100 Milestone Documents of American History
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All 100 Milestone Documents:
(grouped by historical era)
Revolution and the New Nation 1754 to 1829 |
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- Declaration of Independence (1776)
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Image Only - Lee Resolution (1776)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Articles of Confederation (1777)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Treaty of Paris (1783)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Virginia Plan (1787)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Constitution of the United States (1787)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 51 (1787-1788)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Federal Judiciary Act (1789)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - 1791 Bill of Rights (1791)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Marbury v Madison (1803)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - McCulloch v Maryland (1819)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Monroe Doctrine (1823)
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Expansion and Reform 1801 to 1861 |
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- Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark (1803)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Gibbons v Ogden (1824)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Homestead Act (1862)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Morrill Act (1862)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Dawes Act (1887)
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Civil War and Reconstruction 1850 to 1877 |
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- Missouri Compromise (1820)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Compromise of 1850 (1850)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Dred Scott v Sanford (1857)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Gettysburg Address (1863)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)
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The Development of the Industrial United States 1870 to 1900 |
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- Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Pendleton Act (1883)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
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The Emergence of Modern America 1890 to 1930 |
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- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Dawes Act (1887)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - De Lôme Letter (1898)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States (1898)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Platt Amendment (1903)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 (1916)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)
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The Great Depression and World War II 1929 to 1945 |
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- Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - National Labor Relations Act (1935)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Social Security Act (1935)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address Unveiling the Second Half of the New Deal (1936)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress (1941)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Surrender of Germany (1945)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Manhattan Project Notebook (1945)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Surrender of Japan (1945)
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Postwar United States 1945 to 1970 |
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- United Nations Charter (1945)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Truman Doctrine (1947)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Marshall Plan (1948)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Brown v Board of Education (1954)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps (1961)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Civil Rights Act (1964)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Voting Rights Act (1965)
Go to "Our Documents" Web Page Image Only - Social Security Act Amendments (1965)
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