1. STAAR Category 1
Key Dates
1607 – Jamestown
1620 – Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1776 – Signing of the Declaration of Independence
1787 – The Constitutional Convention
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase
– The Civil War

2. Spanish conquistadores came for Gold, Glory & God!
Spain:
Columbus landed in 1492
Spanish conquistadores came for Gold, Glory & God!
Spain built missions to help spread Christianity and the Catholic faith to the New World!

3. France: landed in Canada and along the Mississippi River
Made a profit off of fish/furs!

4. Jamestown
1607
* The House of Burgesses

5. The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620
Before going ashore they signed the MAYFLOWER COMPACT – a form of Self-Government

6. The New England Colonies
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
Major Economies:
Fishing and Ship-building (lumber)
Puritans –settled in Massachusetts for religious freedom!

7. Penn., New York, New Jersey, Delaware
Economy: The Breadbasket Colonies
**Pennsylvania – started by William Penn for Quakers

8. Economy: Plantations growing tobacco/rice
Maryland
Virginia
North & South Carolina
Georgia
Economy: Plantations growing tobacco/rice
Maryland – for Catholics
Georgia – for poor people from debtor’s prison

9. IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION ON 13 COLONIES
****THE GREAT AWAKENING
Led to people wanting more Freedoms!!

10. THE TRIANGULAR TRADE
MIDDLE PASSAGE – HORRIBLE FOR SLAVES

11. Mercantilism – the mother country (England) set up the colonies to get rich off of them!
Navigation Act – the colonies could trade with NO ONE but England! (designed to help English Merchants get rich)

12. The Proclamation of 1763
The Colonists could NOT cross west of the Appalachian Mountains
(Britain wanted to protect the colonies from Indians, but the Colonies felt that the British were just trying to push them around)

13. England put taxes on the colonies to pay for the French & Indian War
Stamp Act, Sugar Act, etc.
Colonists motto: No Taxation without Representation!
Intolerable Acts:
Punishment to the
colonists for destroying
the tea

14. Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party

15. Key People of the American Revolution:
The Sons of Liberty led by Samuel & John Adams
Daughters of Liberty: led by Abigail Adams & Mercy Otis Warren

16. Crispus Attucks – 1st to die
at Boston mass.
Thomas Jefferson – Declaration of Independence “Unalienable Rights”
Thomas Paine – Common Sense & the Crisis

17. Patriot: wanted to fight for independence!
Loyalists: supported the King and England (Britain)

18. Ben Franklin – went to France for help!
George Washington – Commander in Chief

19. Wentworth Cheswell – African –American who fought at Saratoga (& midnight ride)
James Armistead – African American Spy

20. The Marquis De LaFayette – French officer who helped Washington’s Army
Haym Salomon – Bernardo De Galvez
Jewish American Spanish Governor of
Who gave money to Texas who sent food
The Continental Army to the Cont. Army

21. Key Battles of American Revolution:
Lexington & Concord
Saratoga – turning point
Valley Forge
Yorktown
Treaty of Paris of 1783

22. The New Republic
George Washington’s Farewell Address:
1.) Stay out of Foreign Affairs
2.) Don’t form Political Parties

23. The 1st Political Parties:
Federalists – John Adams/Alexander Hamilton
(Strong Federal Government/England/Bank of the U.S.)
Democratic- Republicans – Thomas Jefferson
(Strong State Government/France/ no Bank!)

24. Thomas Jefferson (3rd President)
Louisiana Purchase 1803
Laissez Faire – the government does not control private business (Free Enterprise)

25. The War of 1812:
Causes – Impressment & giving guns to the Indians
Francis Scott Key – Star Spangled Banner
Andrew Jackson – hero of New Orleans
Era of Good Feelings – Time period
After the War of 1812!
Monroe Doctrine

26. ANDREW JACKSON
HERO OF NEW ORLEANS
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
TRAIL OF TEARS
NULLIFICATION CRISIS
DESTROYED BANK

27. MANIFEST DESTINY
Texas Annexation
MEXICAN WAR:
CAUSE – BOUNDARY DISPUTE OVER TEXAS ANNEXATION!
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
(Mexican Cession)
Mormons
Gold Rush!

28. MAJOR COMPROMISES BEFORE CIVIL WAR:
The Missouri Compromise (Maine & Missouri)
Compromise of 1850: included the Fugitive Slave Law which made it harder for slaves to escape!
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horror’s of slavery! Turned people into Abolitionists!

29. CIVIL WAR
CAUSES: SLAVERY, TARIFF, STATES’ RIGHTS, LINCOLN’S ELECTION
KEY PEOPLE: ABE LINCOLN
JEFFERSON DAVIS ULYSSES S. GRANT WILLIAM SHERMAN
ROBERT E. LEE “STONEWALL JACKSON”
WILLIAM CARNEY & PHILLIP BAZAAR

30. CIVIL WAR KEY BATTLES:
FORT SUMTER – 1ST
Antietam – “Bloodiest Day!
GETTYSBURG – TURNING POINT
VICKSBURG (capture of Miss. River)
APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE

31. GETTYSBURG ADDRESS - “so the dead shall not have died in vain and there will be a new birth of freedom”
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION – 1863 – Lincoln made it a war to end slavery!

32. RECONSTRUCTION:
13TH, 14TH AND 15TH AMENDMENTS
FREEDMEN’S BUREAU
BLACK CODES
RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
ELECTION OF HIRAM RHODES REVELS

33. The Homestead Act: to settle the west, men were given 160 acres for a small fee!
The Morrill Act: set aside land for colleges!
The Dawes Act: allowed the President to break up reservation land!

34. The Constitutional Convention
Article of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance
Territory 60,000
Represented
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise

35. Ideas that helped shape the Constitution
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights- government
gets its power from the
consent of the people
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
1649 Act of Toleration

36. Federalists
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Jay
Anti-federalists
George Mason Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
Ratify
Federalist Papers

37. Constitutional Principles
Federalism
Separation of Powers
Check and Balances
Limited Government
Popular Sovereignty
Republic
2/3s 3/4s

38. Bill of Rights 1st Ten Amendments Free Citizens Vote 13th 14th 15th
Slavery
Citizen
Vote

39. The New Republic
George Washington’s Farewell Address:
1.) Stay out of Foreign Affairs
2.) Don’t form Political Parties

40. The 1st Political Parties:
Federalists – John Adams/Alexander Hamilton
(Strong Federal Government/England/Bank of the U.S.)
Democratic Republicans – Thomas Jefferson
(Strong State Government/France/ no Bank!)
Laissez Faire Free Enterprise

41. The War of 1812:
Causes – Impressment & giving guns to the Indians
Francis Scott Key – Star Spangled Banner
Andrew Jackson – hero of New Orleans
Era of Good Feelings – Time period
After the War of 1812!
Monroe Doctrine

42. CAUSE – BOUNDARY DISPUTE OVER TEXAS ANNEXATION!
MANIFEST DESTINY
Texas Annexation
MEXICAN WAR:
CAUSE – BOUNDARY DISPUTE OVER TEXAS ANNEXATION! 42

43. Factors that led to the Industrial Revolution
Technology/inventions
factories
jobs
1812
Cotton gin and interchangeable parts
Urbanization
Monroe
Democratic
Whig

44. Manifest Destiny (Texas Revolution, Mexican War, Gold Rush, Oregon Trail)

45. Famous Supreme Court Cases
Marbury vs. Madison-Judicial Review
(M&Ms=Jolly Ranchers)
Gibbons vs. Odgen
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Worcester vs. Georgia