Overview Flashcards
Period 1: 1491-1607
Maize
Geography of the Great Plains and Great Basin – nomadic lifestyle for Natives
Columbian Exchange
Encomienda System
Reasons for European exploration
Impacts of contact on Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans
Period 2: 1607-1754
Characteristics of Spanish, French and Dutch, and English Colonization
Emergence of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Characteristics of New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies
Native American Warfare (becoming more destructive due to guns and horses)
Anglicization of British Colonies
Pueblo Revolt
The Enlightenment
Mercantilism
Period 3: 1754-1800
7 Years War (French and Indian War)
The American Revolution
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Northwest Land Ordinance
Constitution (including Constitutional Compromises such as the Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise, and the Slave Trade Compromise)
Bill of Rights
George Washington’s Farewell Address (Tensions between Britain and France)
Republican Motherhood
French Revolution and revolutions in Latin America and Haiti
Period 4: 1800-1848
Federalists and Democratic Republicans
Whigs and Democrats
Louisiana Purchase
Supreme Court cases in the early 19th century that strengthened the federal government at the expense of states (John Marshall Court – be familiar with at least 2)
Market Revolution
Textile machinery, steam engines, interchangeable parts, canals, railroads, telegraph, and agricultural inventions
The Second Great Awakening
Abolitionism
Women’s Rights
Xenophobia
Henry Clay’s! American System
Migrants from Europe (“Old Immigration”)
The Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)
Tariffs, the National Bank, and Internal Improvement (debates between the North and South over these)
Period 5: 1844-1877
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
Debates over slavery (such as the Wilmot Proviso)
Nativist Movement
Slavery as a “Positive Good”
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
Republican Party
Election of 1860
Free Soil Platform
Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
The 13, 14, and 15 Amendments
Sharecropping
Radical Republicans
Reconstruction
Period 6: 1865-1898
Gilded Age
Social Darwinism
Conspicuous Consumption
Local and National Unions (Be familiar with a few, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor)
“New South”
Sharecropping
Tenant Farming
Mechanized agriculture
People’s (Populist) Party
Political Machines
Settlement Houses (Notably, Jane Addams’ Hull House)
Decimation of the buffalo
Laissez-faire economy
Plessy v. Ferguson
Social Gospel
Assimilation of Native Americans
Period 7: 1890-1945
“Closing of the Frontier” (Know Frederick Jackson Turner’s Thesis)
Spanish American War
Progressive Era (Including Key Progressive Reformers)
Transition from Rural to Urban Society
Harlem Renaissance
World War I
The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations (Including Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points)
Great Migration
Red Scare
Restrictive Immigration Quotas (of the 1920s)
Great Depression
New Deal
World War II
Japanese Interment
Decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan
Period 8: 1945-1980
Containment (Including the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan)
Korean War
Military Industrial Complex
Baby Boom
Suburbanization (Make the connection to Levittown and the Interstate Highway System, as well as automobiles)
Civil Rights Activists (Videos on the 1950s and 1960s)
Brown v. Board of Education
Sunbelt
Great Society
Immigration Laws of 1965 (It ended the restrictive quota systems of the 1920s and favored Asian and Latin American immigrants)
Vietnam War
Counterculture
Detente
Environmental Problems (Think Rachel Carson and Silent Spring)
Period 9: 1980-present
Foreign Policy “failures”
Taxation and deregulation victories for Conservatives
Denouncing “Big Government”
Reagan Administration
Mikhail Gorbachev
Bellicose rhetoric (speaking in hostile language/being aggressive) by Reagan initially towards the Soviet Union
September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon
Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq
War on terrorism
Free Trade Agreements (Especially NAFTA – North American Free Trade Agreement)
Concerns over climate change
