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- Intro
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- WHY THESE 100 DOCUMENTS?
- 1776 Lee Resolution
- 1776 Declaration of Independence
- 1777 Articles of Confederation
- 1778 Treaty of Alliance with France
- 1782 Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States
- 1783 Treaty of Paris
- 1787 Virginia Plan
- 1787 Northwest Ordinance
- 1787 Constitution of the United States
- 1787-1788 Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 51
- 1789 President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech
- 1789 Federal Judiciary Act
- 1791 Bill of Rights
- 1794 Patent for Cotton Gin
- 1796 President George Washington's Farewell Address
- 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts
- 1803 Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase Treaty
- 1803 Marbury v. Madison
- 1814 Treaty of Ghent
- 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland
- 1820 Missouri Compromise
- 1823 Monroe Doctrine
- 1824 Gibbons v. Ogden
- 1830 President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress "On Indian Removal
- 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- 1850 Compromise of 1850
- 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 1857 Scott v. Sandford
- 1861 Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter
- 1862 Homestead Act
- 1862 Pacific Railway Act
- 1862 Morrill Act
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation
- 1863 War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops
- 1863 Gettysburg Address
- 1864 Wade-Davis Bill
- 1865 President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
- 1865 Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
- 1865 Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery
- 1868 Check for the Purchase of Alaska
- 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie
- 1868 Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights
- 1870 Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights
- 1872 Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park
- 1879 Patent Application for The Light Bulb
- 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
- 1883 Pendleton Act
- 1887 Interstate Commerce Act
- 1887 Dawes Act
- 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
- 1898 De Lôme Letter
- 1898 Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States
- 1901 Platt Amendment
- 1905 Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
- 1913 Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax
- 1913 Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators
- 1916 Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
- 1917 Zimmermann Telegram
- 1917 Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany
- 1918 President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
- 1920 Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote
- 1928 Boulder Canyon Project Act
- 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority Act
- 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act
- 1935 National Labor Relations Act
- 1935 Social Security Act
- 1936 President Franklin Roosevelt's Speech in Defense of the Second New Deal
- 1941 The Four Freedoms: President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message to Congress
- 1941 Lend-Lease Act
- 1941 Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry
- 1941 Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan
- 1942 Executive Order 9066: Japanese Relocation Order
- 1944 General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day
- 1944 Servicemen's Readjustment Act
- 1945 Manhattan Project Notebook
- 1945 Surrender of Germany
- 1945 United Nations Charter
- 1945 Surrender of Japan
- 1947 Truman Doctrine
- 1948 Marshall Plan
- 1948 Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel
- 1948 Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces
- 1953 Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State
- 1954 Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
- 1954 Brown v. Board of Education
- 1956 National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
- 1957 Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School
- 1961 President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address
- 1961 President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
- 1961 Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps
- 1962 John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center
- 1962 Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba
- 1963 Test Ban Treaty
- 1963 Official Program for the March on Washington
- 1964 Civil Rights Act
- 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- 1965 Social Security Act Amendments
- 1965 Voting Rights Act
- FURTHER READING
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- R
- S
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