Key People, Events, and Terms
HISTORY 1A Spring 2010
KEY PEOPLE, EVENTS, AND TERMS
CHAPTER 1 “MAKING A NEW WORLD”
WESTERN HEMISPHERE
BERINGIA
MOUND BUILDERS
“NOBLE SAVAGE”
LEIF ERICSON
VASCO DA GAMA
PRE-COLUMBIAN
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
AMERIGO VESPUCCI
NORTHWEST PASSAGE
JOHN CABOT
JACQUES CARTIER
CHAPTER 2 “ A CONTINENT ON THE MOVE”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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
JOHN C. FREMONT
BEAR FLAG REPUBLIC
WINFIELD SCOTT
TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO 1848
FORTY-NINERS
CHAPTER 13 “SECTIONAL CONFLICT AND SHATTERED UNION”
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
FREE SOIL PARTY 1848
ELECTION OF 1848
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
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”
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”
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