Subjects – Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation
November 15, 1777
On this date, the Continental Congress adopted and sent to the state legislatures a plan for the inaugural national government under the Articles of Confederation (approved by the states in March 1781).
Delegate Patrick Henry of Virginia
June 06, 1799
On this date, Patrick Henry, a Virginia Continental Congress delegate and a renowned skeptic of centralized government, died at his Red Hill home near Brookneal in the Old Dominion.