User:Dominic/100 Milestone Documents

This is a list of the United States' 100 Milestone Documents (through 1965), compiled by the National Archives and Records Administration. The documents are selected from the National Archives' holdings.


 * 1) Lee Resolution (1776)
 * 2) Declaration of Independence  (1776)
 * 3) Articles of Confederation (1777)
 * 4) Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
 * 5) Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States (1782)
 * 6) Treaty of Paris (1783)
 * 7) Virginia Plan (1787)
 * 8) Northwest Ordinance (1787)
 * 9) Constitution of the United States (1787)
 * 10) Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 51 (1787-1788)
 * 11) President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
 * 12) Federal Judiciary Act (1789)
 * 13) Bill of Rights (1791)
 * 14) Patent for Cotton Gin (1794)
 * 15) President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
 * 16) Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
 * 17) Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)
 * 18) Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
 * 19) Marbury v. Madison (1803)
 * 20) Treaty of Ghent (1814)
 * 21) McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
 * 22) Missouri Compromise (1820)
 * 23) Monroe Doctrine (1823)
 * 24) Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
 * 25) President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
 * 26) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
 * 27) Compromise of 1850 (1850)
 * 28) Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
 * 29) Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
 * 30) Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)
 * 31) Homestead Act (1862)
 * 32) Pacific Railway Act (1862)
 * 33) Morrill Act (1862)
 * 34) Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
 * 35) War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
 * 36) Gettysburg Address (1863)
 * 37) Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
 * 38) President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
 * 39) Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
 * 40) 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery (1865)
 * 41) Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)
 * 42) Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
 * 43) 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)
 * 44) 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870)
 * 45) Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
 * 46) Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb (1880)
 * 47) Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
 * 48) Pendleton Act (1883)
 * 49) Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
 * 50) Dawes Act (1887)
 * 51) Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
 * 52) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
 * 53) De Lôme Letter (1898)
 * 54) Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States (1898)
 * 55) Platt Amendment (1903)
 * 56) Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
 * 57) 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913)
 * 58) 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)
 * 59) Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 (1916)
 * 60) Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
 * 61) Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
 * 62) President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points (1918)
 * 63) 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920)
 * 64) Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)
 * 65) Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
 * 66) National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
 * 67) National Labor Relations Act (1935)
 * 68) Social Security Act (1935)
 * 69) President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address unveiling the second half of the New Deal (1936)
 * 70) President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress]] (1941)
 * 71) Lend-Lease Act (1941)
 * 72) Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
 * 73) Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan (1941)
 * 74) Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
 * 75) General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day (1944)
 * 76) Servicemen's Readjustment Act (1944)
 * 77) Manhattan Project Notebook (1942)
 * 78) Surrender of Germany (1945)
 * 79) United Nations Charter (1945)
 * 80) Surrender of Japan (1945)
 * 81) Truman Doctrine (1947)
 * 82) Marshall Plan (1948)
 * 83) Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
 * 84) Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
 * 85) Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953)
 * 86) Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
 * 87) Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
 * 88) National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)
 * 89) Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (1957)
 * 90) President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)
 * 91) President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address (1961)
 * 92) Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps. (1961)
 * 93) Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962)
 * 94) Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba (1962)
 * 95) Test Ban Treaty (1963)
 * 96) Official Program for the March on Washington (1963)
 * 97) Civil Rights Act (1964)
 * 98) Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
 * 99) Social Security Act Amendments (1965)
 * 100) Voting Rights Act (1965)