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	20th Century Platt Amendment (1903) Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905) Theodore Roosevelt: On American Motherhood (1905) Theodore Roosevelt: The Man with the Muck Rake (1906) New York Sun Describes the San Francisco Earthquake (1906) Mary Church Terrell: "What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the United States" (1906) Theodore Roosevelt: The New Nationalism (1910) Woodrow Wilson's Address to Native Americans (1912) 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913) Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (1914) Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of (1916) The American's Creed (1917) Woodrow Wilson's War Message (1917) President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points Speech (1918) The Espionage Act of May 16, 1918 18th Amendment (1919) The Volstead Act (1919) 19th Amendment - Women's Right to Vote (1920) The Indian Citizenship Act (1924) Calvin Coolidge's Authority and Religious Liberty (1924) Immigration Act of 1924 The Covenant of the League of Nations (1924) Calvin Coolidge's The Inspiration of the Declaration of Independence (1926) Rugged Individualism - Herbert Hoover (1928) National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) 21st Amendment - Repeal of Prohibition (1933) Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Fireside Chat (1933) Apache Nation Constitution (1934) Grovey v. Townsend, 295 U.S. 45 No. 563. (1935) National Labor Relations Act (1935) The Social Security Act of 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Quarantine" Speech (1937) Neutrality Act of 1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt's The Arsenal of Democracy (1940) Atlantic Charter (1941) Lend Lease Act (1941) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Four Freedoms Speech (1941) Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech (1941) Congressional Declaration of War on Japan (1941) Congressional Declaration of War on Germany (1941) Executive Order 9066: Japanese Relocation Order (1942) Documents Relating to African Americans in the Armed Services (1942) General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944) Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G. I. Bill) (1944) The German Surrender Documents of World War II (1945) The Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II (1945) The United Nations Charter (1945) Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech, The Sinews of Peace (1946) The Truman Doctrine (1947) The Marshall Plan (1948) Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948) President Harry S. Truman Executive Order 9981 (1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) The North Atlantic Treaty (1949) Dorothy E. Davis et al v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia et al (1951) Dwight D. Eisenhower: The Chance for Peace (1953) Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953) Mutual Defense Treaty between the Republic of Korea and the United States (1953) Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) Executive Order 10730 of Desegregation by President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1957) President Eisenhower: Federal Court Orders Must be Upheld (1957) Civil Rights Act of 1957 Antarctic Treaty (1959) American Foreign Policy and International Law Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps. (1961) John F. Kennedy's: The Berlin Crisis (1961) President Kennedy's Letter to President Diem of Vietnam (1961) President Kennedy's Address to Congress on Urgent Needs (1961) General Douglas MacArthur's Farewell Speech (1962) President Kennedy's Speech at Rice University (1962) President John F. Kennedy: Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) President Kennedy's Address Before the Irish Parliament (1963) Test Ban Treaty (1963) John Kennedy: Civil Rights Message (1963) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Letter From Birmingham Jail (1963) Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" (1963) The Negro As An American (1963) President Lyndon B. Johnson: Let Us Continue (1963) Lyndon B. Johnson, Great Society Speech (1964) The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax (1964) The Ballot or the Bullet - Malcolm X - April 3, 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964) President Lyndon B. Johnson on the Tonkin Gulf Incident (1964) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance (1964) Lyndon B. Johnson - Peace Without Conquest (1965) Voting Rights Act of 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Our God Is Marching On!" Montgomery, Ala (1965) Lyndon B. Johnson - We Shall Overcome (1965) White Paper on Vietnam (1965) The Miranda Warning (1966) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Beyond Vietnam" Address (1967) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam (1967) Fair Housing Act of 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968) President Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam Renunciation Speech (1968) Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968) Robert Kennedy's Speech on the Death of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) Edward Kennedy's Eulogy to Brother Robert F. Kennedy (1968) Richard Nixon's Vietnamization Speech (1969) President Nixon: Cambodian Invasion (1970) Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations (1971) President Nixon's Report on Vietnam (1969) Letter from President Nixon to President Nguyen Van Thieu of the Republic of Vietnam (1973) Richard M. Nixon, Peace With Honor Vietnam War Agreement (1973) War Powers Resolution (1973) Roe v. Wade (1973) Richard Nixon's Resignation (1974) Age Discrimination Act of 1975 Mickey Mantle Retirement #7 President Ronald Reagan's First State of the Union Address (1982) Ronald Reagan's Speech to the British House of Commons (1982) President Reagan's Speech on The Evil Empire (1983) Civil Liberties Act of 1988 President Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address (1989) Civil Rights Act of 1991 United States Congress's "Contract With America" (1994) President William Clinton's Oklahoma City Bombing Speech (1995)


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