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Thomson Reuters

Find Law: Article I: Congressional Qualifications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides text of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. Section 2 of the article deals specifically with the qualifications needed to be a representative of the U.S. Congress. This site provides text as its worded in the...
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US National Archives

Our Documents: Resolution to Annex Hawaii (1898)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a copy of the original Resolution for Annexation of Hawaii. There is also a copy of Queen Liliuokalani's official protest to the House of Representatives. Links to larger copies, a typed transcript and PDF download are also...
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Yale University

Avalon Project: Declarations of a State of War With Japan, Germany, and Italy

For Students 9th - 10th
A transcript of many of the proceedings in the House of Representatives in 1941 leading the U.S. into World War II. Also includes declarations of war by the Axis powers.
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Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum

Cprr History Museum: Chinese American Contribution to Transcontinental

For Students 9th - 10th
In April of 1999, Representative John T. Doolittle delivered a speech before the United States House of Representatives commemorating the contribution of Chinese-Americans to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. This site...
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Library of Congress

Loc: B. B. French's Diary

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is provided for by the Library of Congress. Benjamin Brown French, politician and Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, kept a diary. The Library of Congress has digitalized for display the December 25, 1851, entry...
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Other

Equal Rights for Women

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains the text of a speech made by U.S. House Representative Shirley Chisholm on the dismal state of women's rights in 1969.