HISTORY STAAR CONCEPTS
Geography:
 5 Regions:
-Characteristics of each region
Colonization:
 Political, Social, and Economic
Reasons for Colonization
 Jamestown/1607:
-John Smith
-John Rolfe/tobacco
-Pocahontas
 Virginia House of Burgesses:
st
-1 Representative Government
 Plymouth/1620:
-Squanto
-Puritans
-Separatists
-Pilgrims
 Mayflower Compact
 Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
 New England Colonies:
-New Hampshire
-Rhode Island
-Connecticut
-Massachusetts
-Subsistence Farming
 Middle Colonies: (Breadbasket)
-Delaware
-New Jersey
-Pennsylvania
-New York
 Southern Colonies:
-Maryland
-Virginia
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Georgia
 Cash Crops (Plantations);
-T = Tobacco
-R = Rice
-I = Indigo
American Revolution:
Causes:
 Proclamation of 1763
 Quartering Act
 Stamp Act
 Intolerable Acts
 Boston Massacre:
-Crispus Attucks
 Boston Tea Party
 Sons of Liberty:
-Samuel Adams
 “Common Sense”
 1st Continental Congress
 2nd Continental Congress
 Declaration of Independence:
-Thomas Jefferson
-July 4, 1776
-Unalienable Rights
People:
 King George III
 George Washington
 Abigail Adams
 John Adams
 Benjamin Franklin
 Thomas Paine
Battles:
 Lexington and Concord
 Saratoga
 Valley Forge:
-Marquis de Lafayette
 Yorktown
 Treaty of Paris 1783
HISTORY STAAR CONCEPTS
HISTORY STAAR CONCEPTS
Government:
 7 Principles of Government:
-Popular Sovereignty
-Limited Government
-Republicanism
-Individual Rights
-Checks and Balances
-Separation of Powers
-Federalism
 Branches of Government:
-Legislative- Makes the Laws
-Senate/House of Representatives
-Congress
-Executive- Carries Out Laws/Enforces
-President
-Cabinet
-Judicial- Interprets Laws
-Supreme Court Justices (9)
-Highest Court in Land
 Bill of Rights:
-Amendments #1-10
 Constitutional Convention:
 The Great Compromise:
-Virginia Plan/New Jersey Plan
-Roger Sherman
 3/5 Compromise
 Slave Trade Compromise
 James Madison
 Amending the Constitution
 Articles of Confederation:
-5 Weaknesses
 Shay’s Rebellion
 Northwest Ordinance
Reform Movement:
 Horace Mann/Education
 Lyman Beecher/Temperance
 Dorothea Dix/Mentally Ill/Prison
 Samuel Gridley Howe/Blind
 Thomas Gallaudet/Deaf
 Susan B. Anthony/ Women’s Rights
 Elizabeth C. Stanton/Women’s Rights:
-Seneca Falls Convention
-Suffrage/19th Amendment
New Nation/1st 7 Presidents:
 Federalists v Anti-federalists:
-Alexander Hamilton/Patrick Henry
 George Washington:
-Precedents/Farewell Address
-Whiskey Rebellion
 John Adams:
-XYZ Affair/Alien & Sedition Act
 Thomas Jefferson:
-Louisiana Purchase (1803)
-Embargo Act/Nullification Act
 James Madison:
-War of 1812
 James Monroe:
-Monroe Doctrine
 JQ Adams:
-Corrupt Bargain
 Andrew Jackson:
-Spoils System
-Trail of Tears
-Nullification Crisis
-Indian Removal Act
Battles:
 Fort Sumter
 Bull Run
 Antietam
 Emancipation Proclamation
 Gettysburg
 Vicksburg
 Gettysburg Address
 Sherman’s March/Anaconda Plan
 Appomattox Courthouse
Industrial Revolution:
 Factory System:
-Mass Production
-Water Power
-Textile Mills
 Urbanization
 Mechanization
 Steamboat (Robert Fulton)
 Railroad (Tom Thumb/Peter Cooper)
 Telegraph (Samuel Morse)
 Canals (Erie Canal)
Manifest Destiny:
 Louisiana Purchase
 Texas Revolution:
-Battle of San Jacinto
 Texas Annexation 1845
 Mexican War: (1846-1848)
-Mexican Cession
 Gold Rush/California 1848
Civil War: (1861-1865)
Causes:
 Sectionalism-North vs South
-Missouri Compromise
-Compromise of 1850
-Protective Tariffs
 State’s Rights-Kansas-Nebraska Act
-Lincoln-Douglas Debates
-Election of Lincoln 1860
 Slavery-Underground Railroad
-Abolitionists:
-Harriet Tubman
-William Lloyd Garrison
-Frederick Douglass
-Sojourner Truth
-Fugitive Slave Law
-Uncle Tom’s Cabin
-John Brown’s Raid
People:
 Ulysses S. Grant
 Robert E. Lee
 Jefferson Davis
 Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction:
 John Wilkes Booth
 Assassination of Lincoln
 Scalawags
 Carpetbaggers
 Tenant Farmer
 Sharecropper
 Freedmen Bureau
 Black Codes
 Segregation
 Lincoln’s 10% Plan
 Radical Republicans
 Wade Davis Bill
 Andrew Johnson’s Plan
 Poll Tax/Literacy Test
 13th/14th/15th Amendments
Supreme Court Cases:
 Marbury v. Madison
 McCulloch v. Maryland
 Gibbons v. Ogden
 Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dates:
*1607
*1776
*1803
*1619
*1787
*1850
*1620
*1861-1865