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Patrick Henry at the First Continental Congress declared "The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American
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While one congressional committee was writing the Declaration of Independence, another committee was trying to work out a plan of union
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Congress officially adopts the Articles of Confederation
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British explorer Captain James Cook lands in Hawaii, meeting people like the Sandwich Islander
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The Articles of Confederation finally goes into effect
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Congress set up a department of finance run by Philadelphia merchant Robert Morris and his business associate, Haym Salomon
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Spanish settlers found the city of Los Angeles
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The United States wins in the Treaty of Paris
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Russians settle in the Aleutian Islands of present-day Alaska
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The land would be surveyed and divided into a neat grid of townships
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Daniel Shays leads a crowd to close the courthouse in Springfield
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Washington himself had concerns with the Articles. He expressed these worries in a letter to John Jay, a prominent lawyer and diplomat
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Shays leads a larger group of angry farmers to break into the military arsenal at Springfield, where hundreds of guns were stored.
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A five-man committee sat down and wrote a final document
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The Constitution Convention adjourns
