Colonial
Indians/disease/Columbian Exchange
Iroquois League/Five Civilized Tribes
Natives no concept of land ownership
St. Augustine establish 1565
Spanish South and Southwest territory
Ecomienda/Black Legend
French Ohio Valley and Canada fur trading/St Lawrence river
New England/Jamestown/Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay/Puritans
Rolfe/tobacco/Pocahontas/Tidewater plantations
House of Burgess
First blacks (slaves)/Triangle/middle passage
Indentured servants/Head right system
Mayflower Compact/self government
Puritans/Separatist/blue laws/ education/merchants
Roger Williams/Ann Hutchinson
John Winthrop/City on Hill
Maryland Toleration Act 1649/Old Satan Deluder
Bacon’s Rebellion/Gov. Berkley
Leisler’s Rebellion/NY Dutch revolt
King Philips War
Dominion of New England/Lord Andros
Salem witchcraft trials/Cotton Mather
Great Awakening/Half-Way Covenant
Middle colonies/bread colonies
William Penn/Quakers/Society of Friends
Zenger Trial/free press
Georgia/Oglethorpe/buffer zone/debtors
Revolutionary War
French-Indian War/Treaty of Paris 1763
Pontiac’s Rebellion/Paxton Boys
Proclamation of 1763
Navigation Acts/Salutary Neglect/Mercantilism
Sugar, Stamp, Quartering Acts
Greenville/Townshend
Comm of Correspondence/Sons of Liberty
Boston Massacre/Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Lexington/Concord first shot
1 st /2 nd Continental Congress-peace/war
Bunker Hill (Breed’s)
Common Sense/Declaration of Independence
Victories at Trenton/Saratoga
French alliance/Yorktown/Treaty of Paris 1783
Constitutional Era
Articles of Confederation/problems
Land Ordinance 1785/NW Ordinance 1787
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitutional Conv/Philadelphia 1787
Virginia Plan/New Jersey Plan/
Connecticut (Great) Compromise
3/5 th
compromise/slave trade no ban 20 yrs
Electoral college
Natural rights/separation of powers
Enlightenment influences
Ratification challenges/Federalist Papers
Federalist/Anti-Federalist/Bill of Rights
New Republic
Assumption Bill
Bank of the United States
Whiskey Rebellion
Washington’s Neutrality proclamation
Jay’s Treaty/England/freedom of seas
Pinckney’s Treaty/Spain/Miss Rv/N O
Washington’s Farewell Address
Isolationism/neutrality
Adams/XYZ/ KY & VA resolutions/
Alien & Sedition Acts
Election of 1800/Jefferson-Burr
Tripoli War/pirates/tribute/Naval power
Louisiana Purchase
Marbury v. Madison/Marshall Court/
McCulloch v. Maryland Gibbons v. Ogden
Lewis and Clark
Embargo (Non-Importation Act) 1807
Madison 2 terms
Macon’s Bill #2
Bank Re-charter
War of 1812/War Hawks/
Battle of Tippecanoe/Tecumseh
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
Battle of New Orleans
2 nd
Band of the U.S. 1816
Election of 1816/James Monroe 2 terms
Era of Good Feelings/Panic of 1819
Rush-Bagot -demilitarization of Great Lakes
Missouri Compromise
Monroe Doctrine
American System
Corrupt Bargain – 1824 JQ Adams

Jacksonian Democracy
Jackson wins 1828 serves 2 terms
Peggy Eaton Affair/
Calhoun and most of cabinet resign
Spoils system/patronage
Kitchen Cabinet/no cabinet meetings
Webster-Hayes Debate/states rights’
Indian Removal Policy/Trail of Tears
Tariff of Abominations nullification controversy/Jackson threatens S.C.
War on the Bank of the U.S.
Nicolas Biddle/specie/pet banks
Henry Clay/Whig Party
Election of 1836/Martin Van Buren/Panic of 1837
Aroostook War/Maine border/
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Antebellum, Intellectual, Social Economic Era
Westward migration/expanding agriculture
Steamboats/Erie Canal/Railroads/Turnpikes (PA)
Inventions/cotton gin/interchangeable parts/ reaper/steel plow
Telegraph/sewing machine
Slater/first water powered factor in US
Lowell Factory system
Clipper ships/ pony express/ stagecoach
2 nd
Great Awakening
Transcendentalism/philosophical-religious mvmt
Immigration/Irish/German
Communes/Shakers/Oneidas/Millerites/Mormons/
Brook Farm/New Harmony/Reform movements
Horace Mann/education
Temperance/prohibition/
Dorothea Dix/mental illness
American Colonization Society/ abolitionism/
William LoydGarrison
Seneca Falls Convention/Mott & Stanton women voting rights/S.B. Anthony
Hudson River School/artist/nature
Manifest Destiny
Louisiana Purchase
Pike’s Peak
Republic of Texas/ Alamo
Oregon territory/Oregon Trail
Mountain Men/Rendezvous/ scouts/trappers
John O’Sullivan coined phrase Manifest Destiny
Annexation of Texas
Spot resolution/Lincoln/Mexican War
California/Bear Flag revolt
Gadsden Purchase
California Gold Rush
Slavery and Pre Civil War
Underground Railroad/Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Stono Rebellion (1739)/Nat Turner 1831/
Amistad Case
Gag Resolutions
Wilmot Proviso
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin/Harriet B. Stowe
Know Nothing Party
Commodore Matthew Perry and Japan
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Republican Party/Election of 1856
Ostend Manifesto
William Walker
Bleeding Kansas
Sumner-Brooks
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Panic of 1857
Lincoln-Douglas debates
John Brown Raid
Civil War
Election of 1860
South secedes/ Fort Sumter/Border States
Anaconda Plan/
Bull Run/Trent Affair
Grant captures the West
Emancipation Proclamation
Copperheads
Gettysburg/Vicksburg
Draft riots
Lincoln’s rotating generals
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Surrender Appomattox Court House
Lincoln assassinated
Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureau
Lincoln-Johnson-Wade-Davis Bill
Radical Republicans
Black Codes/Jim Crow laws
Johnson’s vetoes
13 th
amendment/ends slavery
14 th
amendment/equal protection/15 th amendment/vote not denied because of race
Military Reconstruction (occupation)
Ku Klux Klan
Impeachment of Johnson/tenure of office act
Election of 1868 Grant 2 terms

Gilded Age
Industrialization
Rapid industrialization caused by Civil War
Large agricultural base/boom/mechanization
Lots of natural resources/raw materials/ coal, iron, oil, timber
Lots of labor supply/immigration
Government capitalism/laizze faire/ pro business/high tariffs
Entrepreneurial (risk takers) class
Technological invention/
Bessemer-Kelly process/telephone
Edison electric/phonograph/video
Eastman’s Kodak camera
Infrastructure/rapid RR miles/canals/roads
Lots of capital accumulation/outside investors
Social Darwinism/strong will survive/ fit should be left alone
Robber Barons or Captains of Industry
Carnegie/Vanderbilt/Rockefeller/Ford/Morgan
Gospel of Wealth
Grantism/corrupt/Credit Mobilier/Gold
Ring/Whiskey Ring
Tweed Ring/ Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall
Stalwarts/Half-breeds
Election of 1876/Hayes-Tilden/Removal of troops
Election of 1880/Garfield wins/assassinated
Chester Arthur/Civil Service Reform (Pendleton)
Election of 1884/Grover Cleveland-Democrat
Mugwumps (fence sitter politically)
Election of 1888/Ben Harrison-Republican wins
Billion Dollar Congress
Sherman Silver Purchase Act 1890
McKinley Tariff 1890
Election of 1892/Cleveland wins again/third party
Populist Weaver
Depression of 1893/JP Morgan’s bailout
Election of 1896/McKinley-WJ Bryan
William Jennings Bryan/Cross of Gold
Speech/Silver bugs
Election of 1900/McKinley reelection/assassination/TR becomes president
West and Agriculture
Homestead Act 1862
Transcontinental Railroad 1869
Long drives end with cattle b/c RR
Mining/Silver and Gold rushes/boom towns
Buffalo Soldiers/black soldiers out west
Indian Wars/height 1876 Little Big Horn/end at
Wounded Knee
Chief Joseph and Nez Perce 1877
1100 mile chase-“I will fight no more forever”
Dawes Severalty Act
1887/Americanize/reservations/farms
Wounded Knee Massacre 1890/Ghost Dance
A Century of Dishonor-Helen Hunt
Jackson/mistreatment of Indians
Frederick Jackson Turner-historian 1890 end of frontier/safety valve
“The significance of the Frontier in American
History”
Farmers/ Oliver Kelly-Grange
Farmers’ Alliances/
Greenback Labor Party
Populists (Peoples) Party anti-monopoly, single tax-anti tariff
Farmers supported Silver back currency- cheaper money
Weaver and Bryan Populist run for President
Immigration
Old Immigrants
New Immigrants
Melting pot or salad bowl
Americanization
Hull House/Jane Addams
American Protective Association/ anti-Catholic/new Know Nothings
Chinese Exclusion Act 1883/ first group ever banned in union
Labor Unions
Knights of Labor/Terrance Powderly
American Federation of Labor/Samuel Gompers/ skilled labor only
International Workers of the World
(IWW)/Wobblies/radical/violent/anarchy/foreign
Molly McGuires/secret Irish American miners
Haymarket Riot 1886/Chicago/
McCormick reaper plant/bomb exploded
Homestead strike 1892/ Carnegie Steel strike in
PA/state militia used
Pullman Strike 1894/ IL RR cars plant/
Eugene Debs led strike/ US Army used
Mother Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)/ mining strike supporter/agitator

African Americans-blacks-Freedmen
Sharecroppers/ 40 acres and a mule promise
Jim Crow/Black Codes
Civil Rights Acts 1876 unconstitutional
Plessey v. Ferguson 1896/ Separate but Equal ruling by Supreme Court
Booker T. Washington/ slow integration/
Tuskegee, AL school/ vocational training
W.E.B. DuBois/ fast integration/first black phd/
NAACP founder
Urbanism
Streetcars/Trolleys/Subways
Dumbbell Tenement
Department stores/Mail Order houses/
Sears and Roebuck/Montgomery Ward
Skyscrapers/steel beams/elevators-Otis
Cult of True Womanhood/Victorian ideals-piety, purity, submission, domesticity
Chautauqua clubs/ reading/education and uplifting inspirational and information
Circus/Barnum and Bailey’s Ringling Brothers
Baseball/Basketball/Football
Bicycling
Gibson Girl
Imperialism
Hawaii/1875-1897/Queen Lili/Dole
Alaska/1869/ Seward’s Folly
Pacific Coaling stations/ Pago Pago,
Samoa/German problems
Open Door Policy/China/free trade by all Europe,
Asia, American powers
Boxer Rebellion (Revolt)
Spanish American War/Cuba/USS Maine explosion/DeLome Letter/Teller Amendment
San Juan Hill/Teddy Roosevelt and Rough Riders
Philippines captured by Commodore Dewey
Treaty of Paris 1898
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines
Platt Amendment
Anti-Imperialism/Washington’s Farewell Address
Anglo-Saxons-civilize and Christianize the world
Alfred Thayer Mahan’s
The Influence of Sea
Power Upon History
Economically-business needed new markets