1215 Magna Charta
1620 Mayflower Compact
1628 Petition of Right
1676 The First Thanksgiving Proclamation, June 20
1754 Albany Plan for a Union
1765 The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19
1770 Anonymous account of the Boston Massacre, March 5
1770 Captain Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, March 5
1774 First Continental Congress, October
1774 The Articles of Association, October 20
1774 The Boston Port Act
1774 The Massacusetts Government Act
1775 Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
1775 Second Continental Congress Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6
1776 The Virginia Declaration of Rights
1776 The Declaration of Independence
1777 Articles of Confederation
1781 The Articles of Confederation
1783 Paris Peace Treaty
1787 Constitution of the United States
1791 Bill of Rights
1798 The Sedition Act of 1798
1795 The Constitution Amendments 11-27
1823 Monroe Doctrine
1861 The Constitution of the Confederate States of America
1863 Emancipation Proclamation
1945 United Nations Charter
1963 Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech, August 28