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How to Complete ARE (Additional Reading Exercise) Scantron Boxes (PDF)

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PART ONE: Exploration, Discovery, and Colonization

PART TWO: The American Revolution and Early National Period

PART THREE: The New Nation Expands

PART FOUR: Sectional Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction

Download/Print Additional Reading Exercise One
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• Royal Command to Christopher Columbus (1492)
• Christopher Columbus: Extracts from Journal (1492)
• Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
• Martin Waldseemüller World Map (1507) MAP
• The Act of Supremecy (1534) - Establishing the Anglican Church
• A Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies. (1542) by Bartolomé de las Casas
• John Foxe's Book of Martyrs - CHAPTER XVI Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary
• Regnans Excelsis - Pope Pius V's Bull Against Elizabeth I (1570)
• Thomas Hariot's Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
• Virginia or London Company Royal Charter (1606)
• Mayflower Compact (1620)
• Dutch West India Company Charter (1621)
• The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles (1624) by Captain John Smith
• City Upon a Hill (1630) by John Winthrop
• The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for the Cause of Conscience, Discussed in a Conference Between Truth and Peace (1644) by Roger Williams
• Maryland Act of Religious Toleration (1649)
• The Navigation Act (1651)
• The First Navigation Act (1660)
• The Second Navigation Act (1663)
• Articles of Capitulation on the Reduction of New Netherland (1664)
• The Third Navigation Act (1672)
• Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England (1688)
• Salem Witchcraft Papers (1692)
• The Navigation Act (1696)
• Triangular Trade (No Date) MAP
• An Act to Encourage the Settlement of this Country [North Carolina] (1707)
• The Transportation Act (1718)
• The Molasses Act (1733)
• George Washington's Journal (1754)
• Albany Plan of Union (1754)
• Treaty of Paris (1763)

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• Proclamation of 1763 (1763)
• Revenue Act of 1764 a.k.a. the Molasses or Sugar Act (1764)
• Currency Act of 1764 (1764)
• The Stamp Act (1765)
• The Virginia Resolves (1765)
• The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
• New York Merchants Non-Importation Agreement (1765)
• Repeal of the Stamp Act (1766)
• The Declaratory Act (1766)
• Quartering Act of 1765 (1765)
• Townshend Revenue Act (1767)
• Massachusetts Circular Letter to the Colonial Legislatures (1768)
• Boston Massacre Trials Chronology
• Repeal of the Townshend Acts (1770)
• Tea Act explained (use this to answer question)
• Tea Act (1773)
• Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York (1773)
• The Intolerable or Coercive Acts (1774)
• Boston Port Act
• Massachusetts Govt. Act
• Administration of Justice Act
• Quartering Act of 1774
• Quebec Act
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (1774)
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)
• Olive Branch Petition (1775)
• King George's Proclamation of Rebellion (1775)
• Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)
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• Articles of Confederation (1777)
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• Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
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• Treaty of Paris (1783)
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• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
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• Northwest Ordinance (1787)
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• Virginia Plan (1787)
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• Constitution of the United States (1787)
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• President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)
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• Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, a.k.a. Treaty of London or Jay Treaty, with Additional Documents (1794)
• Text of the Treaty of London, or Jay Treaty
• Bill of Rights (1796)
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• President George Washington's Farewell Address (1796)
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• The Barbary Treaties: Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796
• Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
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• Thomas Jefferson's Tombstone and Epitaph
• Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803)
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
• Instructions to Lewis and Clark from Congress and from President Jefferson (1803)
• Journals of Lewis and Clark (1803-1805)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• James Madison War Message to Congress (1812)
• Treaty of Ghent (1814)
• Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Convention of 1818 (re: Oregon): A Complete List of Documents
• Text of the Convention
• Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• Mexican Colonization Law Decree (1823)
• Mexican Constitution of 1824 (1824)
• Colonization Law of Coahuila y Texas (1825)
• Mier y Teran Inspection of Texas --Letters to President Guadalupe Victoria (1828)
• The Law or Decree of April 6, 1830 (1830)
• President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)
• Indian Removal Act (1830)
• A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)
• Stephen F. Austin's Circular of the Committee of Safety (1835)
• Letter from David Crockett to his children (1836)
• Travis' Letter from the Alamo (1836)
• Texas Declaration of Independence (1836)
• Joint Resolution of Congress offering Texas terms of annexation (1845)
• Preliminary to a Treaty of Peace Between Mexico and Texas (1845)
• Proclamtion of President Paredes (1846)
• President Polk's Instructions to John Slidell (1845)
• President James K. Polk's War Message to Congress (1846)
• Treaty with Great Britain, in Regard to Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains or, Oregon Treaty (1846)
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
• Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

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• Wilmot Provisio (1846)
• The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1849-1881)
• Compromise of 1850 (1850)
• Texas Boundary Compromise and Establishment of Territorial Govt. for New Mexico
• Statehood for California
• Establishment of Territoral Government for Utah
• Fugitive Slave Law
• End of Slave Trade in D. C.
• The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Republican Party Platform (1856)
• The Impending Crisis by Hinton Rowan Helper (1857)
• Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates Lincoln's Opening Remarks, Quincy, Illinois (Oct. 13, 1858)
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates Douglas' Reply to Lincoln, Quincy, Illinois (Oct. 13, 1858)
• Lincoln's Cooper Union Address, New York (1860)
• "City Intelligence: The Case of Rev. Daniel Worth", New York Times (1860)
• Confederate Constitution (1861)
• Alexander H. Stephens, Cornerstone Address (March 21, 1861)
• A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union (1861)
• Sam Houston on Secession and Civil War (1861)
• Lincoln's First Inaugural Address (1861)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• War Department General Order 143 (1863)
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)
• Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
• President Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address (1865)
• Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
• 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865)
• 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868)
• 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1870)
• A sampling of Black Codes (Reconstruction Era)
• First Reconstruction Act (1867)
• Second Reconstruction Act (1867)

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