Semester 1 - History 1
Learning Concepts to Remember
Populating the Americas:
· European Advantages, Explorers and their motivations
· Columbian Exchange
· Jamestown
· Massachusetts Bay
· Triangle Trade
· Enlightenment
· Introduction of Slaves to America
· Mercantilism
· William Penn
· Colonial Differences (economic, social, political)
· Colonial Founders and their motivations
o William Penn
o Roger Williams
Road to Revolution:
· Britain’s Policies
o Salutary Neglect
o Quartering acts
o Stamp Act
o Proclamation of 1763
· Albany Plan of Union
· Common Sense
· Battles and Forts
o Saratoga
o Yorktown
o Valley Forge
· Great Awakening
· Military strengths and weaknesses
· Military Strategies and Tactics
· French and Indian War
Forming a Government:
· Mayflower Compact
· Articles of Confederation
· Declaration of Independence
· Federalism v. anti-federalism
· New Jersey Plan/ Virginia Plan / Great Compromise
Defining Government:
· Seneca Falls Convention
· Balance of Power
· James Madison
· Underground Railroad
· Constitutional Conventions (1st & 2nd)
· Three-fifths Compromise
· Republic v. direct democracy
· Federalist Papers
· Whiskey Rebellion
· George Washington
o Farwell address
· Alien and Sedition Acts
· Andrew Jackson
Expansion:
· Industrial Revolution
· Native Americans (policies and treatment)
· Transcontinental Railroad
· Monroe Doctrine
· Manifest Destiny
· Immigration (contributions)
· Compromises, Proposals and Spread of Slavery
· Expansion routes and modes
War and Resolutions:
· Civil War Battles
o Antietam
o Vicksburg
· Generals
o Grant
o Lee
o Sherman
· Civil War Causes
o Abraham Lincoln
§ Lincoln-Douglas Debates
o Kansas-Nebraska Act
o Missouri Compromise
o Uncle Tom’s Cabin
o John Brown
o Wilmot Proviso
o Underground Railroad
· Results of the Civil War
o Johnson v. Radical Republicans
o Reconstruction Plans (Lincoln, Johnson)
o 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments
o Black codes
o Freedman’s Bureau
o Emancipation Proclamation
o Carpetbaggers
· The War of 1812 – causes and results
· Mexican-American War – causes and results
o Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo