I. Colonial America: 1603-1754

I. Colonial America: 1603-1754

MAJOR THEMES:

Native American diversity – Migration from Asia & Population patterns
Spain’s Empire, French Canada, English settlement in New England, Southern, & Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Religious diversity in the American colonies
The origins of indentured servitude and slavery in the Chesapeake
Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon’s Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, Pueblo’s Revolt
Population growth and immigration. Transatlantic Trade and the growth of seaports
The 18th Century backcountry. Growth of plantation economies and slave societies
Impact of the Enlightenment, the First Great Awakening, and Puritanism
Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America

TERMS TO KNOW:

Spain, France, Dutch

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Columbian Exchange - Horse
Encomienda, Mission, & Caste Systems
Pueblo Revolt – Pope (1680)
coureurs de bois – French & Indians
New Netherlands - New Amsterdam
Patroonships - Peter Stuyvesant

Jamestown (Chesapeake)& Southern Colonies:

Roanoke (1585)
Jamestown (1607)
Joint-stock companies
Virginia Company
John Smith
John Rolfe
tobacco – cash crops
indentured servants
Headright System
House of Burgesses (1619)
William Berkeley
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
Proprietorship - Maryland (1634)
Act of Toleration (1649)
James Oglethorpe / Georgia (1733)

New England

Plymouth Colony - Pilgrims
Puritans & Separatists
“the elect” & predestination
Role of women in Puritan N.E.
Mayflower Compact (1620)
William Bradford
Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630)
John Winthrop
“A Model of Christian Charity”
“City upon a hill”
The Great Migration
Halfway Covenant (1662)
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
antinomianism
Salem Witch Trials (1692)
Pequot War (1637)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
King Philip’s War (1675-1676)
Metacom & Wampanoags

Middle Colonies & Other:

Pennsylvania – Quakers“The Society of Friends” –
“The Holy Experiment” - William Penn
Charter of Liberties (1701)
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts (1650-1673)
Triangle Trade – Middle Passage
First Great Awakening (1730s-1740s)
Jonathan Edwards – “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (1741)
George Whitefield
“New Lights” & “Old Lights”
Dominion of New England (1685-1688 James II)
Sir Edmund Andros
Glorious Revolution – William & Mary (1688)
Jacob Leisler & John Coode
Ben Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanac
John Peter Zenger Trial (1735) press

II. REVOLUTIUONARY AMERICA (1754-1787)

MAJOR THEMES:

Causes and effects of the French and Indian War
The Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain – road to Revolution
The War for Independence – and its impact on American society
State constitution and the Articles of Confederation

TERMS TO KNOW

French & Indian War (1754-1763)
Albany Plan of Union
“Join or Die”
Treaty of Paris of 1763
salutary neglect
Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763)
Proclamation of 1763
Paxton Boys
Sugar Act (1764)
virtual vs. direct representation
“No taxation without representation”
Quartering Act (1765)
Stamp Act (1765)
Stamp Act Congress – James Otis
internal & external taxes
Patrick Henry - Virginia Resolves
Sons of Liberty – Samuel Adams
Daughters of Liberty “Spinning Bees”
Writs of assistance
Declaratory Act (1766)
Townshend Acts (1767)
Boston Massacre (1770)
The Gaspee Incident (1772)
Regulator Movement (1760s) NC/SC
Committees of Correspondence
Tea Act – British East India Co.
Boston Tea Party (1773)
Coercive (Intolerable) Acts (1774)
Quebec Act (1774)
Suffolk Resolves
First Continental Congress (1774)
John Adams
Lexington & Concord (1775)
Bunker Hill
Second Continental Congress (1775)
George Washington – Continental Army
Olive Branch Petition
Common Sense – Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence ‘76
Battle of Saratoga
French alliance in 1778
Patriots vs. Loyalists (Tories)
Role of women during revolution
Benedict Arnold
Yorktown (1781)
Articles of Confederation (1781-1787)
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Shays’ Rebellion (1786-1787

III. The Constitution & New Republic

MAJOR THEMES

The federal Constitution – convention, compromises & ratification
Washington, Hamilton and the shaping of the national government
Emergence of political parties: Federalists and (Democratic) Republicans

TERMS TO KNOW:

Society of Cincinnati (1783)
Annapolis Convention (1785)
Abigail Adams “Remember the ladies”
Constitutional (Philadelphia) Convention (1787)
Madison & Hamilton
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
“The Great Compromise”(Connecticut Plan)
3/5s Compromise
FederalistsAntifederalists
checks and balances
separation of powers
electoral college system
“implied powers”
Necessary and proper “elastic clause”
Loose & Strict constructionists
ratification
The Federalist (Papers) (esp. #10)
Bill of Rights
Judiciary Act of 1789
Alexander Hamilton’s economic plan
Report of Public Credit (1790)
Report on Manufacturers (1791)
Assumption Plan - compromise
Bank of the United States
French Revolution (1789)
Neutrality Proclamation (1793)
Edmund “Citizen” Genet
Impressment
Haitian Rebellion - impact
Jay’s Treaty (1794)
Pinkney’s Treaty (1795)
Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794)
Treaty of Greenville (1795)
Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
Washington’s “Farewell Address” (1796)
John Adams
1st 2 Party System Democratic –Republicans & Federalists
XYZ Affair - Quasi War
Alien & Sedition Acts (1797-1798)
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions (1799)
Thomas Jefferson & Aaron Burr
“Revolution” of 1800
“Midnight Appointments”

IV. Jeffersonian Age

1800-1824 (Jefferson, Madison, Monroe)

MAJOR THEMES:

Was the “Revolution of 1800” ushering in Jefferson and the Democratic-Republicans truly revolutionary?
Marshall and his Supreme Court decisions:judicial federalism.
Republican Motherhood and education for women
Beginning of the 2nd Great Awakening
Significance of Jefferson’s Presidency – key changes and controversies
Growth of slavery and free black communities
Expansion into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistance
The War of 1812 causes and consequences.
The transportation revolution and creation of a national market economy/ “Market Revolution”
Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structures
Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton south

TERMS TO KNOW:

•Jeffersonian Republicanism & ideals

deism
Republican agrarianism
Republican motherhood
Louisiana Purchase (1803)

•Lewis & Clark – Corps of Discovery (1804-1806)

• “Midnight Appointments”

•John Marshall – Marshall Court (1801-1835)

•Marbury v. Madison (1803) - Judicial review

•Samuel Chase impeachment

• Aaron Burr

• Barbary Pirates (1801-1805)

•Chesapeake-Leopard Affair (1807)

•Embargo Act (1807)

• Non-Intercourse Act (1809)

• Macon’s Bill #2 (1810)

• War Hawks

• John C. Calhoun (SC)

• Henry Clay (KY)

•Causes of War of 1812 - Impressment

•War of 1812 “Mr. Madison’s War”

• Tecumseh – Indian Confederacy

•Hartford Convention (1814)

• Treaty of Ghent (1814)

•Battle of New Orleans (1815)

• Andrew Jackson

• “Era of Good Feelings”

• “Virginia Dynasty”

•Cultural Nationalism – increased literacy rates “Penny Press”

• Noah Webster

• Washington Irving, James Fennimore Cooper

• Nathanial Hawthorne, Herman Melville

• Economic Nationalism

• Clay’s American System

• Daniel Webster

•Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

•McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

•Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)

•Cohens v. Virginia (1821)

•Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

• Erie Canal (1825)

• Robert Fulton – Cornelius Vanderbilt

•“Market Revolution”/Market Economy

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Lowell System

• Tariff of 1816

• Panic of 1819

• Tallmadge Amendment (1819)

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)

• Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)

• Monroe Doctrine (1823)

V. The Age of Jackson: 1824-1844

(John Q. Adams, Jackson, Van Buren)

MAJOR THEMES:

Emergence of the second party system: Democratic Party & Whigs
Immigration and the rise of nativism
Federal authority and its opponents: judicial federalism, the Bank War, tariff controversy, and states’ rights debates.
Jacksonian democracy and its successes and limitations
Forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West

TERMS TO KNOW:

Sectionalism v. Nationalism
“Corrupt Bargain” of 1824
Jacksonian Democracy
“Age of the Common Man”
Election of 1828
“King Andrew” “King Mob”
Anti-Masons
spoils system
Peggy Eaton Affair
Five civilized tribes
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
“Trail of Tears”
Tariff of Abominations (1828)
South Carolina’s Exposition & Protest (1828)
Webster-Hayne Debate (1830)
Nullification Crisis 1832
Force Bill(1833)
Clay’s Compromise Tariff 1833
Second Bank of the U. S.
Nicholas Biddle
The Bank War – Jackson Veto
“pet banks”
Roger Taney
New Two-Party System
Democratic Party vs. Whigs
“Gag Rule” 1836
Specie Circular
Martin Van Buren
Panic of 1837
Nativism
“Log Cabin” & “Hard Cider” Campaign (1840)
“Tippecanoe & Tyler Too!”
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler “His Accidency”
“The Man Without A Party”

VI. Antebellum Reform (1820-1860)

MAJOR THEMES:

The impact of the 2nd Great Awakening - Evangelical Protestant revivalism
Social reform movements
Ideals of domesticity – roles of women
Transcendentalism and utopian communities
American Renaissance: literary and artistic expressions

TERMS TO KNOW:

•Second Great Awakening (1820s)

•Utopia & “perfectionism”

Charles Finney (1823)

“Burned-over District” NY

• Baptists & Methodists

•Mormons (CJC)LDS (1830)

• Joseph Smith (book in 1829- killed in 1844)

• Brigham Young (exodus 1846)

• Romanticism

•Transcendentalism

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

• Brook Farm- George Ripley (1841-1849)

• Shakers – Mother Ann Lee

• New Harmony – Robert Owen

Utopian socialism

• Oneida Community 1848

• Joseph Henry Noyes

•Hudson River School: Thomas Cole, Frederick Church

•American Temperance Society (1826)

- Lyman Beecher

•Dorothea Dix – Asylums (Penitentiary)

• Horace Mann(late 1830s)

* common schools & normal schools

• McGuffey Reader

• Grimke Sisters

•Godey’s Lady’s Book

• “Cult of Domesticity” “Separate Spheres”

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

• “Declaration of Sentiments”

• Susan B. Anthony

• Amelia Bloomer (1850s)

Resistance, sabotage, “sambo”
Famous Slave Revolts:
Stono Rebellion (SC -1739)
Gabriel Prosser (VA - 1800)
Denmark Vesey (SC - 1822)
Nat Turner (VA - 1831)
“peculiar institution”“King Cotton”

• American Colonization Society (1817)

• Liberia (1822)

•William Lloyd Garrison- The Liberator

•American Antislavery Society (1833)

•Frederick Douglass – North Star (1847)

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• David Walker

VII. 1830s-1850: Manifest Destiny - Westward Expansion – Sectional Tensions

MAJOR THEMES:

Western migration and cultural interactions
Territorial acquisitions
Early U.S. imperialism: the Mexican War

TERMS TO KNOW:

•Manifest Destiny

• John O’Sullivan – Democratic Review

* Mexican Independence (1821)

• Stephen Austin

• Sam Houston

• General Santa Anna (1834)

• Texas Revolt 1836

• Alamo

• Battle of San Jacinto

• Lone Star Republic (1836-1845)

*Caroline Affair (1837)

* Aroostook War 1838-1839

• Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)

• Samuel F. B. Morse

• James K. Polk 1844 Election

•54o 40’ Or Fight!– Oregon Question

• Slidell Mission (1845)

* Nueces or Rio Grande?

“American blood has been spilled on American soil!”

•Mexican War (1846-1848)

• Wilmot Proviso (1846)

• General Zachary Taylor

* General Winfield Scott

* San Patricio’s Battalion

• John C. Fremont – Bear Flag Revolt

•Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)

•Gold Rush (1848-49)

VIII. Road to Civil War, Civil War & Reconstruction

MAJOR THEMES:

Pro- and antislavery arguments and conflicts
Compromise of 1850 and popular sovereignty
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the emergence of the Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln, the election of 1860, and secession
Civil War: two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent.
Military strategies and foreign diplomacy
Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war
Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West
Presidential and Radical Reconstruction
Southern State governments: aspirations, achievements, failures
Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy
Compromise of 1877 – the end of Reconstruction
Impact of Reconstruction

TERMS TO KNOW:

•Compromise of 1850

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Underground Railroad

• Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

* “Slave Power” Conspiracy

* Ostend Manifesto (1854)

• Hinton R. Helper – Impending Crisis of the South (1857)

•George Fitzhugh – Cannibals All! (1857)

•Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

• Know-Nothings (American Party)

• Free Soilers(1848)

* Republican Party

• Commodore Matthew Perry (1853)

• Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)

• Gadsden Purchase (1853)

•Popular sovereignty

• “Bleeding Kansas”

•John Brown - Pottowatomie (1856)

•Sumner-Brooks Conflict (1856)

• James Buchanan

• Lecompton Constitution (1857)

•Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)

• “House divided” & Freeport Doctrine

• Harper’s Ferry, VA (1859)

•Crittenden Compromise (1860)

* 1860 Election - secession

• Jefferson Davis & C.S.A

• Fort Sumter (1861)

• Border States

• Anaconda Plan

* Battle of Bull Run (1861)

• George McClellan

• Antietam (1862)

• Emancipation Proclamation (1862)

* Confiscation Acts “contraband”

• MA 54th Regiment – black soldier experience

* NY Draft Riots

•MerrimacMonitor

• Gettysburg, Vicksburg & Grant

• Sherman’s “March to the Sea” (’64-’65)

• Appomattox Court House (1865)

•Ex parte Merryman (Habeus corpus)

•Ex Parte Milligan(1866)

• Copperheads – Clement Vallendingham

• Greenbacks

• Morrill Tariff Act (1861)

• 10% Plan

• Wade-Davis Bill (1864) – 50% Plan

• Presidential Reconstruction – Andrew Johnson

• Freedman’s Bureau

• Black Codes

•Radical (Congressional) Reconstruction

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• 13th, 14th (’68) & 15th (’69) Amendments

• Tenure of Office Act (1867)

• Scalawags Carpetbaggers

• Crop lien system –Sharecropping, tenant farmers

• “Waving the Bloody Shirt”

• Credit Mobilier Scandal

• Panic of 1873 (“Crime of ‘73”)

• Redeemers

•KKK & Force Acts of 1870 & ‘71

• Compromise of 1877

IX. Closing the Frontier & the New South

MAJOR THEMES:

Expansion and development of western railroads – transcontinental railroad
Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders (farmers), and American Indians
Government policy toward American Indians
Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West
Environmental impacts of western settlement
New South: Reconfiguration of southern agriculture: sharecropping and crop lien system
New South: Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization
The politics of segregation: Jim Crow and disenfranchisement

TERMS TO KNOW:

•Homestead Act (1862)

• Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)

•Pacific Railway Act (1862) – Transcontinental Railroad

* Open Range Cattle Drives – cowboys, Chisholm Trail

• “Great American Desert”

• Sand Creek Massacre (1864)

• Frederick Jackson Turner “FrontierThesis” (1893)

• Reservation Policy

• Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)

• George A. Custer - Little Big Horn (1876)

• Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse

• Chief Joseph

• Helen Hunt Jackson (1881)

• Dawes (Severalty) Act (1887)- assimilation until 1930s

• Carlisle Boarding School

• Ghost Dance

• Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)

• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

• Jim Crow Laws

“Exodusters” (1879-1880)
“New South”
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)

• Civil Rights Cases of 1883

•Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

•Literacy Tests & Grandfather clause

• Ida B. Wells - anti-lynching campaign

•Booker T. Washington

• Tuskegee Institute & Atlanta Compromise

•W. E. B. DuBois

•Granger Laws - Oliver Hudson Kelley

•Munn v. Illinois (1876)

•“Wabash Case” (1886)

• Interstate Commerce Act (1886) ICC

• Farmer’s Alliance

• People’s Party (Populists)

X. Big Business, Big Labor, & Big Cities

(Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley)

MAJOR THEMES:

Corporate consolidation of industry
Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace
Labor and unions
National Politics and influence of corporate power
Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation
Proponents and opponents of the new order: Social Darwinism and the Social Gospel movement
Urbanization and the lure of the city
City problems and political machines
Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment
Agrarian discontent and political issues of the late 19th Century

TERMS TO KNOW:

•Gilded Age

• Trusts: vertical & horizontal integration

• Lasseiz Faire

• Robber Barons

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Jay Gould

• Andrew Carnegie “Gospel of Wealth”

•John D. Rockefeller - Standard Oil

•Social Darwinism – William G. Sumner

• Russell Conwell “Acres of Diamonds”

• Thomas A. Edison – Menlo Park

•Horatio Alger – “Self-made man”

• Yellow-dog contract

• Open shop

• Closed shop

• Railroad Strike of 1877

•Knights of Labor – Terrence Powderly

• Haymarket Riot (1886)

•AFL- Samuel Gompers (1886)

•Homestead Strike (1892)

• Pullman Strike (1894)

•Eugene Debs– Socialist Party

•Boss Tweed - Tammany Hall – Political Machines

• Thomas Nast

• Henry George Progress & Poverty (1879)

• Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives

• Edward Bellamy- Looking Backward

• Ellis Island 1892

• “Melting Pot” theory

• Emma Lazarus

• Settlement House Movement

• Jane Addams – Hull House

• Social Gospel

• Women’s Christian Temperance Union

• Anti-Saloon League

• Carry Nation

• Louis Sullivan

• Chicago School of Architecture

• Ashcan School of Art

• Ragtime: Scott Joplin

• Stalwarts & Halfbreeds

• Pendleton Act (1885)

• Bland-Allison Act (1878)

•McKinley Tariff (1890)

• Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)

• Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

•U. S. v. E. C. Knight (1890)

• Omaha Platform (1892)

•Panic of 1893

• Coxey’s Army (1894)

• William Jennings Bryan

• Mark Hanna & William McKinley

• “Cross of Gold”

• Silver bugs Gold bugs

• Free Silver & Bi-Metalism

XI. America Becomes A Global Power: 1890-1914

MAJOR THEMES:

American Imperialism: political and economic expansion

Roosevelt, Taft & Wilson foreign policy

TERMS TO KNOW

Treaty of Kanagawa
“Seward’s Folly” (1867) $7.2 mil.
Imperialism
Missionaries
Josiah Strong: Our Country (1885)
Social Darwinism
Alfred Thayer Mahan: Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890)
Pan-American Conference (1889)
Queen Liliuokalani
Alfred Dole
Hawaii Annexation (1900)
Spanish-American War (1898)
jingoism
Cuba Libre! (1895)
Valeriano Weyler
Yellow Journalism – Hearst & Pulitzer
De Lome Letter (1898)
Remember the Maine! (1898)
Teller Amendment
Rough Riders
Commodore Dewey
Emilio Aguinaldo
Treaty of Paris of 1898
“White Man’s Burden”
Anti-Imperialist League
Insular Cases (1901-1903)
Platt Amendment (1901)
John Hay –Open Door Policy (1899)
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Big Stick Diplomacy
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (1901)
Panama Canal (1904-1914)
Roosevelt Corollary
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
“Gentlemen’s Agreement” (1908)
Great White Fleet
Root-Takihara Agreement (1908)
Dollar Diplomacy
Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. Lodge Corollary (1912)
Moral Diplomacy
Jones Act (1916)
Tampico Incident
Pancho Villa
John J. Pershing

XII. THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1901-1918

MAJOR THEMES

Origins of Progressive reform: municipal, state, and national. Who were the Progressives?

Goals of Progressivism: successes, failures.

Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson as Progressive Presidents

Women’s Roles: family, workplace, education, politics, and reform – suffrage & temperance

Black America: urban migration and civil rights initiatives

TERMS TO KNOW:

Frederick Taylor “Taylorism”
Scientific Management
Muckrakers
McClure’s Magazine (1893)
Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives
Lincoln SteffensThe Shame of the Cities
Frank Norris The Octopus
Ida TarbellHistory of Standard Oil Co
“Australian” Secret Ballot
Direct Primaries
17th Amendment
Initiative, recall, referendum
City Manager
Robert LaFollette
T.R.’s Square Deal (1901-1909)
Antracite Coal Strike (1902)
Trust-busting- Good Trusts and Bad Trusts
Northern Securities Company
J.P. Morgan
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)
Elkins Act (1903) & Hepburn Act (1906)
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Gifford Pinchot – John Muir
Conservation and preservation
William Howard Taft
Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy (1910)
Socialist Party – Debs
Helen Keller
I.W.W. Wobblies
Big Bill Haywood
Election of 1912
Progressive “Bull Moose” Party
New Nationalism
New Freedom
Underwood Tariff (1913)
16th Amendment
Federal Reserve Act (1914)
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission Act
Louis Brandeis
Keating-Owen Act (Child Labor Act)
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Carrie Chapman Catt - NAWSA (1900)
Alice Paul – NWP (1916)
19th Amendment (1920)