We hold these truths ... a documentary history of the United States.

We hold these truths ... a documentary history of the United States.

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Other Authors: Hammond, Harold E. (Harold Earl), 1922-1986
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bronxville, N.Y., Cambridge Book Co. c1964.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Mayflower compact (1620)
  • the fundamental orders of Connecticut (1639)
  • the New England Confederation (1643)
  • the Maryland toleration act (1649)
  • the British navigation acts (1660-1764)-- writs of assistance (1755).
  • Resolutions of the stamp act Congress (1765)
  • declaration of rights
  • first Continental Congress (1774)
  • declaration of independence (1776).
  • The articles of Confederation (1777)
  • the Northwest ordinance (1787)
  • the Constitution (1787).
  • Washington documents proclamation of neutrality (1793)
  • farewell address (1796)
  • the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions (1798, 1799)
  • the Louisiana purchase (1803)
  • Marbury, vs Madision (1803)
  • Madison's declaration of War (1812).
  • McCulloch vs Maryland (1819)
  • the Missouri compromise (1819)
  • the Monroe doctrine (1823)
  • South Carolina's ordinance of nullification (1832)
  • Jackson's proclamation to South Carolina (1832).
  • The Constitution of the American anti-slavery Society (1833)
  • Commonwelath vs Hunt (1842)
  • the compromise of 1850
  • the Dred Scott decision (1857).
  • Lincoln documents: The "House divided" speech (1858)
  • Lincoln-Douglas debate (1858)
  • first inaugural address (1861)
  • emancipation proclamation (1863)
  • Gettysburg address (1863)
  • second inaugural address (1865).
  • The Freedmen's Bureau act (1865)
  • ex parte Milligam (1866)
  • first Civil rights act (1866)
  • first reconstruction act (1876)
  • the Pendleton act (1883)
  • the Interstate Commerece act (1887)
  • the Sherman Ant-Trust act (1890).
  • The populist Party platform (1892)
  • Bryan's "Cross of gold" speech (1896)
  • the Chinese exclusion act (1902)
  • Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation message (1907).
  • Woodrow Wilson documents: Federal Reserve act (1913)
  • Federal trade Commission (1914)
  • Clayton anti-trust act (1914)
  • War message to Congress (1917)
  • fourteen points (1918).
  • Indian citizenship act (1924)
  • Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction bill (1932).
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt documents: First inaugural address (1933)
  • Tennessee Valley act (1933)
  • National industrial recovery act (1933).
  • Agricultural adjustment act (1933)
  • National Labor relations act (1935)
  • social security act (1935).
  • "Quarantinte the aggressions" speech (1937)
  • four freedoms speech (1941)
  • Atlantic charter (1941)
  • War Nessage (1941).
  • Act of Chapultepece (1945)
  • excepts from the United Nations charter (1945)
  • the North Atlantic treaty (1949)
  • the Immigration law (1952)
  • Brown vs Board of education of Topeka (1954)
  • John F. Kennedy's inaugural address (1961).
  • Lyndon B. Johnson's address to U.N. (1963)
  • Lyndon's B. Johnson's inaugural address (1965).

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