1. The Big Picture

2. Contact: 1492-1606 The Columbian Exchange
Spain’s Empire in the Americas

3. Colonial Period:
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 ( )

4. 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

5. Confederation to Constitution 1783-1788
Weak Articles of Confederation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitution, Bill of Rights (Federal System)

6. The Critical Period:
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

7. 1817-1850: S.E.R.N (Sectionalism, Expansion, Reform, Nationalism)
Industry develops in the North
King Cotton in the South
Slavery Entrenched

8. Nationalism Canals (Erie Canal) Roads (National Road)
National Bank (2ndBUS)
Supreme Court (Marshall Court)
Andrew Jackson

9. Expansion Manifest Destiny (The Western Frontier)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Texas, Polk, and the War with Mexico

10. Reform Religion (2nd Great Awakening) Education Prison Asylums
Abolition (Frederick Douglass)
Temperance & Women’s Rights

11. 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

12. The Civil War (1861-1865) “There Will be Blood” (600,000 dead)
The North Wins

13. Reconstruction (1865-1877) 13th,14th, and 15th Amendment
Compromise of 1877
The “Redeemers”
KKK

14. Farmers, Immigrants, and Robber Barons (1877-1898)
Populism (Wizard of Oz)
Industrial Age (Factories)
Urbanization (Tenements)
Gilded Age