virginia Establishment of Colonial Correspondence
05/10/1773	The Tea Act
09/11/1773	Rules by which a Great Empire may be reduced to a small one
10/16/1773	Philadelphia Resolutions on the Tea Act
12/17/1773	New York Association of the Sons of Liberty
03/31/1774	Boston Port Act
05/14/1774	Observations &c. by Josiah Quincy
05/20/1774	Administration of Justice Act
05/20/1774	Massachusetts Government Act
05/24/1774	Virginia Resolution to Fast and Pray for Boston
06/02/1774	Quartering Act
07/18/1774	Fairfax Resolves
08/01/1774	Thomas Jefferson A Summary View of the Rights of British America
09/05/1774	Address to the People of Great Britain
09/17/1774	Suffolk Resolves
09/28/1774	Galloway's Plan for Union
10/07/1774	Quebec Act
10/14/1774	First Continental Congress Resolutions
10/20/1774	Continental Association
10/26/1774	Petition to Repeal the Intolerable Acts
12/15/1774	A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress by Alexander Hamilton
01/23/1775	Novanglus by John Adams
02/15/1775	The Farmer Refuted by Alexander Hamilton
02/27/1775	Conciliatory Resolution
03/22/1775	Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation
03/23/1775	Give me Liberty or give me Death
03/30/1775	The New England Restraining Act
05/29/1775	Letter to Canada
05/31/1775	The CharlotteTown Resolves
06/19/1775	Washington's Commission
07/06/1775	Causes and Necessity of their taking up Arms
07/08/1775	Olive Branch Petition
07/31/1775	Report on the Conciliatory Resolution
08/23/1775	King George III Proclamation Supressing Rebellion
11/09/1775	Resolution of Secrecy by the Continental Congress
11/10/1775	Establishment of the Marine Corps
01/05/1776	New Hampshire's Constitution 1776
01/10/1776	Thomas Paine's Common Sense
03/23/1776	Letter from Adams to Gates
03/26/1776	South Carolina's Constitution 1776
04/01/1776	John Adams, Thoughts on Government
04/12/1776	Halifax Resolves
05/15/1776	Preamble and Resolutions of the Fifth Virginia Convention
06/11/1776	Lee's Resolution
06/12/1776	Virginia Declaration of Rights
06/29/1776	Virginia Constitution 1776
07/02/1776	New Jersey Constitution 1776
07/04/1776	Declaration of Independence
09/10/1776	Delaware Constitution 1776
09/11/1776	Delaware's Declaration of Rights
09/28/1776	Constitution of Pennsylvania 1776
11/11/1776	Maryland's Constitution 1776
12/18/1776	Constitution of North Carolina 1776
02/05/1777	Georgia's Constitution 1777
04/20/1777	New York Constitution 1777
07/08/1777	Constitution of Vermont 1777
02/06/1778	Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between The United States and France
03/19/1778	South Carolina's Constitution 1778
09/17/1778	Treaty of Fort Pitt
06/18/1779	A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
03/01/1780	Pennsylvania Act to Abolish Slavery
06/15/1780	Massachusetts Constitution 1780 (Current)
09/03/1780	Hamilton's Letter to Duane about the Confederation
03/01/1781	Articles of Confederation
10/18/1781	Surrender at Yorktown
09/03/1783	Treaty of Paris 1783
06/02/1784	New Hampshire Constitution 1784
06/20/1785	Memorial and Remonstance Against Religious Assessment
11/28/1785	First Cherokee Nation Treaty with the US
01/03/1786	Maryland-Virginia Compact
01/16/1786	The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
06/28/1786	First Peace and Friendship
07/04/1786	Vermont Constitution 1786
09/14/1786	Annapolis Convention
01/15/1787	Defence of the Constitution by John Adams Vol. I
02/21/1787	Vote to Have the Philadelphia Convention
04/15/1787	James Madison's Vices of the Political System of the United States
04/16/1787	Letter from James Madison to Washington
07/13/1787	Northwest Ordinance
09/17/1787	Letter Presenting the Constitution
09/17/1787	The US Constitution
09/17/1787	Notes on the Constitutional Convention by James Madison
09/28/1787	Submitting the Constitution to the States
10/27/1787	The Federalist Papers
11/22/1787	George Mason's Objections to the Constitution
11/26/1787	The Anti-Federalist Papers
12/07/1787	Delaware; first to ratify the US Constitution
12/12/1787	Pennsylvania Ratifies the Constitution
12/18/1787	New Jersey Ratifies the Constitution
01/02/1788	Georgia Ratifies the Constitution
01/09/1788	Connecticut Ratifies the Constitution
01/23/1788	Defence of the Constitution by John Adams Vol. II & III
02/06/1788	Massachusetts Ratifies the Constitution
04/28/1788	Maryland Ratifies the Constitution
05/23/1788	South Carolina Ratifies the Constitution
06/04/1788	Patrick Henry's First Speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention
06/05/1788	Patrick Henry's Second Speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention
06/21/1788	Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New Hampshire
06/26/1788	Virginia Ratifies the Constitution

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