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FACTS ABOUT THE USA
United States History

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Fundamental Documents and Writings

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Declaration of Independence

English version
http://www.usia.gov/usa/aboutusa/deceng.htm

Spanish version
http://www.usia.gov/usa/aboutusa/deces.htm

French version
http://www.usia.gov/usa/aboutusa/decfr.htm

Constitution of the United States of America

English version
http://www.usia.gov/usa/aboutusa/consteng.htm
Spanish version
http://www.usia.gov/usa/aboutusa/constes.htm

French version
http://www.usia.gov/usa/aboutusa/constfr.htm

Bill of Rights

English version
http://www.usia.gov/usa/aboutusa/billeng.htm

Spanish version
http://www.usia.gov/usa/aboutusa/billes.htm

French version
http://www.usia.gov/usa/aboutusa/billfr.htm

Basic Readings in U.S. Democracy
U.S. Information Agency
http://www.usia.gov/usa/demo/demo.htm

The Mayflower Compact
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/mayflow.html

The First Thanksgiving Proclamation - 1676
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/thanksgiv.html

Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733-1758
The Library of America

Thomas Paine, Common Sense
The Library of America

The Federalist Papers
http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa00.htm

The Monroe Doctrine
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/monrodoc.html

Abraham Lincoln: Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/emanc.html

The Truman Doctrine
gopher://gopher.law.cornell.edu/00/foreign/historical/truman.txt