
Exploration

Portugal

Treaty of Tordesillas

Spain

British

France


Northwest Passage
Colonization

Spain

small pox

St. Augustine, FL

New Mexico

Encomiendas

Pueblo Revolt

France

New France

beaver pelts


Quebec
England

Chesapeake

Virginia

Virginia Company of London

Jamestown

John Smith

Powhatan Indians


Pocahontas

first Powhatan War 1610-1614
Tobacco

John Rolfe

Headright System

Indentured Servants

Chattel Slavery

House of Burgesses

Second Powhatan War (1622-1632)

Act of Religious Toleration 1649

Bacon’s Rebellion

Maryland

Lord Baltimore


Proprietor
New England

Mayflower (1620)

pilgrims

Mayflower Compact

Plymouth (1620)

Squanto

Miles Standish
King Philip’s War (1675)



Massachusetts Bay (1628)

Massachusetts Bay Company

Puritan

John Winthrop (1630)
“A Model for Christian Charity”


The Pequot

New England Way

saints

Harvard

Half-Way Covenant (1662)


“Meeting House”

General Court
Towns

Economy

outlivers

Family life

Praying Towns
Demise of the New England Way

Roger Williams

Anne Hutchinson

Salem Witch Trials

Connecticut (1636)

New Haven (1637)

Rhode Island (1647)


Civil Government



Wampanoags
Roger Williams
Mid Atlantic
Dutch

New Netherlands (1614)


Dutch West India Company
New Amsterdam (1626)

New Sweden

New York, New Jersey

Pennsylvania

William Penn

Quakers

South

Carolina


Chattel Slavery

Rice

Malaria

Stono Rebellion
Georgia
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 Trouble with mother
o Mercantilism
 Navigation Acts, 1651-1733
 Salutary Neglect
o Dominion of New England, 1686-1689
 Uprisings in New England, 1689
o Glorious Revolution, 1689
 `colonial assemblies
 Peter Zenger Trial
o Unifying Wars
 King William’s War 1689-1697
 Queen Anne’s War 1702-1713
o The Great Awakening
 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
 Old Lights vs New Lights
o Dividing Wars
 War of Jenkins Ear, 1739
 King George’s War, 1740-1748
o Enlightenment
 Deists
o French and Indian War, 1689-1763
 Proclamation of 1763
 End of Salutary Neglect

Sugar Act, 1764

Stamp Act, 1765-1766
o Sons of Liberty, 1765
o Stamp Act Congress

First Quartering Act, 1765

Declaratory Act, 1766

Townshend Duties, 1767-1770

Massachusetts Circular Letters, 1768

Boston Massacre, 1770

Committee of Correspondence, 1772-1774
o Samuel Adams

Tea Act, 1773

Boston Tea Party, 1773

Coercive Acts, 1774

Quebec Act, 1774

First Continental Congress, 1774
o Suffolk Resolves

Battle of Lexington and Concord, 1775

Second Continental Congress, 1775
o Olive Branch Petition, 1775

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, 1776

Declaration of Independence, 1776
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 The Articles of Confederation
o Problems

Finances

Newburgh Conspiracy
o Success

Northwest Ordinance, 1787
o State Governments

Bicameral Legislatures

State Constitutions

Republicans not Democrats
 The Constitution
o Why

Shay’s Rebellion
o How

Philadelphia Convention, 1787

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Connecticut Compromise

3/5 Compromise

Federalists

Anti-Federalists
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 Washington, 1789-1797
o Judiciary Act
o Bill of Rights
o Alexander Hamilton

First Bank of the US
o Thomas Jefferson
o Haitian Revolution

Fugitive Slave Law
o Whiskey Rebellion
o Jay Treaty
o Pinckney Treaty
o Cotton Gin Invented
 John Adams, 1797-1800
o Trouble with Britain & France

XYZ Affair

Alien & Sedition Act

Quasi War
o State’s Rights Debate

Virginia and Kentucky Resolution

Fries Rebellion
o Second Great Awakening on the Frontier

Camp Meetings

Methodists
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 Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1808
o Marbury v. Madison
o Louisiana Purchase
o Problems with Britain

Chesapeake Affair

Embargo Act
o Virginia Dynasty & Democratic/Republicans
 James Madison, 1809-1816
o Problems with Britain

Non-intercourse Act

The Indians

William Henry Harrison

Tecumseh

Battle of Tippecanoe

War of 1812

Hartford Convention & Federalists

Treaty of Ghent
o Era of Good Feelings, 1817-1824

Demise of the Federalists

Henry Clay

The American System
o
Second Bank of the US
 James Monroe, 1816-1824
o Supreme Court

John Marshall

Dartmouth College v. Woodward

McCulloch v. Maryland
o Sectionalism Emerges

Missouri Compromise
o Foreign Policy

Monroe Doctrine
o Construction of Erie Canal
o Industrialization
o Second Great Awakening

Burned Over-District

Charles Finney

Born Again

Evangelical Protestantism

Unitarianism

Mormonism

Shakers

Reform

The American Colonization Society

Penitentiary Reform
o Settling the West

Santa Fe Trail

Texas

Empresarios
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 John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
o Railroad Boom
o Split of the Republican Party

Democrats

John Q. Adams

Andrew Jackson
o Political Democratization
o Calls for Reform grow out of the S.G.A.

Temperance
o Utopian Communities

New Harmony

Transcendentalists


American Renaissance
o
Hudson River School
o
Romanticism
o
Dark Romantics
Oneida
 Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
o Calls for reform continue

Horace Mann

The Liberator

The American Anti-Slavery Society
o A Vicious Mudsling Affair
o Rotation in Office
o Sectionalism Continues

Nullification Crisis

John C. Calhoun

Tariff of Abomination, 1828

Compromise of 1833

Nat Turner

The Liberator
o Indian Removal Act

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Worcester v. Georgia
o Settlement of the West

Texas Revolution, 1836


Sam Houston
Oregon & California

Oregon Trail
o Bank Wars

State Bank notes and Specie

Bank Veto

Nicholas Biddle

Pet Banks

Deposit Act

Specie Circular

Rise of the Whig Party
o Election of 1836
 Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
o Panic of 1837

Millerites

Independent Treasury Bill, 1840

Martin Van Ruin
o Trail of Tears, 1938
o Election of 1840

Tippecanoe and Tyler too

Two Party System
o Reform continues

Dorothea Dix
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 William Henry Harrison, 1841
o Whigs

Tariffs

Internal Improvements

Bank
 John Tyler, 1841-1845
o His Accidency

Bank Veto

Tariffs
o Sectionalism

Texas

Liberty Party
 James K. Polk, 1845-1849
o Manifest Destiny

Annexation of Texas

Oregon

Mexican American War


Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
California Gold Rush, 1848
o Seneca Falls
o Mormons

Deseret
o Immigration

Irish

Germans

Nativists

Know-Nothings
o Sectionalism

Wilmot Proviso

Popular Sovereignty

Free-Soil Party
 Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
o Whig
o Settlement of the West

California Gold Rush

Chinese

Clipper Ships
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 Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
o Sectionalism

Compromise of 1850

Henry Clay

Fire-Eaters

Stephen Douglas

Fugitive Slave Act
o
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852
o Quack Medicine

Grahamites
o Consumer Culture

Minstrel Shows
o Settlement of the West

Matthew Perry
o Cotton Kingdom

Planters, small slave owners, yeoman farmers, and people of the pine barrens
o Election of 1852

Demise of the Whigs

Free-soil

Democrats

Know Nothings

Republicans
 Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
o Democrats
o Sectionalism

Kansas – Nebraska Act

Stephen Douglas
o
Popular Sovereignty
o
Transcontinental Rail

Free-soil surge

Bleeding Kansas

Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks

Cuba & Nicaragua

Republican Party

Election of 1856

Republicans

Free soil, free speech, Fremont
 James Buchanan, 1857-1861
o Sectionalism

Dred Scott, 1857

Lecompton Constitution, 1857

Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 1858

Harpers Ferry, 1859

Slave Power vs. Fire Eaters

Election of 1860

Republicans
o
Panic of 1857

Democrats
o
Stephen Douglas
o
John Breckinridge
o Succession
o Settlement of the West

Comstock Lode, 1859
o Immigration

“Old Immigrants”
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Summary:
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 Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
o Civil War

Sumter

Financing the War

Greenbacks

War Bonds

National Back Act

Fighting


Anaconda Plan
Emancipation Proclamation
o Settlement of the West

Pacific Railroad Act, 1862

Homestead Act, 1862

Morrill Land Grant Act, 1862

Sand Creek Massacre

o Reconstruction
 Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
o Presidential

Black Codes

Freedmen’s Bureau

13th Amendment
o Congressional

Radical Republicans

Civil Rights Act, 1866

Fourteenth Amendment

Reconstruction Act, 1867

Tenure of Office Act, 1867

Fifteenth Amendment

American Woman Suffrage Association


National Woman Suffrage Association
Republican Rule

Carpetbaggers

Scalawags

Freedmen

Southern Opposition


Ku Klux Klan
Weakening

Ex parte Milligan, 1866

Texas v. White, 1869

Sharecropping

Crop-Lien Economy
o Settlement of the West

Cow Boys

Reservation System

Grange Movement, 1867-1878
 Ulysses S. Grant, 1869-1877
o Congressional Reconstruction Continues

Enforcement Acts

Civil Rights Act of 1875
o Redemption begins

Slaughterhouse Cases, 1873

New South

Mississippi Plan, 1875
o The Gilded Age

Grantism

Credit Mobilier

Whiskey Ring

Tammany Hall
o Currency Questions: Panic of 1873

Sound Money Policy vs. Easy Money

Greenback Party
o Election of 1876

Compromise of 1877
o Settlement of the West

Yellowstone Established, 1872

Barbed Wire

Black Hills Gold Rush

Little Big Horn, 1876

Grange Laws

Munn v. Illinois, 1877
o Growth of Big Business

Knights of Labor, 1869

Carnegie Steel


Standard Oil Company


Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockfeller
Thomas Edison
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 Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881
o End of Reconstruction
o Currency Questions Continue

Bland-Allison Act, 1878

Greenback Party
o Settlement of the West

Exodusters, 1879

A Century of Dishonor
o Growth of Big Business

Standard Oil Trust established

Social Darwinism
o Gilded Age Politics

Spoils System

Stalwarts and Half-breeds

Chester Arthur
 James A. Garfield, 1881
o “I am a Stalwart, Chester Arthur is now president”
 Chester Arthur, 1881-1885
o Gilded Age Politics

Pendleton Civil Service Act
o Rise of Jim Crow

Civil Rights Cases
o Settlement of the West

A Century of Dishonor

Helen Hunt Jackson

Buffalo Bill

Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
o Growth of Big Business

Rail Consolidation
 Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
o Gilded Age Politics

Revenue Tariffs
o Settlement of the West

Dawes Severalty Act, 1887

Oklahoma Land Rush
o Growth of Big Business

AFL

Samuel Gompers

Haymarket Riots, 1886

Interstate Commerce Act, 1887

The Gospel of Wealth
o Struggling Farmers

Farmers’ Alliance
o Middle Class Affluence

Cult of Domesticity

Victorian Morality

Department Stores

Research Universities
o Working Class Culture

Boss Politics

Ragtime

Saloons

Vaudeville
o Reform

Jacob Riis

The Social Gospel

Settlement Houses


Jane Addams
WCTU
 Benjamin Harrison, 1890-1893
o Gilded Age Politics

McKinley Tariff

GAR & pensions

Populists
o Growth of Big Business

Sherman Antitrust Act, 1890

Homestead Strike

Railroad Consolidation


JP Morgan
Panic of 1893
o Currency Questions Continue

Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890
o Settlement of the West

Ghost Dance

Sierra Club

The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893


Frontier “Closed”

Turner
Populists
o Immigration

“New Immigrants”
o Election of 1893

Panic of 1893
 Grover Cleveland, 1894-1897
o Growth of Big Business

Pullman Strike

Eugene Debs
o Rise of Jim Crow

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896

Booker T. Washington
o Election of 1896

William Jennings Bryan

Cross of Gold
 William McKinley, 1897-1901
o Gilded Age Politics

Dingley Tariff, 1897
o Currency Questions

Currency Act of 1900
o Growth of Big Business

United States Steel

JP Morgan
o American Imperialism

Spanish American War

Philippines

Platt Amendment
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Summary:
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