MAJOR ERAS OF AMERICAN HISTORY: THE TERM PACKET
What to do with each term: (1) Era
(2) Book Definition
(3) Use term properly in a sentence
1. Virginia Company
11. Mercantilism
Exploration &
2. “Brown Gold”
12. Triangle Trade
Colonization
3. Powhatan
13. Middle Passage
1763-1789
Revolutionary
Era 1763-1789
Early Republic
1789-1812
Westward
Expansion 18121846/
Antebellum Era
1836-1860
Civil War &
Reconstruction
1860-1877
4. House of Burgesses
5. Bacon’s Rebellion
6. King Phillip’s War
7. Puritans
8. Mayflower Compact
9. Half-Way Covenant
10. Salem Witch Trials
21. Proclamation of 1763
22. Sons of Liberty
23. Navigation Acts
24. William Penn
25. John Locke
26. Common Sense
27. Committees of Correspondence
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
52.
53.
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55.
56.
57.
58.
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60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.
Articles of Confederation
Shay’s Rebellion
Federalists & Anti-Federalists
U.S. Constitution
Checks & Balances
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Virginia Plan
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis & Clark
War of 1812
Erie Canal
Monroe Doctrine
Industrial Revolution
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
Manifest Destiny
Temperance Movement
Abolitionism
Horace Mann
Transcendentalism
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention
83.
84.
85.
86.
87.
88.
89.
90.
91.
92.
93.
94.
95.
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address
Antietam
suspension of habeas corpus
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
“Stonewall” Jackson
William T. Sherman
Jefferson Davis
Fort Sumter
Vicksburg
“March to the Sea”
Battle of Gettyburg
14. Benjamin Franklin
15. John Winthrop
16. Enlightenment
17. Great Awakening
18. French & Indian War
19. Stamp Act
20. Intolerable Acts
28. Thomas Jefferson
29. George Washington
30. Valley Forge
31. Crossing the Delaware
32. Marquis de Lafayette
33. Yorktown
34. General Cornwallis
35. Treaty of Paris, 1783
44. New Jersey Plan
45. Great Compromise
46. Bill of Rights
47. John Adams
48. Whiskey Rebellion
49. Hamilton v Jefferson (what they stood for)
50. Northwest Ordinance
51. Marbury v Madison
67. Jacksonian Democracy
68. Nat Turner
69. William Lloyd Garrison
70. Frederick Douglas
71. Grimke Sisters
72. Missouri Compromise
73. John C. Calhoun
74. Nullification
75. Mexican War (what did US gain)
76. Wilmot Proviso
77. “Quasi War”
78. Compromise of 1850
79. Kansas-Nebraska Act
80. Dred Scott v Sanford
81. Popular Sovereignty
82. John Brown’s Raid
96. Emancipation Proclamation
97. Reconstruction
98. Andrew Johnson
99. Black Codes
100. (Modern) Republican Party
101. KKK
102. Freedman’s Bureau
103. 13th Amendment
104. 14 th Amendment
105. 15 th Amendment
Industrial
Age/Gilded Age
1876-1900
106.
107.
108.
109.
110.
111.
112.
113.
Transcontinental Railroad
Jim Crow Laws
Thomas Edison
John Rockefeller
Standard Oil Co.
Trusts
Ellis Island
AFL (American Federation of Labor)
Progressive Era
1890-1920
123.
124.
125.
126.
127.
128.
NAACP
Muckraker
Recall
Referendum
Ida Tarbell
Progressives
American
Imperialism
1890-1920
135.
136.
137.
138.
Spanish-American War
Philippine Revolt
Panama Canal
William McKinley
World War I
1914-1918
143.
144.
145.
146.
147.
148.
149.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare 150. Communism
US Neutrality in WWI
151. Red Scare
Eugene V Debs
The Great Migration
Espionage & Sedition Act
14 Point Peace Plan
League of Nations
Roaring Twenties
1920-1929/
Great Depression
1929-1941
152.
153.
154.
155.
156.
157.
158.
159.
160.
161.
162.
163.
Henry Ford
Mass Production
Radio
Automobile
Movies
Louis Armstrong
Jazz
Langston Hughes
Harlem Renaissance
Irving Berlin
Tin Pan Alley
Overproduction
World War II
1939-1945
178.
179.
180.
181.
182.
183.
Neutrality Act 1935
A. Philip Randolph
Pearl Harbor
Internment camp
War Mobilization
Cash and Carry Policy
Cold War 19451989/ Postwar
Boom 1946-1959
190.
191.
192.
193.
194.
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Communist China
Korean War
Joseph McCarthy
129.
130.
131.
132.
133.
134.
114.
115.
116.
117.
118.
119.
120.
Samuel Gompers
121. Plessy v Ferguson
Sitting Bull
122. Munn v Illinois
Wounded Knee
Pullman Strike
Battle of Little Big Horn
Jane Addams
Hull House
121. Upton Sinclair
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
21st Amendment
Chinese Exclusion Act
139.
140.
141.
142.
Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt Corollary
Annexation of Hawaii
164. Underconsumption
165. Speculation
166. Stock Market Crash 1929
167. Great Depression
168. Dust Bowl
169. Hoovervilles
170. TVA
171. Wagner Act
172. Social Security Act
184.
185.
186.
187.
188.
189.
195.
196.
197.
198.
199.
173.
174.
175.
176.
177.
Lend-Lease Act
Rationing
“Rosie the Riveter”
Normandy (D-Day)
Fall of Berlin (city, not wall)
Manhattan Project
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Baby Boom
New Deal
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR
Huey Long
“Court Packing” Bill
New Frontier and
Great Society,
1960-1968 / Civil
Rights
Movement 19541968
200.
201.
202.
203.
204.
205.
206.
207.
208.
Vietnam War
Years 19541975/ Era of
Social Change
1960-1975
218. Counterculture
219. Medicare
220. Rachel Carson
221. Barry Goldwater
222. NOW
223. EPA
224. Miranda v Arizona
Television
Nixon-Kennedy Debate
Sputnik
Jackie Robinson
Interstate Highway Act
Warren Court
New Frontier
Great Society
JFK Assassination
20th Century Ends 231. Ronald Reagan
232. Reaganomics
& the Dawn of
233. Iran Contra Affair
the Millennials.
234.
235.
236.
237.
209.
210.
211.
212.
213.
214.
215.
216.
217.
Civil Rights Movement
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Civil Rights Act of 1964
SNCC
SCLC
Sit-ins
Freedom Riders
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Martin Luther King Jr.
225.
226.
227.
228.
229.
230.
Watergate Scandal
Richard Nixon
Roe v Wade
Jimmy Carter
Camp David Accords
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Personal Computer
NAFTA
William J. Clinton
Clinton Impeachment (why was he impeached)
238. Election of 2000
239. September 11, 2001
240. The Bush Doctrine
241. War on Terrorism
242. War in Afghanistan/Iraq
243. Department of Homeland Security
244. Patriot Act
EXAMPLE of what to do to each term:
1. VIRGINIA COMPANY
A. ERA: Exploration & Colonization
B. BOOK DEFINITION: A Joint-stock company where several investors pooled money together in hopes
of founding a colony in North America to make a profit.
C. SENTENCE: King James I of England granted the VIRGINIA COMPANY a charter and it became the
first successful English colony in North America.