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Lee Resolution
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Treaty of Alliance with France
Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States
Treaty of Paris
Virginia Plan
Northwest Ordinance
Constitution of the United States
Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 51
President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech
Federal Judiciary Act
Bill of Rights
Patent for Cotton Gin
President George Washington's Farewell Address
Alien and Sedition Acts


Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Louisiana Purchase Treaty
Marbury v. Madison
Treaty of Ghent
McCulloch v. Maryland
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
Gibbons v. Ogden
President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo


Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
Morrill Act
Emancipation Proclamation
General Order 143
Gettysburg Address
Wade-Davis Bill
President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery
Check for the Purchase of Alaska
Treaty of Fort Laramie
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights
15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights
Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park
Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Dawes Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
De Lôme Letter
Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States


Platt Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax
17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
Zimmermann Telegram
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany
President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote
Boulder Canyon Project Act
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
National Labor Relations Act
Social Security Act
President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address unveiling the second half of the New Deal
President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress
Lend-Lease Act
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan
Executive Order 9066: Japanese Relocation Order
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day
Servicemen's Readjustment Act
Manhattan Project Notebook
Surrender of Germany
United Nations Charter
Surrender of Japan
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces


Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State
Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
Brown v. Board of Education
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address
President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps.
Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center
Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba
Test Ban Treaty
Official Program for the March on Washington
Civil Rights Act
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Social Security Act Amendments
Voting Rights Act

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