Timeline and Terms

Events

Annapolis Convention
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights in effect
Bill of Rights proposed
Call for revision of Articles of Confederation
Connecticut ratified Constitution
Constitution adopted
Constitution submitted to states
Delaware ratified Constitution
Federalist Papers published
First draft of Constitution
French Revolution
George Washington inaugurated
Georgia ratified Constitution
Judiciary Act of 1789
Land Ordinance of 1785
Maryland ratified Constitution
Massachusetts ratified Constitution
New Jersey ratified Constitution
New York ratified Constitution
Northwest Ordinance
Pennsylvania ratified Constitution
Philadelphia Convention
Postponement of Constitution vote in North Carolina
Ratification of the Constitution
Rhode Island ratified Constitution
South Carolina ratified Constitution
Three-Fifths Clause adopted
Treaty of New York
Virginia ratified Constitution

People

Aaron Burr
Abigail Adams
Alexander Hamilton
Benjamin Franklin
Elbridge Gerry
George Mason
George Washington
Gouverneur Morris
James Madison
John Adams
John Dickinson
John Hancock
John Jay
Mercy Otis Warren
Patrick Henry
Richard Henry Lee
Robert Morris
Rufus King
Samuel Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine

Places

Philadelphia

Organizations

Anti-Federalists
Federalists
First Continental Congress
republicanism
Second Continental Congress
United States presidency