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Pre-Colonial
The
Magna Carta--Jun. 15, 1215
Christopher
Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain--1490's
17th Century
The
First Virginia Charter--Apr. 10, 1606
The
Second Virginia Charter--May 23, 1609
The
Third Virginia Charter--Mar. 12, 1612
The
Mayflower Compact--Nov. 11, 1620
The
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut--Jan. 14, 1639
The
Connecticut Colony Charter--1662
The
First Thanksgiving Proclamation--Jun. 20, 1676
John
Locke's The Second Treatise of Government --1690
18th Century
The
Albany Plan of Union --1754
The
Resolutions of the Stamp Act--Oct. 19, 1765
The
Declaration of Arms--Jul. 6, 1775
The
Virginia Declaration of Rights--Jun. 12, 1776
The
Constitution of Virginia--Jun. 29, 1776
Thomas
Paine-Common Sense--1776
The
Declaration of Independence--Jul. 4, 1776
The
Articles of Confederation--Nov. 15, 1777
The
Treaty of 1783--Sept. 3, 1783
The
Annapolis Convention--Sept. 14, 1786
The
Northwest Ordinance--July 13, 1787
Letter
of Transmittal of the U.S. Constitution--Sept.
17, 1787
The
U.S. Constitution--Sept. 17, 1787
The
Federalist Papers--1787-1788
The
U.S. Bill of Rights--Mar. 4, 1789
The
Fugitive Slave Law--1793
The
Proclamation of Neutrality--Apr. 22, 1793
The
Treaty of Greenville--1795
The
Sedition Act--Jul. 14, 1798
Amendments
XI-XXVII--1798-1992
19th Century
The
text of the Star Spangled Banner--Sept. 20, 1814
Monroe
Doctrine--Dec. 2, 1823
Ralph
Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn--Jul. 4, 1837
The
Communist Manifesto--Feb. 1848
On
the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Thoreau--1849
The
Constitution of the Confederate States of America--Mar. 11, 1861
The
Battle Hymn of the Republic
McClellan's
Letter to President Lincoln--Jul. 7, 1862
The
Emancipation Proclamation--Sept. 22, 1862
Appeal
to Congress for Impartial Suffrage--Jan. 1867
20th Century
The
Espionage Act--1918
The
Treaty of Versailles--June 28, 1919
The
Neutrality Act--1939
The
Declaration of War on Japan--Dec. 8, 1941
The
Declaration of War on Germany--Dec. 11, 1941
The
German Surrender Documents of World War II--May 8, 1945
The
Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II--Sept. 12, 1945
Admission
of States and Territorial Acquisition Map
United
We Stand - Jan. 30, 2003 - Eight European leaders are as one with President Bush
We Will Not Shrink From War - Feb. 3, 2003 - BY COLIN L. POWELL
Famous Speeches
Patrick
Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death--Mar. 23, 1775
Washington:
Thanksgiving Proclamation--Oct. 3, 1789
Washington:
Farewell Address--Sept. 19, 1796
Lincoln:
"House Divided" Speech--Jun. 16, 1858
Lincoln:
The Gettysburg Address--Nov. 19, 1863
Lincoln:
Second Inaugural Address--Mar. 4, 1865
Lincoln:
Last Speech--April 11, 1865
Franklin
D. Roosevelt: 1st Inaugural Address--March 4, 1933
Blood,
Sweat, and Tears - Winston Churchill - May 13, 1940
Roosevelt's
Infamy Speech--Dec. 8, 1941
Churchill:
"Iron Curtain" Speech--Mar. 5, 1946
John
F. Kennedy: 1961 Inaugural Address--January 20, 1961
Martin
L. King: I Have a Dream--Aug. 28, 1963
Ronald
Reagan: First Inaugural Address--Jan. 20, 1981
Reagan:
First State of the Union Address--Jan. 26, 1982
Henry
Hyde - Opening of the Impeachment Trial of Bill Clinton - Jan. 14,
1999
Winning
The Culture War - Charlton Heston--Feb. 16, 1999
Address
of President Bush to Nation--11 September, 2001
Today
We Express Our Nation's Sorrow - George W. Bush - Sept. 14, 2001
President
Bush to a Joint Session of Congress and the Nation--Sept. 21, 2001
President
George W. Bush - State of The Union Address - Jan. 29, 2002
Court Cases
Marbury
v. Madison--1803
Brown
v. Board of Education--1954
Miranda
v. Arizona--1966
Roe
v. Wade--1973
Admission
of the States - Graphical View
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