A Chronology of US Historical Documents

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Pre-Colonial
To 1600 The Magna Carta (1215) Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King & Queen of Spain (1490's) The *Iroquois Constitution

17th Century
1601-1649 The First, Second, & Third Virginia Charters The Mayflower Compact (1620) The Charter of Massachusetts Bay (1629) The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) 1650-1700 The Connecticut Colony Charter (1662) The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)

18th Century
1701-1774 The Albany Plan of 1754 The Resolutions of the Stamp Act (Oct. 19, 1765) 1775-1800 *Biographies of the *First Ladies & *Presidents of the United States Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry (March 23, 1775) The Declaration of Arms (July 6, 1775) Yankee Doodle

The Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776) The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) The Works of Benjamin Franklin The Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777) The Treaty of Paris (1783) The Federalist Papers The Memorial and Remonstrance (June 20, 1785) The Annapolis Convention (Sept. 14, 1786) Letter of Transmittal of the U.S. Constitution (Sept. 17, 1787) The Constitution of the United States. (1787) The Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787) Collection of *Rare &Historical Newspapers First Inaugural Address of President George Washington (April 30, 1789) The First State of the Union Address (Jan. 8, 1790) Second Inaugural Address of President George Washington (Mar. 4, 1793) The Proclamation of Neutrality (April 22, 1793) The Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 The Treaty of Greenville (1795) Farewell Address of President George Washington (Sept. 17, 1796) The *Papers of George Washington Inaugural Address of President John Adams (1797) The Sedition Act (July 14, 1798)

19th Century
1801-1824 First Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson (1801) Second Inaugural Address of President Thomas Jefferson (1805) The *Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress

*Thomas Jefferson Online Resources at the University of Virginia Information on *Monticello First Inaugural Address of President James Madison (1809) Second Inaugural Address of President James Madison (1813) The text of the Star Spangled Banner (Sept. 20, 1814) First Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1817) Second Inaugural Address of President James Monroe (1821) The Monroe Doctrine (Dec. 2, 1823) 1825-1849 Inaugural Address of President John Quincy Adams (1825) First Inaugural Address of President Andrew Jackson (1829) Second Inaugural Address of President Andrew Jackson (1833) Inaugural Address of President Martin Van Buren (1837) Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn (July 4, 1837) Inaugural Address of President William Henry Harrison (1841) Inaugural Address of President James K. Polk (1845) Inaugural Address of President Zachary Taylor (1849) 1850-1874 Inaugural Address of President Franklin Pierce (1853) Inaugural Address of President James Buchanan (1857) The Declaration of Causes of seceding states (Winter 1861) First Inaugural Address of President *Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861) The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (March 11, 1861) The Battle Hymn of the Republic McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln (July 7, 1862) The Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19, 1863) The Emancipation Proclamation (1864) Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (1865)

*Photographic Time Line of the Civil War Letters from an Iowa Soldier during the Civil War Civil War Resources on the Web Civil War Generals Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage by Frederick Douglass (Jan. 1867) First Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S. Grant (1869) Second Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S. Grant (1873) 1875-1900 Inaugural Address of President *Rutherford B. Hayes (1877) Inaugural Address of President *James Garfield (1881) First Inaugural Address of President *Grover Cleveland (1885) Inaugural Address of President *Benjamin Harrison (1889) Second Inaugural Address of President *Grover Cleveland (1893) First Inaugural Address of President *William McKinley (1897)

20th Century
1901-1924 Second Inaugural Address of President *William McKinley (1901) Inaugural Address of President *Theodore Roosevelt (1905) Inaugural Address of President *William H. Taft (1909) First Inaugural Address of President *Woodrow Wilson (1913) Second Inaugural Address of President *Woodrow Wilson (1917) The Espionage Act of 1918 Inaugural Address of President *Warren G. Harding (1921) 1925-1949 Inaugural Address of President *Calvin Coolidge (1925) Inaugural Address of President *Herbert Hoover (1929) First Inaugural Address of President *Franklin D. Roosevelt

(1933) Second Inaugural Address of President *Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937) The Neutrality Acts of 1937 & 1939 Third Inaugural Address of President *Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941) The Atlantic Charter (Aug. 14, 1941) Roosevelt's Infamy Speech (Dec. 8, 1941) The Declaration of War on Japan (Dec. 8, 1941) The Declaration of War on Germany (Dec. 11, 1941) Fourth Inaugural Address of President *Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945) The German Surrender Documents of World War II (May 8, 1945) Selected *Manhattan Project documents regarding the use of the bombs. (1945) The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (Sept. 12, 1945) The Truman Doctrine (Mar. 12, 1947) Inaugural Address of President *Harry S. Truman (1949) The North Atlantic Treaty (Apr. 4, 1949) 1950-1974 First Inaugural Address of President *Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953) Second Inaugural Address of President *Dwight D. Eisenhower (1957) Admission of States and Territorial Acquisition *Map Maps of *U.S. Battlefields Inaugural Address of President *John F. Kennedy (1961) Martin Luther King Jr's *I Have A Dream Speech (Aug. 28, 1963) Inaugural Address of President *Lyndon B. Johnson (1965) State Department White Paper on Vietnam (Feb. 27, 1965)

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968) First Inaugural Address of President *Richard M. Nixon (1969) Second Inaugural Address of President *Richard M. Nixon (1973) The War Powers Resolution (Nov. 7, 1973) 1975-2000 Inaugural Address of President *Jimmy Carter (1977) First Inaugural Address of President *Ronald Reagan (1981) Second Inaugural Address of President *Ronald Reagan (1985) Inaugural Address of President *George H. W. Bush (1989) The Civil Rights Act of 1991 First Inaugural Address of President William J. Clinton (1993) President William J. Clinton's 1996 State of the Union Address Second Inaugural Address of President William J. Clinton (1997) President William J. Clinton's 1997 State of the Union Address President William J. Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address

21st Century
2001-2010 First Inaugural Address of President George W. Bush (2001) Address of President Bush to Nation (11 September, 2001) President Bush's Remarks at National Day of Prayer and Remembrance (14 September, 2001) Address of President Bush to a Joint Session of Congress and the Nation regarding the events of 11 September, 2001 (20 September, 2001) Address of President Bush on the start of strikes against Al Qaeda and the Taliban (7 October, 2001) President George W. Bush's 2002 State of the Union Address President George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union Address

President George W. Bush's 2004 State of the Union Address Second Inaugural Address of President George W. Bush (2005) President George W. Bush's 2005 State of the Union Address President George W. Bush's 2006 State of the Union Address President George W. Bush's 2007 State of the Union Address President George W. Bush's 2008 State of the Union Address President George W. Bush's Farewell Address Inaugural Address of President Barack H. Obama (2009) President Barack H. Obama's 2010 State of the Union Address 2011-Present President Barack H. Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address President Obama's Address to the Nation on Bin Laden's Death (2011)