Documents

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||# Document ||# Year ||# Purpose ||

|| Declaration of Independence || 1776 || ||

|| US Constitution || 1787 || ||

|| Bill of Rights || 1791 || ||

|| Federalist Papers || 1787-1788 || ||

|| Washington's First Inaugural || 1789 || ||

|| Washington's Farewell Address || 1796 || ||

|| Gettysburg Address || 1863 || ||

|| Lincoln's Second Inaugural || 1865 || ||

||# Document ||# Year ||# Purpose ||

|| Founding Fathers || || ||

|| Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom || 1786 || ||

|| Speech on Amendments || 1789 || ||

|| Property || 1792 || ||

|| Federal Judiciary Act || 1789 || ||

|| Monroe Doctrine || 1823 || ||

|| Emancipation Proclamation || 1863 || ||

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Common Sense

The American Crisis

Antifederalist Papers

[Part 1](https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/madison-the-writings-vol-3-1787) and [[Part 2](../https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/madison-the-writings-vol-4-1787.md) of Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
[Part 1](https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/madison-the-writings-vol-3-1787) and [[Part 2](../https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/madison-the-writings-vol-4-1787.md) of Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787

Articles of Confederation (1777)

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|| [[Northwest Ordinance (1787)]] || || ||

Lee Resolution (1776)

Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Virginia Plan (1787)

Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)

Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)

Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Treaty of Ghent (1814)

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

Missouri Compromise (1820)

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Compromise of 1850 (1850)

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)

Homestead Act (1862)

Pacific Railway Act (1862)

Morrill Act (1862)

War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863)

Wade-Davis Bill (1864)

Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)

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