U.S. History
Note Card Project
Directions: On one side of the note card write the key term and the number of the term, on the other side define,
summarize or write an important fact about the key concept. Cards must be turned in the correct order. Students must
use the U.S. History Notes to complete the assignment. Turn project in on the day of the Milestone Test for U.S. History.
This assignment will be worth 3 test grades.
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Virginia Company
House of Burgesses
Importance of Tobacco in
Jamestown
Powhatan
Bacon’s Rebellion
Puritans
Religious Tolerance
Religious Intolerance
Founding of Rhode Island
Town Meetings
Half-way Covenant
King Phillip’s War
Metacom
Massachusetts charter
Salem Witch Trial
Founding of Pennsylvania
Quakers
New Amsterdam
Founding of New York
Founding of Quebec
Mercantilism
Trans-Atlantic trade or Triangle
Trade
Middle Passage
Ben Franklin
Social mobility
Great Awakening
French and Indian War
1763 Treaty of Paris
Proclamation of 1763
Taxation without Representation
Stamp act
Sons of Liberty
Intolerable Acts
Committees of Correspondence
Thomas Pain and Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson and the
Declaration of Independence
John Lock
Natural Rights
Social Contract
George Washington and the
Continental Army
Crossing of the Delaware River
Valley Forge
Benjamin Franklin (French
Ambassador)
Marquis de Lafayette
Lord Cornwallis
Battle of Yorktown
1783 Treaty of Paris
Articles of Confederation & two
weaknesses
Shay’s Rebellion\
Ratification
The Federalist
The Anti-Federalist
The Federalist Papers
James Madison
Bill of Rights
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
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The Great Compromise
Bi-cameral
Three-Fifth Compromise
Separation of Powers
Charles De Montesquieu
Federalism
Checks and Balances
1st Amendment
9th Amendment
10th Amendment
Whiskey Rebellion
Washington’s Farwell Address
Non-interventionist
John Adams Presidency
The Alien Act
The Sedition Act
The Kentucky and Virginia
Resolution
Northwest Ordinance’s
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark Expedition
War of 1812
Impressment
2 Result of War of 1812
3 Improvement in National
Infrastructure (during early 1800’s)
Erie Canal
Rise of New York City
Monroe Doctrine
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney
Negative Result of the Cotton gin
Interchangeable parts
Manifest Destiny
Temperance Movement
Abolitionist Movement
Public School Movement
Suffrage
Elizabeth C. Stanton
Seneca Falls Conference
4 Jacksonian Democracy Policies
Abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederic Douglass
The Grimke Sisters
Nat Turner
Missouri Compromise
Nullification Crisis
2 of John C. Calhoun’s Arguments
for the Nullification Crisis
Mexican American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
4 Items Stated in the Compromise of
1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty
Bleeding Kansas
3 Rulings from the Dred Scott
Decision
John Brown
John Brown’s Raid
Secede
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Habeas Corpus
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
Ulysses Grant
William T. Sherman
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Fort Sumter
Significance of Battle of Antietam
Significance of Battle of Vicksburg
Significance of Battle of Gettysburg
Significance of Battle of Atlanta
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Northern vs Southern Economy
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical (Congressional)
Reconstruction
Morehouse College
Freedmen’s Bureau
13th,14th ,15th Amendments
Black Codes
The Ku Klux Klan
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Significance of the Compromise of
1877 or “The Great Betrayal”
Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese Labor
John D. Rockefeller and the Standard
Oil Company
Monopoly
Trust
3 of Thomas Edison’s Inventions
3 Differences between the First
Immigrants and the New Immigrants
Ellis Island
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
3 Results of the Pullman Strike
Muckrakers
Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
The Progressives
Jane Addams and the Hull House
The Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
The NAACP
Ida Tarbell and the Standard Oil
Company
Political Reform: Initiative
Political Reform: Referendum
Political Reform: Recall
Political Reform: 17th Amendment
Conservation Movement
Chinese Exclusion Act
American Expansionism or
Imperialism
Result of Spanish- American War
Result of Philippine- American War
Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal
Reasons the U.S. Entered WWI
Great Migration
U.S. History
Note Card Project
Directions: On one side of the note card write the key term and the number of the term, on the other side define,
summarize or write an important fact about the key concept. Cards must be turned in the correct order. Students must
use the U.S. History Notes to complete the assignment. Turn project in on the day of the Milestone Test for U.S. History.
This assignment will be worth 3 test grades.
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Espionage Act and Eugene V. Debs
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the
League of Nations
U.S. Senate and the Fourteen Points
Basics of Communism
Red Scare
Major Points of Nativism
Nativism
Jazz Music and Louis Armstrong
Tin Pan Alley and Irving Berlin
Henry Ford and the result of Mass
Production of Cars
Harlem Renaissance and Langston
Hughes
List the Four Factors that led to the
Great Depression
Under Consumption
Overproduction
Buying on Margin
Stock Market Crash of 1929
2 Factors that led to the Dust Bowl
Great Depression
Hoovervilles
Tennessee Valley Authority
Wagner Act
Social Security Act
Eleanor Roosevelt
Conservatives
Vs Liberals
Huey Long
FDR Failure: Neutrality Acts
FDR Failure: Court-packing bill
Result of Surprise Attack on Pearl
Harbor
Japanese Internment Camps
Result of the Lend-Lease Program
2 Major Result of the Battle of
Midway
Result of D-Day
Result of Fall of Berlin
Selective Service System
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
Rationing
The Manhattan Project
2 Result of Dropping the Atomic
Bomb
Marshall Plan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)
Warsaw Pact
Containment policy
Truman Doctrine
Result of the Korean War
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthyism
Cuba and Fidel Castro
Result of the Bay of Pigs
Result of Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
2 Result of the Tet Offensive
Baby Boom
Levittown
Interstate Highway Act
229. Kennedy/Nixon presidential Debates
230. Sputnik I
231. President Eisenhower’s actions to
Sputnik I
232. Result of A. Philip Randolph’s and
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters and their March on
Washington
233. The Civil Rights Movement and
Harry Truman
234. The Civil Rights Movement and
Jackie Robinson
235. U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in
Brown v. Board of Education
236. MLK’s Letter from Brimingham Jail
237. MLK’s I Have a Dream Speech
238. Civil Rights Act of 1964
239. Voting Rights Act of 1965
240. Warren Court and Miranda v.
Arizona
241. Result of President John F.
Kennedy’s Assassination
242. 3 Result of Lyndon Johnson’s Great
Society Laws
243. Medicare
244. 1968 and the Tet Offensive
245. 1968 and the Assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr.
246. 1968 and the Assassination of Robert
F. Kennedy
247. 1968 and Democratic Convention in
Chicago
248. The Tactics of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference vs.
the Tactics of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
249. National Organization for Women
250. The Anti-Vietnam War Movement
251. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm
Workers Movement
252. Three Results of Racheal Carson and
Silent Spring
253. New Federalism and Barry
Goldwater
254. Richard Nixon Success: Nixon goes
to China
255. Richard Nixon Failure: Watergate
Scandal
256. Roe v. Wade
257. Regents of University of California
v. Bakke
258. Jimmy Carter Success: Camp David
Accords
259. Jimmy Carter Failure: Iranian
Hostage Crisis
260. Ronald Reagan Success: Collapse of
Soviet Union
261. Ronald Reagan Failure:
Reagonomics
262. Ronald Reagan Failure: Iran-Contra
Scandal
263. Bill Clinton Success: North
American Free Trade Agreement
264. Bill Clinton Failure: Impeachment of
Bill Clinton
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2000 Presidential Election
Patriot Act
Department of Homeland Security
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom