1606 First Charter of Virginia
1620 Pilgrims Sign the Mayflower Compact
1639 Connecticut Constitution
1765 Stamp Act & Stamp Act Congress Declaration of Rights
1776 Thomas Paine's Common Sense
1776 Lee's Resolution for Independence
1776 Declaration of Independence
1778 Treaty of Alliance with. France
1781 Articles of Confederation
1783 General Washington's Farewell to His Soldiers
1789 Constitution of the United States
1796 President Washington's Farewell Address
1798 Alien and Sedition Acts
1832, Nullification. Crisis
1848 Declaration of Sentiments
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1861 Constitution of the Confederate States of America
1863 Emancipation Proclamation
1865 Thirteenth Amendment
1865 Lincoln's Second. Inaugural Address
1868 Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson
1868 Fourteenth Amendment
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
1890 Sherman Antitrust Act
1898 Resolution on Spanish-American War
1902 Newlands Reclamation Act
1917 President: Wilson Declares War
1917 Selective Service Act
1918 Wilson's Fourteen Points
1919 Eighteenth Amendment
1920 Nineteenth Amendment
1941 President Roosevelt's December 8, 1941, Address to Congress
1942 Japanese Relocation Order Issued
1945 Atomic Bomb is Dropped
1945 United Nations Is Chartered
1950 United States Takes Military Action in Korea
1951 Twenty-Second Amendment
1954 Brown v. Board of Education
1961 President Kennedy's Inauguration
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1987 Fall of the Berlin Wall
2002 Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces in Iraq.