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Defining Documents in American History: Dissent and Protest

Chronological List

1637: Excerpts from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson. 3 1688: A Minute against Slavery, From the Germantown Monthly Meeting, Addressed to the Monthly Meeting in Dublin 83 1689: Declaration of Protestant Subjects in Maryland. 10 1739: An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina 90 1764: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved 17 1765: Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress 22 1767–1768: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania 27 1768: Boston Non-Importation Agreement 35 1771: Samuel Adams Writing as Candidus 39 1773: Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One 43 1774: Boston Massacre Oration 49 1775: “Liberty or Death” Speech 56 1776: Common Sense 62 1777: Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court 94 1780: Petition to the Assembly of Pennsylvania against the Slave Trade 99 1792: Petition against the Excise Tax by Inhabitants of Western Pennsylvania 76 1794: An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice 101 1811: Appeal to Choctaws and Chickasaws. 289 1829: Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World 105 1829: Memorial to Congress 294 1831: The Confessions of Nat Turner 118 1832: South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification 227 1833: Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention. 129 1833: Prejudices against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to This Subject 135 1843: “An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” 143 1843: Speech Opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act 232 1848: Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments 483 1852: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 151 1852: The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered 165 1853: Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup 176 1858: Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States 184 1860: South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession 237 1861: “Cornerstone Speech” 195 1861: “Under the Flag” 209 1861: A Voice from Harper’s Ferry 216 1861: Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate 245 1861: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 251 1861: Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy 254 1864-1865: Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony 298 1865: Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator 220 1868: Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature 263 1868: Treaty of Fort Laramie 316 1871: Lecture on Constitutional Equality 488 1873: “Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?” 494 1874: “All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights” 272 1881: Preface to The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 281 1887: Dawes Severalty Act 325 1887: Ten Days in a Mad-House 535 1890: How the Other Half Lives. 545 1891: Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts 333 1892: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” 554 1894: Editorial on the Pullman Strike 558 1895: “Liberty” 357 1895: “The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future” 562 1895: Atlanta Exposition Address. 566 1896: The “Cross of Gold” Speech 501 1905: Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles 363 1909: “Lynching: Our National Crime” 369 1910: “Agitation” 375 1910: “Why Women Should Vote” 508 1914: William Monroe Trotter’s Protest to Woodrow Wilson 378 1915: Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee 514 1917: Speech against Conscription and War 623 1917: Speech Opposing War with Germany 628 1918: Antiwar Speech 633 1919: Speech Opposing the League of Nations. 574 1921: “The Eruption of Tulsa” 383 1933: Auto Workers Strike 579 1935: “A Black Inventory of the New Deal” 390 1935: “Share Our Wealth” Address 397 1935: “U.S. Department of (White) Justice” 585 1941: Call to Negro America to March on Washington 405 1947: An Appeal to the World 410 1956: Southern Manifesto 590 1960: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose. 416 1962: The Port Huron Statement 595 1963: “I Have a Dream” 419 1963: “Message to the Grass Roots” 433 1963: Letter from Birmingham Jail 439 1964: “The Ballot or the Bullet” 446 1966: “Black Power” 453 1966: “What We Want, What We Believe” 461 1966: What We Want 474 1967: “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” 638 1968: The SCUM Manifesto 520 1969: Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square. 343 1969: Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation 601 1971: Steal This Book 606 1971: Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War 651 1984: Commonwealth Address 613 2003: “The Emperor Has No Clothes” Speech 658 2016: Summary of Letter Requesting Further Review of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) 347 2017: Women’s March on Washington 529

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