Preserving Revolutionary & Civil War History
Preserving Revolutionary & Civil War History
Date:1794 Annotation: The Jay Treaty of 1794 solved many issues between the United States and Great Britain that were left over from the American Revolution. Document: His Britannick Majesty and the United States of America, being desirous by a Treaty of…
Author: Thomas Jefferson Date:1793 Annotation: Jefferson’s opinion on renouncing treaties with France. Document: I proceed, in compliance with the requisition of the President, to give an opinion in writing on the general Question, Whether the US. have a right to renounce…
Date:1793 Annotation: Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality in the war between Britain and France. Document: A Proclamation Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on…
Date:1793 Annotation: The Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 opposed almost every idea set forth by the Constitution. The Congress of 1793 set an example that would not be overturned until the Civil War. Document: ART. 4. For the better security of the…
Date:1790 Annotation: Washington’s letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport. Document: George Washington August, 1790 Gentlemen: While I received with much satisfaction your address replete with expressions of esteem, I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you that I shall always retain…
Author: James Madison Date:1789 Annotation: Memorandum on a Colony in Africa for Manumitted Slaves Document: Without enquiring into the practicability or the most proper means of establishing a Settlement of freed blacks on the Coast of Africa, it may be remarked…
Date:1789 Annotation: An Act to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States. Document: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the supreme court of the United…
Date:1789 Annotation: Address of the Senate to Presdient George Washington. Document: SIR: We, the Senate of the United States, return you our sincere thanks for your excellent speech delivered to both Houses of Congress; congratulate you on the complete organization of the…
Date:1787 Annotation: Toward the end of the Constitutional Convention, the delegates appointed a committee to revise and arrange the articles agreed upon by the House. Copies were printed and distributed to the delegates and few changes were made in the Committee…
Annotation: The U.S.Constitution was ratified on September 17, 1787 at the Constitutional Convention in Philedelphia. Document: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote…
Date:1787 Annotation: Some of the bitterest controversies in post-Revolutionary American involved western land. Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, North and South Carolina, and Virginia insisted that their colonial charters extended their boundaries to the Mississippi River or beyond. Maryland, which…
Date:1786 Annotation: The proceedings of a convention to consider revising the Articles of Confederation. Document: PROCEEDINGS OF COMMISSIONERS TO REMEDY DEFECTS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (1) ANNAPOLIS IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND SEPTEMBER 14th 1786 At a meeting of Commissioners, from the…