1. American History I Essential Standards Review
Impact of War

2. French and Indian War Causes: Major Battles: Key Results:
British/French competition over the Ohio River Valley
Part of a larger European War – Seven Years War
Major Battles:
None that you should worry about
Key Results:
End of Salutary Neglect
Mercantile Restrictions
New Taxes (Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Tea Act, Molasses Act, Quartering Act)
Proclamation of 1763
Increased British Military presence in the American Colonies
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts

3. American Revolution Causes: Major Battles: Key Results:
“No Taxation without Representation”
Increased taxes and restrictions with no voice in Parliament
Territorial Restrictions
Proclamation of 1763
Quebec Act
Desire for Home Rule
Major Battles:
Saratoga – Turning Point
Yorktown – Final Battle
Key Results:
American Independence
New western boundary at the Mississippi River (incorporates the Ohio River Valley into United States territory)

4. Quasi War Causes: Major Battles: Key Results: XYZ Affair
None that you should worry about
Key Results:
Alien and Sedition Acts
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Revolution of 1800 (election of Thomas Jefferson)

5. Barbary Coast Pirates Causes: Major Battles: Key Results:
Demand that the U.S. pay tribute for safe passage across the Atlantic
“Millions for Defense, not one cent for tribute”
Major Battles:
None that you should worry about
Key Results:
United States Marine Corps
1st major American assertion overseas

6. War of 1812 Causes: Major Battles: Key Results:
Impressment, Freedom of the Seas, Rights of Neutrals
British interference in United States/Native American Affairs
Battle of Tippecanoe
Tecumseh receiving assistance from the British through Canada
Desires for Territorial Expansion
War Hawks – U.S. Congressmen that supported a war with Great Britain
“On to Canada”
Major Battles:
Battle of New Orleans
Made Andrew Jackson a hero, vaulted him to the Presidency in 1828
Inspired a wave of intense patriotism and the Era of Good Feelings
Key Results:
Death of the Federalist Party
Hartford Convention
Seen as traitors after the Battle of New Orleans

7. Mexican War Causes: Major Battles: Key Results:
Border dispute over Texas
Manifest Destiny
James K. Polk sent troops to the Rio Grande River and instigated an altercation with the Mexican Army
“American blood spilled on American soil”, but was it really?
Major Battles:
None that you should worry about
Key Results:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Mexican Cession (California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico)
Increased tension over the possibility of slavery in the west

8. Civil War Causes: Major Battles: Key Results: Slavery in the west
States’ Rights (States’ rights to do what?)
South’s perceived violation of the social contract
Major Battles:
Antietam – link to the Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg – Turning Point of the Civil War
Key Results:
Easy Reconstruction
Lincoln/Johnson
Presidential
“Malice toward none, charity toward all”
10% Plan and ratification of the 13th Amendment
Radical Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens/Charles Sumner
Congressional
Meant to punish the South
Military occupation plus ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments
Compromise of 1877
Ends Radical Reconstruction by removing the last of the Federal troops from the South
Begins the Redemption period and the re-emergence of the Solid South
Black Codes, Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan