Study Library

Critical Period

Annals of Congress, Speech in U.S. House of Representatives, (June 8, 1789)

James Madison, 1st Cong., 1st sess., secs. 448-59

Critical Period

U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights (1789)

Amendments I-X

Critical Period

'Thanksgiving Proclamation' (1789)

George Washington

Early Republican Period

Petition from the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Report of Select Committee of the House of Representatives (1790)

Early Republican Period

'Neutrality Proclamation,' (April 22, 1793)

George Washington

Early Republican Period

Pacificus: Letter I (June 29, 1793) and Letter II (July 3, 1793)

Alexander Hamilton

Early Republican Period

Helvidius, Letter I (August 24, 1793) and Letter II (August 31, 1793)

James Madison

Early Republican Period

'Farewell Address' (1796)

George Washington

Early Republican Period

The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)