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HISTORIC DOCUMENTS 1639-1865-Present

 Historic Documents

Before 1776

• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (January 14, 1639)
• Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire (1639)
• The Mayflower Compact (1620)
• The Code of Hammurabi (1727-1680 B.C.)
• Albany Plan of Union (1754)
• The Ten Commandments (1447 B.C.)
• The Constitutions of Clarendon (1164)
• The Magna Carta (June 15, 1215)
• The Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
• English Bill of Rights (1689)
• Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus (1492)
• The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676)
• Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 (September 21, 1649)
• Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (March 25, 1584)
• The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England (May 19, 1643)
• Fundamental Agreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven (June 4, 1639)
• The Act of Surrender of the Great Charter of New England to His Majesty (1635)

The War for Independence

• Contract Between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America (July 16, 1782)
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! (March 23, 1775)
• Resolutions of the Stamp Act (October 19, 1765)
• Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (October 14, 1774)
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 6, 1775)
• Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
• The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
• Samuel Adams Advocates American Independence (August 1, 1776)
• Contract Between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America (February 25, 1783)
• Proclamation Declaring the Cessation of Arms (April 11, 1783)
• Treaty of Paris (1783)
• Declarations for Suspension of Arms and Cessation of Hostilities (January 20, 1783)

The Constitution and Related Documents

• Hamilton’s Plan of Union (June 18, 1787)
• The Bill of Rights (December 15, 1791)
• Bill of Rights Preamble (1789)
• Letter Of Transmittal (September 17, 1787)
• The Virginia Plan (May 29, 1787)
• The First Ten Amendments as Ratified (1789)
• The Constitution of the United States of America (September 17, 1787)
• The Articles of Confederation (November 15, 1777)
• Amendments 11-27 to the Constitution of the United States (February 7, 1795)
• Madison’s Proposal for the Bill of Rights (June 8, 1789)
• The New Jersey Plan (June 15, 1787)

1783 to 1860

• “House Divided” Speech (June 16, 1858)
• Memorial and Remonstrance (June 20, 1785)
• The Annapolis Convention (Sept. 14, 1786)
• The Religious Freedom Statute (1786)
• War of 1812 (June 18, 1812)
• Treaty of Ghent (1814)
• The North-west Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
• Star Spangled Banner (September 14th, 1814)
• Militia Act of 1792 (May 2, 1792)
• The Monroe Doctrine (December 2, 1823)
• Washington’s Farewell Address (September 17, 1796)
• Inaugural Address of John Adams (Saturday, March 4, 1797)
• Letter to the Danbury Baptists (January 1, 1802)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• The Lyceum Address (January 27, 1838)
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848)
• First Thanksgiving Proclamation (October 3, 1789)
• The Proclamation of Neutrality (April 22, 1793)
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)

The War Between the States

• Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
• The Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
• Farewell Speech to the United States Congress (January 21, 1861)
• A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union (February 2, 1861)
• South Carolina Declaration of Secession (December 24, 1860)
• Georgia Secession (January 29, 1861)
• The Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862)
• Jefferson Davis, 2nd Innaugural Address (February 22, 1862)
• Jefferson Davis, 1st Innaugural Address (February 18, 1861)

1865 to Present

• A Time for Choosing (October 27, 1964)
• Not Yours to Give (1884)
• Ronald Reagan — Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1983)
• United Nations Participation Act (December 20, 1945)
• Reagan’s Executive Order on Federalism (October 26, 1987)
• “Iron Curtain” Speech (March 5, 1946)
• Participation in UNESCO (July 30, 1946)
• Amendment of United Nations Participation Act (October 10, 1949)
• North Atlantic Treaty (April 4, 1949)
• Brown v. Board of Education (May 17, 1954)
• John F. Kennedy — 1961 Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)
• I Have a Dream (August 28, 1963)
• Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963)
• Contract With America (1994)
• Roe v. Wade (January 22, 1973)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt — 1st Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933)
• International Organizations Immunities Act (December 9, 1945)
• Cross of Gold (July 9, 1896)

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