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Period 1

Maize Cultivation
Columbian Exchange
Encomienda System
Southwest Native Americans
Great Basin Native Americans
Western Great Plains Native Americans
Northwest Native Americans
California Native Americans
Joint Stock Company
Mississippi River Valley Native Americans
Atlantic Seaboard Native Americans
Feudalism
Capitalism
Spanish Empire
Plantation Based Agriculture
Distinct and increasingly complex societies
Aridity
Mobile lifestyles
Hunter-gatherer
Shift from feudalism to capitalism
Maritime technology
Encroachment
Caste System

Period 2

Navigation Acts (1651)
Spanish Colonization
French Colonization
British Colonization
Dutch Colonization
Imperial goals
Subjugating native populations
Intermarriage
Fur trade
Labor intensive product
Indentured servant
Cereal crops
Long growing seasons
Elite planters
Elected assemblies
Atlantic economy
Epidemic diseases
Racial demographic shift
Accommodation and conflict
Pluralism
Anglicization
Autonomous political communities
Coherent, hierarchical and imperial structure
Mercantilist economic aims
Resistance to imperial control
Overt and covert means of resisting the dehumanizing nature of slavery
Christianity
Chesapeake and North Carolina Colonies
Middle Colonies
South Colonies
New England Colonies
Puritans
Participatory Town Meetings
Colonial Legislatures
Elite Planters
Metacom's War
Pueblo Revolt
First Great Awakening
Enlightenment
Protestant Evangelicalism
Mercantilism
Atlantic Slave Trade
Chattel Slavery

Period 3

No taxation without representation
Local traditions of self-rule
Abolition
Republican values
Tax and tariff
Negotiation, collaboration, and compromise
Federalism
Ratification
Enumerated powers
Political factions
Colonial Independence Movement
Revolutionary War
French and Indian War
Benjamin Franklin
Ideals of Self Government
Patriot Movement
Continental Army
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Sugar Act (1764)
Stamp Act (1765)
Coercive Acts (1774)
Judiciary Act (1789)
Alien and Sedition Act (1798)
Republican Motherhood
Articles of Confederation
Federalists
Federalist Papers
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Constitutional Convention
Prohibition of the International Slave Trade
Democratic-Republican Party
Presidential Administrations of George Washington and John Adams
Debate Over Ratifying the Constitution
Federalism
Branches of Government
First Political Party System
Northwest Ordinance
Mission System
Appalachians
Mississippi River
Washington’s Farewell Address
Election of 1800

Period 4

Marbury v. Madison (1803)
McCulloch v Maryland (1819)
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Development of Modern Democracy
A modern democracy
National culture
Democratic ideals
Participatory democracy
Tariffs
Primacy of the judiciary
Federal law takes precedence over state laws
Federally funded internal improvements
New National Culture
Expanding Suffrage
Democrats and Jackson
Whigs and Clay
Second Great Awakening
Romanticism
Abolitionist and Anti-Slavery Movement
First Women’s Rights Movement
Seneca Falls Convention
Regional interests
National interests
Innovations in technology, agriculture, and commerce
Semi Subsistence agriculture
Emergence of middle class
Public and private spheres
Distinctive Southern regional identity
Overcultivation
The First Industrial Revolution
Southern Cotton Production
American System
Southern Way of Life
Judiciary Act (1801)
Louisiana Purchase
Monroe Doctrine
Native American Relocation
Missouri Compromise
First Industrial Revolution
Market Revolution
Election of 1800

Period 5

Manifest Destiny
Emboldened and divided
The exploitive and soil-intensive sharecropping system
Political tactics that stripped above African American rights
Mexican American War
Civil War
Expansionist foreign policy
Annexation of western lands
Religious refuge
Ethnic communities
Ethnic enclaves
Ideological and economic differences over slavery
Sectional political parties
Regional political parties
Electoral votes
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Nativist Movement
Free Soil Movement
German Immigrants
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Homestead Act (1862)
Irish Immigrants
Mexican Cession
Southern Secession
Positive Good Proslavery Argument
States Right Pro-Slavery Argument
Emancipation Proclamation
Confederacy
Gettysburg Address
Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Moderate Republican
13th Amendment
14h Amendment
15th Amendment
Second Party System
Birth of the Republican Party
Second Industrial Revolution
Immigrants During the First Industrial Revolution

Period 6

Trusts and Holding Companies
Laissez-Faire Policies
New South
Large-scale production
Industrial capitalism
Pro-growth policies
Government subsidies
Technological innovation
Redesigned financial and management structures
Advances in marketing
Gap between rich and poor
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
People’s (Populist) Party
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882
Pendleton Act (1883)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Transcontinental Railroad
American Bison Decimation
Reservation System
Consolidation
Trusts and holding companies
Financial panic and downturn
Laissez Faire
Government intervention
Hands-off
New systems of production
Urban culture
Assimilation and Americanization
Boomtowns
Cattletowns
Rural areas
Tribal sovereignty
Buttressed and challenged
Political machines
Gilded Age
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Social Gospel
Settlement Houses
Plessy v. Ferguson
First Wave Feminism

Period 7

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Schenck v United States (1919)
NLRB v. Jones (1937)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Great Depression
Roaring Twenties
Progressive Era
Women’s Suffrage
Foraker Act (1900)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Selective Service Act (1917)
Espionage Act (1919)
Emergency Quota Act (1921)
National Origins Act (1924)
Federal Home Loan Bank Act (1931)
Federal Securities Act (1933)
Nat. Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
Neutrality Acts (1930’s)
Wagner Act (1935)
Social Security Act (1935)
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
G.I. Bill (1944)
Prohibition
Limited Welfare State
New Deal
Preservation and Conservation Movement
The Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Imperialism
Spanish American War
Woodrow Wilson’s Call for Entry into World War I
Treaty of Versailles
American Expeditionary Forces
Pearl Harbor Attack
Holocaust
Japanese Internment
Consumer goods
Urban centers
Episodes of credit and market instability
Progressive amendments
Women's suffrage
Preservation
Conservation
Segregation
Limited welfare state
Social upheaval
Quota system
Closing of the western frontier
Policy of neutrality and non-involvement
Unilateral foreign policy
Fascism
Totalitarianism / authoritarianism
Mass mobilization of society
Integration
Immigration Quotas of the 1920s
Immigrants During the Second Industrial Revolution
Island Hopping
D-Day Invasion
Atomic Bomb Droppings
The First Red Scare

Period 8

Korean War
Taft Hartley Act (1947)
Federal Highway Act (1956)
Economic Opportunity Act (1964)
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Civil Rights Act (1968)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Urban Sprawl
Immigration and Nationality Act (1965)
War Powers Act (1973)
National Energy Act (1978)
Vietnam War
Cold War
Anti-Vietnam War Protests
Civil Rights Movement
Brown v. Board of Education
Martin Luther King’s Direct Action and Non Violent Protest Tactics
Military Industrial Complex
The Second Red Scare
Great Society
Liberalism
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Roe v. Wade (1973
United States v. Nixon (1974)
Global leadership
Authoritarian
Ideology
Free market global economy
International security system
Direct and indirect military confrontation
Proxy
Containment
Civil rights
Desegregation
Liberalism
Resurgent conservative movement
Suburbs
Homogeneous mass culture
Counterculture movement
The Sun Belt
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Immigration Act of 1965
1960
1960’s Counterculture Movement
Christian Evangelicalism

Period 9

Presidential Election of 1980
Ronald Reagan’s Domestic Policy
Ronald Reagan’s Foreign Policy
Latin American Immigration
Asian Immigration
September 11 Attacks
Detente
Bush v Gore (2000)
War on Terrorism
Patriot Act (2001)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)
Newly ascendant conservative movement
Conservative beliefs
Deregulation of industry
Tax cuts
Service sector of the economy
Real wages
Demographic shifts
Interventionist foreign policy
Terrorism
Civil liberties and human rights
Climate change
Superpower
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010)

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10th Amendment
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
21st Amendment
22nd Amendment
24th Amendment
25th Amendment
26th Amendment