ANTEBELLUM YEARS (BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR)

PRE-COLUMBIAN HISTORY (North America, Aztecs, Incas etc.)

• Aztecs (Mexico)

• Incas (Peru)

• North American Indians

EARLY COLONIZATION OF AMERICAS (1491-1607)

• Columbus and New Spain (1492)

• Cortes in Mexico

• New France

• British colonies (see below)

13 COLONIES TO FRENCH-INDIAN WAR (1607-1754)

• Jamestown 1607

• Plymouth Rock (Pilgrims/Puritans) 1620

• Massachusetts Bay Colony 1630

• Bacon's Rebellion 1767 (VA)

• William Penn/Pennsylvania - Quakers

• New Amsterdam/New York

• French and Indian War (1954-1763)

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• Leading to the Revolution (1754-1776)

• ​Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts

• "No taxation without representation"

• Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)

• ​Thomas Jefferson

• American Revolution/War of Independence (1765-1783)

• ​Loyalists and British v. Patriots

• Battle of Saratoga

• French joined

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (1776-1789)

• Treaty of Friendship

• ​Ended with Shays's Rebellion

CONSTITUTION (1787)

• Connecticut Compromise (Senate and House of Representatives)

• 3/5ths clause

• Federalist papers

• Bill of Rights

GEORGE WASHINGTON/JOHN ADAMS (1789-1801)

• 1789 French Revolution

• Jays Treaty

• Marbury v. Madison (Judicial Review)

ERA OF THOMAS JEFFERSON (1801-1808)

• ​Revolution of 1800 (Federalists to Democratic-Republicans)

• Louisiana Purchase 1803

WAR OF 1812 (1812-1815)

• Impressment

• Embargo Act 1807

• Star-Spangled Banner

• Hartford Convention

ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS (1816-1825)

• Patriotism

• ​Only one party (Democratic-Republicans)

• Market Revolution

MARKET REVOLUTION (1783-1909)

• Cotton Gin 1793

JACKSONIAN ERA (1828-1854)

• King Andrew

• Indian Relocation 1830

TEXAN REVOLUTION (1835-1836)

• Alamo

• Santa Anna

• Battle of San Jacinto

• Lone Star Republic

MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR (1846-48)

• Oregon

• Mexican Cession

• California Gold Rush (1849)

LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR (1850-1860)

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act 1854 (and Bleeding Kansas)

• Creation of Republican Party

• Dred Scott Decision

CIVIL WAR (1861-1865)

• Lincoln elected 1860

• South Carolina seceded

• Confederacy v. Union

• Emancipation Proclamation

AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1877)

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Radical Republicans

• Andrew Johnson

GILDED AGE (1870S TO 1900)

• Robber Barons/Captains of Industry

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR (1898)

• Yellow Journalism

• Imperialism - Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico

• Cuba (Platt and Teller Amendment)

PROGRESSIVE ERA (1901-1917)

• Muckrakers

• Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson

WORLD WAR I (1914-1918)

• US entered 1917 (Zimmerman Telegram)

• Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire) v. Allied Powers (France, Britain, Russia)

ROARING 20s

• Harlem Renaissance

• Jazz Age

• New Woman (flapper girls, 19th Amendment)

• Prohibition (1920-1933)

• ​Speakeasies, Al Capone

• Lost Generation

GREAT DEPRESSION (1929-1941)

• Causes: Overproduction/Underconsumption, Stock market crash

• FDRs New Deal

WORLD WAR II (1939-1945)

• US enters 1941 - Pearl Harbor

• Rosie the Riveter

1950s

• Prosperity

• Suburbanization

COLD WAR (1945-1991)

• US v. USSR

• Truman Doctrine (1947)

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

• NATO v. Warsaw Pact

• Korean War (1950-1953)

• Vietnam War

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (1950s to 1960s)

• Brown v. Board of Education 1954

• Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream" speech 1963

• LBJs Great Society (Civil Rights Act 1964, Voting Rights Act 1965)

NIXON ERA (1969-1974)

• Silent Majority

• Visit to China

• End of Vietnam War

• Watergate

1980S CONSERVATISM

• Ronald Reagan

• Trickle-down, Iran-Contra Affair

• Phyllis Schlafly v. ERA

US AND THE MIDDLE EAST

• Gulf War 1991 (George H.W. Bush)

• Sept. 11, 2001

• ​Osama Bin Laden

• George W. Bush

• Patriot Act

• War in Afghanistan (2001-)

• War in Iraq (2003)

BROAD TOPICS

AMERICAN INDIANS

SLAVERY

WOMEN

POLITICAL PARTIES

NORTH AND SOUTH BEFORE CIVIL WAR

RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Crash Course - United States History (Amazon)

AMSCO United States History (Amazon)