Contents » Government and Politics
Abscam

African American Migration

Airports

Alien and Sedition Acts

Almshouses (Poorhouses)

Animal Protection

Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens

Articles of Confederation

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The)

Bank of the United States (First)

Bank War

Banking

Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Bicentennial (1976)

Black Power

Bloody Fifth Ward

British Occupation of Philadelphia

Byberry (Philadelphia State Hospital)

Capital of the United States (Selection of Philadelphia)

Cartoons and Cartoonists

Casinos

City Councils (Philadelphia)

City Hall (Philadelphia)

Civil Defense

Civil Rights (African American)

Civil Rights (LGBT)

Coffeehouses

Cold War

Colonization Movement (Africa)

Columbia Avenue Riot

Common Sense

Community Development

Community Development Corporations (CDCs)

Consolidation Act of 1854

Constitutional Convention of 1787

Continental Congresses

Contractor Bosses (1880s to 1930s)

Convention Centers

Cordwainers Trial of 1806

Corrupt and Contented

Courthouses (County)

Crosstown Expressway

Crowds (Colonial and Revolution Eras)

Declaration of Independence

Delaware River Basin Commission

Delaware River Port Authority

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission

Democratic-Republican Societies

Educational Reform

Enterprise Zones and Empowerment Zones

Environmental Movement

Fair Housing

Fairmount Park Commission

Fort Wilson

Forts and Fortifications

Free Society of Traders

French Revolution
The French Revolution of 1789 created political, social, and financial instability throughout Europe, prompting many terrified French aristocrats, businessmen, and intellectuals to flee to the United States. Philadelphia, with its cosmopolitan atmosphere, accessible port, and thriving commerce, attracted many of the French émigrés. Most settled along the Delaware River in the Mulberry district of Philadelphia ⇒ Read More
Fries Rebellion

Gayborhood

Gentrification

Grand Federal Procession

Grand Juries

Great Depression

Greater Philadelphia Movement

Greater Philadelphia Region

Haitian Revolution

I-95

Indian Rights Associations

Knights of Labor

Ladies Association of Philadelphia

Law and Lawyers

Lotteries

Loyalists

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Mason-Dixon Line

Mayors (Philadelphia)

Mexican-American War

Military Bases

Militia

Model Cities

Murder of Octavius Catto

National Parks

Native American-Pennsylvania Relations 1681-1753

Native American-Pennsylvania Relations, 1754-89

Native and Colonial Go-Betweens

Nativism

Nativist Riots of 1844

New Sweden

Occupy Philadelphia

PATCO

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Pennsylvania (Founding)

Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges

Pennsylvania Emancipation Exposition (1913)

Pennsylvania Hall

Philadelphia (Warship)

Philadelphia Campaign

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Gas Works

Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC)

Philadelphia Navy Yard

Philadelphia Plan

Point Breeze (Bonaparte Estate)

Police Department (Philadelphia)

Political Conventions

Political Parties (Origins, 1790s)

Pontiac’s War and the Paxton Boys

Presidents of the United States (Presence in Region)

Prisons and Jails

Privateering

Proclamation Line of 1763

Prohibition

Public Education: Suburbs

Public Education: The School District of Philadelphia

Public Health

Public Parks (Philadelphia)

Quasi-War

Redlining

Revolutionary Crisis (American Revolution)

Roosevelt Boulevard

Salt Making

SEPTA

Seven Years’ War

Shirtwaist Strike (1909-10)

Single Tax Movement

Smoking and Smoking Regulations

Spanish-American Revolutions
As a port with longstanding commercial, cultural, and political connections with Spanish America, Philadelphia played a significant role in the era of Spanish-American revolutions in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The City of Brotherly Love welcomed individuals escaping Spanish domination and helped to support their ideas about liberty, equality and independence. Philadelphia’s ⇒ Read More
Spanish-American War

Subways and Elevated Lines

Taverns

Trade Unions (1820s and 1830s)

Treaty Negotiations with Native Americans

Treaty of Shackamaxon

Trenton, New Jersey

Tun Tavern

Turnpikes

Typhoid Fever and Filtered Water

U.S. Congress (1790-1800)

U.S. Presidency (1790-1800)

Underground Railroad

Union League of Philadelphia

United States Colored Troops

United States Mint (Philadelphia)

Urban Renewal

Valley Forge

Vine Street Expressway

Walking Purchase

War of 1812

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Whig Party

Whiskey Rebellion Trials

Woman Suffrage

Working Men’s Party

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Zoning (Philadelphia)
