LINKS TO DOCUMENTS  1790-1877

Jay's Treaty

Sedition Act of 1798

Kentucky Resolutions - 1799

Marbury v. Madison

Hartford Convention Resolutions

Monroe Doctrine

South Carolina Order of Nullification

Jackson's Response to Nullification

Texas Declaration of Independence

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott Decision

John Brown's Address to the Court

1860 Southern Democratic Party Platform

1860 Northern Democratic Party Platform

1860 Republican Party Platform

Homestead Act

Emancipation Proclamation

Reconstruction Act of 1867