Period 1:
1491-1607
Period 2:
1607-1754
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Encomienda system
maroon communities in Brazil and Caribbean
Christianity and traditional African religions
pueblo
Chinook
Iroquois
Algonquian
Columbian Exchange
smallpox
mestizo
Zambo
Juan de Onate
Spanish mission system
sugar
silver
corn
potatoes
horses
cows
sextant
joint-stock company
Juan de Gines de Sepulveda
Bartolome de Las Casas
Indentured servitude
Puritans
Pueblo Revolt
Anglicization
Enlightenment
fur trade
English colonization
Indian hostility with the English
Atlantic slave trade
resistance to slavery (rebellion, sabotage, escape)
Beaver Wars
Chickasaw Wars
cereal crops
New England colonies
Chesapeake colonies
Middle colonies
tobacco
Southern colonies
African chattel
West Indies
Period 3:
1754-1800
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the Carolinas (rice)
Barbados (sugar)
Seven Years’ War
French Revolution
*George Washington
Washington’s Farewell Address
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Northwest Ordinance
Northwest Territory
Republican Motherhood
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Iroquois Confederation
Chief Little Turtle
Western Confederacy
Stamp Act
Committees of Correspondence
Intolerable Acts
Sons of Liberty
Mercy Otis Warren
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
1st Great Awakening
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adam Smith
Bill of Rights
tariff and currency disputes
Spanish restrictions on navigation of the Mississippi River
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
Proclamation of Neutrality
Abigail Adams
Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Law
March of the Paxton Boys
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Scots-Irish
Shays’s Rebellion
frontier v. tidewater Virginia
Period 4:
1800-1848
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corridos
architecture of Spanish missions
vacqueros
Jay’s Treaty
Pinckney’s Treaty
Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
Democrats
Whigs
Second Great Awakening
Romanticism
Market Revolution
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri Compromise
Marshall Court
War of 1812
McCulloch v. Maryland
Worcester v. Georgia
New England opposition to the Embargo
Embargo Act
debates over tariff and internal improvements
Charles Finney
Seneca Falls convention
Utopian communities
outlawing of the international slave trade
American Colonization Society
Frederick Douglass
xenophobia
the Hudson River School
John James Audubon
Richard Allen
David Walker
slave music
American System
steel plow
mechanical reapers
Samuel Slater
Lowell System
Baldwin Locomotive Works
anthracite coal mining
canals, roads, bridges
cult of domesticity
Lydia Maria Child
early labor unions
Period 5:
1844-1877
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negotiating the Oregon border
annexation of Texas
trading with China
Monroe Doctrine
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
slave and non-slave areas
territories for American Indians
Hartford Convention
nullification crisis
War Hawks
Indian Removal Act
Seminole Wars
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
Civil War
Abolitionists
Nullification
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
Republican Party
*Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
13th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
clipper ships
Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan
missionaries
parochial schools
Know-Nothings
nativism
Mormons
gold rush
the Homestead Act
Mariano Vallejo
Sand Creek Massacre
Little Big Horn
John C. Calhoun
minstrel shows
election of 1860
secession
Period 6:
1865-1898
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Gettysburg
March to the Sea
Hiram Revels
Blanch K. Bruce
Robert Smalls
Gilded Age
Social Darwinism
Conspicuous consumption
New South
Populist Party
Political Machines
Settlement Houses
Transcontinental Railroads
Tariffs
Laissez-faire economics
Plessy v. Ferguson
Social Gospel movement
monopolies
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Mother Jones
US Fish Commission
Sierra Club
Department of the Interior
The Grange
Las Gorras Blancas
Colored Farmers’ Alliance
National American Women Suffrage Association
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
subsidies
land-grant colleges
Dawes Act
Chief Joseph
Ghost Dance Movement
referendum
Socialism
Interstate Commerce Act
American Protective Association
Chinese Exclusion Act
Henry George
Edward Bellamy
Gospel of Wealth
Period 7:
1890-1945
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Booker T. Washington
Ida Wells-Barnett
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Progressives
Spanish-American War
Great Depression
Welfare State
New Deal
Harlem Renaissance
Red Scare
WWI
Great Migration
*Woodrow Wilson
*Franklin Roosevelt
American Expeditionary Force
Isolationism
Pearl Harbor
Japanese American Internment
Clayton Antitrust act
Florence Kelley
Federal Reserve Bank
National Recovery Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal Writer’s Project
Huey Long
Supreme Court fight
Social Security Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
radio
motion pictures
automobiles
Yiddish theater
jazz
Edward Hopper
fundamentalist Christianity
Great Depression-era deportations
Bracero program
Luisa Moreno
Turner thesis
dollar diplomacy
Mexican intervention
Washington Naval Conference
Stimson Doctrine
Neutrality Acts
Period 8:
1945-1980
Period 9:
1980-present
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Atlantic Charter
development of sonar
Manhattan Project
Cold War
Communism
Korean Conflict
Brown v. Board of Education
Military-industrial Complex
Vietnam War
Civil Rights Act 1964
*Lyndon Johnson
Great Society
Sun Belt
development of hydrogen bomb
massive retaliation
space race
detente
Suez Crisis
OPEC
Fannie Lou Hamer
John Lewis
Thurgood Marshall
containment
The Feminine Mystique
Gloria Steinem
Griswold v. Connecticut
Miranda v. Arizona
Students for a Democratic Society
Black Panthers
Rachel Carson
Clean Air Act
nuclear family
sexual revolution
Watergate
Bakke v. University of California
Phyllis Schlafly
Religious fundamentalism
*Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Sept. 11, 2001
War on terrorism
Free trade
Internet
Climate change
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OPEC oil embargo
1970s inflation
Iranian hostage crisis
Moral Majority
Focus on the family
tax cuts under Reagan and GW Bush
Contract with America
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
expansion of Medicare and Medicaid
growth of the budget deficit
Star Wars missile defense system
Start I
NAFTA
healthcare reform debates
SSA debates
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell