100 documents containing the most influential events in political history from 1776 - 1965 including some of the following:

Lee Resolution (1776) - Transcript Declaration of Independence (1776) - Transcript Articles of Confederation (1777) - Transcript Treaty of Alliance with France (1778) - Transcript Treaty of Paris (1783) - Transcript Virginia Plan (1787) - Transcript Northwest Ordinance (1787) - Transcript Constitution of the United States (1787) - Transcript Federalist Papers, No. 10 No. 51 (1787-1788) - Transcript President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789) - Transcript Federal Judiciary Act (1789) - Transcript Bill of Rights (1791) - Transcript President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796) - Transcript Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) - Transcript Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis Clark Expedition (1803) - Transcript Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803) - Transcript Marbury v. Madison (1803) - Transcript Treaty of Ghent (1814) - Transcript McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) - Transcript Missouri Compromise (1820) - Transcript Monroe Doctrine (1823) - Transcript Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) - Transcript President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830) - Transcript Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) - Transcript Compromise of 1850 (1850) - Transcript Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) - Transcript Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) - Transcript Homestead Act (1862) - Transcript Pacific Railway Act (1862) - Transcript Morrill Act (1862) - Transcript Emancipation Proclamation (1863) - Transcript War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863) - Transcript Gettysburg Address (1863) - Transcript Wade-Davis Bill (1864) - Transcript President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865) - Transcript Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865) - Transcript 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865) - Transcript Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868) - Transcript Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) - Transcript 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868) - Transcript 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870) - Transcript Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872) - Transcript Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880) - Transcript Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) - Transcript