Documentos que formaron la naci?n

Presents a short history of the Declaration of Independence, and describes the events leading to its creation including the Townshend and Intolerable Acts, Boston Tea Party, First and Second Continental Congress, and the Revolutionary War.

Discusses the importance of the Gettysburg Address, provides background information of the document, and includes photographs, illustrations, a chronology, a glossary, and a list of resources.

A brief discussion of the meaning of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the Constitution of the United States.

Presents a discussion of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and its importance to the nation, and discusses slavery in America, the Civil War, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise, and the Fugitive Slave Law.