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Genre/Form: | History Sources |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles William Eliot |
ISBN: | 0766181960 9780766181960 |
OCLC Number: | 708294997 |
Description: | 491 p. : fac-sim. ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | 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, by J. Winthrop (1644) -- The instrument of government (1653) -- A healing question, by H. Vane (1656) -- 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(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) |
Series Title: | The Harvard classics., [43] |
Responsibility: | With introductions and notes / edited by Charles W. Eliot. |
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