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HISTORY 101 KEY PEOPLE, EVENTS, AND TERMS

CHAPTER 1 MAKING A “NEW” WORLD, TO 1588

WESTERN HEMISPHERE

BERINGIA

MOUND BUILDERS

“NOBLE SAVAGE”

VASCO DA GAMA

PRE-COLUMBIAN

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

AMERIGO VESPUCCI

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

JOHN CABOT

JACQUES CARTIER

CHAPTER 2 A CONTINENT ON THE MOVE, 1400-1725

TREATY OF TORDESILLAS

PONCE DE LEON

HERNANDO DE SOTO

FRANCISCO VASQUEZ DE CORONADO

ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA

SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN

NEW FRANCE

JACQUES MARQUETTE AND LOUIS JOLIET

ROBERT CAVALIER, SIEUR DE LA SALLE

HENRY HUDSON

NEW NETHERLAND/ NEW AMSTERDAM

CHAPTER 3 FOUNDING THE ENGLISH MAINLAND COLONIES, 1585-1732

ROANOAKE COLONY

JAMESTOWN

HOUSE OF BURGESSSES

LORD BALTIMORE

INDENTURED SERVANTS

PILGRIMS

PLYMOUTH PLANTATION

WILLIAM BRADFORD

MAYFLOWER COMPACT 1620

MASSACHUSETTS BAY COMPANY

JOHN WINTHROP

PURITANS

ROGER WILLIAMS

ANNE HUTCHINSON

THOMAS HOOKER

KING PHILIP’S WAR 1675-76

SALEM WITCH TRIALS 1692

WILLIAM PENN

QUAKERS

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH

CAROLINA

JAMES OGLETHORPE

CHAPTER 4 THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, 1689- 1763

MIDDLE PASSAGE

JOHN LOCKE

SOCIAL CONTRACT

JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

DEISM

THE GREAT AWAKENING

GEORGE WHITEFIELD

JONATHAN EDWARDS

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1754-1763

TREATY OF PARIS, 1763

CHAPTER 5 DECIDING WHERE LOYALTIES LIE, 1763-1776

GEORGE III

PROCLAMATION OF 1763

PONTIAC’S REBELLION 1763

STAMP ACT 1765

SONS OF LIBERTY

TOWNSHEND ACTS OF 1767

BOSTON MASSACRE, 1770

BOSTON TEA PARTY 1773

INTOLERABLE ACTS/ COERCIVE ACTS 1774

FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS SEPT 1774

LEXINGTON AND CONCORD 1775

PAUL REVERE

MINUTEMEN

SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775

GEORGE WASHINGTON

THOMAS PAINE

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 1776

CHAPTER 6 RECREATING AMERICA—INDEPENDENCE AND A NEW NATION, 1775-1783

AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775-1783

BATLE OF BUNKER HILL JUNE 17, 1775

BATTLE OF TRENTON DEC 24 , 1776

BATTLE OF SARATOGA OCT 17, 1777

BENEDICT ARNOLD

VALLEY FORGE WINTER 1777

FRIEDRICH VON STEUBEN

YORKTOWN AUG-OCT 19, 1781

LORD CORNWALLIS

MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

TREATY OF PARIS, 1783

LOYALISTS

CHAPTER 7 COMPETING VISIONS OF A VIRTUOUS REPUBLIC, 1770-1796

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION 1777

NORTHWEST ORDINANCES 1784, 1785, 1787

SHAY’S REBELLION 1786-1787

GREAT COMPROMISE

THREE -FIFTHS COMPROMISE

ELECTORAL COLLEGE

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

FEDERALISTS

ANTIFEDERALISTS

FEDERALIST PAPERS

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION 1788

JUDICIARY ACT OF 1789

BILL OF RIGHTS 1791

ELECTION OF 1792

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS

WASHINGTON, D.C.

WHISKEY REBELLION 1794

WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL ADDRESS 1796

CHAPTER 8 THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1796-1804

ELECTION OF 1796

JOHN ADAMS

ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS 1798

VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS 1798

ELECTION OF 1800

THOMAS JEFFERSON

AARON BURR

12TH AMENDMENT 1804

JUDICIARY ACT OF 1801

JOHN MARSHALL

MARBURY VS MADISON

JUDICIAL REVIEW

JOHN PICKERING

LOUISIANA PURCHASE 1803

LEWIS AND CLARK

SACAJAWEA

ELECTION OF 1804

RICHARD ALLEN/ AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH

CHAPTER 9 INCREASING CONFLICT AND WAR, 1805-1815

ELECTION OF 1808

JAMES MADISON

TECUMSEH

WAR HAWKS

BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE 1811

ELECTION OF 1812

THE WAR OF 1812

USS CONSTITUTION (OLD IRONSIDES)

OLIVER HAZZARD PERRY

ANDREW JACKSON “OLD HICKORY”

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY /STAR SPANGLED BANNER

BATTLE OF HORSESHOE BEND 1814

BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS 1815

TREATY OF GHENT 1814

FRANCIS CABOT LOWELL

ELI WHITNEY

JOHN JACOB ASTOR

CHAPTR 10 RISE OF A NEW NATION, 1815-1836

HARTFORD CONVENTION

ELECTION OF 1816

JAMES MONROE

ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS

AMERICAN SYSTEM

CUMBERLAND ROAD

ERIE CANAL

RUSH BAGOT AGREEMENT 1817

ADAMS-ONIS TREATY OF 1819

MCCULLOCH VS MARYLAND

GIBBONS VS OGDEN

PANIC OF 1819

ELECTION OF 1820

MISSOURI COMPROMISE 1820

MONROE DOCTRINE 1823

ELECTION OF 1824

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS 1828

DEMOCRATIC PARTY 1826

ANTIMASONIC PARTY 1827

ELECTION OF 1828

ANDREW JACKSON

“SPOILS SYSTEM”

TRAIL OF TEARS 1838

OSCEOLA

NULLIFICATION CRISIS 1830-32

JOHN CALHOUN

FORCE BILL 1832

CHAPTER 11 THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION: GROWTH AND EXPANSION,

1828-1848

SAMUEL MORSE

KING COTTON

SLAVE CODES

JOSEPH SMITH

BRIGHAM YOUNG

THE GREAT SALT LAKE

FATHER JUNIPERO SERRA

JOHN SUTTER

FORTY-NINERS

CHAPTER 12 RESPONSES TO THE GREAT TRANSORMATION, 1828-1848

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

TRANSCENDENTALISM

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

BROOK FARM

SHAKERS

SECOND GREAT AWAKENING

DOROTHEA DIX

HORACE MANN

ABOLITIONISM

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

NAT TURNER

LUCRETIA MOTT AND ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

SENECA FALLS 1848

ELECTION OF 1836

WHIGS

MARTIN VAN BUREN

PANIC OF 1837

ELECTION OF 1840

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

JOHN TYLER

STEPHEN AUSTIN
MANIFEST DESTINY

THE ALAMO 1836

SAM HOUSTON

ELECTION OF 1844

JAMES POLK

MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR

WILMOT PROVISO

ZACHARY TAYLOR

WINFIELD SCOTT

BEAR FLAG REPUBLIC*

FORTY-NINERS*

TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO 1848

FREE SOIL PARTY 1848

ELECTION OF 1848

CHAPTER 13 SECTIONAL CONFLICT AND SHATTERED UNION, 1848-1860

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

COMPROMISE OF 1850

FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

MILLARD FILLMORE

ELECTION OF 1852

FRANKLIN PIERCE

KNOW NOTHINGS

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

HARRIET TUBMAN

GADSDEN PURCHASE

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT 1854

BLOODY KANSAS

REPUBLICAN PARTY 1854

JOHN C. FREMONT

ELECTION OF 1856

DRED SCOTT DECISION 1857

JAMES BUCHANAN

LINCOLN- DOUGLAS DEBATES 1858

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

STEPHEN DOUGLAS

JOHN BROWN

HARPER’S FERRY

ELECTION OF 1860

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

JEFFERSON DAVIS

FORT SUMTER April 12-13, 1861

ROBERT E. LEE

CHAPTER 14 A VIOLENT CHOICE: CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865

COPPERHEADS

RADICAL REPUBLICANS

ANACONDA PLAN

THOMAS J. “STONEWALL” JACKSON

FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN 1861

SECOND BATTLE OF BULL RUN 1862

ULYSSES S. GRANT

WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN

BATTLE OF SHILOH 1862

MERRIMAC AND MONITOR

BATTLE OF ANTIETAM 1862

BATTLE OF VICKSBURG 1863

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG 1863

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 1863

CONSCRIPTION ACT 1863

54TH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT

ANDERSONVILLE

ELECTION OF 1864

SHERMAN’S MARCH TO THE SEA 1864

APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE 1865

JOHN WILKES BOOTH

CHAPTER 15 RECONSTRUCTION: HIGH HOPES AND SHATTERED DREAMS,

1865-1877

RECONSTRUCTION

TEN PERCENT PLAN

ANDREW JOHNSON

FREEDMEN’S BUREAU

“FORTY ACRES AND A MULE”

KU KLUX KLAN

THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT

FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT

FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT

ELECTION OF 1868

ULYSSES S. GRANT

CARPETBAGGER

SCALAWAG

ELECTION OF 1872

MISSISSIPPI PLAN

ELECTION OF 1876

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

SAMUEL TILDEN

COMPROMISE OF 1877