Social Studies Brain Dump
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2014-2015 Major Eras in History Each six weeks this year, we covered a different era in US history. Categorizing the questions on STAAR by era might help you take the test better. Examine the following slides over each of the historical eras to help you remember what we’ve studied this year. Major Eras in History Colonial Era – reasons for exploration, colonization, life and government in the colonies Revolutionary Era – events and people of the American Revolution Articles of Confederation & Constitution – how our government was created and what it’s like today New Republic – the early presidents and their policies Growing Nation – manifest destiny and social reforms, art and literature Civil War and Reconstruction – why the country was torn apart, the people & events of the war, and how it was put back together The Colonial Era Mercantilism Jamestown 1607 House of Burgesses Representative government Mayflower Compact 1620 Religious freedom – Pilgrims, Catholics, Quakers, Puritans Fundamental Orders of Connecticut Shipping, trade, subsistence farming in New England Middle – breadbasket colonies (grains) Southern – cash crops: tobacco, rice, indigo Geography determined economy John Smith, John Rolfe Mercantilism Thomas Hooker William Penn & Quakers Anne Hutchinson Native Americans Salutary neglect Join or Die! – Ben Franklin vs. French French and Indian War – France Loses to Britain – Treaty of Paris 1763 War debt Great Awakening – led to ideas of equality Colonial legislatures Magna Cart English Bill of Rights King George III 13 original colonies John Peter Zenger Religion and civic virtue in society and government Geographic differences between regions Triangular trade routes Tobacco Enlightenment The Revolutionary Era War debt Proclamation of 1763 New taxes and unfair laws: Sugar Act, Stamp Tax, Townshend Acts, Intolerable Acts, Tea Act King George III 1776 – Declaration of Independence Unfair laws Boston Massacre Boston Tea Party Stamp Act Lexington & Concord Bunker Hill Saratoga Valley Forge Yorktown Treaty of Paris, 1783 Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The Crisis Paul Revere, Wentworth Cheswell “Taxation without representation is tyranny!” John Locke – natural Rights redcoats Samuel Adams Sons of Liberty Unalienable rights George Washington Haym Salomon James Armistead John Paul Jones Nathan Hale Mercy Otis Warren John Adams Abigail Adams Bernardo de Galvez Crispus Attucks Patrick Henry Marquis de Lafayette Thomas Jefferson Writing the Articles of Confederation The Articles of Confederation & Constitution Shays’ Rebellion Northwest Ordinance - 1787 Ordinance of 1785 Constitutional Convention – 1787 Great Compromise 3/5 Compromise Ratification Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists Patrick Henry, George Mason Federalism Limited Government Popular Sovereignty Republicanism Checks and balances Separation of powers Roger Sherman Amendments/amendment process Bill of Rights State vs. Federal government Citizenship and naturalization Importance of free speech and free press Locke – natural rights Legislative branch Executive branch Judicial branch Federalist Papers AntiFederalist Papers Montesquieu – separation of powers and checks and balances Enlightenment The New Republic Washington – precedents, Farewell Address, cabinet, treaties, debt, Whiskey Rebellion, Washington, DC, bill of rights Setting up a new government: economy, military, court system, defining federal authority Federal Judiciary Act Hamilton’s Financial Plan: national bank, tariff Federalists vs. DemocraticRepublicans – first political parties Jay’s Treaty, Pinckney’s Treaty John Adams – midnight judges, XYZ affair, Federalists vs. DemocraticRepublicans Thomas Jefferson – pirates, Louisiana Purchase 1803, John Marshall court James Madison – War of 1812, StarSpangled Banner, Dolley Madison James Monroe – Jackson invades Florida, Adams-Onis Treaty, Monroe Doctrine John Quincy Adams – Jackson’s “corrupt bargain” Andrew Jackson – rise of common man, no property requirements to vote, spoils system, kitchen cabinet, Nullification Crisis, Trail of Tears Martin Van Buren William Henry Harrison – Died; VP John Tyler took over Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, Worcestor v. Georgia Industrial Revolution Foreign policy John Marshall The Growing Nation Cotton gin Industrial Revolution Interchangeable parts Free enterprise/capitalism Manifest Destiny New Territories: Louisiana Purchase, Florida, Texas Annexation, 49th Parallel, Oregon Territory, Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase Texas Revolution, Mexican War, Gold Rush Chinese immigrants, mountain men Reformers: social reform, education, temperance, abolition, women’s rights Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman Canals, Erie Canal Inventors and inventions: Industrial Revolution Second Great Awakening Art and literature: Audubon, Bingham, Hudson River School, Thoreau, Emerson, Transcendentalism, Cole railroads The Civil War and Reconstruction Sectionalism Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun Daniel Webster Missouri Compromise North vs South Nat Turner, slave codes Irish, Germans Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman Frederick Douglass Stephen A. Douglas – popular sovereignty Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Dred Scott v. Sanford John Brown Lincoln-Douglas Debates Fort Sumter Lincoln’s 1st and 2nd inaugural addresses Jefferson Davis’ inaugural address 1861-65 - Civil War Union vs. Confederacy Clara Barton Antietam Vicksburg Gettysburg Appomattox Courthouse Emancipation Proclamation Reconstruction Hiram Rhodes Revels 13th Amendment – freed slaves 14th Amendment – citizenship 15th Amendment – Vote William Carney Philip Bazaar Lincoln’s assassination Radical Reconstruction Radical Republicans Homestead Act Dawes Act Morrill Act Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson
