Index of documents used in Advanced Placement
(AP) U. S. History
Murray High School
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Early documents:
- John Locke, excerpt from the Second
Treatise on Civil Government (1689)
- William Bradford, The Mayflower Compact
(1620)
- John Winthrop, A Model
of Christian Charity, the "Arbella" speech (1630)
- Benjamin Franklin, Join Or Die Cartoon
(1754)
- Benjamin Franklin, The Albany Plan
of Union (1754)
- Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
- Second Continental Congress, Declaration
of the Causes for Taking Up Arms (1775)
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
- George Mason, Virginia
Declaration of Rights (1776)
- Comparison of the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Bill of Rights (1791)
- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration
of Independence (1776)
- Thomas Jefferson, Bill
for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779)
- Articles of Confederation
(1781)
- The "crisis" of the
1780s, John Jay to George Washington & George Washington to John Jay,
1786
- James Madison, Federalist 10 (1787)
- James Madison, Federalist 51 (1787)
- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 78 (1787)
- Constitution of the United States (line numbered, original wording footnoted to indicated where changes have been made)
- A history of Amendmends to the Constitution of the United States: proposed, rejected, and ratified (1789-present)
- from "The Life of Gustavus
Vassa," by Olaudah Equiano (1789)
- George Washington's Farewell Address
(1796)
- Sedition Act of 1798
- James Madison, Virginia Resolutions
(1798)
- Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolutions
(1799)
Documents on the Marbury case and the growth of the federal judiciary
19th Century documents:
20th Century documents: