By America: The Documents that Shaped America (optimized for Kindle)

By America:The Documents that Shaped America, is an American anthology comprised of documents, treaties, court decisions, acts and speeches that helped shape and define American political and social culture. Text included in this anthology have not been altered and are true to their conception, and are listed in chronological order.

Selections Included in this Volume:
The Magna Carta (1215)
The Mayflower Compact (1620)
Maryland Tolerance Act of (1649)
The Stamp Act (1765)
The Boston Port Act (1774)
Administration of Justice Act (1774)
Massacusetts Government Act (1774)
Washington's Commission as Commander (1775)
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
Virginia Constitution (1776)
Common Sense (1776)
Lee Resolution (1776)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Articles of Confederation (1777)
Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
Massachusetts Constitution (1780)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Virginia Plan (1787)
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Constitution of the United States (1787)
Washington's First Inaugural Address (1789)
Federal Judiciary Act (1789)
Bill of Rights (1791)
Jay's Treaty (1794)
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Jefferson's on the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)
Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
Marbury vs. Madison (1803)
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Andrew Jackson 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
Nullification Proclamation (1832)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Compromise of 1850 (1850)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
The Dred Scott Decision (1857)
Lincoln's 'House Divided' Speech
Homestead Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Morrill Act (1862)
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Gettysburg Address (1863)
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Surrender of Southern Army (1865)
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Purchase of Alaska (1867)
13th Amendment: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
14th Amendment: Civil Rights (1868)
15th Amendment: Voting Rights (1870)
Susan B. Anthony 'On Women's Right to Vote' (1873)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Dawes Act (1887)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
16th Amendment: Federal Income Tax (1913)
Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
19th Amendment: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
Social Security Act (1935)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
Relocation of Japanese (1942)
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944)
Surrender of Germany (1945)
United Nations Charter (1945)
Surrender of Japan (1945)
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Marshall Plan (1948)
Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
Establishment of the Peace Corps. (1961)
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
Social Security Act Amendments (1965)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Ronald Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech (1987)