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settled matters of representation in the federal government.

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was a proposal for the structure of the United States federal government, presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

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was a proposal to establish a bicameral (two-branch) legislature in the newly founded United States.

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The primary source documents on this page highlight pivotal moments in the course of American history or government. They are some of the most-viewed and sought-out documents in the holdings of the National Archives.

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is an informal and uncodified procedural agreement that is followed by the institutions of a state.

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policy of the British government from the early to mid-18th century regarding its North American colonies under which trade regulations for the colonies were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs was loose as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government

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a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

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one of many several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America.

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was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.

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were American colonists who stayed loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War

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was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution.

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joint Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. The siege virtually ended military operations in the American Revolution.

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occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War.

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in U.S. history, document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain.

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was the British Royal Governor of Virginia at the time of the American Revolution and a foremost adversary of the colonists.

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the title of a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that was published anonymously at the beginning of the American Revolution, advocating for colonial independence from Great Britain in plain language that made the message accessible to the common people of America.

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an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

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were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

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the governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution.

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a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

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was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts

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a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.

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were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.

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a term used to describe all American-made cotton, linen, and wool textile

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refers to a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 relating to the British colonies in America.

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was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

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was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764.

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King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death

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an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".