: The Colonial Period -Jamestown, the Puritans, economy (tobacco vs. trade), Great Awakening, French & Indian War
: The Road to Revolution -Proclamation of 1763, Taxes, more united colonists (Albany Plan of Union, Stamp Act Congress, Continental Congresses…) Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Boston massacre, Quartering Acts …
: The Revolution -Natural Rights, Effect on Women, Blacks, Indians, Republican Motherhood, the concept of a “Republic”, French Assistance
: Confederation and the New Republic -Articles of Confederation successes and failures, Compromise in the Constitution, Washington and Adams Presidency, Rise of Political Parties,
: The Jeffersonian Era -Louisiana Purchase, War in Tripoli, tensions w/ Britain and France, Embargo Act, War of 1812,
: The Era of Good Feelings?: -Rising Nationalism vs. Sectionalism, Clay’s American System, panic of 1817, Missouri Crisis/Compromise 1820, rising abolitionism,
Age of Jackson: -Corrupt Bargain, era of “common man”, bank war, nullification crisis, Indian removal, Panic of 1837
Manifest Destiny: -Texas, Mexican War, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, gold in California,
Antebellum Reform -Second Great Awakening, Abolitionism, Temperance Movement, Women’s Movement, Education Reform, Asylum Reform. Reforms in Literature, Art, the economy, etc.
Sectional Crisis -Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Ostend Manifesto, Dred Scott Case, Caning of Sumner, John Brown’s Raid, Lincoln- Douglas Debates, Election of Lincoln (1860)
Civil War
Reconstruction
The Gilded Age
American Imperialism
The Progressive Era
World War I & Aftermath
The Roaring Twenties (The Jazz Age)
The Great Depression
Road to War and World War II
The Cold War
The Postwar Boom & The Fifties
The Stormy Sixties
The Stalemated Seventies
The Conservative Resurgence