The Louisiana Purchase Treaty  (1800)

 

State v. Boon  (1801)

 

Thomas Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter  (1802)

 

Marbury v. Madison  (1803)

 

Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis and Clark Expedition  (1803)

 

Black Laws of Ohio  (1804)

 

An Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves  (1807)

 

Chief Tecumseh to Governor Benjamin Harrison at Vincennes  (1810)

 

An Act Declaring War Between The United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland and the Dependencies Thereof and The United States of America  (1812)

 

The Star Spangled Banner - Our National Anthem  (1814)

 

Dolly Madison on the Burning of Washington  (1814)

 

A British Account of the Burning of Washington  (1814)

 

The Treaty of Ghent  (1814)

 

Report of the Hartford Convention  (1815)

 

The Indiana Constitution  (1816)

 

Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida)  (1819)

 

McCulloch v. Maryland  (1819)

 

Missouri Compromise  (1820)

 

The Monroe Doctrine  (1823)

 

Gibbons v. Ogden  (1824)

 

President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress  'On Indian Removal'  (1830)

 

Indian Removal Act of  (1830)

 

The Confessions of Nat Turner  (1831)

 

William Lloyd Garrison from The Liberator  (1831)

 

Worcester v. Georgia  (1832)

 

Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville  (1835)

 

Texas Declaration of Independence  (1836)

 

The Fall of the Alamo  (1836)

 

Letter XII - Legal Disabilities of Women  (1837)

 

Andrew Jackson's Farewell Address  (1837)

 

Lincoln's Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois  (1838)

 

John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest Destiny  (1839) 

 

Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain  (1842)

 

Mexican War Message of President Polk  (1846)

 

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo  (1848)

 

Treaty with Mexico  (1848)

 

The Communist Manifesto  (Feb. 1848)

 

On The Duty of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau  (1849)

 

The Clay Compromise Measures  (1850)

 

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 

                           

Frederick Douglass, 'The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro'  (1852)

 

Henry Carey Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign  (1853)

 

Manifest Destiny and the Gadsden Purchase Treaty  (1853)

 

The Treaty of Kanagawa: Setting the Stage for Japanese-American Relations  (1854)

 

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

 

Abraham Lincoln Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act  (1854)

 

The Dred Scott Decision  (1856)

 

Abraham Lincoln Speech on the Dred Scott Decision  (1856)

 

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates  (1858)

 

Abraham Lincoln's House Divided Speech  (1858)

 

Freeport Doctrine - Stephen A. Douglas  (1858)

 

John Brown's Speech to the Court at his Trial  (1859)

 

The Death of John Brown  (1859)

 

Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address  (1860)

 

The Crittenden Compromise  (1860)

 

South Carolina Declaration of Succession  (1860)

 

Alexander H. Stephens "Cornerstone" Speech  (1861)

 

The Confederate Constitution  (1861)

 

Inaugural Address of Jefferson Davis  (1861)

 

Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter  (1861)

 

Time Line of The Civil War in Photographs

 

Morrill Act  (1862)

 

McClellan's Letter to Lincoln on His Evacuation from the Peninsula Campaign (1862)

 

Homestead Act  (1862)

 

Pacific Railway Act  (1862)

 

War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops  (1863)

 

The Gettysburg Address  (1863)

 

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction  (1863)

 

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere  (1863)

 

Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill  (1864)

 

The Emancipation Proclamation  (1864)

 

"40 Acres and a Mule"  (1865)

 

Louisiana Black Codes, an Act  (1865)

 

Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox  (1865)

 

Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia  (1865)

 

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)

 

Adjt. and Insp. General's Office, General Orders No. 14  (1865)

 

Gen. Robert E. Lee's Farewell to His Army  (1865)

 

Abraham Lincoln's Last Speech of April 11, 1865

 

Proclamation Declaring the end of the Civil War  (1865)

 

Black Codes of Mississippi  (1865)

 

Civil Rights Act of 1866

 

Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage  (1867)

 

Alaska Purchase Treaty with Russia  (1867)

 

Fort Laramie Treaty with the Sioux Tribe  (1868)

 

14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)

 

15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)

 

Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park  (1872)

 

Susan B. Anthony On Women's Right to Vote  (1873)

 

Reynolds v. U.S.  (1878)

 

Ulysses S. Grant: Reasons for Being a Republican  (1880)

 

Chinese Exclusion Act  (1882)

 

Pace v. State OF Alabama, 106 U.S. 583 (1883)

 

Pendleton Act  (1883)

 

Theodore Roosevelt: The Duties of American Citizenship  (1883)

 

The Dawes Act  (1887)

 

Interstate-Commerce Act  (1887)

 

Sherman Antitrust Act  (1890)

 

Davis v. Beason  (1890)

 

The Pledge of Allegiance  (1892)

 

The Atlanta Compromise  (1895)

 

Cross of Gold Speech, William Jennings Bryan  (1896)

 

Plessey v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537  (1896)

 

Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands  (1898)

 

Recognition of the Independence of Cuba  (1898)

 

De Lôme Letter  (1898)

 

Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines)  (1898)

 

Theodore Roosevelt: The Strenuous Life  (1899)

 

Daniel Boone's Move to Kentucky, by Theodore Roosevelt

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