Documents of Freedom
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American Revolution
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking
Up Arms
Valley Forge
Washington Crosses the Delaware
Patrick Henry Speaks to the Second Virginia Convention
The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution,
The Bill of Rights
The Articles of Confederation
Common Sense
The Constitution of the United States
Declaration of the First Continental Congress
The Declaration of Independence
The Federalist, Paper Number 10
The Federalist, Paper Number 39
The Federalist, Paper Number 51
The Federalist, Paper Number 78
Objections to the Constitution
Suffrage Movement
On Equality for Women
Seneca Falls Declaration
Woman Suffrage
Women's Rights
Abolition and Civil Rights
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Founding of the NAACP
"I Have a Dream"
"To Fulfill These Rights"
The Liberator
Important Supreme Court Cases
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Gideon v. Wainwright
Marbury v. Madison
Miranda v. Arizona
Plessy v. Ferguson
Reynolds v. Simms