Middle Passage
Virginia House of Burgesses (1619)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
New England Townhall Meetings (1629)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
Maryland Act of Toleration (1649)
Zenger Case (1735)
Albany Plan for Union (1754)
Salutary Neglect
The Enlightenment (1720's to 1790's)
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
Declaration of Independence, 1776