Documents for History 117A: Alphabetical List
117A Alphabetical List 117A Chronological List 117B Alphabetical List 117B Chronological List
Documents listed below with emphasis are required reading; documents shown in ordinary text are important but not required; and documents listed in small text are for background or further research only.
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AThe Act of Surrender of the Great Charter of New England to His Majesty [1635]
 Additional Article to the Treaty for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade Between the U.S. and Great Britain [1863]
 Address of the Honorable S. F. Austin, Delivered at Louisville, Kentucky [1836]
 The Administration of Justice Act [1774]
 Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire [1639]
 Albany Plan of Union [1754]
 Alcott, Luisa May: Transcendental Wild Oats [1873]
 Algeria : Treaty of Peace and Amity [1795]
 Algeria : Treaty of Peace and Amity with the United States [1816]
 Algeria : Treaty of Peace with the United States [1815]
 The Alien Act - An Act Respecting Alien Enemies [1798]
 The Alien and Sedition Acts [1798]
 Amendments Proposed by the Peace Conference [1861]
 Amendments Proposed in Congress by Senator John J. Crittenden [1860]
 Amendments to the Constitution Proposed by the Hartford Convention [1814]
 The American Crisis by Thomas Paine [1777]
 The American Scholar (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [1837]
 Andrew Jackson's Proclamation on Nullification [1832]
 The Annapolis Convention [1786]
 Argument of John Quincy Adams, Before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the Case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney [1841]
 Argument of Roger S. Baldwin Before the Supreme Court in the Case of U.S. Appellants vs. Cinque, and Other, Africans of the Amistad [1841]
 The Articles of Association [1774]
 Articles of Confederation [1781]
 The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England [1643]
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BBill of Rights for the Territory of New Mexico [1846]
 Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England [1765]
 The Boston Port Act [1774]
 Bradford, William, &c. Surrender of the Patent of Plymouth Colony to the Freeman [1640]
 Bryant, William Cullen: Thanatopsis [1821]
CCartel for the exchange of prisoners of war between Great Britain and the United States of America [1813]
 The Charlotte Town Resolves [1775]
 Charter for the Province of Pennsylvania [1681]
 Charter of Carolina [1663]
 Charter of Carolina [1665]
 Charter of Connecticut [1662]
 Charter of Delaware [1701]
 Charter of Georgia [1732]
 Charter of Maryland [1632]
 Charter of Massachusetts Bay [1629]
 Charter of Massachusetts Bay [1691]
 Charter of New England [1620]
 Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn, esq. to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories [1701]
 Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations [1663]
 Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates [1629]
 The Charter or Fundamental Laws, of West New Jersey [1676]
 Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh [1584]
 Chickasaw - Treaties Between the Chickasaw and the United States [1805]
 Circular Letter of the Secretary of Congress, Dated September 28, 1787, Transmitting Copy of the Constitution to the Several Governors [1787]
 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty [1850]
 The Combinations of the Inhabitants Upon the Piscataqua River for Government [1641]
 Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England [1688]
 The Concession and Agreement of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Caesarea, or New Jersey, to and With All and Every the Adventurers and All Such as Shall Settle or Plant There [1664]
 Concessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina [1665]
 Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania [1681]
 Constitution of Alabama [1819]
 Constitution of Alabama [1861]
 Constitution of Delaware [1776]
 Constitution of Georgia [1777]
 Constitution of Maryland [1776]
 Constitution of New Hampshire [1776]
 Constitution of New Jersey [1776]
 Constitution of New York [1777]
 Constitution of North Carolina [1776]
 Constitution of Pennsylvania [1776]
 Constitution of South Carolina [1776]
 Constitution of South Carolina [1778]
 Constitution of the United States [1787]
 Constitution of Vermont [1777]
 Constitution of Vermont [1786]
 The Constitution of Virginia [1776]
 Contract Between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America, signed at Versailles [1782]
 Contract between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America [1783]
 Convention for Indemnification Between Spain and The United States [1802]
 Convention of 1800 between the United States and France with Associated Documents [1800]
 Convention of 1815 Between the United States and Great Britain and Associated Documents [1815]
 Convention of 1818 between the United States and Great Britain and Associated Documents [1818]
 Convention of 1824 Amending the Treaty of August 1797, and March 26, 1799 With Tunis [1824]
 Convention Regarding Articles 6 and 7 of the Jay Treaty and Article 4 of the Definitive Treaty of Peace [1802]
 The Crittenden Compromise [1860]
 The Currency Act [1764]
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DA Declaration and Proposals of the Lord Proprietor of Carolina [1663]
 Declaration of Independence [1776]
 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms [1775]
 Declaration of the Commissioners under Article 5 of the Jay Treaty [1798]
 Declaration of the Rights of Man [1789]
 Declarations and Resolves of the First Continental Congress [1774]
 Declarations for Suspension of Arms and Cessation of Hostilities [1783]
 The Declaratory Act [1766]
 Democratic Party Platform [1860]
 Draft Constitution for Virginia [1776]
 Duke of York's Confirmation to the 24 Proprietors [1682]
 The Duke of York's Release to John Ford Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret [1664]
 Duke of York's Second Grant to William Penn, Gawn Lawry, Nicholas Lucas, John Eldridge, Edmund Warner, and Edward Byllynge, for the Soil and Government of West New Jersey [1680]
EEdwards, Jonathan: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God [1741]
 Emancipation Proclamation [1863]
 Emerson, Ralph Waldo: The American Scholar [1837]
 English Bill of Rights [1689]
 An Essay on the East-India Trade by Charles D'Avenant [1697]
 Exchange of Notes Relative to Naval Forces on the American Lakes [1817]
 Explanatory Article to Article 3 of the Jay Treaty [1796]
 Explanatory Article to Article 5 of the Jay Treaty [1798]
 Explanatory Charter of Massachusetts Bay [1725]
FThe Federalist Papers [1788]
 The First Charter of Virginia [1606]
 Fort Laramie Treaty [1868]
 Frame of Government of Pennsylvania [1682]
 Frame of Government of Pennsylvania [1683]
 Frame of Government of Pennsylvania [1696]
 France : Treaties of 1778 and Associated Documents [1788]
 Fugitive Slave Act [1850]
 Fundamental Agreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven [1639]
 The Fundamental Constitutions for the Province of East New Jersey in America [1683]
 The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina [1669]
 Fundamental Orders [1639]
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GGadsden Purchase Treaty Between Mexico and the United States [1853]
 Gettysburg Address [1863]
 Ghent, Treaty of [1814]
 Government of New Haven Colony [1643]
 Government of Rhode Island [1641]
 Grant of Hampshire to Capt. John Mason [1629]
 Grant of Laconia to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason by the Council for New England [1629]
 Grant of Land North of the Saco River to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England [1629]
 Grant of the Province of Maine [1639]
 Grant of the Province of Maine [1664]
 Grant of the Province of Maine [1674]
 A Grant of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, esq. [1622]
 Grant of the Province of New Hampshire From Mr. Wollaston to Mr. Mason [1635]
 Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to John Wollaston, Esq. [1635]
 Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to Mr. Mason [1635]
 Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to Mr. Mason [1635]
 Great Britain - Treaty for the Final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson's Bay and Puget's Sound Agricultural Companies with the U.S. [1863]
 Great Britain - Treaty with the United States for the Suppression of the Slave Trade [1862]
 Greenville, Treaty of [1795]
 Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of [1848]
HHamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States [1791]
 Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Young Goodman Brown [1835]
 His Royal Highness's Grant to the Lords Proprietors, Sir George Carteret [1674]
 History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Edmund G. Ross [1868]
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IInstructions For the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field by Francis Lieber [1863]
JThe Jay Treaty and Associated Documents [1794]
 Jefferson's Draft on an Amendment to the Constitution [1803]
 Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank [1791]
KKansas-Nebraska Act [1854]
 The Kearny Code [1846]
 Kennedy, John Pendleton: Swallow Barn [1832]
 Kentucky Resolution [1799]
 Kentucky Resolutions : Draft [1798]
 The King's Letter Recognizing the Proprietors' Right to the Soil and Government [1683]
LLaws for the Government of the Territory of New Mexico [1846]
 Lee's Resolution [1776]
 Letter of the President of the Federal Convention, Dated September 17, 1787, to the President of Congress, Transmitting the Constitution [1787]
 Letters From an American Farmer [1776]
 Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte [1578]
 Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown [1859]
 Louisiana Purchase [1803]
MMadison's Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention [1787]
 Marbury v. Madison [1803]
 Marshall, John: Marbury v. Madison [1803]
 The Massachusetts Government Act [1774]
 Mayflower Compact [1620]
 Money and Trade Considered With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money by John Law [1705]
 Monroe Doctrine [1823]
 My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass [1855]
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NThe Narrative of Sojourner Truth [1850]
 Neagle, John: Pat Lyon at the Forge [1829]
 New Hampshire Constitution [1776]
 A New View of Society by Robert Owen [1813]
 Northwest Ordinance [1787]
 Notes of Alexander Hamilton in the Federal Convention [1787]
 Notes of Major William Pierce (Georgia) in the Federal Convention [1787]
 Notes of Rufus King in the Federal Convention [1787]
 Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787, Taken by the Late Hon Robert Yates, Chief Justice of the State of New York, and One of the Delegates from That State to the Said Convention [1787]
 Notes of William Paterson in the Federal Convention [1787]
 Notes on Debates in the Federal Convention Reported by James Madison [1787]
OOrdinances for Virginia [1621]
PPaine, Thomas: The Rights of Man [1792]
 Papers of Dr. James McHenry on the Federal Convention [1787]
 The Paris Peace Treaty and Associated Documents [1783]
 Pat Lyon at the Forge (John Neagle) [1829]
 Patent for Providence Plantations [1643]
 Patrick Henry - Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death [1775]
 Penn's Charter of Libertie [1682]
 Petition for a Charter of New England by the Northern Company of Adventurers [1619]
 The Plan of Charles Pinckney (South Carolina), Presented to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Plantation Agreement at Providence [1640]
 A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau [1859]
 Preamble and Resolution of the Virginia Convention [1776]
 Preliminary Articles of Peace [1782]
 Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus [1492]
 Proceedings of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government [1786]
 Proclamation Declaring the Cesssation of Arms [1783]
 The Proclamation of Neutrality [1793]
 Proclamation on Nullification [1832]
 Province of West New-Jersey, in America, The 25th of the Ninth Month Called November [1681]
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QThe Quartering Act [1765]
 The Quartering Act [1774]
 Quasi War with France [1791]
 The Quebec Act [1774]
 Quintipartite Deed of Revision, Between E. and W Jersey [1676]
RRatification of the Constitution by the State of Connecticut [1788]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Delaware [1787]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Georgia [1788]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Maryland [1788]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Massachusetts [1788]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New Hampshire [1788]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New Jersey [1787]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New York [1788]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of North Carolina [1789]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Pennsylvania [1787]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Rhode Island [1790]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of South Carolina [1788]
 Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Virginia [1788]
 Report of Proceedings in Congress [1787]
 Report on Government for Western Territory [1784]
 Resolution of Congress Submitting Ratifications of the Constitution to a Committee [1788]
 Resolution of Congress Submitting the Constitution To the Several States [1787]
 Resolution of Secrecy Adopted by the Continental Congress [1775]
 Resolution of the Congress Fixing Date for Election of a President, and the Organization of the Government Under the Constitution, in the City of New York [1788]
 Resolution of the Federal Convention Submitting the Constitution to Congress [1787]
 Resolution of the First Congress Submitting Twelve Amendments to the Constitution [1789]
 Resolution of the General Assembly of Virginia [1786]
 Resolutions of the Congress [1765]
 Resolutions of The Germantown Mennonites [1688]
 Resolves of the Pennsylvania Assembly on the Stamp Act [1765]
 The Royal Proclamation [1763]
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SSan Ildefenso; Treaty of [1800]
 The Second Charter of Virginia [1609]
 Sedition Act - An Act in Addition to the Act, Entitled "An Act for the Punishment of Certain Crimes Against the United States." [1798]
 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Jonathan Edwards) [1741]
 Sir Robert Heath's Patent 5 Charles 1st [1629]
 South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification [1832]
 The Stamp Act [1765]
 Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin [1852]
 The Sugar Act [1764]
 Supreme Court: Marbury v. Madison [1803]
 Surrender from the Proprietors of East and West New Jersey, of Their Pretended Right of Government to Her Majesty [1702]
 Swallow Barn (John Pendleton Kennedy) [1832]
TThanatopsis (William Cullen Bryant) [1821]
 The Third Charter of Virginia [1611]
 Thoreau, Henry David: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (from Walden) [1854]
 The Townshend Act [1767]
 Transcendental Wild Oats (Louisa May Alcott) [1873]
 Treaties Between the Chickasaw and the United States [1805]
 Treaty Between Mexico and the United States [1853]
 Treaty Between the Creeks and the United States - Documents [1790]
 Treaty Between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade [1862]
 Treaty of Amity, Settlement, and Limits Between the United States of America and His Catholic Majesty [1819]
 Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation Between Spain and The United States [1795]
 Treaty of Kanagawa between the United States and Japan [1854]
 The Treaty of Paris [1763]
 The Treaty of Paris and Associated Documents [1783]
 Treaty of Peace and Amity Between the United States and Algeria [1795]
 Treaty of Peace and Amity Between the United States and Algeria [1816]
 Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States and Morroco [1786]
 Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Algeria [1815]
 Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains [1846]
 Treaty with the Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho [1865]
 Treaty with the Cheyenne and Arapaho [1865]
 Treaty With the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache [1867]
 Tripoli : Treaty of Peace and Amity [1805]
 Tripoli : Treaty of Peace and Friendship [1796]
 Tunis : Convention of 1824 Amending the Treaty of August 1797, and March 26, 1799 [1824]
 Tunis : Treaty of Peace and Friendship [1797]
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UUncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) [1852]
 United States Constitution [1787]
VVariant Text (A) of the Plan Presented by Hamilton to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (A) of the Plan Presented by William Patterson, (N.J.) to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (A) of the Virginia Plan, Presented by Edmund Randolph to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (B) of the Plan Presented by Hamilton to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (B) of the Plan Presented by William Patterson, (N.J.) to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (B) of the Virginia Plan, Presented by Edmund Randolph to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (C) of the Plan Presented by Hamilton to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (C) of the Plan Presented by William Patterson, (N.J.) to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (C) of the Virginia Plan, Presented by Edmund Randolph to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (D) of the Plan Presented by Hamilton to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Variant Text (E) of the Plan Presented by Hamilton to the Federal Convention [1787]
 Virginia Declaration of Rights [1776]
 Virginia Resolution [1798]
 The Virginia Resolves [1765]
WWalden: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (Henry David Thoreau) [1854]
 War of 1812 and Associated Documents [1812]
 Washington's Farewell Address [1796]
 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (Henry David Thoreau, from Walden) [1854]
 The Whiskey Rebellion [1794]
YYoung Goodman Brown (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [1835]
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