1. Civil War Election of 1860 Secession of SC and creation of CSA
Firing on Fort Sumter
Advantages of North and South
NYC Draft Riots
Battle of Bull Run
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Surrender at Appomattox

2. Reconstruction 13-15th Amendments
Lincoln’s Plan v Radical Reconstruction (Wade Davis)
Lincoln Assassinated
Johnson’s Plan and Military Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureaus and Carpetbaggers
Creation of the Klan
Johnson’s Impeachment
Black Codes and Sharecropping
Second Corrupt Bargain and the beginning of Redeemer governments

3. Gilded Age Forgettable Presidents (Corruption under Grant)
Political Machines
Plessy v Ferguson
Rise of Robber Barons (Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller)
Vertical v Horizontal Integration
Sherman Antitrust Act
Panic of 1893
Creation of unions (AFoL v KoL)
Strikes (Pullman, Great Railroad, Homestead)
Immigration, tenements
Social Gospel vs Gospel of Wealth
Populism and William Jennings Bryan (Cross of Gold, Free Silver)
Social Darwinism
McKinley Tariff
Morrill Land Grant
Homestead Act

4. Imperialism Cleveland and Hawaii
Open Door Policy and China’s Sovereignty
McKinley and the Spanish American War
Annexation of Hawaii
Yellow Journalism
Teddy Roosevelt and the Roosevelt Corollary (Dominican Republic, Venezuela)
Gentleman’s Agreement
Big Stick Diplomacy
Panama Canal
Great White Fleet (Mahan)
Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
Wilson and Moral (Pancho Villa)

5. Progressivism 16-19th Amendments
Conservation of nature (Forest Reserve Act)
Muckrakers (Sinclair, Tarbell)
W.E.B DuBois and the Niagara Movement and NAACP Booker T Washington and the Atlanta Compromise (Tuskegee Institute)
Pure Food and Drug, Meat Inspection Act
Teddy Roosevelt and the Square Deal
Taft and trustbusting (Northern Securities, US Steel)
Pinocht Balliger Scandal
Election of 1912 and the Bull Moose Party
Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats (Federal Reserve Act)