American Historical Documents: 1000-1904

Charles W. Eliot

P. F. Collier & Son, 1910 - America - 491 pages

Including: Voyages to Vinland; Letter of Columbus announcing his discovery; Amerigo Vespucci's account; John Cabot's discovery of North America; First Charter of Virginia; Mayflower Compact; Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence; 1783 treaty with Great Britain; 1083 treaty with France (Lousiana Purchase); 1850 Fugitive Slave act; 1865 Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox; 1867 treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase); 1904 convention btw. the US and Panama; and others.

Contents

• THE VOYAGES TO VINLAND c 1000: 5
• THE LETTER OF COLUMBUS TO LUIS DE SANT ANGEL: 22
• AMERIGO VESPUCCIS ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST VOYAGE 1497: 29
• JOHN CAOTS DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA 1497: 47
• THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620: 62
• THE MASSACHUSETTS BODY OF LIBERTIES 1641: 70
• ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT DESCRIBED AND THE GOVERNMENT: 90
• THE INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT 1653: 113
• A HEALING QUESTION BY SIR HENRY VANE 1656: 126
• JOHN ELIOTS BRIEF NARRATIVE 1670: 147
• DECLARATION OF RIGHTS 1765: 157
• THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 1775: 166
• ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION YORKTOWN 1781: 180
• CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 1787: 191
• THE FEDERALIST NOS I AND 2 1787: 212
• OPINION OF CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL IN THE CASE: 222
• WASHINGTONS FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS 1789: 241
• WASHINGTONS FAREWELL ADDRESS 1796: 250
• TREATY WITH FRANCE LOUISIANA PURCHASE 1803: 267
• TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN END OF WAR OF 1812 1814: 273
• ARRANGEMENT AS TO THE NAVAL FORCE TO BE RESPECTIVELY: 283
• TREATY WITH SPAIN ACQUISITION OF FLORIDA 1819: 286
• I 1: 289
• THE MONROE DOCTRINE 1823: 296
• TREATY WITH MEXICO 1848: 309
• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT 1850: 327
• LINCOLNS FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS 1861: 334
• EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 1863: 344
• LINCOLNS GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 1863: 441
• TERMS OF LEES SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX 1865: 447
• PROCLAMATION DECLARING THE INSURRECTION AT AN: 453
• TREATY WITH RUSSIA ALASKA PURCHASE 1867: 459
• RECOGNITION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF CUBA 1898: 467
• CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE: 478

Bibliographic information

• Title: American Historical Documents: 1000-1904; Volume 43 of The Harvard Classics
• Editor: Charles W. Eliot
• Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son, 1910
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jan 27, 2012
• Length: 491 pages