Founding Dates
Year Columbus discovered the New World
1492
Founded Log College
William Tennent
Economic system of Middle Ages
Feudalism
First battle of the American Revolution
Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775
Author of Commentaries on the Laws of England
William Blackstone
Year Jamestown was founded
1607
Said “Give me liberty or give me death”
Patrick Henry
Written constitution in Connecticut
Fundamental Orders
Law that virtually expelled colonies
Prohibitory Act
English document introducing limited government
Magna Carta
Year of the Constitutional Convention
1787
Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Winthrop
Southern colonies’ main church
Anglican
Washington’s Christmas victory over Hessians
Trenton
Principle established by Marbury v. Madison
Judicial Review
ear of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
Trained the Patriots at Valley Forge
Baron von Steuben
Franklin’s early proposal for colonial unity
Albany Plan
Treaty that ended the War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
Compromise over slave populations
Three-Fifths Compromise
Year of the Treaty of Ghent
1814
Naval hero who fought the Serapis
John Paul Jones
Colony founded as haven for Catholics
Maryland
Plan to divide land into townships
Land Ordinance of 1785
First Secretary of Treasury, led economic planning
Alexander Hamilton