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Tue 16 Sep, 2003 10:06 am
How would you rate the importance of the following American documents?
Please rate them according to their importance in the following categories:
US world-wide economic power;
US domestic economic achievement;
US world-wide power;
US military power;
US government creation;
US domestic stability;
US world-wide humanitarian aid.
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The documents are listed in the order of category.
Lee Resolution
Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Alliance with France
Treaty of Paris
President George Washington's Farewell Address
Louisiana Purchase Treaty
Treaty of Ghent
Monroe Doctrine
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Check for the Purchase of Alaska
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Chinese Exclusion Act
De Lôme Letter
Joint Resolution to Provide for Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the U.S.
Platt Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Zimmermann Telegram
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany
President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
Lend-Lease Act
Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Japan
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Order of the Day
Manhattan Project Notebook
Surrender of Germany
United Nations Charter
Surrender of Japan
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel
Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps.
Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center
Aerial Photograph of Missiles in Cuba
Test Ban Treaty
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Bill of Rights
Alien and Sedition Acts
Missouri Compromise
President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal'
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Emancipation Proclamation
General Order 143
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery
14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights
15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights
Dawes Act
Plessy v. Ferguson
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote
Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry
Executive Order 9066: Japanese Relocation Order
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill)Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces
Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy
Brown v. Board of Education
Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School
Official Program for the March on Washington
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Articles of Confederation
Original Design of the Great Seal of the United States
Virginia Plan
Northwest Ordinance
Constitution of the United States
Federalist Papers, No. 10 & No. 51
President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech
Federal Judiciary Act
Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter
Gettysburg Address
Wade-Davis Bill
President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park
16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax
17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators
Patent for Cotton Gin
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
Morrill Act
Thomas Edison's Patent Application for the Light Bulb
Pendleton Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Boulder Canyon Project Act
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
National Labor Relations Act This bill, signed into law on July 5, 1935, established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
Social Security Act
President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address unveiling the second half of the New Deal
President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four Freedoms) to Congress
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address
Social Security Act Amendments
Two of BBB's choices
I will start off with two of my choices:
The Marshal Plan (following WWII)
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill) Executive Order 9981:
These two documents paved the way for US dominance in the world with regard to economic and international political power.
The US eventually earned more money than it donated to rebuild Europe after WWII. US pragmatic humanitarian aid had a major impact on European stability.
The G.I. Bill opened the door to middle class higher education to create the scientists and engineers that led to US advances in technology. Most of our wealth today can be traced back to that single act.
---BumbleBeeBoogie