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Thomas Jefferson on Black Education
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Pleasants, [August 27, 1796]. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (048.03.00)
[Digital ID# us0048_03]
Northwest Ordinance Prohibits Slavery
Committee of Congress. Draft Report of Northwest Ordinance, March 1784. Broadside with emendations by Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (49.00.00)
[Digital ID# us0049]
New States in the West and Northwest
Thomas Jefferson. Plan for Boundaries in Western Territory, [1784]. Manuscript document. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (49.01.00)
[Digital ID# us0049_01]
Congress Drafts Northwest Ordinance
Printed draft of the Northwest Ordinance of 1784. Virginia Gazette, May 15, 1784. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (049.02.00)
[Digital ID# us0049_02p1]
Call to Revise Articles of Confederation
Letter from John Jay to George Washington, March 16, 1786. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (50.00.00)
[Digital ID# us0050]
Revolt in Massachusetts
Letter from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, January 29, 1787. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (050.02.01)
[Digital ID# us0050_02p1]
Madison and Washington Consider Confederation
Letter from James Madison to George Washington, December 9, 1785. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (51.00.00)
[Digital ID# us0051 — us0051_3]
Financial Crisis Fears
Letter from James Monroe to James Madison, September 12, 1786. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (051.02.00)
[Digital ID#us0051_02p1]
Washington and Madison Plan for a New Government
Letter from James Madison to George Washington, April 16, 1787. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (52.00.02)
[Digital ID# us0052_2: us0052–us0052_5]
Independence Hall
William Birch. “High Street, from Ninth Street,” from The City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, As it Appeared in the Year 1800. . . . Hand-colored engraving. Springland, Pennsylvania: William Birch and Son, 1800. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (54.00.02)
[Digital ID#us0054_04: us0054–us0054_3]
Articles of Confederation Emerge from Congress in 1777
United States Continental Congress. Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union Between the States. . . . Lancaster: Francis Bailey, 1777. Pamphlet. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (048.05.00)
[Digital ID # us0048_05]
Congress Adopts the Northwest Ordinance
United States Continental Congress. Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the U.S. Northwest of the Ohio. New York, 1787. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (049.04.00)
[Digital ID # us0049_04]
Congress Adopts the Northwest Ordinance
United States Continental Congress. An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the U.S. Northwest of the Ohio. New York: 1787. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (049.03.00)
[Digital ID # us0049_03]
Crucible for the Creation of the American Republic
Matthäus Albrect Lotter. A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia. [Augsburg: M.A. Lotter, 1777]. Hand-colored engraved map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (053.03.00)
[Digital ID # ar132200]
Not Worth a Continental
United States Continental Congress. Paper currency, 1775–1777. Printed by Hall and Sellers; Rhode Island. Paper Currency, 1786. Printed by Southwick and Barber. Marian Carson Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (136.00.00–136.05.00)
[Digital IDs # us0136-us0136_05]
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