• New Orleans 1718
•
St Louis Cathedral (Below- a symbol of
New Orleans:)
• Fort Duquesne 1754
• General James
Braddock
• George Washington
• William Pitt 1758
• General James Wolfe
• Treaty of Paris 1763
Background to Revolution
• “Pennsylvania
‘Dutch’”
• “Scotch-Irish” (ScotsIrish)
• French Huguenots
• “The Enlightenment”
• John Locke
• Deism
• Freemasonry
• “The Great
Awakening”
• George III 1760
• George Grenville
1763-1765
• Revenue Act of 1764
(Sugar Act)
• “Salutary Neglect”
• Stamp Act 1765
• Townshend Acts 1767
• Sam Adams
• Committees of
Correspondence
• Lord North
• “Boston Massacre”
• Tea Act of 1773
• Boston “Tea Party”
• “Intolerable Acts”
• First Continental
Congress Sept. 1774
• Continental
Association
• Committees of Safety
• General Thomas
Gage
Revolution
• Battle of Bunker Hill
(Breed’s Hill) June
1775
• Loyalists (Tories)
• John Locke
• Sam Adams
• John Adams
• Thomas Paine,
Common Sense
January, 1776
• Declaration of
Independence July 4,
1776
• Thomas Jefferson
• Benjamin Franklin
• The Articles of
Confederation 1777
• Sir William Howe
• General John
Burgoyne
(“Gentleman Johnny”)
• Horatio Gates
• Benedict Arnold
• Battle of Saratoga
1777
• Lord Cornwallis
• Nathanael Greene
• Treaty of Paris 1783
Constitution
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Thomas Paine
Congregationalists
Anglican Church
Jefferson’s Statute for
Religious Freedom
• “Not Worth a
Continental”
• Specie Currency
• Daniel Shays
• Shay’s Rebellion
1786-1787
• Robert Morris
• Beard, An Economic
Interpretation of the
Constitution
• Impost of 1781
• Northwest Ordinance
1787
• James Madison
• Alexander Hamilton
• “Virginia Plan”
• “New Jersey Plan”
• Constitutional
Convention 1787
• Federal System
• Electoral College
• Federalists
• Anti-Federalists
Early Politics
• George Washington
• The French Revolution
1789
• Jay’s Treaty 1795
• Federalists
• Republicans
• The Alien and Sedition
Acts
• John Adams
• Kentucky & Virginia
Resolutions
• “The Revolution of 1800”
• Aaron Burr
Age of Jefferson
• Thomas Jefferson
1800-1808
• John Marshall
• Marbury vs. Madison
1803
• Louisiana Purchase
1803
• Lewis & Clark
Expedition 1804-1806
• Nonimportation Act
1805
• Embargo Act of 1807
• Nonintercourse Act
1809
• Macon’s Bill No. 2
1810
• “War Hawks” (Henry
Clay, John C.
Calhoun)
• Clay (top): Calhoun (below):
• James Madison 1808- • Treaty of Ghent 1815
1816
• James Monroe 1816• War of 1812
1824
• Andrew Jackson
• Monroe Doctrine
1823
• John Quincy Adams
Economic Development
• William Henry
Harrison
• Creeks
• Cherokees
• Andrew Jackson
• John C. Calhoun
• Harrison Land Act of
1800
• Eli Whitney
• “King Cotton”
• Cotton Gin
• Turnpike
• De Witt Clinton
• Erie Canal
• James Monroe 18161824
• “Era of Good
Feelings”
• John Quincy Adams
• William H. Crawford
• Henry Clay
• “American System”
• 2nd National Bank
• Nicholas Biddle
• Tariff of 1816
• Dartmouth College
vs. Woodward 1819
• McCulloch vs.
Maryland 1819
• Gibbons vs. Ogden
1824
• Missouri Compromise
1820:
Age of Jackson
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Election of 1824:
Popular Vote: Electoral Vote:
Jackson
151,000
99
J Q Adams 113,000
84
Crawford
40,000
41
Clay
47,000
37
• Caucus
• Andrew Jackson
1828-1834
• “Bargain and
Corruption”
• Democratic
Republican Party
• National Republican
Party
• “American System”
• “Spoils System”
• Martin Van Buren
• Doctrine of
Nullification 1832
• Force Bill 1833
• Specie Circular 1863
• Peggy Eaton Affair
Expansion (“Manifest Destiny”)
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Martin Van Buren
Panic of 1837
Independent Treasury
Bill
Whig Party 1833
William Henry
Harrison1840-1841
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John Tyler 1841-1844
John Calhoun
Henry Clay
Lewis Cass
James K. Polk 18441848
• Liberty Party
• James G. Birney
• “Spot Resolutions”
• General Zachery
Taylor
• Battle of Buena Vista
1847
• General Winfield
Scott
• Colonel Stephen
Kearney
• John C. Fremont
• Nicolas P. Trist
• Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo 1848
• Gadsden Purchase
1853
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Wilmot Proviso 1846
Freesoil Party
Compromise of 1850
Millard Fillmore
Stephen A. Douglas
• Franklin Pierce
Frontier & Society
• Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in
America 1835
• Frederick Jackson
Turner (“The Frontier
Theory”)
• American Party
(Order of the Star
Spangled Banner,
“Know Nothings”)
• Romanticism
• Transcendentalism:
Ralph Waldo Emerson (top),
Henry David Thoreau (bottom).
• James Fennimore
Cooper
• Deism
• Unitarian Church
• Great Revival
• Utopianism
• Abolitionism
Frederick Douglass (below)
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Mormonism
Charles Fourier
Horace Greeley
Dorthea Dix
Horace Man
Temperance Frances
Willard WCTU (below)
The South
• Abolitionism
• American
Colonization Society
• Tappan Brothers
• William Lloyd
Garrison
• The Liberator
• American Anti-Slavery
Society
• Nat Turner Rebellion
1831
• Frederick Douglass
• Sojourner Truth
• The Underground
Railroad
• Harriet Tubman
• Cassius Clay
Origins of the Civil War
• Compromise of 1850
• National Trades
Union 1834
• Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Uncle Tom’s
Cabin 1852
• Hinton Rowan Helper,
The Impending Crisis
of the South 1857
• Stephen A. Douglas
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854
• “Popular Sovereignty”
• Republican Party
• “Bleeding Kansas”
• “Border Ruffians”
• “Jayhawks”
• John Brown
• American Party
(“Know Nothings”)
• Franklin Pierce
• James Buchannan
• Millard Fillmore
• John C. Fremont
• Dred Scott Case 1857
Presidential Election of 1860:
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Abraham Lincoln- Republican
Stephen A. Douglas- Northern Democrat
John C. Breckinridge- Southern Democrat
John Bell- Constitutional Union Party
Lincoln wins- South secedes from the union
Jefferson Davis becomes the President of
the Confederate States
The Civil War
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Fort Sumter
The Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
“Stonewall” Jackson
Lee (left), Jackson:
• William T. Sherman
• Ulysses S. Grant
Grant (left), Sherman
• George B. McClellan
• Gettysburg July1,
1863
• Jefferson Davis
• “Peace Democrats”
• Radical Republicans:
Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens
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Morrill Tariff Act
Homestead Act 1862
Morrill Land Grant Act
John C. Freemont
Second Confiscation Act
• Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
• Andrew Johnson
• Wade-Davis Bill 1864
• Freedman’s Bureau
• John Wilkes Booth