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The Meeting of Cultures

1. Cahokia

2. Christopher Columbus

3. Hernando Cortes

4. Mercantilism

5. Roanoke

Colonial Foundations

Jamestown Captain John Smith Lord De La Warr John Rolfe The "Headright" System Virginia House of Burgesses Powhatan Pocahontas Lord Baltimore 1649 "Act Concerning Religion" Sir William Berkeley Nathaniel Bacon Puritans Plymouth The Mayflower Compact William Bradford The Massachusetts Bay Company John Winthrop "City on a Hill" Thomas Hooker

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut The Fundamental Articles of New Haven Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson The Antinomian heresy The Pequot War Metacomet King Philip's War Fundamental Constitution for Carolina William Penn James Oglethorpe The Navigation Acts Dominion of New England Sir Edmund Andros

Colonial Culture

Indentured Servitude Humoralism The Middle Passage Slave Codes "triangular trade" Stono Rebellion Town Meeting Primogeniture Salem Witch Trials Jeremiads

The Great Awakening George Whitefield Jonathan Edwards New Lights Old Lights The Enlightenment Poor Richard's Almanac Publick Occurrences Benjamin Franklin John Peter Zenger

Road to Revolution

The Albany Plan Seven Years' War The Iroquois Confederacy George Washington William Pitt "impressment" Peace of Paris King George III George Grenville Pontiac’s Rebellion The Proclamation of 1763 The Sugar Act of 1764 The Currency Act of 1764 The Stamp Act of 1765 The Paxton Boys Patrick Henry Virginia Resolves James Otis ‘No Taxation without”

Sons of Liberty Charles Townshend Townshend Duties Boston Massacre Samuel Adams Committee of Correspondence Virtual and Actual Representation The Tea Act of 1773 Daughters of Liberty The Boston Tea Party The Coercive Acts of 1774 First Continental Congress Minutemen Lexington and Concord William Dawes Paul Revere

The Revolution

Second Continental Congress Thomas Paine Common Sense Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation Thomas Jefferson George Washington Marquis de Lafayette Baron von Steuben Bunker Hill Loyalists

Valley Forge Saratoga Francis Marion Lord Cornwallis Yorktown John Jay Treaty of Paris Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Battle of Fallen Timbers Daniel Shays Shays’ Rebellion

The Constitution and The Early Republic (Washington/Adams)

Alexander Hamilton James Madison The "Founding Fathers" Constitutional Convention Virginia Plan Edmund Randolph William Paterson New Jersey Plan The Great Compromise Popular Sovereignty "Checks and Balances" Federalists The Federalist Papers Antifederalists The Bill of Rights The Judiciary Act of 1789 Henry Knox Thomas Jefferson

Report on Manufactures The Bank of the United States Republicans "First Party System" Whiskey Rebellion Jay's Treaty Pinckney's Treaty XYZ Affair The "Quasi War" The Alien and Sedition Acts Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions Aaron Burr The Judiciary Act of 1801 John Marshall "Midnight Appointments" "Revolution of 1800"

Jeffersonian Era

Judith Sargent Murray "noble savages" Noah Webster Deism Second Great Awakening Cane Ridge "camp meeting" Gabriel Prosser The First Industrial Revolution Eli Whitney Cotton gin Robert Fulton The "Turnpike Era" Charles C. Pinckney Marbury v. Madison The Louisiana Purchase

James Monroe Meriwether Lewis William Clark Zebulon Pike Essex Junto Alexander Hamilton Aaron Burr Impressment Chesapeake-Leonard Incident Embargo "Peaceable Coercion" Non-Intercourse Act Macon's Bill No. 2 William Henry Harrison Republicans vs Federalists First Party System

War of 1812

Tenskwatawa the "Prophet" Tecumseh Battle of Tippecanoe War Hawks Henry Clay John C. Calhoun The War of 1812 Andrew Jackson Francis Scott Key Battle of Plattsburgh Battle of New Orleans Daniel Webster Hartford Convention Treaty of Ghent Rush-Bagot Agreement

Era of Good Feelings

Second Bank of the United States National Road Stephen H. Long Virginia Dynasty James Monroe John C. Calhoun John Quincy Adams "Era of Good Feelings" Andrew Jackson The Seminole War Adams-Onís Treaty Wildcat bank ” Panic of 1819 Missouri Compromise Tallmadge Amendment Henry Clay

John Marshall Fletcher v. Peck Dartmouth College v. Woodward McCulloch v. Maryland Daniel Webster Gibbons v. Ogden Worcester v. Georgia The Monroe Doctrine "King Caucus" "American System" "Corrupt Bargain" The "Tariff of Abominations"

Jacksonian America

Andrew Jackson The Dorr Rebellion Martin Van Buren Bucktails Patronage The "spoils system" John C. Calhoun Nullification Doctrine Kitchen Cabinet Webster-Hayne Debate Nullification Crisis Force Bill The Black Hawk War "Five Civilized Tribes" Winfield Scott Trail of Tears Maysville Road Nicholas Biddle The Bank War "Soft-money" faction

"Hard-money" faction Roger B. Taney Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge "Second Party System" "King Andrew I" Whigs Democrats Locofocos Anti-Masonry Henry Clay Panic of 1837 Specie Circular William Henry Harrison Log Cabin campaign "Penny Press" John Tyler Aroostook War Webster-Ashburton Treaty

First Industrial Revolution

Native American Party Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner "Know-Nothings" American Party Erie Canal Samuel Morse Morse Code Western Union Telegraph Company Associated Press Limited liability

Factory system Elias Howe Isaac Singer Lowell or Waltham System Factory Girls Association National Trades' Union Commonwealth v. Hunt "Cult of Domesticity"

Slavery

Gabriel Prosser Denmark Vesey Nat Turner Underground Railroad

Slave Codes

Antebellum Culture

Romanticism Hudson River School The Last of the Mohicans Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Herman Melville Moby Dick Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven" Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Walden Transcendentalists Brook Farm

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Robert Owen New Harmony Oneida Shakers "Mother" Ann Lee Mormonism Joseph Smith Book of Mormon Brigham Young Phrenology Horace Mann

Antebellum Reform

Dorothea Dix Catherine Beecher Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Seneca Falls Convention "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" American Colonization Society Liberia /Monrovia William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator American Antislavery Society Frederick Douglass The North Star Elijah Lovejoy The Amistad Liberty Party Free Soil Party John Brown Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin

Expansionism and Sectionalism

(Missouri Compromise) (Amistad) (Abolitionist Movement) (Free Soil Party) (Uncle Tom’s Cabin) Manifest Destiny Santa Anna The Alamo Davy Crockett Sam Houston Battle of San Jacinto The Oregon Trail James K. Polk "Fifty-four forty or fight!" Zachary Taylor John C. Frémont Bear Flag Revolution Winfield Scott Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Wilmot Proviso "Popular Sovereignty" Free-Soil Party

California Gold Rush "Forty-Niners" The Compromise of 1850 Stephen A. Douglas Franklin Pierce Fugitive Slave Act Transcontinental Railroad Jefferson Davis Gadsden Purchase Kansas-Nebraska Act "Bleeding Kansas" John Brown Pottawatomie Massacre Brooks-Sumner Affair Republican Party James Buchanan Dred Scott v. Sandford Abraham Lincoln Lincoln-Douglas Debates Harper's Ferry raid

The Civil War

Confederate States of America Fort Sumter Homestead Act Morrill Act National Bank Acts "Greenbacks" Andrew Johnson George McClellan Thaddeus Stevens Emancipation Proclamation Thirteenth Amendment Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts (All black regiment) Conscription Act

Ulysses S. Grant Robert E. Lee The Monitor The Merrimac First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas Fort Henry and Fort Donelson Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson Battle of Antietam Battle at Gettysburg William Tecumseh Sherman "March to the Sea" Appomattox Courthouse

Reconstruction

Freedmen's Bureau Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens Abraham Lincoln Wade-Davis Bill John Wilkes Booth Andrew Johnson Congressional Reconstruction Black Codes Fourteenth Amendment Fifteenth Amendment "Scalawags" "Carpetbaggers" Sharecropping Crop-lien system Ulysses S. Grant Crédit Mobilier The "Whiskey Ring"

Indian Ring Panic of 1873 "Seward's Folly" Ku Klux Klan Compromise of 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden Tweed Ring Tammany Hall Redeemers Bourbons Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Institute Atlanta Compromise Plessy v. Ferguson Jim Crow laws Lynching Ida B. Wells

Settling the West

Plains Indians Transcontinental Railroad "Chinatowns" Chinese Exclusion Act Homestead Act Timber Culture Act Comstock Lode "Range Wars" Buffalo Bill Cody Annie Oakley Frederic Remington Frederick Jackson Turner Indian Peace Commission

Red Cloud Crazy Horse Sitting Bull George A. Custer Battle of Little Bighorn Nez Percé Chief Joseph Geronimo Wovoka "Ghost Dance" Wounded Knee Massacre Dawes Severalty Act

Industrial Supremacy

Alexander Graham Bell Thomas Edison Henry Bessemer Henry Ford Wilbur and Orville Wright Kitty Hawk, NC Charles Lindbergh General Electric Taylorism Frederick W Taylor Assembly line Cornelius Vanderbilt "Limited Liability" Andrew Carnegie Henry Clay Frick J. Pierpont Morgan US Steel Gustavus Swift "horizontal integration" "vertical integration" John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil "holding company" Social Darwinism Herbert Spencer William Graham Sumner The Gospel of Wealth

Russell Conwell "Acres of Diamonds" Horatio Alger Henry George Progress and Poverty "single tax" Edward Bellamy Looking Backward Molly Maguires Railroad Strike of 1877 Knights of Labor Terence V. Powderly American Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers Haymarket Bombing Homestead Strike Pinkertons George M. Pullman Pullman Strike American Railway Union Eugene V. Debs

Urbanization and Immigration

"Immigrant ghettoes" American Protective Association "tenement" Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives "skyscraper" Salvation Army William M. Tweed Tammany Hall

D.W. Griffith (Birth of a Nation) Coney Island Dime novels Charles Darwin "natural selection" William Graham Sumner

New Immigration

Jane Addams Hull House

Gilded Age Politics and Populism

Rutherford B. Hayes Stalwarts Roscoe Conkling Half-Breeds James Blaine James Garfield Chester A. Arthur Pendleton Act Mugwumps Grover Cleveland Sherman Antitrust Act William McKinley McKinley Tariff

People's Party The Wabash case Interstate Commerce Act Grangers Farmers' Alliances Populism "Colored Alliances" "bimetallism" "free silver" William Jennings Bryan "Cross of Gold" speech

The Progressive Era

"Muckrakers" Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens The Shame of the Cities The "Social Gospel" The Salvation Army Settlement House movement Hull House Jane Addams American Medical Association National Association of Colored Women Elizabeth Cady Stanton Carrie Chapman Catt National American Woman Suffrage Association Nineteenth Amendment Alice Paul National Woman's Party City-Manager plan Initiative

Referendum Direct primary Recall Robert La Follette Triangle Shirtwaist Fire W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk Niagara Movement National Association for the Advancement of Colored Persons Women's Christian Temperance Union Eighteenth Amendment The Socialist Party Eugene Debs Industrial Workers of the World William "Big Bill" Haywood

The Progressive Era

William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt Square Deal Hepburn Regulation Act Pure Food and Drug Act Upton Sinclair The Jungle Meat Inspection Act Gifford Pinchot "conservationism" National Reclamation Act John Muir Sierra Club "preservationism" National Park System Panic of 1907 J.P. Morgan William Howard Taft

Payne-Aldrich Tariff James R. Garfield "New Nationalism" Progressive Party "Bull Moose" Woodrow Wilson "New Freedom" Underwood-Simmons Tariff Federal Reserve Act Federal Trade Commission Act Clayton Antitrust Act Keating-Owen Act Marcus Garvey United Negro Improvement Association

Imperialism

Alfred Thayer Mahan The Influence of Sea Power Upon History Queen Liliuokalani José Martí "Yellow Press" William Randolph Hearst Joseph Pulitzer Pulitzer's World New York Journal The Maine Spanish-American War "A splendid little war" Theodore Roosevelt San Juan Hill Rough Riders Leonard Wood Kettle Hill

Foraker Act Anti-Imperialist League Platt Amendment The Phillippine War Emilio Aguinaldo William Howard Taft The Open Door "spheres of influence" The Boxer Rebellion "Big Stick" Diplomacy "Great White Fleet" Roosevelt Corollary Platt Amendment Panama Canal "Dollar Diplomacy"

WWI

The "Triple Entente," or Allies The "Triple Alliance," or Central Powers Archduke Franz Ferdinand The Lusitania The Sussex Zimmermann Telegram Bolshevik Revolution V.I. Lenin John J. Pershing American Expeditionary Force Argonne Forest Trench Warfare "Liberty Bonds" Herbert Hoover War Industries Board National War Labor Board Committee on Public Information Espionage Act of 1917 Sabotage Act of 1918

Sedition Act of 1918 Eugene Debs Fourteen Points League of Nations Paris Peace Conference Treaty of Versailles Henry Cabot Lodge 1919 Strike wave "Great Migration" 1919 Chicago Race Riot "Red summer" Red Scare A. Mitchell Palmer J. Edgar Hoover Nicola Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Roaring 20’s

Margaret Sanger "flappers" F. Scott Fitzgerald "Harlem Renaissance" Langston Hughes Claude McKay Zora Neale Hurston Jazz Age Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Prohibtion "Wets" "Drys"

National Origins Act of 1924 Ku Klux Klan D.W. Griffith Birth of a Nation John T. Scopes Clarence Darrow William Jennings Bryan Warren Harding Teapot Dome Scandal Calvin Coolidge Andrew Mellon Mellon Plan Herbert Hoover Organized Crime

The Great Depression

"Black Tuesday" "underemployed" "Dust Bowl" "Okies" Scottsboro Case The Hindenberg Orson Welles The Grapes of Wrath Frank Capra Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Popular Front

John L. Lewis Spanish Civil War Abraham Lincoln Brigade John Steinbeck Herbert Hoover Agricultural Marketing Act Hawley-Smoot Tariff "Hoovervillles" "Bonus Army" Douglas MacArthur Franklin Delano Roosevelt

New Deal

Franklin D. Roosevelt "Bank Holiday" Emergency Banking Act Glass-Steagal Act Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Securities and Exchange Commission Twenty-First Amendment Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) National Recovery Administration (NRA) Section 7(a) Public Works Administration (PWA) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Harry Hopkins Civil Works Administration (CWA) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLC)

Francis Townsend Townsend Plan Charles Coughlin Huey Long Share-Our-Wealth Plan "Second New Deal" Wagner Act National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) American Federation of Labor (AFL) Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Social Security Act Works Progress Administration (WPA) "Court-Packing Plan" Fair Labor Standards Act Indian Reorganization Act

Causes of WWII

The Dawes Plan Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler Lebensraum Chiang Kai-Shek Manchuria World Economic Conference "Bombshell Message" "Good Neighbor Policy" Cordell Hull Neutrality Act of 1935 Cash-and-Carry "Quarantine" Speech Sudetenland

Munich Agreement "appeasement" Neville Chamberlain "blitzkrieg" Dunkirk Winston Churchill Joseph P. Kennedy Destroyers-for-bases "lend-lease" The Atlantic Charter Tripartite Pact Hideki Tojo Pearl Harbor

WWII

Battle of Midway Guadalcanal George C. Marshall Dwight D. Eisenhower El Alamein George S. Patton Battle of Stalingrad The Holocaust Office of Price Administration (OPA) War Production Board (WPB) Office of War Mobilization (OWM) National Defense Research Committee Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Navajo "Code-Talkers" "Zoot-Suit Riots" Japanese Internment "Rosie the Riveter" Harry S. Truman

Truman Committee Dresden firestorm D-Day Normandy Battle of the Bulge Battle of Okinawa Tokyo Firebombing Manhattan Project J. Robert Oppenheimer Alamogordo, New Mexico Enola Gay Hiroshima Nagasaki V-E Day V-J Day

Early Cold War Era

Teheran Conference Yalta Conference The United Nations Potsdam Conference Chiang Kai-shek Mao Zedong Containment George F. Kennan Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan George C. Marshall Hydrogen bomb Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Berlin Airlift North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) GI Bill The "Fair Deal" Taft-Hartley Act Strom Thurmond Henry Wallace

Film noir The Twilight Zone The Korean War Inchon invasion 38th Parallel Truman-MacArthur conflict House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) The "Hollywood Ten" "blacklist" Alger Hiss "Pumpkin papers" Richard M. Nixon Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Joseph McCarthy

The 1950’s

The Baby Boom AFL-CIO Jimmy Hoffa Louis Pasteur Penicillin Jonas Salk DDT International Business Machines (IBM) Nuclear fusion Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) Sputnik Explorer I National Aeronautics and Space Administation (NASA) Apollo Program Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin Challenger The Mickey Mouse Club William Levitt Levittown Dr. Benjamin Spock National Broadcasting Company Columbia Broadcasting System American Broadcasting Company "soap operas" "Juvenile Delinquency" James Dean Rebel Without a Cause Rock 'n' Roll Elvis Presley Sam Phillips B.B. King "Ghettoes" Federal Highway Act of 1956 John Foster Dulles

"massive retaliation" "brinkmanship" Ho Chi Minh Dien Bien Phu Geneva Accords 17th Parallel Ngo Dinh Diem Zionism Mohammed Mossadegh The Shah of Iran Gamal Abdel Nasser Suez Canal Crisis Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán Fulgenico Batista Fidel Castro Nikita Khrushchev Francis Gary Powers U-2 "Military-Industrial Complex

Cold War 1950’s

John Foster Dulles "massive retaliation" "brinkmanship" Ho Chi Minh Dien Bien Phu Geneva Accords 17th Parallel Ngo Dinh Diem The Shah of Iran Gamal Abdel Nasser Suez Canal Crisis Fidel Castro Nikita Khrushchev Francis Gary Powers U-2

Early Civil Rights

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Earl Warren Brown II "massive resistance" White Citizens' Councils Little Rock Central High School Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King, Jr. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Civil Rights 1960’s

Woolworth Sit-in Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) "Freedom Rides" Martin Luther King, Jr. Eugene "Bull" Connor George Wallace Birmingham bombing March on Washington Civil Rights Act of 1964 "Freedom Summer" Selma March Voting Rights Act of 1965 "Affirmative Action" Watts Riot "Black Power" Black Panthers Malcolm X

The 1960’s Politics

John F. Kennedy Richard M. Nixon Joseph Kennedy The "New Frontier" Lyndon B. Johnson Lee Harvey Oswald Jack Ruby The Warren Commission The Great Society Medicare Medicaid "War on Poverty"

Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) "Community Action" Housing Act of 1961 Department of Housing and Urban Development Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Immigration Act of 1965

Liberalism

The New Left Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Port Huron Statement Free Speech Movement The "Weathermen" The Counterculture The Beatles The Rolling Stones Bob Dylan Woodstock Kent State Altamont "Termination" National Congress of American Indians Declaration of Indian Purpose National Indian Youth Council American Indian Movement (AIM) Indian Civil Rights Act Wounded Knee Occupation

César Chávez United Farm Workers (UFW) Stonewall Riot Gay Liberation Front "come out" AIDS Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique Equal Pay Act Title VII National Organization for Women (NOW) 1968 DNC Gideon v Wainwright Escobedo v Illinois Miranda v Arizona Warren Court Burger Court Roe v Wade

The Cold War 1960’s/1970’s

Fidel Castro Bay of Pigs Nikita Khrushchev The Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Ho Chi Minh Vietminh National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution "Attrition" strategy "Pacification" J. William Fulbright Robert F. Kennedy The Tet Offensive "Vietnamization"

Cambodia invasion Pentagon papers My Lai Easter Offensive "Christmas Bombing" Paris Accords Gerald Ford Fall of Saigon Nixon in China Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) Leonid Brezhnev Nixon Doctrine Yom Kippur War Arab Oil Embargo

Environmentalism

Wilderness Society Sierra Club Exxon Valdez "Earth Day" Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Air Act Clean Water Act

Conservationism

Protectionism

The Nixon Years

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) "Stagflation" Nixon visits China Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP) Watergate Break-in Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward Watergate "cover-up" Watergate tapes "executive privilege" Archibald Cox "Saturday Night Massacre" Leon Jaworski Spiro Agnew United States v. Richard M. Nixon Nixon Resignation

Carter-Reagan

SALT II Invasion of Afghanistan Iranian Hostage Crisis Oil Crisis of 1973/79 Camp David Accords diplomatic relations with China Billy Graham Christian Coalition Evangelicalism “Teflon president” “neo-conservatives” “Star Wars” -- SDI “nuclear freeze” Beirut barracks incident Iran-Contra Scandal

Present Day

Bill Clinton Ross Perot North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Bosnia Monica Lewinsky Clinton Impeachment Saddam Hussein Kosovo Slobodon Milosevic George W. Bush Al Gore Ralph Nader Bush v. Gore Bush Tax Cut "Preemption" Hurricane Katrina Microsoft

Bill Gates The Internet DNA Los Angeles Riots Rodney King Global Warming World Trade Organization Timothy McVeigh Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda Osama Bin Laden Taliban "axis of evil" War in Iraq