American historical documents 1000-1904 with introductions and notes volume 43 :

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Other Authors: Eliot, Charles W.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : P.F. Collier & Son, 1910.
Series:Harvard classics ; 43.
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Table of Contents:
  • The voyages to Vinland
  • The letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel announcing his discovery
  • Americo Vespucci's account of this first voyage
  • John Cabot's discovery of North America
  • First charter of Birginia
  • The Mayflower Compact
  • The fundamental orders of Connecticut
  • The Massachusetts body of liberties
  • Arbitrary government described and the government of the Massachusetts vindicated from that aspersion, by John Winthrop
  • the instrument of government
  • A healing question, by Sir Henry Vane
  • John Eliot's brief narrative
  • Declaration of rights
  • The declaration of independence
  • The Mecklenburg declaration of independence
  • Articles of confederation
  • Articles of capitulation, Yorktown
  • Treaty with Great Britain
  • Constitution of the United States
  • The Federalist, Nos. 1 and 2.
  • Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of McCulloch vs. The State of Maryland
  • Washington's first inaugural address
  • Treaty with the six nations
  • Washington's farewell address
  • Treaty with france (Louisiana Purchase)
  • Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812)
  • Arrangement as to the naval force to be respectively maintained on the American lakes
  • Treaty with Spain (Acquisition of Florida)
  • The Monroe doctrine
  • Webster-Ashburton treaty with Great Britain
  • Treaty with Mexico
  • Fugitive slave act
  • Lincoln's first inaugural address
  • Emancipation proclamation
  • Haskell's account of the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
  • Proclmation of amnesty
  • Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby
  • Terms of Lee's surrender at Appomattox
  • Lee's farewell to his army
  • Lincoln's second inaugural address.
  • Proclamation declaring the insurrection at an end
  • Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase)
  • Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
  • Recognition of the Independence of Cuba
  • Treaty with Spain (Cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines)
  • Convention between the United States and the Republic of Panama.