Gadsden Purchase
Bacon’s, Whiskey, Shays’s, Nat Turner’s Rebellions

Market Revolution

Stamp Act Congress

Nullification (Va./Ky.)

Popular Sovereignty

Emancipation Proclamation

Mercantilism

King Cotton

Great Awakening I and II

Slavery

Foreign Diplomacy

Am. Rev., War of 1812

Era of Good Feelings

Civil War

Embargo Act

The Zenger Case

William Lloyd Garrison

Abraham Lincoln

Andrew Jackson

Thomas Jefferson

US Grant

Robert E. Lee

William T. Sherman

George Washington

Alexander Hamilton

John Brown

Henry Clay

John Marshall

Stephen Douglas

Lewis and Clark

Lafayette

Eli Whitney

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Daniel Webster

Dorothea Dix

Horace Mann

Wilmot Proviso

Dred Scott

Marbury vs. Madison

Manifest Destiny

Stamp Act

Townshend Act

Tea Act/Tax

Boston Tea Party

Boston Massacre

Declaratory Act

Lexington and Concord

Saratoga

Yorktown

Bunker Hill

Quartering Act

Hard Cider and Log Cabin

Andrew Johnson

Corrupt Bargain

Quebec Act

Valley Forge

Alien and Sedition Acts

XYZ

American System
Missouri Compromise

Constitution

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Compromise of 1850

Louisiana Purchase

Trail of Tears

Mexican Cession

Articles of Confederation

Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists

Transportation

Colonial America

Political Parties

Dem-Reps vs. Feds.

Whigs vs. Dems.

Free Soilers

Know Nothings

Transcendentalism(ists)

Monroe Doctrine

Vicksburg

Gettysburg

Bull Run

Appomattox

Declaration of Independence

Nationalism

Sectionalism

Treaty of Ghent

Treaty of Paris

Non-importation Agreements

Non-Intercourse Act

Bleeding Kansas

Abolition

Black Codes

Rad. vs. Presid. Reconstruction

Provisions and impact of

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments

Tariff of Abominations

Seneca Falls

Republican Motherhood

Cult of Domesticity

Aaron Burr

Salutary Neglect

Revolution of 1800

B.U.S.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Tallmadge Amendment

The Impending Crisis of the South
John C. Calhoun

THEMES

Status of women/Afr.-Americans/ Native-Americans over time

Foundations of and changes in foreign policy

Evolution of federalism: Art. of Confederation to Constitution and beyond (federal vs. states rights)

Expansion of presidential powers

Development/changes in the party system and role of 3rd parties

Motives of urbanization and western movement and its impact

Meaning of "democracy" or what it means to be "American"

Intellectual/religious movements and their impact on society

Regional (sectional) characteristics/differences and their impact on p/s/e unity

Reform: goals of reform movements and how they are a reflection of society at that time

SEM. ONE HISTORICAL ERAS

  • Colonial America
  • Revolutionary America
  • The Articles of Confederation and The Constitutional Era
  • The Federalist Era
  • The Age of Jefferson
  • The Era of Good Feelings
  • The Age of Jackson
  • Prelude to the Civil War
  • The Civil War and
    Reconstruction Era

WHAT TO DO:

Sort these people, places and things by historical era (listed above)

Identify AND state the significance of each. Think about these issues…

What were the consequences of…

Was caused by…

The impact was great because…

How did this item change the course of events of theperiod?

How did it set in motion new events?

What sets this item apart in our discussion of history?

“Power of Five”…

Can you tell me 5 things? 4? 3?