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American Historical Documents



TABLE OF CONTENTS 

THE FIRST CHARTER OF VIRGINIA (April 10, 1606)  

SMITH'S "GENERALL HISTORIE OF VIRGINIA; THE FOURTH BOOKE" (1624) 

THE FIRST CHARTER OF MASSACHUSETTS (March 4, 1629)

THE CAMBRIDGE AGREEMENT (August 26, 1629)

Charter of Freedom and Exemptions to Patroons (1629)

BRADFORD'S "HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION" (1630-1648) 

THE CHARTER OF MARYLAND (June 20, 1632)

FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT (January 14, 1639)

MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL LAW OF 1642 (April 14, 1642) 

Massachusetts "Body of Liberties" (1641)

NEW ENGLAND'S FIRST FRUITS: "DESCRIPTION OF HARVARD COLLEGE" (1643)  

"A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE MOHAWK INDIANS" (1644) 

The Bloody Tenent of Persecution , . . (1644)  

MARYLAND TOLERATION ACT (April 21, 1649) 

JOHNSON'S "WONDER-WORKING PROVIDENCE OF SIONS SAVIOUR 

IN NEW ENGLAND" (1654)  

"A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROVINCE OF CAROLINA" (1666) 

Manifesto Concerning the Troubles in Virginia (1676)

"SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSILVANIA" (1681)

THOMAS BRATTLE'S LETTER ON THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT PROCEEDINGS (October 6, 1692) 

PENNSYLVANIA CHARTER OF PRIVILEGES (October 28, 1701)

Charter of Georgia (1732) 

Zenger Case Defense (1735) 

A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Wor\ of God? (1737)

ALBANY PLAN OF UNION (1754) 

James Otis' Speech against Writs of Assistance (1761)  

Treaty of Paris (1763) 

Patrick Henry's "Treason" Speech 

RESOLUTIONS OF THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS (October 19, 1765) 

Nonimportation Agreement of New York Merchants (1765)  

Letters from a Pennsylvania farmer (1767-1768) 

Massachusetts Circular Letter (1768) 

DECLARATION AND RESOLVES OF THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (October 14, 1774) 

Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" Speech (1775) 

Mecklenberg County Resolutions (1775) 

Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms (1775)

Common Sense (1776)

VIRGINIA BILL OF RIGHTS (June 12, 1776) 

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (July 4, 1776)

Treaties with France (1778) 

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (March i, 1781) 

Letters from an American Farmer (1782) 

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Land Ordinance of 1785

VIRGINIA STATUTE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY (January 16, 1786) 

Treaty with Morocco (1787)  

NORTHWEST ORDINANCE (July 13, 1787)  

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES (September 17, 1787)  

Letters from the federal farmer to the Republican (1787)

THE FEDERALIST; Number 51 (February 8, 1788) 

WASHINGTON'S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS (April 30, 1789) 

Judiciary Act of 1789 

Report on the Public Credit (1790)

JEFFERSON'S OPINION ON THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE BANK (February 15, 1791) 

HAMILTON'S OPINION ON THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE BANK (February 23, 1791) 

Report on Manufactures (1792) 

Washington's Neutrality Proclamation (1793) 

Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) 

Jay's Treaty (1794) 

Pinckney's Treaty (Treaty of San Lorenzo) (1795) 

WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS (September 17, 1796)

XYZ Papers (1798) 

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) 

KENTUCKY AND VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS (1798) 

JEFFERSON'S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS (March 4, 1801)

Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803) 

Marbury v. Madison (1803) 

Proclamation on the Burr Conspiracy (1806) 

Jefferson's Message on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1806) 

Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves (1807) 

Neutrality Laws during the Napoleonic Wars (1807-1810) 

Fletcher v. Peck (1810) 

JOHN RANDOLPH'S SPEECH AGAINST WAR WITH GREAT BRITAIN (December 10, 1811) 

Madison's War Message (1812) 

Treaty of Ghent (1814) 

REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE HARTFORD CONVENTION (January 4, 1815) 

Charter of the Second Bank of the United States (1816) 

Erie Canal Act (1817) 

Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817) 

Convention of 1818 

Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) 

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE v. WOODWARD (1819) 

M'CULLOCH v. MARYLAND (1819) 

MISSOURI COMPROMISE (1819-1821) 

Land Law of 1820 

MONROE DOCTRINE (December 2, 1823) 

GIBBONS v. OGDEN (1824) 

SOUTH CAROLINA EXPOSITION AND PROTEST (December 19, 1828)

WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE (January 19-27, 1830)

Maysville Road Veto (1830) 

THE LIBERATOR: "TO THE PUBLIC" (January i, 1831)

CALHOUN'S SPEECH ON THE RIGHTS OF THE STATES (July 26, 1831)

Marcy's "To the Victor Belongs the Spoils" Speech (1831)

HENRY CLAY'S SPEECH ON THE "AMERICAN SYSTEM" (February 2, 3, 2nd 6, 1832) 

JACKSON'S VETO OF THE BANK BILL (Jm'y 10, 1832)  

SOUTH CAROLINA ORDINANCE OF NULLIFICATION (November 24, 1832) 

JACKSON'S PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA (December 10, 1832) 

Worcester v. Georgia (1832) 

Order for Removal of Deposits (1833) 

Barron v. Baltimore (1833) 

Specie Circular (1836) 

"GAG RULE" (May 26, 1836) 

Locofoco Platform (1836)

"THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR" (August 31, 1837) 214 

CHARLES RIVER BRIDGE CO. v. WARREN BRIDGE CO. (1837)

Independent Treasury (Subtreasury) Act (1840) 

Pre-emption Act of 1841 

Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) 

Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) 

DOROTHEA DIX'S MEMORIAL TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS (January, 1843)

BRIGHAM YOUNG'S SPEECH ON ASSUMING LEADERSHIP OF THE MORMONS (August 8, 1844) 

Joint Resolution for the Annexation of Texas (1845) 

POLK'S FIRST ANNUAL MESSAGE (December 2, 1845) 

Polk's War Message (1846) 

Oregon Treaty (1846) 

Wilrnot Proviso (1846) 

Calhoun Resolutions (1847) 

SENECA FALLS DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS AND RESOLUTIONS (July 19, 1848) 

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) 

Horace Mann's Twelfth Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Edu- 

cation (1848) 

Free Soil Platform (1848)  

Luther v.Borden (1848)  

"CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE" (1849) 

COMPROMISE OF 1850; CLAY'S RESOLUTIONS (January 29, 1850) 

WEBSTER'S "SEVENTH OF MARCH" SPEECH (March 7, 1850)

Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850) 

Fugitive Slave Act (1850) 

Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia (1851) 

Gadsden Treaty (1853) 

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT (May 30, 1854) 

"Appeal of the Independent Democrats" (1854) 

Ostend Manifesto (1854) 

CHARLES SUMNER'S SPEECH ON "THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS" (May 19-20, 1856) 

Know-Nothing Platform (1856)

Lecompton Constitution (1857) 

DRED SCOTT v. SANDFORD (1857) 

LINCOLN'S "HOUSE DIVIDED" SPEECH (June 16, 1858) 

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES (August 2i~October 15, 1858)

"Irrepressible Conflict" Speech (1858) 

John Brown's Last Speech (1859) 

Ableman v. Booth (1859) 

Davis Resolutions (1860) 

South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860) 

Crittenden Plan (1860) 

Virginia (Peace Convention) Plan (1861) 

Morrill Tariff ( 1 861) 

LINCOLN'S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS (March 4, 1 861) 

CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES (March n, 1861)

Lincoln's Call for Volunteers (1861) 

HOMESTEAD ACT (May 20, 1862) 

Morrill Act (1862) 

Pacific Railroad Act (1862) 

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION (January i, 1863) 

LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS (November 19, 1863) 

Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction (Ten Per Cent Plan) (1863) 

Wade-Davis Bill (1864) 

LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS (March 4, 1865)

Freedmen's Bureau Act (1865) 

Lincoln's Last Speech (1865) 

Ex parte Milligan (1866) 

FIRST RECONSTRUCTION ACT (March 2, 1867) 

Johnson's Veto of the First Reconstruction Act (1867) 

Tenure of Office Act (1867) 

Alaska Purchase Treaty (1867) 

Second, Third, and Fourth Reconstruction Acts (1867-1868) 

Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) 

KU KLUX KLAN ORGANIZATION AND PRINCIPLES (1868)

Articles of Impeachment of Johnson (1868)

Burlingame Treaty (1868) 

Texas v. White (1869) 

Veazie Ban\ v. Fcnno (1869) 

Enforcement Acts (1870-1871)  

Amnesty Act (1872) 

Coinage Act (1873) 

Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)  

Specie Resumption Act (1875) 

Civil Rights Act (1875)

Independent (Greenback) Platform (1876)

Decision of the Electoral Commission (1877)

MUNN v. ILLINOIS (1877) 

PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR (January i, 1878) 

Bland- Allison Act (1878) 

PENDLETON ACT (January 1 6, 1883) 

HENRY GRADY'S SPEECH ON "THE NEW SOUTH" (December 21, 1886) 

W abash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois (1886)

INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT (February 4, 1887) 

Electoral- Count Act (1-887) 

SHERMAN ANTITRUST ACT (July 2, 1890) 

Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)

PLATFORM OF THE POULIST PARTY (July 4, 1892) 

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S SPEECH ON "THE RACE PROBLEM" (Sep- tember 18, 1895) 

In re Debs (1895) 

Cleveland's Message on the Venezuela Boundary Dispute (1895)

BRYAN'S "CROSS OF GOLD" SPEECH (July 8, 1896) 

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

McKINLEY'S WAR MESSAGE (April n, 1898)

Treaty of Paris (1898) 

Holdenv. Hardy (1898) 

Smyth v. Ames (1898) 

United States v. Wong Kim Ark. (1898)

OPEN DOOR IN CHINA (1899-1900)

Foraker Act (1900)

PLATT AMENDMENT (March 2, 1901)

Hay-Paunceote Treaty (1901)

Newlands Act (1902)

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)

NORTHERN SECURITIES CO. v. UNITED STATES (1904)

ROOSEVELT COROLLARY TO THE MONROE DOCTRINE (December 6, 1904) 

Lochner v. New York (1905)

Hepburn Act (1906)

Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

Meat Inspection Act (1906)

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S SEVENTH ANNUAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS (December 3, 1907) 

"Gentlemen's Agreement" (1907-1908)

Root-Takahira Agreement (1908) 

Adair v. United States (1898) 

Loewev.Lawlor (Danbury Hatters' Case) (1908)

Mullet- v. Oregon (1908)  

Mann-Elkms Act (1910) 

"Rule of Reason" Cases (1911) 

WILSON'S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS (March 4, 1913) 

FEDERAL RESERVE ACT (December 23, 1913)

Underwood Tariff (1913)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT (September 26, 1914)

CLAYTON ANTITRUST ACT (October 15, 1914)

A. B. C. Mediation Protocol (1914) 334 La Follette Seamen's Act (1915)

ELIHU ROOT'S SPEECH ON "INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT" (August 30, 1915)

Federal Farm Loan Act (1916)

Adamson Act (1916)

Jones Acts (1916, 1917)

WILSON'S "PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY" SPEECH (January 22, 1917) 

WILSON'S SPEECH FOR A DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY (April 2, 1917) 

Espionage Act (1917)

Bunting v. Oregon (1917) 

Lansing-Ishii Agreement (1917) 

THE FOURTEEN POINTS (January 8, 1918) 

Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) 

LODGE RESERVATIONS TO THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES (November 6, 1919) 

WILLIAM E. BORAH'S SPEECH AGAINST RATIFICATION OF THE VERSAILLES TREATY (November 19, 1919) 

Volstead Act (1919) 

Schenc^ v. United States (1919) 

Missouri v. Holland (1920) 

Sheppard-Towner Act (1922) 

Washington Conference Treaties (1921, 1922) 

Immigration Acts (1921, 1924, 1927) 

Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922) 

Admins v. Children's Hospital (1923) 

"Teapot Dome" Resolution (1924) 

Dawes Plan (1924) 

Gitlow v. New Yor\ (1925) 

BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI'S LAST STATEMENT (April 9, 1927) 

Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) 357 

HOOVER'S "RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM" SPEECH (October 22, 1928) 

STIMSON DOCTRINE (January 7, 1932) 

Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act (1932) 

Norris-LaGuardia Act (1932) 

Federal Farm Home Loan Bank Act (1932) 

Scottsboro Cases (1932, 1935) 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS (March 4, 1933) 

Civilian Conservation Reforestation Relief Act (1933) 

Federal Emergency Relief Act (1933) 

Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933) 

TENNESSEE VALLEY ACT (May 18, 1933) 

Home Owners' Refinancing Act (1933) 

Glass-Steagall (Banking) Act (1933) 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT (June 16, 1933)

Commodity Credit Corporation Act (1933) 

United States v. One Boo\ Called "Ulysses" (1933) 

Federal Securities Act (1933) 

Securities Exchange Act (1934) 

Gold Reserve Act (1934) 

Trade Agreements Act (1934) 

Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act (1934) 

Home Building and Loan Association v. Blaisdell (1934) 

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act (1935) 

National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) (1935) 

Social Security Act (1935) 

Public Utility Holding Company Act (1935) 

Schecter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935) 

Neutrality Acts (i935> 193^, 1937) 

Walsh-Healey Government Contracts Act (1936) 374 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S CAMPAIGN ADDRESS AT CHICAGO (October 14, 1936) 

Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (1937)

Wagner-Steagall Act (1937)

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S "QUARANTINE" SPEECH (October 5, 1937)

National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937) 

Social Security Cases (1937) 

West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937) 

Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) 

Report on Economic Conditions in the South (1938) 

Neutrality Act (1939) 

Hatch Acts (1939, 1940) 

Smith Act (Alien Registration Act) (1940) 

Selective Service and Training Act (1940) 

Chambers v. Florida (1940) 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S "FOUR FREEDOMS" SPEECH (January 6, 1941) 

Lend-Lease Act (1941) 

CHARLES A. LINDBERGH'S SPEEH FOR THE AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE (April 23, 1941) 

ATLANTIC CHARTER (August 14, 1941) 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S WAR MESSAGE TO CONGRESS (December 8, 1941) 39i 

United States v. Classic (1941) 

United States v. Darby (1941) 

Emergency Price Control Act (1942) 

Relocation Order (1942) 

Casablanca Conference Joint Statement of Roosevelt and Churchill (1943)

Connally-Fulbright Resolutions (1943) 

Tehran Conference Joint Statement of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin (1943) 

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) 

Moscow Declaration (1943) 

"G.L Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act) (1944) 

Yalta Agreements (1945) 

Act of Chapultepec (1945) 

Potsdam Declarations (1945) 

Bretton Woods Act (1945) 

Truman's Statement of Foreign Policy (1945) 

United Nations Participation Act (1945) 

Baruch Proposals for Control of Atomic Energy (1946) 

Atomic Energy Act (McMahon Act) (1946) 

Fulbright Act (1946) 

TRUMAN DOCTRINE (March 12, 1947) 

THE MARSHALL PLAN (June 5, 1947) 

Truman Loyalty Order (1947) 

Taft-Hartley Act (1947) 

Presidential Succession Act (1947) 

VANDENBERG RESOLUTION (June ii, 1948) 

"Pumpkin Papers" (1948) 

Shelley v, Kraemar (1948) 

North Atlantic Treaty (1949) 

Report of the Hoover Commission (1949) 

TRUMAN'S STATEMENT ON KOREA (June 27, 1950) 

McCarran Act (Internal Security Act) (1950) 

Japanese Peace Treaty (1951) 

Tripartite Security Treaty (1951) 

McCarran- Walter Act (1952) 

Youngstown Co. v. Sawyer (1952) 

Stevenson's Speech Accepting the Democratic Nomination (1952)

Eisenhower's First Inaugural Address (1953)

Tidelands Oil Act (1953) 

Bricker Amendment (1953) 

St. Lawrence Seaway Act (1954) 

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (1954) 

McCarthy "Censure" Resolution (1954) 

"Atoms for Peace" Proposal (1954) 

Mutual Security Treaty with China (1954) 

BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF TOPEKA (May 17, 1954)

Desegregation Directive (1955) 

Eisenhower's Disarmament Proposals (1955) 

AFL-CIO Merger Agreement (1955) 

Declaration of Washington (1956) 

"Declaration of Constitutional Principles" (1956) 

Agricultural Act (1956) 

Highway Act (1956) 

Social Security Act (1956) 

Slochower v. New Yor% City Higher Education Board (1956) 

Eisenhower Doctrine Resolution (1957) 

Mutual Security Appropriation Act (1957) 

Civil Rights Act (1957) 

EISENHOWER'S PROCLAMATION AND STATEMENT ON THE LITTLE ROCK INTEGRATION CRISIS (September 23, 1957) 

UNITED STATES DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS (1957) 

JencJ^s v. United States (1957) 

Watkins v. United States (1957) 

Eisenhower's Letter to Bulganin (January 12, 1958) 

Alaskan Statehood Act (1958) 

Euratom Cooperation Act (1958) 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act (1958) 

Defense Department Reorganization Act (1958) 

Trade Agreements Act (1958) 

Mutual Security Appropriations Act (1958) 

National Defense Education Act (1958) 

Hawaiian Statehood Act (1959) 

Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (1959)

Mutual Security and Related Agencies Appropriation Act (1959)

Civil Rights Act (1960)

Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Act for International Development (1961)

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