Formatted Contents Note:
The voyages to Vinland (c. 1000) -- The letter of Columbus to Luis de Sant Angel announcing his discovery (1493) -- Amerigo Vespucci's account of his first voyage (1497) -- John Cabot's discovery of North America (1497) -- First charter of Virginia (1606) -- The Mayflower Compact (1620) -- The fundamental orders of Connecticut (1639) -- The Massachusetts body of liberties (1641) -- Arbitrary government described and the government of the Massachusetts vindicated from that aspersion (1644) / John Winthrop -- The instrument of government (1653) -- A healing question (1656) / Sir Henry Vane -- John Eliot's brief narrative (1670) -- Declaration of Rights (1765) -- The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1775) -- Articles of Confederation (1777) -- Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown (1781) -- Treaty with Great Britain (1783) -- Constitution of the United States (1787) -- The Federalist, nos. 1 and 2 (1787) -- Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the case of McCulloch vs. the state of Maryland (1819) -- Washington's first inaugural address (1789) -- Treaty with the six nations (1794) -- Washington's farewell address (1796) -- Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase) (1803) -- Treaty with Great Britain (end of War of 1812) (1814) -- Arrangement as to the naval force to be respectively maintained on the American lakes (1817) -- Treaty with Spain (acquisition of Florida) (1819) -- The Monroe Doctrine (1823) -- Webster-Ashburton Treaty with Great Britain (1842) -- Treaty with Mexico (1848) -- Fugitive Slave Act (1850) -- Lincoln's first inaugural address (1861) -- Emancipation Proclamation (1863) -- Haskell's account of the battle of Gettysburg -- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863) -- Proclamation of Amnesty (1863) -- Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby (1864) -- Terms of Lee's surrender at Appomattox (1865) -- Lee's farewell to his army (1865) -- Lincoln's second inaugural address (1865) -- Proclamation declaring the insurrection at an end (1866) -- Treaty with Russia (Alaska Purchase (1867) -- Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (1898) -- Recognition of the independence of Cuba (1898) -- Treaty with Spain (cession of Porto Rico and the Philippines) (1898) -- Convention between the United States and the Republic of Panama (1904).
