Primary Source Documents

1. Required states to give citizenship to all citizens born in the United States and gave other basic civil rights.
2. Ended poll taxes.
5. Foundation for American government for freedoms such as free speech and trial by jury.
7. Created a graduated income tax.
8. Declaration by Truman to economically assist any country fighting Communism after WWII. The declaration marked the beginning of the Containment policy.
10. First ten amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing individual liberties and due process.
12. The right of 18 years old to vote.
15. Document, which formed the first government of the U.S. near the end of the American Revolution. States had more power than the national government.
16. Essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay to support the ratification of the Constitution.
17. gave women the right to vote.

1. Gave freedom to all slaves in all of the states.
3. Written mostly by Jefferson to list the grievances against Great Britain and to declare independence from Great Britain.
4. A document outlining the basic form and rules of the U.S. government.
6. peace plan issued by Wilson that called for freedom of the seas, reduction of armaments, and end to secret diplomacy. Important part was the creation of the League of Nations a national peace organization.
9. Major ideas found in the U.S. Constitution of limiting the power to tax and right to a fair trial.
11. Treaty that ended WWI and was extremely harsh on Germany.
13. Gave African American men the right to vote.
14. Provided direct election of senators.