The Big Picture
Contact: 1492-1606 The Columbian Exchange Spain’s Empire in the Americas
Colonial Period:1607-1776 1607-Jamestown (John Smith, Tobacco, Bacon’s Rebellion) 1620-Puritan New England (Witch Trials, Work Ethic) The Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey) Colonial Differences-Commercial North/Agricultural South Salutary Neglect The French & Indian War (1754-1763)
Revolutionary Period: 1763-1783 End of Salutary Neglect (pay off England’s debt) Sugar, Stamp, Tea Acts, ect… Declaration of Independence War, victory with help from France
Confederation to Constitution 1783-1788 Weak Articles of Confederation Land Ordinance of 1785 Shay’s Rebellion Constitution, Bill of Rights (Federal System)
The Critical Period: 1787-1816 George Washington unique place in history (Frodo Baggins) Jefferson doubles the size of the U.S. (Louisiana Purchase) Madison and the 2nd American Revolution, A.K.A. the War of 1812
1817-1850: S.E.R.N (Sectionalism, Expansion, Reform, Nationalism) Industry develops in the North King Cotton in the South Slavery Entrenched
Nationalism Canals (Erie Canal) Roads (National Road) National Bank (2ndBUS) Supreme Court (Marshall Court) Andrew Jackson
Expansion Manifest Destiny (The Western Frontier) Missouri Compromise (1820) Texas, Polk, and the War with Mexico
Reform Religion (2nd Great Awakening) Education Prison Asylums Abolition (Frederick Douglass) Temperance & Women’s Rights
The Middle Falls Out: 1850-1861 Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom’s Cabin Dred Scott Abe Lincoln, the Republican Party, and the Election of 1860 Secession
The Civil War (1861-1865) “There Will be Blood” (600,000 dead) The North Wins
Reconstruction (1865-1877) 13th,14th, and 15th Amendment Compromise of 1877 The “Redeemers” KKK
Farmers, Immigrants, and Robber Barons (1877-1898) Populism (Wizard of Oz) Industrial Age (Factories) Urbanization (Tenements) Gilded Age