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Colonial America Archiving Early America A Biography of America English Settlement (1607-1691) - Annenberg-CPB A Brief History Of Jamestown, Virginia Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism 1619-1789 Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy DRY DRUNK The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-century Europe The Early American Review Four Faces of Pocahontas The Huguenot Historical Society (New Paltz, NY) The Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London A Conservator's Perspective - by Sylvia R. Albro and Holly H. Krueger Jamestown Rediscovery John Winthrop Map--Black-White Colonial America Outline Map 1776 Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map The New Netherland Museum Pictorial Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade The Plymouth Colony Archive Project and the Univ. of VA Plymouth Its History and Its People Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC) Resources on the Puritans The Story of the Pilgrims The Trial of Anne Hutchinson Virtual Jamestown Wills of the Mayflower Passengers William Penn Visionary Proprietor A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Principal Navigations, Voyages of the English Nation, III - Richard First Virginia Charter Instructions for the Virginia Colony Various Laws of Jamestown Reasons for Raising a Fund to Settle America on the Value of Colonies to England - Richard Hakluyt The Starving Time - Capt. John Smith Powhatan to John Smith Second Virginia Charter Third Virginia Charter John Smith's Letter to Queen Anne Regarding Pocahontas Laws Concerning Religion - Virginia General Assembly Charter of New England Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates The Mayflower Compact Letters of the Early Plymouth Settlers The First Thanksgiving in Plymouth An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England The Sin and Danger of Self Love - sermon by Robert Cushman Mourt's Relations - a journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Necessary Supplies for the Voyage to Virginia Letter to His Parents - Richard Frethorne (indentured servant) Generall Historie by John Smith (cover) Images from John Smith's Generall Historie Account of the Purchase of Manhattan - translation of the Peter Sschaghen letter Charter of Massachusetts Bay Reasons for the Plantation in New England - John Winthrop The Salem Covenant Laws Pertaining to Slaves and Servants, Virginia The Divine Right to Occupy the Land - John Cotton The Humble Request of the Puritan Emigrants A Model of Christian Charity - John Winthrop The True Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith in Europe, Asia, Africa and America Various documents on the Antinomian Controversy Advertisements for the Inexperienced Planters of New England - Capt. John Smith Letter from New England by Richard Saltonstall Reasons for Emigrating to New England - John Winthrop A Relation of the Successful Beginnings of the Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Maryland Letter of Lord Baltimore to his brother, Leonard Concerning Catholicism in Maryland The Glorious Work in Maryland, Father Andrew White, S.J. The forme of a binding servant - an indentured contract Passengers to Virginia The Constitution of Plymouth Colony John Cotton Condemns Democracy John Winthrop's Testimony - the Boston Governor's account of his Christian experience Account of the Pequot War Essay Against the Power of the Church To Sit in Judgement on the Civil Magistracy by John Winthrop - a treatise indicating an e The Examination of Mrs Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton Manners and Customs of the Indians of New England - Thomas Morton Revels in New Canaan - Thomas Morton Fundamental Orders of Connecticut New England's First Fruits - the first written history regarding the founding of Harvard College The Massachusetts Body of Liberties Massachusetts Bay School Laws Harvard College Admission and Graduation Requirements The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience - Roger WIlliams George Gillespie refutes Roger Williams A Plea for Religious Liberty - Roger Williams On Liberty - John Winthrop Against Toleration - Nathaniel Ward The Simple Comler of Aggawam in America - Nathaneil Ward Maryland Toleration Act The Social Laws of Connecticut Two poems by Anne Bradstreet A declaration of the General Court of the Massachusets holden at Boston, in New-England, October 18, 1659. Concerning the exec Sumptuary Laws in New England - laws regarding what one may and may not wear British Navigation Acts - excerpts Margaret Fell's letter to the King on the persecution of the Quakers Connecticut Colony Charter Indentured Servitude in Maryland Will of Edward Garfield from Watertown, Massachusetts Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina - John Locke The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead, for Causing a Tumolt Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary - painting by Freake Limner The First Thanksgiving Proclamation Proposals for the Carrying on the Negro's Christianity - Morgan Goodwyn Petition for a Democratic Government - town of East-Hampton, Long Island Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims - William Penn Edward Randolph Condemns the Massachusetts Bay Company Before the Board of Trade Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (2-2) The Original Constitution of New York Causes of King Phillip's War - Edward Randolph Instructions to Sir Edmund Andros On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law by Samuel Pufendorf - based law and right on natural law Toleration Act of William and Mary Governor Andros' Report The Character of a Good Ruler - sermon by Samuel Willard Discourses Concerning Government, Table of Contents by Algernon Sidney - built principles of popular government from foundation Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn, esq., to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories (10-28) Bacon's Rebellion The Black Presence -- Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable The Church of England in Early America Colonial American Newspapers Colonial Currency Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature Cross Roads and Cross Rivers Diversity in Colonial New York The Diary, Correspondence, and Papers of Robert King Carter of Virginia 1701-1732 Early American Art The First Great Awakening The First Great Awakening - essay by Sarah Valkenburgh (Concord Review) Frontier Homes (The History Channel) Georgia Before Oglethorpe How Did Slavery in America Begin HudsonRiver.com Introduction to the Free Speech Clause - the John Peter Zenger Case (Exploring Constitutional Conflicts) Jonathan Edwards King Philip's War Cultural, Gender, and Historical Implications Map--Native American Land Cessions (animated) Map--Population Growth in English Colonies to 1775 (animated) The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious Pluralism The Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, NY The Peter Zenger Trial, 1735 Religion, Women, and the Family in Early America The Quakers The Quakers An Introduction Salem Witch Museum The Salem Witch Trial of 1692 The Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692) Sermons of John Whitefield Spiritual Leaders of the Great Awakening The Stono Rebellion William Penn, Visionary Proprietor Witchcraft in Salem Village To My Dear and Loving Husband - poem by Anne Bradstreet Lord Say and Sele - John Cotton Condemns Democracy Transcript of the Trial of Anne Hutchinson Slave Laws in Virginia Witchcraft Trial in New York Three poems by Anne Bradstreet (including To Her Loving Husband) Declaration and Remonstrance - Governor William Berkeley First Thanksgiving Proclamation (6-20) King's Letter to the Duke of York Nathaniel Bacon's Father Petitions the King Nathaniel Bacon's Manifesto Nathaniel Bacon's Oath of Fidelity Royal Description of Nathaniel Bacon The State of Virginia Various documents on Bacon's Rebellion The Author to Her Book - poem by Anne Bradstreet Revolt of the Pueblo Indians (excerpts from several documents) A Way to Get Wealth - Gervase Markham A Letter from a Gentleman of the City of New York - on Leisler's Rebellion From a gentleman of Boston to a friend in the countrey. 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N. - broadside Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions - Cotton Mather Death Warrant of Bridget Bishop The Examination and Confession of Ann Foster at Salem Village Indictment of Bridget Bishop Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 Oral Examination of Bridget Bishop Physical Examination of Bridget Bishop Testimony Against Bridget Bishop Transcripts of the Salem Witch Trials Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits - Increase Mather Wonders of the Invisible World - Cotton Mather William Penn's Plan of Union The Story of Squanto - Cotton Mather The Selling of Joseph (a slave) - Samuel Sewall Secret Diary of William Byrd Boston News Letter (4 pages) - broadside Governor Beverley on Bacon's Rebellion Money and Trade Considered With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money - John Law Curriculum of the Boston Latin Grammar School Biennial Act By the honourable Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq; Governour of His Majesty's Colony of Connecticut in New-England, a proclamation for Some meditations concerning our honourable gentlemen and fellow-souldiers, in pursuit of those barbarous natives in the Narraga The Black Code of Louisiana Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity - Benjamin Franklin An Englishman Tastes the Sweat of an African Slave - illustration by Serge Daget Cotton Mather - engraving by Peter Pelham A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper- Currency by Ben Franklin Benjamin Franklin's Pursuit of Moral Perfection Runaway Slave Notices - South Carolina Gazette Founding Vision for Georgia - James Oglethorpe Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin Franklin (excerpts) Defense of Peter Zenger - Andrew Hamilton The Great Awakening in New Hampshire Description of African Slavery A Commons House of Assembly Committee Report, in a Message to the Governor's Council on the Stono Rebellion slave catchers (11- Report from William Bull regarding the Stono Rebellion (10-5) The Danger of an Unconverted Ministry - Sermon by Gilbert Tennent The Future Punishment of the Wicked - sermon by Jonathan Edwards This indenture made the ninth day of September Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and forty . by and between [blank] on th Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - sermon by Jonathan Edwards (7-8) Against Revivalism - Charles Chauncy Jonathan Edwards, from Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England Rules for Civility - George Washington On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants - Gottlieb Mittelberger The Defense of Slavery in Virginia Broadside Announcing the Sale of Slaves Letter of the Quaker woman, Increase Woodward to her son The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain, briefly consider'd - Soame Jenyns America's Historic Lakes--Lake Champlain and Lake George Historical Sites Benjamin Franklin A Documentary History A Biography of America The Coming of Independence (1763-1783) - Annenberg-CPB A Biography of America Growth & Empire (1663-1763) - Annenberg-CPB The Boston Massacre Trials, 1770 Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Equiano Background, Experiences, and Travel Fighting for a Continent Newspaper Coverage of the English and French War For Control of North America, 1754-1760 The Gaspee Virtual Archives The French and Indian War's Impact on America Historic Philadelphia On the Trail of the Last of the Mohicans Rice, Indigo, and Fever in Colonial South Carolina Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia Molasses Act (5-17, 28) Transcript of the Trial of Peter Zenger Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England - Jonathan Edwards The Cry of Oppression - Sermon by Nathaniel Appleton An Evaluation of French Military Power Albany Plan of Union In Defense of a Plan for Colonial Union by Benjamin Franklin - arguments in favor of the Albany Plan of Union Join or Die - political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania Gazette (5-9) Extract of a letter from Will's Creek (7-10) French Account of General Braddock's Defeat Poems for Soldiers - French & Indian War The Curse of Cowardice - a sermon by Samuel Davies General Townshend's Report on the Fall of Quebec Rules of Rogers' Rangers Standing Orders for Rogers' Rangers Against the Writs of Assistance - James Otis Enlistment Papers The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England - Governor Glen The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved - James Otis Royal Proclamation of 1763 Writ of Assistance (10-7) The Running of Mason and Dixon's Line Currency Act Sugar Act The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved - James Otis The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress Excerpt from the Diary of John Adams (12-18) The Governor of Massachusetts Bay issues a Proclamation against Rioters Join or Die - The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain - Soames Jenyns A Patriotic Advertisement Quartering Act Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress Stamp Act Declaratory Act The Repeal or the Funeral Procession of Miss America-Stamp - political cartoon by Benjamin Wilson William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act Townsend Act Letter 2 from John Dickinson's Letters of a Pennsylvania Letter 4 from John Dickinson's Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer The Daughters of Liberty - anonymous poem Massachusetts Circular Letter (2-11) Virginia Non-Importation Resolutions Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre The Bloody Massacre - engraving by Paul Revere The Boston Massacre - Boston Gazette and Country Journal Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre The Rights of the Colonists Tea Act Tea Destroyed by Indians - son lyrics-broadside Administration of Justice Act The Boston Massacre Oration - John Hancock (3-5) Boston Port Act The Bostonians in Distress - copy of mezzotint attributed to Philip Dawe, London The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering - copy of mezzotint attributed to Philip Dawe Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress A genuine letter from a well-known patriot at St. James's to his friend in Boston, relative to the present distracted state of Letter of Abigail Adams to John Adams Massachusetts Government Act Olive Branch Petition Petition of A Grate Number of Blackes of the Province to Governor Thomas Gage and the Members of the Massachusetts General Co A Plan for the Union of Great Britain and the Colonies - Joseph Galloway A protest entered into by nine patriotic members of the House of Lords, against the address of that House to the King, present Quebec Act A Summary View of the Rights of British America - Thomas Jefferson African Slavery in America - 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American Revolution America's Wars--The American Revolution The American Revolution Archiving Early America Benjamin Franklin A Documentary History A Biography of America The Coming of Independence (1763-1783) - Annenberg-CPB Black Loyalists Causes of the American Revolution - essay by Steve Wilkins (2 pages) Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism 1619-1789 Colonial Currency Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature Cross Roads and Cross Rivers Diversity in Colonial New York Declaring Independence Drafting the Documents Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789 Drums Along the Mohawk The American Revolution on the New York Frontier Early American Art The Execution of Nathan Hale, 1776 Flags of the American Revolution George Washington (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency George Washington's Mount Vernon The Great Seal of the United States -- First Great Seal Committee (1776) Historic Philadelphia Historic Valley Forge Indians and the American Revolution - essay by Wilcomb E. 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Scott New Jersey During the Revolution The Papers of George Washington Prelude to Revolution (timeline) Religion and the American Revolution Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (LOC) Spy Letters of the American Revolution Thomas Jefferson Papers - Library of Congress Thomas Paine - biography and links Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue - extensive site on the American Revolution Virtual Marching Tours of the American Revolution Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia What was happening in the rest of the world during the American The Writing of the Declaration of Independence Free America - a Revolutionary song by Joseph Warren he Captivity of Jonathan Alder (1773-1849) and His Life with the Indians (full text) God Save the Thirteen Colonies - a Revolutionary song (anonymous author) Yankee Doodle - song lyrics (anonymous) The Rifleman's Song at Bennington - song lyrics of Vermont Patriots The King's speech to both houses of Parliament, on the 30th of November Suffolk Resolves The address of the Lords and Commons to his Majesty, on the present state of America - broadside The Battle of Bunker Hill - Major-General John Burgoyne to Lord Stanley The Battle of Bunker Hill - British song lyrics The Charlotte Town Resolves Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms - John Dickinson & Thomas Jefferson First-Hand Account of the Midnight Ride - Paul Revere The Farmer Refuted - Alexander Hamilton Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech - Patrick Henry His Majesty's most gracious speech to both houses of Parliament, on Friday, 10-27 - broadside The King's Own Regulars - traditional song lyrics from the British soldier's point of view Letter on Doubts About Independence - Abigail Adams Novanglus No. 7 - John Adams (Jan.) - using his pen name, Adams writes a response to a Loyalist New England Restraining Act (3-30) On Civil Liberty, Passive Obedience, and Nonresistance - Jonathan Boucher A Proclamation, by The King, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition A Report on Indian Affairs - Articles of Confederation Congress (7-12) A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina - political cartoon by Philip Dawe, London Speech on Conciliation with America - Sir Edmund Burke A View of the Controversy Between Great Britain and Colonies by a Westchester Farmer, Samuel Seabury William Pitt's Speech on the Stamp Act Excerpts from the Journal of John Paul Jones Actual Page from The Boston Gazette (10-7-1776) The American Crisis, I - Thomas Paine in Common Sense American Independence - Samuel Adams (8-1) The Battle of Trenton The Capture and Execution of Capt. Nathan Hale - a letter from Hale's Sergeant, Stephen Hempstead Common Sense - Thomas Paine Concord Town Meeting Resolution The Constitution of Pennsylvania The Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson Diary of a Revolutionary Army Physician Draft Constitution for Virginia - Thomas Jefferson Fragment of an original letter on the slavery of the negroes; written in the year 1776, by Thomas Day, Esq. - broadside Halifax Resolve An intercepted original letter from General Washington to his Lady, in the year 1776 (1-24) - broadside John Adams to Abigail Adams - letter (7-3) Letter and Poem to General Washington - Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet Letter to Congress on Recruiting & Maintaining an Army - George Washington Life in the Colonial Army- Captain Georg Pausch Plain Truth - a Loyalist pamphlet by James Chalmers (Candidus) Reading of the Declaration of independence White Plains, July 11, 1776 (From a painting by George Albert Harker - Courtesy West The Recruiting Service - Captain Alexander Graydon Resolution introduced in the Continental Congress by Richard Henry Lee (Virginia) proposing a Declaration of Independence Resolution of a Concord, MA Town Meeting Rights of Women in an Independent Republic - letter of Abigail Adams to John Adams (Mar. 31, Apr. 14, May 26) Thomas Jefferson's Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence Thoughts on Government - John Adams The True Interest of America Impartially Stated - Charles Inglis Virginia Declaration of Rights - George Mason An Account of the Battle of Princeton Articles of Confederation Constitution of New York The first prayer in Congress. In Thatcher's military journal, under date of December 1777, is found a note containing the iden From the Diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge - Albigence Waldo Hessian Account of the Battle of Saratoga John McKinly Writes to his Wife Jenny Major-General Burgoyne to his nieces after the Battle of Saratoga Petition of Blacks to the Massachusetts General Court for an end to slavery Statute of Religious Freedom - Thomas Jefferson Letter of Mrs. Hannah Corbin Letters from Valley Forge Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the U. S. & France Treaty with the Delawares Treaty with France A Bill Concerning Slaves - Thomas Jefferson Draft for a Bill Establishing Religious Freedom - Thomas Jefferson The American Crisis - Thomas Paine Blacks Petition Against Taxation Without Representation (3-14) Letter from Benedict Arnold to the inhabitants of North America as reported in The London Gazette (11-11-14-1780) Letter from Benedict Arnold to Major John André (7-12) - decoded Letter from Benedict Arnold to Major John André (7-15) - decoded Letter from Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for his wife (9-25) The Sentiments of an AMERICAN WOMAN A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution - Rev. Samuel Cooper Washington's Headquarters - François Jean, Marquis de Chastellux Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown Diary of Ebenezer Denny - on the surrender of Cornwallis Excerpt from the Diary of Miss Anna Rawle Glorious intelligence! [Announcement of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis] - broadside The Norfolk Chronicle Notes on the State of Virginia - Thomas Jefferson (full text) Origin and Progress of the American Revolution - Peter Oliver The Surrender of Cornwallis Commerce between Master and Slave - Thomas Jefferson Contract Between the King & the Thirteen United States of North America Letters from an American Farmer - Preliminary Articles of Peace Between the U. S. & Britain “What Is an American J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur Address to Congress on Resigning his Commission - George Washington A Committee Reports on Import Duties - Articles of Confederation Congress Declarations for Suspension of Arms and Cessation of Hostilities Signed at Versailles Full Restitution in Congress - Articles of Confederation Congress (11-1) Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Newburgh Conspiracy and George Washington's Reply Washington's Farewell to the Troops Resolution of the Continental Congress regarding enemy property (1-14) Report on Government for the Western Territories - Thomas Jefferson Commissioners Authorized to Form Treaties with Indian Tribes - Articles of Confederation Congress Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams George III Laments the Loss of the American Colonies The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill on 17 June, 1775 - painting by John Trumbull My Kinsman, Major Molineux - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Concord Hymn - poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson Paul Revere's Ride - poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Early Republic The American Revolution (PBS) The Apotheosis of George Washington A Biography of America A New System of Government (1776-1826) - Annenberb-CPB The Birth of the Nation The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791 Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism 1619-1789 Colonial to 1800 -- American Literature The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution Delegates to the Constitution Convention Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention 1774-1789 Early American Art George Washington (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency George Washington (2) - POTUS site George Washington's Mount Vernon George Washington's Papers John Adams (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency John Adams (2) - POTUS site Journals of the Continental Congress (34 volumes) Journals of Lewis and Clark Letters of Thomas Jefferson Lewis and Clark (PBS series) Madison's Treasures Map--Growth of the United States to 1853 Map--Redrawing the Nation's Boundaries 1783-1826 Map--U. S. Fifty States No Labels Black-and-White Outline Map Map--U. S. Physical Map--Black-and-White Outline Map--U. S. Physical and Political Black-and-White Outline Map Map--The Vote to Ratify the Constitution Martha Ballard's Diary 1785-1812 Mt. Vernon--Washington's Estate and Gardens (Official Site) An Outline of American Government (U. S. Information Agency site) The Papers of George Washington The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 Religion and the Founding of the American Nation (LOC) Report of the Research Committee on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings The Rise and Fall of Alexander Hamilton Temple of Liberty Building the Capitol for a New Nation Thomas Jefferson (1) - PBS Series on the American Presidency Search Engine to peruse the documents of the Early Republic The Signers of the Constitution Thomas Jefferson Papers - Library of Congress Thomas Paine - biography and links The Unwritten Constitution Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia Phillis Wheatley, African-American poet, to the students of the University of Cambridge in New England (Harvard) An act to preserve the freedom and independence of this State, and for other purposes therein mentioned - New York, passed Ma Reason The Only Oracle Of Man - Ethan Allen Resolutions Concerning Foreign Commerce - Articles of Confederation Congress (4-30) Disposing of Lands in the Western Territories - Articles of Confederation Congress Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson describing the cordial greeting he received from King George III as the first Americ Memorial and Remonstrance - James Madison The Barbary Treaties The Grand Committee on the Subject of the Western Territory Instructions to Superintendents of Indian Affairs - Articles of Confederation Congress (8-7) Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom The Address and reasons of dissent of the minority of the convention, of the state of Pennsylvania, to their constituents (12-1 The Boston Plan The Contrast -- A Comedy in Five Acts written by a Citizen of the United States, Royall Tyler Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy - Benjamin Franklin Disapproving and Accepting the Constitution - Benjamin Franklin Drafts of the Constitution of the United States (8-6) Elbridge Gerry's Reasons for Not Signing the Federal Constitution The Federalist Papers (in its entirety) Federalist Papers #10 - James Madison Federalist Papers #21- Hamilton on the weaknesses of the Am I Not a Man and a Brother - Quaker-created seal Letter from Henry Knox to George Washington Letter from James Madison to General Washington Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison Madison's Notes on the Debates at the Federal Convention New Jersey and Virginia Plans Northwest Ordinance Notes of Alexander Hamilton in the Federal Convention of 1787 Ordinance for Settling Accounts Between the U. S. and Individual States - U. S. Congress (5-7) Plan of Charles Pinckney (SC) Presented to the Federal Convention State House Yard Speech on the Constitution - James Wilson (10-6) Thomas Jefferson's drawing of a macaroni machine and instructions for making pasta Thoughts on Female Education - Benjamin Rush The U. S. Constitution and Amendments The Antifederalist Papers The Signing of the Declaration of Independence - painting by John Trumbull Mrs. Mary Dewees' Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky Address to the People of the State of New York - John Jay Alexander Hamilton on the Adoption of the Constitution Answering Patrick Henry - Francis Corbin's speech given at the Virginia Convention considering the ratification of the propos Extract from an Address to the people of the state of New-York, on the subject of the federal Constitution Federal Superstructure - Federalist Papers #41 - James Madison Letter from Mrs. Anne Randolph to St. George Tucker, On Marriagee An ode for the 4th of July 1788 - [Philadelphia] Printed by M. 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As this town is shortly to be honoured with a visit from the President of the United States Thomas Tudor Tucker to St. George Tucker, The Dangers of the New Constitution Treaty with the Six Nations Washington's First Inaugural Address Excerpts from the Journal of William Maclay Actual Page from The Massachusetts Sentinel (4-24-1790) Census Data Congress of the United States. In Senate, July the12 th, 1790. The committee appointed July the 2d, 1790, reported as follows First State Annual Message of George Washington Letter from George Washington to the Senate on Cherokee Affairs (8-11) Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport, RI - George Washington On the Equality of the Sexes - Judith Sargent Murray Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Residency Bill - Thomas Jefferson Second Annual Message of George Washington [William Maclay], For the Independent Gazetteer The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (full text) Hamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States An Introductory Lecture To a Course of Law Lectures - James Wilson From the Daily advertiser. Thoughts on coinage, and the establishment of a mint, submitted to the consideration of those state Jefferson Argues against the Constitutionality of a National Bank Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief that blacks possess talents equal to those of other co Third Annual Message of George Washington Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson, We are all of the Same Family Coinage Act Fourth Annual Message of George Washington Letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine Fifth Annual Message of George Washington Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 Letter from George Hammond to Thomas Jefferson - re Jay Treaty Thomas Jefferson to William Short Letter of Thomas Jefferson to George Hammond (1) - re Jay Treaty Proclamation of Neutrality Second Inaugural Address - George Washington A Display of the United States - line engraving by Amos Doolittle Age of Reason - Thomas Paine (Part I) Jay Treaty (and ancillary documents) Letter from George Washington to his VP, John Adams Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison on the Whiskey Rebellion Sixth Annual Message of George Washington Thomas Jefferson's design for a plow The Whiskey Rebellion - Proclamation by President Washington 11th. 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