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**Historical Documents: 1451-1600**
[|Columbus' Letter to the King and Queen of Spain] by Christopher Columbus http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1451/columbus.htm

[|The Iroquois Constitution]by the Iroquois Confederation http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1451/iroquois.htm

1584 -- [|Discourse of Western Planting excerpt] by Richard Hakluyt http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1451/hakluyt.htm

April 1606 -- [|First Virginia Charter] by King James II http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/va1.htm

May 23, 1609 -- [|Second Virginia Charter] by King James II http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/va2.htm

March 12, 1612 -- [|Third Virginia Charter] by King James II http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/va3.htm

November 11, 1620 -- [|Mayflower Compact] by the men onboard the //Mayflower http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/mayflwr.htm//

1628 -- [|Petition of Right] by Parliament http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/petright.htm

1629 -- [|Massachusetts Bay Charter] by King Charles I http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/machartr.htm

January 14, 1639 -- [|Fundamental Orders of Connecticut] by the inhabitents of the Connecticut region [[http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/ctfundor.htm|http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/ctfundor.htm

]] 1645 -- [|On Liberty] by John Winthrop http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/onlibert.htm

April 20, 1662 -- [|Connecticut Charter] by King Charles II http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/ctchartr.htm

June 20, 1676 -- [|First Thanksgiving Proclamation] by the government of Plymouth [[http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/thanksgi.htm|http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/thanksgi.htm

]] 1690 --// Two Treaties of Government// by John Locke [|Chapter 12: The Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth] [[http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/locke12.htm|http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/locke12.htm

]] //1690 --// Two Treaties of Government// by John Locke [|Chapter 13: Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth] http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/locke13.htm

1712 -- [|North Carolina Biennial Act] by the government of North Carolina http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/ncbiennl.htm

July 8, 1741 -- [|Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God] by Jonathan Edwards http://www.apstudent.com/ushistory/docs1601/sinners.htm