Period 1: 1491-1607
Encomienda System
Anasazi, Pueblos, Lakota Sioux
Mayas
Incas
Aztecs
Conquistadores
Printing Press
Nation State
Roanoke
Treaty of Tordesillas
Longhouses
Columbian Exchange
People
Cortes
Pizarro
Henry the Navigator
Ferdinand and Isabella
Christopher Columbus
John Cabot
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Henry Hudson
Bartolome de las Casas
Period 2: 1607-1754
Act of Toleration
Halfway Covenant
Jamestown
Mayflower
Plymouth
King Philips War
Mayflower Compact
Virginia House of Burgesses
Bacon’s Rebellion
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Corporate Colonies
Royal colonies
Proprietary Colonies
Virginia Company
Mercantilism
Navigation acts
Glorious Revolution
Indentured Servants
Headright System
Triangular Trade/Middle Passage
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Great Awakening
Huguenots
The Zenger Case
People
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
William Penn
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Pilgrims
John Winthrop
Thomas Hooker
James Oglethorpe
Wampanoag’s
Metacom
Sir
William Berkeley
Benjamin Franklin
Period 3: 1754-1800
Stamp Act Congress
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
Sam Adams
James Otis
Massachusetts Circular
Letter Whiskey Rebellion
“Citizen” Genet
XYZ Affair
Committees of Correspondence
Intolerable Acts
Parliament
Era of Salutary Neglect
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
French and Indian War
Albany Plan of Union
Peace of Paris (1763)
Sugar, Quartering, Stamp, Declatory and Townshend Acts
Tea Act
The Enlightenment
John Locke
Rousseau
First Continental Congress
Suffolk Resolves
Second Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Importance of Lexington and Concord
Importance of Bunker Hill
Articles of Confederation (weaknesses)
Thomas Paine; Common Sense
Patriots
Loyalists (Tories)
Minute men
Shays’ Rebellion
Patrick Henry
John Adams
George Washington
John Jay
Thomas Jefferson
Paul Revere
Molly Pitcher (Mary McCauley)
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Federalists
Anti Federalists
Checks and Balances/Constitution of the United States
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Plan
Period 4: 1800-1848
Louisiana Purchase
War Hawks
Battle of Tippecanoe
Strict versus Loose Interpretation of Constitution
Judicial Review
Marbury v. Madison
Impressment
Chesapeake Leopard Affair
Embargo Act of 1807
Non intercourse Act of 1809
Macon’s Bill No. 2
War of 1812
‘Old Ironsides’
Battle of New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Francis Scott Key, “The Star Spangled Banner”
Era of Good Feelings
Sectionalism (North, West, South)
Protective Tariff
Henry Clay; American System
Second Bank of the United States
Lancaster Turnpike
Cumberland Road
Erie Canal
Robert Fulton; Steamboats
Eli Whitney; cotton gin AND interchangeable parts of gun and the importance of this
Lowell Factory System
Fletcher vs. Peck
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Dartmouth vs. Woodward
Gibbons vs. Ogden
1820 Missouri Compromise
Rush Bagot Agreement
Monroe Doctrine
Indian Removal Act
Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia
Worchester vs. Georgia
Pet banks
Corrupt Bargain
Tariff of Abominations
Peggy Eaton Affair
Nullification Crisis
Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign
Utopian Communities
Shakers
Amana Colonies
New Harmony
Oneida Community
Temperance
Washingtonians
WCTU
Asylum Movement
American Colonization Society
Antebellum period
Transcendentalists
People
John C Calhoun
Wm Henry Harrison
John Marshall
Aaron Butt
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
John Q. Adams
Horace Mann
Robert Owen
Dorothea Dix
Wm. Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Nat Turner
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Amelia Bloomer
Joseph Smith/Mormonism
Brigham Young
Sarah Grimke/Angelina Grimke
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Period 5: 1848-1877
Free Soil Movement, Free Soil Party
“Bleeding Kansas”
LeCompton Constitution
Popular Sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
Crittenden Compromise
Know-Nothing Party
Republican Party
Secession
Fugitive Slave Law
Underground Railroad
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Lincoln/Douglas Debates (Position of each on Slavery)
House Divided Speech
Freeport Doctrine
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Harriet Beecher Stowe
Buffer States in Civil War
Greenbacks
Morrill Tariff Act of 1861
Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act of 1862
Fort Sumter (within Context of Civil War)
Bull Run …importance of it
Anaconda Plan
Antietam…importance of it
Fredericksburg
Monitor vs. the Merrimac
Shiloh
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Sherman’s march to the sea
Appomattox Court House
Habeas Corpus
Confiscation acts
Emancipation Proclamation
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
Ex parte Milligan
Draft Riots
Copperheads
Impeachment
Credit Mobilier Affair
Compromise of 1877
Reconstruction
Wade Davis Bill
Freedman’s Bureau
Black Codes
Radical Republicans
Tenure of Office Act
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Sharecropping
KKK
People
Zachary Taylor
Stephen A. Douglas
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
John C. Fremont
James Buchanan
Roger Taney
Jefferson Davis
Alexander H. Stephens
Thomas “Stonewall”Jackson
George McClellan
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
John Wilkes Booth
Andrew Johnson
Jay Gould
Boss Tweed
Rutherford B. Hayes
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stephens
Edwin Stanton
Period 6: 1865-1898
Transcontinental Railroad
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
U.S. Steel
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Standard Oil
Bessemer process
Menlo Park Labs
Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
Haymarket
American Federation of Labor
Pullman Strike
White Collar workers
Blue Collar Workers
Protestant Work Ethic
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Long drives (cattle)
Causes of Indian Wars; Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee
Ghost Dance Movement
Assimilation (within the context of Native Americans0
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Jim Crow Laws
The Great Migration
Ellis Island
Angel Island
“Melting Pot” Theory
Tenements
Tamany Hall
Social Gospel
NAWSA
WCTU
Bargain of 1877
Smooth Hawley Tariff
Populist Party
“Cross of Gold” Speech
People
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
George Westinghouse
Eastman’s Kodak Camera
R.H. Macy
Sears; Roebuck
Eugene Debs
Joseph Glidden
Helen Hunt Jackson
John Muir
George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington/W.E.B. Dubois
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the frontier on American History”
Boss Tweed
Jane Addams
Mark Twain
Period 7: 1890-1945
Monroe Doctrine/Roosevelt Corollary
Imperialism
Yellow Journalism
Jingoism
U.S.S. Maine
“A splendid little war”
Rough Riders
Platt Amendment
Open Door Policy
Big Stick Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy
Moral Diplomacy
Russo Japanese War
Treaty of Portsmouth
Gentlemen’s Agreement/San Francisco Schools
Great White Fleet
Central Powers
Allied Powers (WWI)
Lusitania
Sussex Pledge
Zimmerman Telegram
Selective Service Act
Schenck vs. U.S.
Fourteen Points
Big Four
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Boston Police Strike
Race Riots
Teapot Dome Scandal
Boston Police Strike
Scientific Management
Harlem Renaissance
Volstead Act
Prohibition
The Noble Experiment
The 16th, 17th, 18, 19th, 20th and 21st Amendments
Rural vs. Urban concept
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Birth of a Nation (the movie)
Washington Conference
Scopes Trial
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Reparations
Dawes Plan of 1924
Stock Market Crash
Buying on margin
Speculation
Federal Reserve Board
RFC
Boulder Dam
Bonus March of 1932
New Deal Relief, Recovery, Reform
Brain Trust
Fireside chats
Bank Holiday
CCC, TVA, PWA, WPA, FDIC, FHA, social security
Court Packing Plan
Zoot Suit Riots
Bracceros Program
Isolationism
December 7, 1941
Good Neighbor Policy
Atlantic Charter
Lend Lease Act
Cash and Carry
Fascism
Nazism
Appeasement
Non Aggression Pact
Munich Agreement
Nye Committee
America First Committee
Four Freedoms Speech
Pearl Harbor
Manhattan Project
Battle of Coral Sea
Korematsu vs. U.S.
D Day
Holocaust
“Final Solution”
Hiroshima; Nagasaki
People
William Seward
Queen Lil
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Teddy Roosevelt
Wm. H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Wm. H. McKinley
Valeriano Weyler
Emilio Aguinaldo
John Hay
John J. Pershing
Henry Cabot Lodge
Warren G. Harding
Albert Fall
Coolidge
Hoover
Henry Ford
Margaret Sanger
Paul Robeson
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Marcus Garvey
Billy Sunday
FDR
Frances Perkins
John Maynard Keynes
Father Charles Coughlin
Frances Townsend
Huey P. Long
A Philip Randolph
Marian Anderson
Hitler
Franco
Mussolini
Churchhill
Chamberlain
De Gaulle
Lindbergh
Truman
Court Cases
The Peter Zenger Case
Fletch v. Peck
McCulloch v. Maryland
Dartmouth v. Woodward
Gibbons v. Ogden
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Worchester v. Georgia
Insular Cases
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Schenck v. U.S.
Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS.
U.S. v. Nixon
Sacco and Vanzetti
Scopes Monkey Trial
Korematsu v. U.S.
Period 8: 1945-1980
G.I. Bill
Baby Boom Gernation
Racial Integration of Military
J. Strom Thurmond
Fair Dea.
Cold War
Iron Curtain
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Importance of Korean War and its events
Hollywood Ten
McCarthyism
1956 Highway Act
“Brinkmanship”
Events of Vietnam
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Eisenhower Doctrine
OPEC
Warsaw Pact
Sputnik
NASA
U2 Incident
Causes of Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Little Rock Nine
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Greensboro Sit-ins
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Stu8dent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Beatniks
New Frontier
Warren Commission
Peace Corps
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Flexible Response
The Great Society
War on Poverty
“I have a Dream” Speech
“The Ballot or the Bullet” Speech
De jure segregation
De facto segregation
Kerner Commission
Black Panthers
Woodstock 1969
People
Josef Stalin
Douglas MacArthur
Alger Hiss
Rosenberg Case
Joseph McCarthy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
John Foster Dulles
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Earl Warren
George Wallace
Rosa Parks
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
JFK
RFK
LBJ
Ralph Nader
Rachel Carson
James Meredith
Stokely Carmichael
Gerald R. Ford
Cesar Chaves
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George Bush (41)
George Bush (43)
Ronald Reagan
William Jefferson Clinton
Period 9: 1980-Present
Reaganomics/Trickle Down Theory/Supply Side Economics
Iran Contra Affair
Persian Gulf War
Moral Majority
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
NAFTA
Brady Bill
Oklahoma City Bombing
European Union
e-commerce/Technology Boom
Election of 2000
Election of 2008
Tea Party Republicans
Gerrymander
No Child Left Behind Act
Al-Qaeda
9/11/01
Arab Spring
Dream Act
Columbine
People
Sandra Day O’Connor
Clarence Thomas
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ross Perot
Barack Obama
Al Gore
Osama Bin Laden
Sonia Sotomayor