Mr Poley 2017-2018 Note Card Timeline Project
Note Card requirements
This note card set will cover all of United States History.
· Each card must be hand written
· You must use actual note cards
· Only one definition or court case per card
· On one side of the card (Front)
o You will write only the word or phrase being defined.
o You must sign your initials in upper right corner
o You will write the # of the card in the lower right corner
· On the back side you will write the definition as written.
Court cases requirements
· On one side (Front)
o You will write the court case name
o You must sign your initials in upper right corner
o You will write the # of the card in the lower right corner
· On the back side you will write the definition as written.
Timeline requirements
· Write the Timeline event in the proper place where it occurs on the timeline.
· If the timeline event covers a range of dates you should use a {and note the start of the date range, and use a} and note the end date of the range.
Mr. Poley Note Card Timeline Project 2013-2014 Edition
1. John Locke
a. Enlightenment philosopher
b. Ideas influenced American belief in self government.
c. All People are free and have “natural” rights of life liberty and property that rulers cannot take away.
2. John Locke (part 2)
a. All original power resides in the people, and they consent to enter into a “social contract” among themselves to form a government to protect their rights. In return, the people promise to obey the laws and rules established by their government, establishing a system of “ordered liberty.”
3. John Locke (part 3)
a. All powers are limited to those the people have consented to give to it. Whenever government becomes a threat to the people’s natural rights, it breaks the social contract, and the people have the right to alter or overthrow it.
b. Challenged the rule of kings and queens.
4. Thomas Paine
a. Author of Common Sense
b. Best selling pamphlet that challenged the rule of American colonies by the king of England.
i. This was a major contributor to the idea of independence from Great Britain.
5. Common Sense
a. Written By Thomas Paine.
b. Best selling pamphlet that challenged the rule of American colonies by the king of England.
c. This was a major contributor to the idea of independence from Great Britain.
6. Mayflower Compact –
a. A puritan covenant community formed in New England based upon their religious beliefs.
i. 41 Men signed this document
b. first exercise of Direct Democracy
c. Exercised in town hall meetings.
7. Proclamation of 1763- Great Britain’s declaration that colonists were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
8. The American Revolution
a. 1775-1783
b. Fought between
i. former American Colonists
ii. England
c. Over taxes, oppression, American political evolution and desire for freedom
d. Ended at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781
e. Treaty of Paris in 1783
9. Declaration of Independence
a. July 4th, 1776
b. Founding American document declaring freedom of the common man from the rule of England.
10. George Washington
a. Commander of Continental Army
b. 1st President (1789-1797)
c. Chairman of the Constitution Convention.
d. Fought for the British during the French and Indian War.
e. For Ratification of the Constitution.
11. Benjamin Franklin
a. Ambassador to France
b. Negotiated treaty of alliance with France 1787
c. Inventor
d. Instrumental in the Treaty of Paris 1787 which ended the Revolutionary War.
e. One of the framers of the Constitutional Convention 1787
12. Patrick Henry
a. “Give me Liberty or give me death” speech.
b. Opposed ratification of the constitution.
13. George Mason
a. Virginia Declaration of Rights
b. Basic human rights should not be violated by governments
c. Opposed ratification of the constitution.
14. Alexander Hamilton
a. First secretary of the Treasury
b. Federalist founder
c. Pro United States Bank
15. Treaty of Alliance with France
a. 1778
b. Negotiated by Benjamin Franklin to help the American Colonists gain freedom from the rule of England.
16. Virginia Plan
a. Authored by Madison
b. Based upon a government with three branches (executive, judicial, and legislative)
c. This became the founding basic structure for American Government.
17. Virginia Declaration of Rights
a. Written by George Mason
b. Basic human rights should not be violated by governments
18. Virginia Statute for Religious freedom
a. Written by Thomas Jefferson
b. Outlawed the established church – the practice of government support for one favored church.
19. Articles of Confederation
a. Early form of American Government which was found to have multiple weaknesses.
20. Constitution of United States of America
a. American form of government established to share power between the federal government and the states.
b. Provided for future changes based upon the concept of amendments.
21. Bill of Rights
a. Written by James Madison
b. Secured the basic rights of men based upon
i. Virginia Statute for Religious freedom
ii. Virginia declaration of rights.
22. Northwest Ordinance
a. Created the northwest territory
b. Decided how the United States would expand westward.
c. New states would be created instead of expanding existing ones
d. Slavery was forbidden north of the Ohio River.
23. Jay Treaty
a. A treaty during Washington’s administration between America and Britain where Britain finally would leave forts they had already agreed to leave at the end of the Revolution. This was interpreted by many in America as a sell-out to the British.
24. John Adams
a. 2nd president of the United States (1797-1801)
b. Strong federalist supporter
c. Presided over the “Alien & Sedition Acts”
i. created by the federalist party
ii. this was unfriendly to Immigrants
iii. made it illegal to criticize the government
iv. this played a factor in Adams defeat by Jefferson (election of 1800)
25. XYZ Affair – a response to the Jay Treaty
a. 2nd President John Adams sent diplomats to Paris to quiet a threat of war with France.
b. The French had seized American ships, sailors in French ports
c. U.S. diplomats were met by French agents MR X, Y, & Z they demanded a $250,000 bribe and a $10 million loan to the French
d. This was extremely unpopular back home in America
e. By 1798 America and France were fighting an undeclared war
26. Thomas Jefferson
a. 3rd President (1801-1809)
b. Ambassador to France after Franklin
c. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
i. Outlawed the established church – the practice of government support for one favored church.
d. Founder University of Virginia.
27. Jefferson Quotes
a. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
28. Jefferson Quotes (part 2)
a. “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
b. “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government….”
29. Chief Justice John Marshall –
a. His establishment of the power of Judicial Review, the doctrine of implied powers, strengthened the power of the Supreme Court as an equal branch of the national government.
30. Lewis and Clark
a. Led expedition to explore the new territories that lay west of the Mississippi River (Louisiana Purchase)
b. Sent by Thomas Jefferson
31. Sacajawea
a. An American Indian who served as guide and translator to Lewis and Clark.
32. James Madison
a. 4th President (1809-1817)
b. Father of the Constitution
c. For Ratification of the Constitution.
d. Consulted Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and Virginia Declaration of Rights when drafting the amendments that eventually became the United States Bill of Rights.
33. War of 1812
a. 1812-1815
b. Fought between America and Great Britain
i. With Indian allies on both sides
c. Reasons
i. Trade restrictions by Britain
ii. British impressments of American Sailors
iii. British supply of Indian tribes along Canadian border
iv. Possible American interest in annexing Canada
d. Treaty of Ghent (conclusion) Dec. 24, 1814
34. Missouri Compromise 1820
a. (1820) drew an east-west line(36⁰, 30⁰ parallel line) through the Louisiana Purchase, with slavery prohibited above the line and allowed below
b. Missouri admitted as a slave state
c. Maine admitted as a free state
35. Monroe Doctrine
a. 1823
b. The American continents should not be considered for future colonization by any European powers.
c. Nations in the Western Hemisphere were inherently different from those of Europe, republics by nature rather than monarchies.
36. Monroe Doctrine (part 2)
a. The United States would regard as a threat to its own peace and safety any attempt by European powers to impose their system on any independent state in the Western Hemisphere.
b. The United States would not interfere in European affairs.
37. Eli Whitney
a. Inventor of the cotton gin
i. Led to the spread of the slavery based “Cotton Kingdom” in the Deep South.
b. Came up with the system of interchangeable parts in gun manufacturing.
38. Andrew Jackson
a. 7th President (1829-1837)
b. General/defender of New Orleans during war of 1812
c. Known as “Old Hickory”
d. The Era of Jackson is named after him.
e. Championed the common man and voting rights for all white males (universal white male suffrage)
39. Andrew Jackson (part 2)
a. Vetoed the second National Bank
b. Was pro-slavery and anti-Indian
c. Used the Spoils system for giving political supporters public office.
40. Texas
a. Territory controlled by Mexico until 1836
b. Became an independent republic in 1836
c. Became 28th American state in 1845
41. Mexican American War
a. 1846-1848
b. Treaty of Guadalupe- Hidalgo
c. America defeats Mexico
d. Gains Mexican cession (parts of Ca,NV,Utah,NewMexico,Co., Arizona,Wyoming)
42. Nat Turner
a. Slave preacher in Northampton, VA
b. Led a revolt that went from plantation to plantation killing 60 whites (women & children)
c. Caught by local militia and hung after quick trial
43. Gabriel Prosser
a. Free blacksmith from Richmond, VA
b. Gathered 1000 slaves to attack and take over VA government
c. Revolt failed because of bad weather and a snitch
d. Prosser tried and hung
44. William Lloyd Garrison
a. publisher of The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper
45. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
a. Seneca Falls Declaration – July 1848
b. became involved in women’s suffrage before the Civil War, but continued with the movement after the war
46. Harriet Beecher Stowe
a. Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin - a best-selling novel that inflamed Northern abolitionist sentiment.
47. Susan B. Anthony
a. Seneca Falls Declaration - July 1848
b. became involved in women’s suffrage before the Civil War, but continued with the movement after the war
48. Seneca Falls Declaration
a. The first major women’s rights convention in America taking place in Seneca Falls, New York.
49. Compromise of 1850
a. California entered as a free state, while the new Southwestern territories acquired from Mexico would decide by popular soveriegnity (Vote)
50. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
a. By Harriet Beecher Stowe, wife of a New England clergyman
b. a best-selling novel (published in 1852) that inflamed Northern abolitionist sentiment
c. Southerners were frightened by the growing strength of Northern abolitionism.
51. Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
a. Repealed the Missouri Compromise line, people in Kansas and Nebraska had the choice whether to allow slavery in their states (“popular sovereignty”).
b. Set off “bleeding Kansas”: bloody fighting in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery forces.
c. the Republican Party was started to oppose the spread of slavery.
52. The Liberator
a. Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrisons newspaper
53. Dred Scott Decision
a. 1857
b. Dred Scott challenged himself and family being returned to slavery
c. Supreme Court ruled against the Scott’s 7-3.
d. Chief Justice Taney stated He was not a citizen and could not sue anyone. As an enslaved person he was property.
e. The rulings effect was to make slavery legal everywhere.
54. John Brown
a. Abolitionist willing to go to extreme lengths to end slavery
b. Participated in Bleeding Kansas
c. Led the failed raid on “Harper’s Ferry”
i. trying to start a slave rebellion
ii. Ended with his death
55. Abraham Lincoln
a. 16th President ,during the Civil War (1860-1865)
b. Election of Lincoln (1860), followed by the secession of several Southern states who feared that Lincoln would try to abolish slavery
c. insisted that the Union be held together, by force if necessary
56. Lincoln Quotes
a. believed that to reunify the nation, the federal government should not punish the South, but act “with malice towards none, with charity for all… to bind up the nation’s wounds….”
57. Civil War
a. 1861-1865
b. Fought between
i. The United States of America
ii. The Confederate States of America
c. Issues included: states’ rights, slavery, nullification, secession
d. Concluded at Appomattox Courthouse 1865
58. Homestead Act of 1862
a. Gave free public land in the western territories to settlers who would live on and farm the land.
59. Emancipation Proclamation
a. Freed those slaves located in “rebelling” states (seceded Southern states)
b. Made the destruction of slavery a Northern war aim
c. Discouraged any interference of foreign governments
60. Gettysburg Address (Lincoln’s speech dedicating the Gettysburg cemetery)
a. Civil War was a struggle to preserve a nation that was dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal” and that was ruled by a government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”