13th Amendment abolishes slavery
A Discourse Upon Coins by Bernardo Davanzati
Adoption of the 14th Amendment (blacks considered citizens of the United States.)
Affirmative action
Alexander Hamilton calling for the state to recognize and support Vermont's bid for admission to the union. Vermonters pushing Eli Parsons and Luke Day out of the state.
Alien and Sedition Acts 1798
Bible translation - King James Version (1611 Bible)
Bill of Rights added to the Constitution on December 15, 1791
Britain Bank Restriction Act 1797
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision
Circumventing Brown via the Stanley Plan
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Code Noir
Committee of Five members who drafted and presented to the full Congress what would become America's Declaration of Independence John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston
Committee of the Whole deleted passage “denunciation of the slave trade and of slavery itself” from Declaration of Independence.
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Drafting of the Constitution of the United States Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at the Pennsylvania State House
Declaration of the Rights of Man (Lafayette)
Dred Scott decision
Edit de Nantes
Edward Gibbon published the first volume of his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,
Franklin was created in 1784 by North Carolina as a cession to Congress to help pay off debts related to the American War for Independence.
Frederick Douglass publishes Narrative of the Life
Freud published Interpretation of Dreams
Henrik Ibsen finishes Hedda Gabler
Henry David Throreau publishes Walden
Hermal Melville publishes Moby Dick
Homesteads Act (Lincoln)
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
Impeachment trial of Samuel Chase On 2 May 1803, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel
In Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws
Judiciary Act of 1789. It established the federal judiciary of the United States.
Judiciary Act of 1801 (The Midnight Judges Act)
Karl Marx published Communist Manifesto
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
Land Ordinance of 1785 (which described how the Confederation Congress would sell the land to private citizens)
Land Ordinance of 1784 (which declared that states would one day be formed within the region)
Lee Resolution trial voted 3 times: 12/13, 12/13 and finally 13/13. Second Continental Congress enacts (July 2) a resolution declaring independence from the British Empire,
Lives of the Artists
Magna Carta
Marbury v. Madison
March 26, 1790, limited naturalization to “free white persons,” and thus left out indentured servants, slaves, free blacks, Indians, and Asians.
Matthew Lyon was found guilty
May 3, 1802 Congress declared
Missouri Compromise
Naturalization Act of 1790 (for "free white persons" of "good moral character" )
North Carolina reasserted it claim to its Overmountain region, at which time Franklin ceases to exist.
Northwest Ordinance enacted
Sedition Act of 1918
State of Franklin was an unrecognized and autonomous territory located in what is today Eastern Tennessee, United States.
TEAACH Act
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union debates (between July 1776 and November 15 1777) by the Second Continental Congress
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union approved by the Second Continental Congress and sent out for ratification.
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union Ratified February 2, 1781. Came into force on March 1, 1781
The Constitution ratification by 13 of 13 states
The Constitution went into effect on June 21, 1788, after ratification by 9 of the 13 states
The Dress Act 1746
The Halifax Resolves only empowered North Carolina's three delegates to the Second Continental Congress. With the passage of the resolves, North Carolina became the first colony to explicitly permit their delegates to vote in favor of independence.
The Pennsylvania Evening Post reported on July 2: This day the CONTINENTAL CONGRESS declared the UNITED COLONIES FREE and INDEPENDENT STATES.[9]
The Stanley Plan
The Wagner Act , which empowered labor unions,
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense
United States Declaration of Independence. (voted numbers ? ) Despite this growing popular support for independence, Congress lacked the clear authority to declare it. Regardless of their personal opinions, delegates could not vote to declare independence unless their instructions permitted such an action. Several colonies, in fact, expressly prohibited their delegates from taking any steps towards separation from Great Britain. Between April and July 1776, a "complex political war"[32] was waged to bring this about.
Vermont Republic declared independence from both Britain and New York and remove themselves from the war they were waging against each other
litrature: Grimm brothers complete Fairy Tales
“Constitution FOR the united states of America” (“FOR”)