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1492
Christopher Columbus
discovered The New World
1215
Virginia House
of Burgesses
-1619
- First representative
assembly in the colonies
1620
English Bill
of Rights
Puritans
- Founded Massachusetts
Bay Colony in 1830
- Wanted to reform or purify
the Church of England
Catholics
Pilgrims
Quakers
Middle
Passage
Fundamental
Orders of
Connecticut
Reasons for
European
Exploration
Lord Charles
Cornwallis
Mercantilism
An economic system
where European countries
use trade and colonies to
gain wealth and power
King
George III
John Locke
William
Blackstone
New England
Colonies
- Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
- Rocky soil and Cold Winters
- Economy based on Shipbuilding,
Fishing, Trade, Small Farming
Middle
Colonies
Southern
Colonies
Charles de
Montesquieu
Thomas
Paine
French and
Indian War
- 1754-1763
- British and American soldiers
fought French and Native
American soldiers for control
of North America.
Imports
Exports
Triangular
Trade
William
Penn
Albany Plan
of Union
- Join or die
1754 - An early attempt by Ben
Franklin at forming a union of the
colonies "under one government
during the French and Indian War.
Representative
Government
Toleration
Acceptance of others
beliefs, actions,
and customs
First Great
Awakening
Battle of
Saratoga
Boston
Massacre
Valley
Forge
Boston
Tea Party
Lexington
and Concord
Battle of
Yorktown
Thomas
Jefferson
- 1775
-Shot Heard Round the World
- Beginning of the American
Revolution
-1781
- Final surrender that ends
at the Revolutionary War
1776
George
Washington
Paul
Revere
- Declaration of Independence
- formally separated the
colonists from England
- Commanding General
of the Continental Army
- 1st President of
United States
Crispus
Attucks
John Paul
Jones
Samuel
Adams
Sugar Act
Quartering
Act
Intolerable
Acts
Proclamation
of 1763
Colonists forbidden by
England to settle west of
Appalachian Mountains
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Olive Branch
Petition
Treaty of Paris
in 1783
Abigail
Adams
First and
Second
Continental
Congress
Patrick
Henry
- Patriot, Anti-Federalist
- Give me liberty or
give me death!
No taxation
without
representation
Main complaint by
the Colonists against
the British
Wentworth
Cheswell
Benjamin
Franklin
Haym
Solomon
Bernardo
de Glvaz
Mercy Otis
Warren
James
Armistead
Militia
Unalienable
Rights
Marquis
de Lafayette
Minutemen
Patriots
Loyalists
Blockade
Boycott
Writs of
Assistance
Articles of
Confederation
Northwest
Ordinance
1787
Constitutional Convention
55 delegates met in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania to revise Articles of
Confederation; created a
U.S. Constitution instead
Repeal
- The removal or
reversal of a law
The Great
Compromise
based on population
2.Senate equal representation
2
per state
Shays
Rebellion
John
Adams
- 2nd president
- Federalist, Founding Father,
Continental Congress delegate,
Declaration of Independence
Committee
James
Madison
Delegate
Three-Fifths
Compromise
1803
Louisiana Purchase
land bought from France
by Jefferson doubling size
of United States
Marbury vs.
Madison
Federalist
Papers
Bill of
Rights
1791
First 10 Amendments
guarantee individual freedoms;
gained support for the
Constitution to be ratified
Alexander
Hamilton
Federalists
AntiFederalists
Ratify
(Ratification)
- To approve by a vote
Founding
Fathers
Civic Virtue
Constitution
- A written plan
of government
Judicial
Branch
- Supreme Court
- Interprets the Laws
Legislative
Branch
- Congress
- Makes the Laws
Executive
Branch
- President
- Enforces the Laws
Limited
Government
Republicanism
- People elect
representatives that make
and enforce the laws
Federalism
Separation
of Powers
Checks and
Balances
Popular
Sovereignty
Individual
Rights
Amend
(Amendment)
- A change or an addition
to the Constitution
1st
Amendment
- 5 Freedoms
- Religion, Assembly, Press,
Petition, and Speech
Veto
Impeach
Override
McCullough vs.
Maryland
George
Washingtons
Farewell
Address
Judicial
Review
Due
Process
Urban
(Urbanization)
- Large cities
- Movement of people
from farms to the cities
Rural
DemocraticRepublican
Party
Federalist
Party
Cabinet
Amendment
Process
Bill
Jury
Nullify
Electoral
College
Embargo
Nationalism
War of
1812
Precedent
Daniel
Webster
John
Calhoun
Temperance
A movement to end or
reduce the use of alcohol
Dorothea
Dix
Industrial
Revolution
Labor
Reform
Florida
Texas
Territory
Second Great
Awakening
- A revival movement
in the mid-1800s
- Brought about many changes
in society including the
Reform Movement
Lewis and
Clark
Commissioned by Thomas
Jefferson to lead an expedition
to explore the new lands
acquired as a result of the
Louisiana Purchase
Horace
Mann
- Education Reform
- "Father of the Common School
Movement
Head of State School Board of
Massachusetts
- Proponent of public education for all
Elizabeth
Cody Stanton
Susan B.
Anthony
Andrew
Jackson
- 7th President
- Old Hickory
- Battle of New Orleans Hero,
supported the common man, Indian
removal policies, created the
Democratic Party
James
Monroe
- 5th president
- Issued Monroe Doctrine
- Purchase of Florida in 1819
James K.
Polk
Transcendentalism
Oregon
Territory
- 11th President
- President mostly associated
with Manifest Destiny and
Westward Expansion
- Movement in the 1830-40s
as a protest to the general state of
culture and society
- Stressed individual creativity over
reason and theory
- Leaders: Ralph Waldo Emerson and
Henry David Thoreau
Hudson
River School
Nullification
Crisis
John James
Audubon
Annex
(Annexation)
Tariff of
Abominations
Henry
Clay
Missouri
Compromise
Worcester v.
Georgia
Gibbons vs.
Ogden
Henry David
Thoreau
Era of Good
Feelings
Civil
Disobedience
Washington
D.C.
Wilmot
Proviso
Revenue
Labor
Union
Spoils
System
Immigrant
(Immigration)
Louisiana Purchase
- 1803
13 Original Colonies
Florida Annexation
- 1819
Texas Annexation
- 1845
?
Oregon Territory
- 1846
Gadsden Purchase
- 1853
Mexican Cession
- 1848
U.S. /
Mexican War
Cyrus
McCormick
Invented the
Mechanical Reaper led
to improved farming
and harvesting
Free
Enterprise
Eli
Whitney
- Introduced
Interchangeable
Parts and invented
the Cotton Gin
Cotton Gin
Interchangeable
Parts
William Lloyd
Garrison
- Abolitionist
- Wrote anti-slavery newspaper
called The Liberator
- NE Antislavery Society
Robert
Fulton
Erie Canal
Samuel F.B.
Morse
Indian
Removal
Act
Mexican
Cession
Gadsden
Purchase
Manifest
Destiny
Westward expansion of
the United States from
the Atlantic Ocean to the
Pacific Ocean
Forty-niners
(49ers)
California
Gold Rush
Monroe
Doctrine
Trail of
Tears
Seneca Falls
Convention
Sojourner
Truth
Harriet
Tubman
Grimke
Sisters
Frederick
Douglass
- Freed slave
- speaker and Abolitionist
- wrote anti-slavery newspaper
called the North Star
Abolitionists
Underground
Railroad
The North
- Union
- Manufacturing, Business,
Trade, Commerce
- Urban, Large Cities
The South
- Confederacy
- Plantation Farming,
Agriculture, Cash Crops
- Rural, Farming communities
The West
- Undeveloped land
- Pioneers, Farmers, Settlers,
Trappers, Traders, Native
Americans
- Ranching, Mining, Farming
Territory
Compromise
- An agreement between
two people or two groups
South
Carolina
Suffrage
1860 Presidential
Election
Julia Ward
Howe
Kansas-Nebraska
Act
Compromise
of 1850
Bleeding
Kansas
state
Act
John Brown
- Extreme Abolitionist
- Bleeding Kansas
- Raid on Harpers Ferry
Stephen
Douglas
1861-1865
Robert E.
Lee
Confederate Commanding
General in charge of the
Army of Northern Virginia
Ulysses S.
Grant
- Union Commanding
General
- 18th U.S. President
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
13th
14th
15th
Amendment
Abolished slavery
throughout nation
Amendment
Amendment
Dred Scott v.
Sandford
Fugitive Slave
Law of 1850
Popular
sovereignty
John Wilkes
Booth
Assassinated Abraham
Lincoln in Washington D.C.
at Fords Theater
Thomas Stonewall
Jackson
- Commander in the
Confederate Army
- Inspired a Confederate victory
at the Battle of Bull Run
William T.
Sherman
Fort Sumter
Battle of
Antietam
Battle of
Gettysburg
Siege of
Vicksburg
Emancipation
Proclamation
- January 1, 1863
- Lincoln frees slaves in
Confederate states
Gettysburg
Address
Anaconda
Plan
Appomattox
Courthouse
Surrender of Confederate
General Robert E. Lee to
Union General Ulysses S.
Grant to end the Civil War
Jefferson
Davis
President of the
Confederate States of
America (Confederacy)
Secede
To formally withdraw
from the Union
Lincolns Second
Inaugural Address
Lincolns First
Inaugural Address
Black Codes
Jefferson Davis
Inaugural Address
Confederate States
of America
(Confederacy, CSA)
Tariff
Freedmen
Former slaves
1877
End of reconstruction
troops removed from
the South
Reconstruction
Act of 1867
King Cotton
Hiram Rhodes
Revels
First African-American
to serve in the United
States Senate
Philip
Bazaar
Radical
Reconstruction
Northern Congressmen
took control of Reconstruction
as a response to the Black Codes
and over concern for Andrew
Johnsons presidential policies.
William
Carney
Scalawags
Southerners who
supported the Union
during the Civil War
Carpetbaggers
Segregation
- Separate individuals
by race
- Separate schools and
public facilities
States Rights
Slavery
Sectionalism
Transcontinental
Railroad
Dawes Act
of 1887
Homestead Act
of 1862
Ku Klux Klan
Morril Act
of 1862
Sharecropping
System