U.S. History

End of the Year Review

• Christopher Columbus• Columbian Exchange

• John Winthrop• MA Colony

• William Penn• PA Colony

• Triangular Trade• Middle Passage

• Great Awakening– EXTRA CREDIT: What religion is being

“awakened”?• Puritan

• Benjamin Franklin• Enlightenment

• French and Indian War– We help Britain– Think land is theirs– Proclamation of 1763– Sparks Revolution

• King George III

• The Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party– EXTRA CREDIT: What Indian tribe did the colonists

disguise themselves as?• Iroquois

• Lexington and Concord

• Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• The Battle of Yorktown– EXTRA CREDIT: What song did the French play at

the surrender?• Yankee Doodle

• Shays’ Rebellion

• The Constitution• Whiskey Rebellion

• Election of 1800• Jefferson becomes 3rd President

Marbury vs. Madison

• Judicial Review

• Louisiana Purchase

• War of 1812

• Battle of Fort McHenry– EXTRA CREDIT: What is significant about this

particular battle?• Star Spangled Banner is written by Francis Scott Key

• Monroe Doctrine– EXTRA CREDIT: What does the Roosevelt Corollary

add to the Monroe Doctrine?• Police power

• Andrew Jackson– Bank War– Nullification Crisis• States cannot negate law passed by the government• Union stronger

– Balanced Budget– Common Man– Indian Removal Act

• Henry Clay– Compromises• Missouri• Nullification Crisis- supported Jackson• Enemies other than that

• Missouri Compromise

• John C. Calhoun– Proponent for the south– For nullification

• Election of 1824– Corrupt Bargain• Adams becomes Pres• Jackson wins popular vote• Clay is Speaker of the House• Vote goes to House• Adams wins• Clay becomes Sec. of State.• Jackson says its corrupt

• Manifest Destiny

• War for Texas Independence– Sam Houston- 1st President– Stephen F. Austin- 1st settler

• Mexican American War

• California Gold Rush

• Frederick Douglass

• Seneca Falls Convention– Sojourner Truth– Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Tubman

• Dred Scott Decision

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• John Brown at Harper’s Ferry

• Secession of Confederate States

• Fort Sumter

• Robert E. Lee– Trained in the north– Advantages and Disadvantages of the North and

South

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Clara Barton– EXTRA CREDIT: What organization did she create?• Red Cross

• Gettysburg Address

• Appomattox Court House

• Assassination of President Lincoln– EXTRA CREDIT: What play was Lincoln watching at

Ford’s Theater when he was shot?• Our American Cousin

• Reconstruction– Radical Republicans– 10% Plan– Johnson’s Plan– Impeachment of Johnson

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Cattle Drive

• Barbed Wire

• Soddy

William Jennings Bryan

• Populist Movement

• Cross of Gold Speech– Bimetallism

• Thomas Edison– Light bulb

• Transcontinental Railroad– EXTRA CREDIT: What two immigrant groups

worked to complete the railroad?• Irish and Chinese

• Andrew Carnegie– Steel– Bessemer process

Eugene Debs

• Socialism• Strikes• Rise of labor unions

• Haymarket Affair

• Ellis Island– Immigration– Treatment of immigrants– Americanization– Quotas

• Skyscrapers

Boss Tweed

• Political Machine– Graft

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Booker T. Washington– Education leads to success

• W.E.B. DuBois– EXTRA CREDIT: What organization did he found?• NAACP

– Talented Tenth

• William McKinley– American imperialism

• Hawaii– Queen Lil– Sanford B. Dole– Annexed

• Alaska– Purchased from Russia

• USS Maine explodes– Begins Spanish American War

• Emilio Aguinaldo– Colonies get hostile

• Susan B. Anthony

• Teddy Roosevelt– Square Deal– Gifford Pinchot– Russo Japanese War• Nobel Peace Prize

– Election of 1912- divides vote for Wilson to win

• Panama Canal– Extra Credit: Which president signs for this to go

back into the possession of the Panamanians?• Jimmy Carter

• William Howard Taft– Didn’t lower tariffs– Dollar Diplomacy• US guarantees loans made to foreign countries by

American businesses• Keep Europe out of the Carribbean

– Consolidated Roosevelt’s reforms

• Woodrow Wilson– Federal Reserve– WWI– Fourteen Points– League of Nations– Federal Income Tax

• Alice Paul

• Carrie Chapman Catt

• 19th AmendmentOther Amendments to know• 14th Amendment– EXTRA CREDIT: Due Process and Equal Protection

• 18th Amendment– EXTRA CREDIT: Prohibition

• 24th Amendment– EXTRA CREDIT: outlaws poll taxes

• 26th Amendment– EXTRA CREDIT: lowers the voting age to 18.