Category 1

Important Dates
1492- Spain (Columbus) GOD, GOLD, GLORYbuilt missions to SPREAD
CHRISTIANITY
1607 Jamestown (House of Burgesses)
1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (Mayflower Compact = Self
Government)
1776 Signing of the Declaration of Independence
1787 The Constitutional Convention
1803 The Louisiana Purchase
1861-65 The Civil War

Original Colonies

Economy= fishing, ship building, lumber,

People=Puritans (settled in Massachusetts for RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM)

Economy= furs, cattle, wheat, timber

People= Quakers (started by William Penn)

Economy= Plantations, cash crops (tobacco,

cotton, rice)
People= Maryland (Catholics), Georgia (poor people from
debtors prison)

IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION IN THE 13

COLONIES
The Great Awakening: Led to many people
wanting MORE FREEDOM

Triangular Trade Route

Middle Passage = Horrible Future for Slaves

Mercantilism: the mother country (England) set

up colonies to get rich off of them (had colonies
send them their goods to resell them).
Navigation Act: the colonies could trade with NO
ONE but England! (designed to help English
Merchants get rich)
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).

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

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

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

Crispus Attucks 1st to die at Boston massacre.

Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence

Unalienable Rights

Thomas Paine

Common Sense & the Crisis

Patriots: people who fought for

independence
Loyalists: supported
the King and England (Britain)

Ben Franklin went to France for help!

George Washington Commander in Chief

Key Battles of the American Revolution

Lexington & Concord
Saratoga turning point
Valley Forge
Yorktown
Treaty of Paris of 1783

The New Republic

George Washingtons Farewell Address:

1.) Stay out of Foreign Affairs
2.) Dont form Political Parties

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

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!
(National Pride)
Monroe Doctrine

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

MANIFEST DESTINY

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 Toms Cabin: Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

about the horrors of slavery! Turned people into
Abolitionists!

Compromise was needed to keep the US together.

CIVIL WAR 1861-65

CAUSES: SLAVERY, TARIFF, STATES RIGHTS, LINCOLNS
ELECTION
KEY PEOPLE: ABE LINCOLN, JEFFERSON DAVIS, ULYSSES
S. GRANT, WILLIAM SHERMAN, ROBERT E. LEE,
STONEWALL JACKSON, WILLIAM CARNEY & PHILLIP
BAZAAR
CIVIL WAR KEY BATTLES
FORT SUMTER 1ST
Antietam Bloodiest Day!
GETTYSBURG TURNING POINT

VICKSBURG (capture of Mississippi River)

APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE
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!
RECONSTRUCTION:

13TH, 14TH AND 15TH AMENDMENTS

FREEDMENS BUREAU
BLACK CODES
RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
ELECTION OF HIRAM RHODES REVELS

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!
The Constitutional Convention
Article of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance Territory: 60,000=Represented
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
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
Federalists
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Jay
Anti-federalists
George Mason Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson
Bill of Rights
Ratify
Federalist Papers

Constitutional Principles
Federalism
Separation of Powers
Check and Balances
Limited Government
Popular Sovereignty
Republic
Bill of Rights
1st Ten Amendments

Free (13th) Citizens (14th) Vote (15th )

Factors that led to the Industrial Revolution

Technology/inventions
factories
jobs
War of 1812
Cotton gin and interchangeable parts

Urbanization

Famous Supreme Court Cases

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