| Description |
vi, 241 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Explore American history firsthand though this nation's most important documents. This book tells the story of a growing, vibrant democracy through its laws, Supreme Court rulings, treaties, and presidential speeches, from colonial times to the present. Organized chronologically, each document includes a brief introduction and excerpts, and often an image of the original. Most are followed by relevant historical quotes from books, newspapers, and speeches of their eras, providing a framework to understand each document's significance. The more than 60 entries include: the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, Washington's Farewell Address, the Missouri Compromise, the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, the Emancipation Proclamation, the Homestead Act, Wilson's Fourteen Points, Brown v. Board of Education, the Voting Rights Act, and the Resignation Speech of Richard Nixon.--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
1606 First Charter of Virginia -- 1620 Pilgrims Sign the Mayflower Compact -- 1639 Connecticut Constitution -- 1765 Stamp Act & Stamp Act Congress Declaration of Rights -- 1773 Tea Act -- 1776 Thomas Paine's Common Sense -- 1776 Lee's Resolution for Independence -- 1776 Declaration of Independence -- 1778 Treaty of Alliance with. France -- 1781 Articles of Confederation -- 1783 Treaty of Paris -- 1783 General Washington's Farewell to His Soldiers -- 1787 Northwest Ordinance -- 1789 Constitution of the United States -- 1791 Bill of Rights -- 1793 Fugitive Slave Law -- 1796 President Washington's Farewell Address -- 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts -- 1803 Louisiana Purchase -- 1814 Treaty of Ghent -- 1820 Missouri Compromise -- 1823 Monroe Doctrine -- 1832, Nullification. Crisis -- 1846 Wilmot Proviso -- 1848 Declaration of Sentiments -- 1850 Compromise of 1850 -- 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- 1853 Gadsden Purchase -- 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act -- 1857 Dred Scott Decision -- 1861 Constitution of the Confederate States of America -- 1862 Homestead Act -- 1862 Pacific Railway Act -- 1862 Morrill Act -- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation -- 1863 Gettysburg Address -- 1865 Thirteenth Amendment -- 1865 Lincoln's Second. Inaugural Address -- 1867 Reconstruction Act -- 1867 Purchase of Alaska -- 1868 Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson -- 1868 Fourteenth Amendment -- 1870 Fifteenth Amendment -- 1876 Tilden Versus Hayes -- 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act -- 1887 Dawes Act -- 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act -- 1898 Resolution on Spanish-American War -- 1902 Newlands Reclamation Act -- 1906 Antiquities Act -- 1917 President: Wilson Declares War -- 1917 Selective Service Act -- 1918 Wilson's Fourteen Points -- 1919 Eighteenth Amendment -- 1920 Nineteenth Amendment -- 1935 Social Security Act -- 1941 President Roosevelt's December 8, 1941, Address to Congress -- 1942 Japanese Relocation Order Issued -- 1945 Atomic Bomb is Dropped -- 1945 United Nations Is Chartered -- 1950 United States Takes Military Action in Korea -- 1951 Twenty-Second Amendment -- 1954 Brown v. Board of Education -- 1961 President Kennedy's Inauguration -- 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution -- 1964 Civil Rights Act -- 1965 Voting Rights Act -- 1974 Nixon Resigns -- 1987 Fall of the Berlin Wall -- 2000 Bush v. Gore -- 2001 USA PATRIOT Act -- 2002 Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces in Iraq. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Sources.
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| ISBN |
9781556527166 |
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1556527160 |
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9781556528040 paperback |
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1556528043 paperback |
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