5 Mart 2013 Salı

Milestone Documents of the United States

Milestone Documents of the United States


To help us think, talk and teach about the rights and responsibilities of citizens in our democracy, we invite you to explore 100 milestone documents of American history. These documents reflect our diversity and our unity, our past and our future, and mostly our commitment as a nation to continue to strive to "form a more perfect union."

DocumentYear
Lee Resolution1776
Declaration of Independence1776
Articles of Confederation1777
Treaty of Alliance with France1778
Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States1782
Treaty of Paris1783
Virginia Plan1787
Northwest Ordinance1787
Constitution of the United States1787
Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 511787-1788
Federal Judiciary Act1789
President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech1789
Bill of Rights1791
Patent for Cotton Gin1794
President George Washington's Farewell Address1796
Alien and Sedition Acts1798
Louisiana Purchase Treaty1803
Marbury v. Madison1803
Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition1803
Treaty of Ghent1814
McCulloch v. Maryland1819
Missouri Compromise1820
Monroe Doctrine1823
Gibbons v. Ogden1824
President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'1830
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo1848
Compromise of 18501850
Kansas-Nebraska Act1854
Dred Scott v. Sanford1857
Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter1861
Homestead Act1862
Morrill Act1862
Pacific Railway Act1862
War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops1863
Emancipation Proclamation1863
Gettysburg Address1863
Wade-Davis Bill1864
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery1865
President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address1865
Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia1865
Treaty of Fort Laramie1868
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights1868
Check for the Purchase of Alaska1868
15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights1870
Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park1872
Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb1880
Chinese Exclusion Act1882
Pendleton Act1883
Interstate Commerce Act1887
Dawes Act1887
Sherman Anti-Trust Act1890
Plessy v. Ferguson1896
De Lôme Letter1898
Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States1898
Platt Amendment1903
Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine1905
16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax1913
17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators1913
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 19161916
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany1917
Zimmermann Telegram1917
President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points1918
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote1920
Boulder Canyon Project Act1928
National Industrial Recovery Act1933
Tennessee Valley Authority Act1933
National Labor Relations Act1935
Social Security Act1935
President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address unveiling the second half of the New Deal1936
President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress1941
Lend-Lease Act1941
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry1941
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan1941
Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese1942
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day1944
Servicemen's Readjustment Act1944
United Nations Charter1945
Manhattan Project Notebook1945
Surrender of Japan1945
Surrender of Germany1945
Truman Doctrine1947
Marshall Plan1948
Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel1948
Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces1948
Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State1953
Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy1954
Brown v. Board of Education1954
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act1956
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School1957
Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps.1961
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address1961
President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address1961
Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba1962
Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center1962
Official Program for the March on Washington1963
Test Ban Treaty1963
Civil Rights Act1964
Tonkin Gulf Resolution1964
Social Security Act Amendments1965
Voting Rights Act1965

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