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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)
Amendments to know
- 1st Amendment
- 2nd Amendment
- 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