Documents Chronologically

1763

Proclamation of 1763

1765

1768

Boston Non-Importation Agreement

1774

1775

1776

1777

Articles of Confederation

1778

Treaty of Fort Pitt

1780

Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery

1785

James Madison’s Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments

1787

1789

George Washington's First Inaugural Address

1790

George Washington's First Annual Message to Congress

1791

1796

George Washington's Farewell Address

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

1801

Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address

1803

1807

Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves

1816

Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee

1819

McCulloch v. Maryland

1820

Missouri Compromise

1823

Monroe Doctrine

1824

Gibbons v. Ogden

1830

Andrew Jackson: On Indian Removal

1831

William Lloyd Garrison's First Liberator Editorial

1832

1845

Joint Resolution of Congress for the Annexation of Texas

1848

Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments

1850

Compromise of 1850

1852

Frederick Douglass's “Fourth of July” Speech

1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1857

1860

South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession

1861

1862

1863

1865

1866

Civil Rights Act of 1866

1868

1870

Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

1872

Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park

1877

Rutherford B. Hayes's Inaugural Address

1879

Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Incandescent Light Bulb

1882

Chinese Exclusion Act

1883

Pendleton Civil Service Act

1887

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act

1895

Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address

1896

1898

William McKinley's Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention

1901

The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell

1904

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

1905

Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles

1908

Muller v. Oregon

1913

Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

1917

1918

1920

Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

1933

1935

1936

1941

1942

Executive Order 9066

1944

1947

1948

1952

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer

1954

1956

1957

Executive Order 10730

1961

1962

John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center

1963

1964

1965

Voting Rights Act

1966

Miranda v. Arizona

1968

Kerner Commission Report Summary

1972

1973

Roe v. Wade

1978

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

1983

Ronald Reagan's “Evil Empire” Speech

1984

César Chávez's Commonwealth Address

1990

George H. W. Bush's Address to Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis

1996

Bill Clinton's Radio Address on the Welfare Reform Act

1998

Articles of Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton

2000

Bush v. Gore

2001

George W. Bush's Address to the Nation on September 11, 2001

2002

Bybee Torture Memo

2003

Lawrence v. Texas