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Documents of Freedom
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19th Century
1801-1824
1825-1849
1850-1874
- Compromise of 1850 (January 29, 1850)
- Fugutive Slave Law of 1850 (December 18 1850)
- Inaugural Address of President Franklin Pierce (March 4, 1853)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (May 30, 1854)
- Inaugural Address of President James Buchanan (March 4, 1857)
- Dred Scott v. Sanford (March 6, 1857)
- First Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1861)
- Constitution of the Confederate States of America (March 11, 1861)
- Battle Hymn of the Republic (November 1861)
- Homestead Act (May 20, 1862)
- McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln (July 7, 1862)
- Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
- National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer: Abraham Lincoln (March 30, 1863)
- Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 (President Lincoln) -- The First National Thanksgiving
- Gettysburg Address (Thursday, November 19, 1863)
- Second Inaugural Address of President Abraham Lincoln (March 4, 1865)
- Photographic Timeline of the Civil War (Library of Congress)
- Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (April 10, 1865)
- Diary of Gideon Welles: Abraham Lincoln's Death (April 15, 1865)
- Abolition of Slavery (1865)
- Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage by Frederick Douglass (January 19, 1867)
- Articles of Impeachment Against President Andrew Johnson (February 24, 1868)
- 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (July 9, 1868)
- First Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S Grant (March 4, 1869)
- 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (February 3, 1870)
- Second Inaugural Address of President Ulysses S Grant (March 4, 1873)
- Christmas Becomes a National Holiday: Ulysses S Grant (June 28, 1870)
1875-1900
