US History Semester Study Guide
Unit 1: Beginnings and Colonies
Christopher
Toleration Act
Columbus
Bacon’s Rebellion
Crusades
House of Burgesses
Mayas
Lord Baltimore
Incas
Maryland Act of
Aztecs
Toleration
Renaissance
Great Migration
Crusades
John Winthrop
Age of Exploration
Salem Witch Trials
Prince Henry the
Fundamental Orders of
Navigator
Connecuticut
caravel
New England
Ferdinand and Isabelle Confederation
Treaty of Tordesillas
Metacom/King Philip
conquistadors
Dominion of New
Black Legend
England
Pope's Rebellion
Peter Stuyvesant
St. Augustine
Indentured servants
encomienda
William Penn
capitalism
James Oglethorpe
mercantilism
Navigation Acts
slaves
Great Awakening
Barbados Slave Codes Fur trade
Lost Colony
Tobacco
Great Awakening
Jamestown
Jonathan Edwards
John Smith
Anglo-Powhatan Wars George Whitefield
Old Lights
Mayflower Compact
New Lights
Plymouth
Middle Passage
Separatists
Triangular Trade
Wampanoag Indians
power of the purse
John Rolfe
Peter Zenger
William Berkeley
Benjamin Franklin
Virginia House of
Albany Plan of the Union
Burgesses
French and Indian
Roger Williams
War/Seven Year’s War
Salem Witch Trials
Treaty of Paris 1763
Proclamation of 1763
Albany Plan of the
Union
Unit 2 Early National Period
Washington's Farewell
George Washington
Address
Federalists
election of 1796
Alexander Hamilton
John Adams
Judiciary Act
Talleyrand
Bill of Rights
XYZ Affair
th
10 Amendment
Napoleon Bonaparte
John Locke
virtual
representation
Salutary neglect
Quartering Act
Committees of
Correspondence
Boston Massacre
Tea Act
Samuel Adams
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
First Continental
Congress
Lexington and
Concord
Second Continental
Congress
George
Washington
Bunker Hill
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Common Sense
Declaration of
Independence
General William
Howe
Treaty of Paris
(1783)
Tories
Saratoga
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Daniel Webster
disputed election of
1824
Articles of
Confederation
Land Ordinance of
1785
Northwest
Ordinance
Shays' Rebellion
Constitutional
Convention
James Madison
Great Compromise
Three-fifths
Compromise
Commerce and Slave
Trade Compromise
Electoral College
Antifederalists
Patrick Henry
Federalists
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
The Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
Transportation
Revolution
National Road
Robert Fulton
Erie Canal
Thomas Jefferson
Bank of the United
States
Hamilton's financial
program
McCulloch v.
Maryland
John Marshall
Whiskey Rebellion
DemocraticRepublicans
French Revolution
Proclamation of
Neutrality in 1793
Citizen Genet
John Jay
Pinckney's Treaty
Treaty of Greenville
Rush-Bagot
Agreement
Adams-Onis Treaty
James Monroe
Henry Clay
The American
System
Tariff of 1816
Fletcher v. Peck
Dartmouth College v.
Woodward
Gibbons v. Ogden
election of 1800
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky
Resolutions
James Madison
Republicans
midnight
appointments
Marbury v. Madison
Four Pillars of
Posterity
Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon Bonaparte
Embargo Act of 1807
Macon's Bill No. 2
War of 1812
Impressment
Tecumseh
Tippecanoe
Fort McHenry
Francis Scott Key
Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent
corrupt bargain
American Plan
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Bank War
Whigs
Panic of 1837
John C. Calhoun
South Carolina
Exposition and
Protest
Tariff of
Abominations
Robert Y. Hayne
Tariff of 1832
Nullification Crisis
Ordinance of
Nullification
Force Bill
Compromise of 1833
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Elias Howe
Eli Whitney
assembly line
interchangeable parts
Lone Star Republic
James K. Polk
Manifest Destiny
Nueces River
General Zachary
Taylor
Treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Gold Rush
Oregon Trail
William Henry Harrison
Monroe Doctrine
Unit 3 Westward Expansion
Black Belt
Horace Mann
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dorothea Dix
Henry David
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Thoreau
David Walker
Mormons
colonization
Shakers
Walt Whitman
transcendentalism
Herman Melville
American
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Renaissance
Frederick Douglass
Second Great
Sojourner Truth
Awakening
Harriet Tubman
Temperance Movement
Convention in Seneca
Falls
William Lloyd
Garrison
American Anti-Slavery
Society
Nat Turner
Transportation Revolution
National Road
Robert Fulton
Erie Canal
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Elias Howe
Eli Whitney
assembly line
interchangeable parts
Unit 4 Civil War and Reconstruction
Gag rule
Bleeding Kansas
Liberty Party
border ruffians
Wilmot Proviso
John Brown
Free Soil Party
Dred Scott case
Compromise of 1850
Roger Taney
Missouri Compromise Harper's Ferry
Fugitive Slave Law
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Lincoln-Douglas
Millard Fillmore
Debates
free labor
secession
Uncle Tom's Cabin
popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party
John Fremont
Confederate
government
Jefferson Davis
Fort Sumter
Richmond
border states
peace Democrats
war Democrats
copperheads
Garrisonians
General Robert E.
Lee
General Thomas
“Stonewall” Jackson
General George
McClellan
General Ulysses S.
Grant
General William
Tecumseh Sherman
Monitor
Merrimac (Virginia)
Battles of Bull Run
Emancipation
Proclamation
Sherman's march to
the sea
Appomattox
Courthouse
Gettysburg Address
13th Amendment
John Wilkes Booth
Thaddeus Stevens
Reconstruction
10 Percent Plan
Radical Republicans
Wade-Davis Bill
Ku Klux Klan
Freedman's Bureau
Civil Rights Act of
1866
14th Amendment
Reconstruction Act
of 1867
15th Amendment
Hiram Revels
“40 acres and a mule”
Compromise of
1877
Plessy v. Ferguson
impeach
Andrew Johnson
poll tax
literacy test
grandfather clause
Jim Crow laws
carpetbaggers
scalawags
sharecropping
Booker T.
Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Ida B. Wells
Unit 5 Taming the West and the 2nd Industrial Revolution
Sharecropping
immigration
Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Morgan,
Literacy test
steel/oil
Rockefeller
Poll tax
electricity
Vertical and horizontal
Segregation
capitalism
integration
Plessy v. Ferguson
socialism
New South
communism
Booker T.
Gospel of Wealth
Washington
Social Darwinism
W.E.B. DuBois
Trusts/monopolies
Ida B. Wells
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
NAACP
Knights of Labor
Homestead Act
AFL
Morill Act
Homestead Strike
Populist Movement Haymarket Riot
Wounded Knee
Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
Geronimo
IWW
Progressive Movement
Map Places to Locate:
Mississippi River
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Appalachian Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Boston, Massachusetts
New York City
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Washington, D.C.
Richmond, Virginia
Jamestown
Plymouth Rock
Maine
Vermont
New Hampshire
South Dakota
Oregon
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Wyoming
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
California
Texas
Kansas
Utah
North Dakota
Colorado