 Historical Thinking Skills
1.
Historical Causation
2.
Patterns of Continuity and Change over Time
3.
Periodization
4.
Comparison
5.
Contextualization
6.
Historical Argumentation
7.
Use of Relevant Historical Evidence
8.
Historical Interpretation
9.
Synthesis

o American Pageant, Chapters 1 o Newman, Chapter 1
1.
Pueblo
2.
Mississippian mound builders
3.
Cahokia
4.
maize
5.
three sister farming
6.
Iroquois
7.
Christopher Columbus
8.
Columbian Exchange
9.
plantation system
10.
conquistadors
11.
joint stock companies
12.
economienda system
13.
mestizos
14.
Spanish Mission system
15.
Pope’s Rebellion
16.
Bartolome de Las Casas
17.
Black Legend

o American Pageant, Chapters 2-5 o Newman, Chapters 2-3
1.
Protestant Reformation
2.
Roanoke settlement
3.
Virginia Company
4.
colonial charter
5.
Jamestown
6.
John Smith
7.
Powhatan
8.
Anglo- Powhatan War
9.
Virginia tobacco plantations
10.
Lord Baltimore
11.
Maryland Catholic
12.
West Indies sugar plantations
13.
Barbados slave code
14.
Carolina rice plantations
15.
North Carolina
16.
Georgia
17.
Iroquois Confederacy
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18.
mourning wars
19.
Anglican
20.
Calvinism
21.
doctrine of predestination
22.
Puritans
23.
conversions
24.
Separatists
25.
Pilgrims
26.
Mayflower Compact
27.
William Bradford
28.
Plymouth colony
29.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
30.
“a city upon the hill”
31.
“Bible Commonwealth”
32.
John Winthrop
33.
Anne Hutchinson
34.
Roger Williams
35.
Rhode Island
36.
Connecticut Fundamental Orders
37.
Metacom
38.
King Phillip’s War
39.
Dominion of New England
40.
Navigation Act
41.
salutary neglect
42.
New Netherland
43.
Henry Hudson
44.
fur trade
45.
New Amsterdam
46.
William Penn
47.
Quakers
48.
indentured servants
49.
head rights system
50.
Bacon’s Rebellion
51.
slave trade
52.
middle passage
53.
slave codes
54.
South Carolina slave revolt
55.
southern social hierarchy
56.
New England social structures
57.
Massachusetts school law
58.
Congregational Church
59.
Half-way covenant
60.
Salem Witch trials
61.
concept of land ownership
62.
Scot-Irish
63.
Paxton Boys
64.
New England praying towns
65.
triangular trade
66.
Atlantic World
67.
Molasses Act
68.
Great Awakening
69.
George Whitehead
70.
old light v new lights
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o American Pageant, Chapters 6-10 o Newman, Chapters 4-6
1.
New France
2.
French-Indian War
3.
Seven Year War
4.
Ben Franklin & Albany Congress
5.
Pontiac‘s Rebellion
6.
Proclamation Act of 1763
7.
republicanism
8.
liberty
9.
mercantilism
10.
Navigation Acts
11.
Sugar Act (1764)
12.
Quartering Act (1765)
13.
Stamp Act (1765)
14.
non-importation agreements/embargo
15.
Sons& Daughters of Liberty
16.
Declaratory Acts(1766)
17.
Townsend Acts(1767)
18.
Boston Massacre
19.
Samuel Adams
20.
John Adams
21.
Abigail Adams
22.
committees of correspondences
23.
Boston Tea Party
24.
Intolerable Acts
25.
1 st Continental Congress
26.
2 nd Continental Congress
27.
Thomas Paine & Common Sense
28.
Declaration of Independence
29.
Enlightenment philosophers
30.
John Locke
31.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
32.
Loyalists
33.
Patriots
34.
Treaty of Paris
35.
Virginia Statues of Religious Freedom
36.
Articles of Confederation
37.
Land Ordinance (1785)
38.
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
39.
Shay’s Rebellion
40.
Constitutional convention
41.
Virginia Plan
42.
New Jersey Plan
43.
Great Compromise /Connecticut Compromise
44.
three-fifths compromise
45.
federalists
46.
anti-federalists
47.
Alexander Hamilton
48.
Federalist papers
49.
Bill of Rights
50.
Judiciary Act of 1789
51.
Hamilton’s Financial Plans
52.
Whiskey Rebellion
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53.
French Revolution
54.
Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation
55.
Battle of Fallen Timbers
56.
Washington’s Farewell speech of 1796
57.
Jay’s Treaty
58.
Pickney’s Treaty
59.
XYZ Affair
60.
Alien & Sedition Acts
61.
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
62.
Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans

o American Pageant, Chapters 11-16 o Newman, Chapters 7-11
1.
Jeffersonian Revolution of 1800
2.
Jefferson 1 st inaugural address
3.
Marbury v. Madison
4.
Louisiana Purchase(1803)
5.
Lewis & Clark Expedition
6.
Haiti Revolution
7.
impressments
8.
Embargo Act(1807),
9.
Non-Intercourse Act(1809),
10.
James Madison
11.
Macon’s Bill No.2,
12.
Tecumseh & the “Prophet”
13.
William Henry Harrison & Battle of Tippecanoe
14.
War of 1812/ 2 nd Revolutionary War (Canada, sea, Washington, Baltimore, New Orleans)
15.
N.E. Hartford Convention
16.
nationalism
17.
Tariff of 1816
18.
Henry Clay’s American System
19.
“peculiar institution”
20.
Missouri Compromise
21.
loose v. strict constitutional construction
22.
McCollough v. Maryland (1819)
23.
Monroe Doctrine
24.
republican motherhood”
25.
mass democracy
26.
Andrew Jackson
27.
Corrupt Bargain of 1824
28.
John Quincy Adams
29.
Election of 1828,
30.
spoils system
31.
“Tariff of Abomination”
32.
John C. Calhoun
33.
Nullification Crisis
34.
Indian Removal Act
35.
Worcester v. Georgia
36.
Trail of Tears
37.
Nicholas Biddle & the Bank War
38.
Daniel Webster
39.
Whig Party
40.
Texas-Mexican War
41.
German and Irish immigration
42.
Nativists/Know-Nothing Party
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43.
Industrial Revolution
44.
Samuel Slater’s factory system
45.
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
46.
Lowell Factory System
47.
wage slaves
48.
“cult of domesticity”
49.
new transportation systems and technology (turnpikes, steam boats, Erie Canal, railroad, Pony Express)
50.
Second Great Awakening & Charles Finney
51.
reform movements (education, temperance, prison reforms)
52.
women’s rights Seneca Falls Convention
53.
transcendentalism
54.
the “Cotton Kingdom”
55.
the nature of African American life, slave and free, before the Civil War,
56.
abolitionism movement (William Lloyd Garrison, Fredrick Douglass, Angela Grimke)
57.
Defenders of slavery’s response
58.
minstrel shows
U
o American Pageant, Chapters 17-22 o Newman, Chapters 12-15
1.
“Manifest Destiny”
2.
Webster –Ashburton Treaty (Maine)
3.
Oregon Trial
4.
Texas-Mexican War
5.
Annexation of Texas
6.
The importance of Oregon and Texas
7.
The US- Mexican War
8.
Mexican Cession
9.
Wilmot Proviso
10.
The Compromise of 1850
11.
John C Calhoun
12.
Free Soilers
13.
Popular sovereignty
14.
Fugitive Slave Law
15.
The end of the Whig party
16.
Franklin Pierce
17.
Stephen Douglas
18.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
19.
“Bleeding Kansas”
20.
The Republican party
21.
The Dred Scott decision;
22.
John Brown (Kansas, Harper’s Ferry, trial & martyrdom)
23.
The election of 1860 (end of two party system)
24.
Arguments for secession
25.
the formation of the Confederacy,
26.
Fort Sumter
27.
the importance of the Border States
28.
Strengths and weaknesses of both the North and the South
29.
restriction of civil liberties during the war (habeas corpus);
30.
Social and economic consequences of the war for both the North and the South;
31.
The failure of the North to gain an early victory;
32.
Outcome and implications of Antietam
33.
the Emancipation Proclamation
34.
Significance of Battle of Gettysburg and Surrenderof Vicksburg;
35.
Ulysses S Grant/ unconditional surrender/ total war
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36.
Copperheads / George McCellan / election of 1864
37.
William T. Sherman/ Fall of Atlanta/ March to the Sea
38.
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
39.
Significant legislation of Republican dominated Civil War Congress a.
Morrill Act 1861 b.
Homestead Act 1862 c.
Pacific Railway Act 1862
40.
The assassination of Lincoln/ implications of Andrew Johnson becoming President
41.
Presidential Reconstruction
42.
Black Codes
43.
Freedmen Bureau
44.
Radical Republicans
45.
Election of 1866
46.
Congressional Reconstruction
47.
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
48.
Johnson’s impeachment
49.
U.S. Grant’s election 1868
50.
Scalawags
51.
Carpet Baggers
52.
“40 acres and a mule”
53.
13 th Amendment
54.
14 th Amendment
55.
15 th Amendment
56.
sharecropping system
57.
post war political corruption
58.
Election of 1872
59.
white supremacy and Ku Klux Klan
60.
Amnesty Act of 1872
61.
Election of 1876
62.
Compromise of 1877
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