1215 Magna Carta

1492 Christopher Columbus discovers the New World

November 11, 1620 Mayflower Compact

1770 Boston Massacre

December of 1773 Boston Tea Party

1776 Common Sense by Thomas Paine

July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence Written by Thomas Jefferson

Articles of Confederation st signatures 1781 All 13 colonial States Ratified

April 15, 1783 Treaty of Paris Officially ended the ________________________ in which the last battle was in 1781 where Washington trapped Cornwallis’s troops at Yorktown, forcing surrender, and marking the end to battles of the Revolutionary war. Britain officially recognized the Independence of the United States.

May of 1787 Shays Rebellion meeting was held Represented the weak central government of the Articles of Confederation and the powers in which it held.

September 17, 1787 The United States Constitution was Ratified Written by James Madison Sections included the Preamble and 7 Articles Article I- Article VI Article II Article III- Article VII Article IV Article V

1789 George Washington was elected as the 1 st United States President George Washington

December 15, 1791 Bill of Rights Represented the 1 st ten Amendments to the United States Constitution were Ratified And later 17 more Amendments continuing to shape the Constitution until 1992 with the 27 th Amendment