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Milestone documents in American history : exploring the primary sources that shaped America / Paul Finkelman, editor in chief ; Bruce A. Lesh, consulting editor.

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Dallas, Tex. : Schlager Group, c2008.

United States -- History -- Sources.

9780979775802 (set) :

Milestone documents.

4 v. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.

v. 1. 1763-1823 -- v. 2. 1824-1887 -- v. 3. 1888-1955 -- v. 4. 1956-2003.

v. 1. 1763-1823 -- Editorial and production staff --- Publisher's note -- Advisers and contributors -- Reader's guide -- Introduction -- Teaching with primary source documents -- Teachers' activity guides -- Proclamation of 1763 -- Quartering Act -- Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress -- Boston non-importation agreement -- Intolerable acts -- Declaration and resolves of the First Continental Congress -- Patrick Henry's "Liberty or death" speech -- Proclamation by the King for suppressing rebellion and sedition -- Common Sense -- Virginia Declaration of Rights -- Declaration of independence -- Articles of Confederation -- Treaty of Fort Pitt -- Pennsylvania : an act for the gradual abolition of slavery -- James Madison's memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments -- Northwest Ordinance -- Constitution of the United States -- Federalist Papers 10, 14, and 51 --- George Washington's first inaugural address -- George Washington's first annual message to Congress -- Jefferson's and Hamilton's opinions on the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States -- Bill of Rights -- George Washington's farewell address -- Alien and sedition acts -- Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address -- Thomas Jefferson's message to Congress about the Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Marbury v. Madison -- An act to prohibit the importation of slaves -- Martin v. Hunter's Lessee -- McCulloch v. Maryland -- Missouri Compromise -- Monroe Doctrine --

v. 2. 1824-1887 -- Gibson v. Ogden -- Andrew Jackson : on Indian removal -- William Lloyd Garrison's first Liberator editorial -- Andrew Jackson's veto message regarding the Second Bank of the United States -- South Carolina ordinance of nullification and Andrew Jackson's proclamation regarding nullification -- Joint resolution of Congress for the annexation of Texas -- Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments -- Compromise of 1850 -- Frederick Douglass's "Fourth of July" speech -- Kansas-Nebraska Act -- Dred Scott v. Sandford -- Abraham Lincoln's "House divided" speech -- South Carolina Declaration of Caused of Secession -- Jefferson Davis's' inaugural address to the Confederacy -- Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address -- Homestead Act -- Morrill Act -- Emancipation Proclamation -- War Department General Order 143 -- Gettysburg Address -- Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address -- Articles of agreement relating to the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia -- Black Code of Mississippi -- Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Civil Rights Act of 1866 -- Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson -- Treaty of Fort Laramie -- Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Act establishing Yellowstone National Park -- Rutherford B. Hayes's inaugural address -- Thomas Edison's patent application for the incandescent light bulb -- Chinese Exclusion Act -- Pendleton Civil Service Act -- Interstate Commerce Act -- Dawes Severalty Act --

v. 3. 1888-1955 -- Sherman Antitrust Act -- Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition address -- Plessy v. Ferguson -- William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of gold" speech -- William McKinley's message to Congress about Cuban intervention -- The insular cases : Downes v. Bidwell -- Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles -- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine -- Muller v. Oregon -- Sixteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution -- Zimmermann Telegram -- Woodrow Wilson : joint address to Congress leading to a declaration of War against Germany -- Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points -- Hammer v. Dagenhart -- Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address -- Tennessee Valley Authority Act -- National Industrial Recovery Act -- National Labor Relations Act -- Social Security Act -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address at Madison Square Garden -- United States v. Curtiss-Wright -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms message to Congress -- Lend-Lease Act -- Executive Order 8802 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Pearl Harbor" speech -- Executive Order 9066 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower's order of the day -- Servicemen's Readjustment Act -- Truman Doctrine -- Marshall Plan -- Taft-Hartley Act -- Press release announcing U.S. recognition of Israel -- Executive Order 9981 -- Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Senate Resolution 301 : censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy --

v. 4. 1956-2003 -- Southern Manifesto -- Federal-Aid Highway Act -- Executive Order 10730 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower's farewell address -- John F. Kennedy's inaugural address -- Executive Order 10924 -- John Glenn's official communication with the Command Center -- Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" -- John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Address -- Martin Luther King Jr.s "I have a dream" speech -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution -- Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- Miranda v. Arizona -- Kerner Commission Report summary -- Equal Rights Amendment -- Richard Nixon's smoking gun tape -- Roe v. Wade -- Regents of the University of California v. Blake -- Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire" speech -- César Chávez's Commonwealth address -- George H.W. Bush's address to Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis -- Bill Clinton's radio address on the Welfare Reform Act -- Articles of Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton -- Bush v. Gore -- George W. Bush's address to the nation on September 11, 2001 -- Bybee torture memo -- Lawrence v. Texas -- List of documents by category --- Subject index.

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