Societally impactful documents

Here is a list of the most important documents we came up with in class... The copies of which I have transformed into word docs. I can email these to you upon request... or, if you are holding out for the workbook I am making, they will be included in there as well.

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Introduction to Important documents:

The following documents were chosen by a brilliant veteran APUSH teacher and a College professor who specializes in American History as thee must- know documents for any APUSH student. All the documents below are either included in this packet in full… or… if they were just way too long… an abstract or description is given.

City on a Hill (in modern English) 1630
State of the Colony of Virginia 1622
Common Sense (Abstract) 1776
The Federalist's Papers #10 1787
North West Ordinance 1787
Washington's Farewell Address 1796
Marbury v. Madison 1803
The Monroe Doctrine 1823
Declaration of Sentiments 1848
Homestead Act 1862
Lincoln's Second Inaugural address 1865
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
Open Door Policy in China (Summary) 1899
Roosevelt Corollary 1904
The Jungle (Summary) 1906
FDR's Four Freedom's Speech 1941
Letter from a Birmingham Jail 1963
Reagan's Evil Empire Speech 1982

These additional documents are not included in your packet, but are recommended by several APUSH teachers across the US. I suggest you at least know their dates, authors, and something about their relationship to history.

The Emancipation Proclamation The Gettysburg Address The Navigation Acts
The English Bill of Rights The Magna Carta Birth of a Nation (Film)
"The Long Telegram" Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth Va. And Kt. Resolutions
Wilson's 14 Points MLK's Dream speech
Articles of Confederation Einstein's correspondence with FDR
Uncle Tom's Cabin (novel) FDR's "Day that will live in Infamy" Speech
Jacob Riis Photos Fredrick Douglas' Speech Wealth of Nations (book)
Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech Taft's Yale Law School Speeches
Truman Doctrine Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Dred Scot Decision Civil Rights and Voting Acts of 1964-1965
Mayflower Compact Lincoln Douglass Debates Brown V. Board of Education
Roe v. Wade Volstead Act Patriot Act
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Missouri Compromise Alien and Sedition Ac
Fog of War (film) Nixon/ Kennedy Television Debates (T.V.)
Booker T. Washington's address and WEB DuBois Response