We, the People: Great Documents of the American NationWe, the People presents American history through the words and documents that have shaped our nation and that continue to embody the principles upon which it was founded. Some of the documents included: The Mayflower Compact (1620), The Stamp Act Congress (1765), Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), The Declaration of Independence (1776), The Articles of Confederation (1781), The Paris Peace Treaty (1783), The Constitution of the United States (1787-1992), The Louisiana Purchase (1803), Lewis & Clark (1806), The Missouri Compromise (1820), The U.S. annexes Texas (1845), The U.S. buys Alaska (1867), Annexing the Hawaiian Islands (1898), Freedom of the Press (1735), Women's Rights (1848), Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Civil Rights Act (1968), Roe v. Wade (1973), Social Security Bill (1935), The Star-spangled banner (1814), The New Colossus (1886), America the beautiful (1895), Calhoun on slavery (1850), Lincoln's "House Divided" speech (1858), Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861), The Emancipation Proclamation (1863), Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863), The Library of Congress (1800), The Amistad Affair (1839), Baseball's original rules (1845), W.P.A. (1935), The G.I. Bill (1944), Presidential inaugural addresses, Banning discrimination (1941), U.S. declares war against Japan (1941), Truman orders U.S. into the Korean War (1950), Men on the moon (1961), The Peace Corps (1961), Gays in the military (1993), The Iroquois Federation Constitution (c. 1570), The Black Hills Treaty (1877), The Dawes Act (1887), The Indian Reorganization Act (1934), The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), The Antiquities Act (1906), The Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933), Developing atomic energy (1946), The Clean Air Act (1970), The Energy Reorganization Act (1974), Breaking up AT & T (1982), The Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), The Homestead Act (1862), Public lands for colleges (1862), The Grazing Act (1934), The National Environmental Policy Act (1969), The Jay Treaty (1794), The Treaty of Kanagawa (1854), The Spanish-American War Treaty (1899), China and the open door (1900), The Marshall Plan (1947), The North Atlanatic Treaty (1949), The Gulf War (1991) |
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Give me liberty or give me death Patrick Henry 1775 | 10 |
FORMING A MORE PERFECT UNION | 33 |
E PLURIBUS UNUM | 69 |
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