Historical Documents: 1801-1850
March 4, 1801 -- First Inaugural Address
by Thomas Jefferson
1803 -- Proposed amendment to the Constitution
Proposed by Thomas Jefferson 1803, not ratified
April 30, 1803 -- Louisiana Purchase
Treaty between the U.S. and France
1803 -- 12th Amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1803, ratified 1804
1803 -- Marbury v. Madison
Supreme Court case
1810 -- Contested amendment to the Constitution
Proposed 1810, possibly ratified 1819
1812 -- Gerrymander
Anonymous
December 24, 1814 -- Treaty of Ghent
Treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain
1819 -- McCulloch v. Maryland
Supreme Court case
December 2, 1823 -- Monroe Doctrine
by James Monroe
January 1, 1831 -- The Liberator #1
by William Lloyd Garrison
July 10. 1832 -- Bank Veto Message
by Andrew Jackson
December 10, 1832 -- Proclamation Against the Ordinance of Nullification
by Andrew Jackson
February 15-16, 1833 -- Against the Force Bill - Day 1 and Day 2
by John C. Calhoun
December 4, 1833 -- Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society
by the American Anti-Slavery Society
1835 -- Excerpts from Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville:
The Sovereignty of the People
General Tendency of the Laws
The Activity of the Body Politic
February 6, 1837 -- Slavery a Positive Good
by John C. Calhoun
February 25, 1837 -- New York Plaindealer editorial: The Blessings of Slavery
Anonymous
1837 -- The American Scholar
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
January 27, 1838 -- Address before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
by Abraham Lincoln
January, 1841 -- United States v. The Amistad
Supreme Court case
February 22, 1842 -- Address before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society
by Abraham Lincoln
May 11, 1846 -- War Message
by James K. Polk
February 2, 1848 -- Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
Treaty between the U.S. and Mexico
1850 -- Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Congress
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