History 141 - United States to 1877

 

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Identifications

 

 European Encounter With the Americas

“Columbian Exchange”

Amerigo Vespucci

Black Death

Christopher Columbus

Ferdinand and Isabella

Ferdinand Magellan
Spanish Armada

John Cabot

Leif Ericson

Martin Luther
Northwest Passage

Vasco da Gama
 

Colonial America

Anne Hutchison
Charter Colonies

French and Indian War

Great Awakening

House of Burgesses

Indentured Servants

Jamestown

Joint-Stock Companies

Last of the Mohicans (the book)

Mayflower Compact

Pilgrim

Plymouth Company

Puritan

 

American Revolution

Benjamin Franklin

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

Committees of Correspondence

Common Sense

Crispus Attucks

Declaration of Independence

Declaratory Act

First Continental Congress

George Washington

Intolerable Acts

John Adams

John Hancock

Lexington and Concord

Navigation Acts

Parliament

Patrick Henry

Paul Revere

Samuel Adams

Saratoga

Second Continental Congress

Siege of Yorktown

Sons of Liberty

Stamp Act

Thomas Gage

Thomas Paine

Townshend Act

Treaty of Paris (1783)

 

The American Republic: Building A Constitutional Government

“Checks and Balances”

Alexander Hamilton

Articles of Confederation

Bill of Rights

Federalist Papers

James Madison

Northwest Ordinance

Separation of Powers

Shays' Rebellion

The Great Compromise

The New Jersey Plan

The Virginia Plan

United States Constitution

 

The Early Republic and International Affairs

 “Revolution of 1800”

Alien and Sedition Acts

Bank of the United States

Barbary Pirates

Corps of Exploration

Democrat-Republicans

Federalists

Jay’s Treaty

Louis and Clark

Louisiana Purchase

Quasi-War with France

Sacagawea

Washington’s Farewell Address

XYZ Affair

 

Early Republic to Jacksonian Republic: The War of 1812, the Supreme Court, and the Age of Jackson

“Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights!”

“Trail of Tears”

Alexis de Tocqueville

Andrew Jackson

Battle of New Orleans

Burning of Washington

Chesapeake Affair

Dolly Madison

Fort McHenry

Impressment

Indian Removal

John Marshall

John Quincy Adams

Marbury v. Madison

Nullification

Star-Spangled Banner

Tecumseh

Tippecanoe

Veto of the Bank of the United States

War of 1812

 

Slavery: Peculiar Institution, Divisive Conflict

“Middle Passage”

“Triangle” trade or “Polygon” trade

Abolitionists

Cotton

Cotton Gin

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Eli Whitney

Emancipation Proclamation

Frederick Douglas

Fugitive Slave Act (1793)

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

Harpers Ferry

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Tubman

Indentured Servitude

John Brown

Missouri Compromise

Nat Turner

Plantations

Sojourner Truth

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Underground Railroad

William Lloyd Garrison

XIII Amendment

 

The Gathering Storm: 1830-1861

“Bleeding Kansas”

“Popular Sovereignty”

Abraham Lincoln

California and Texas

Caning of Charles Sumner

Compromise of 1850

Election of 1860

John C. Calhoun

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Mexican War

Missouri Compromise

Nullification

Secession

Stephen Douglas

 

The American Civil War

54th Massachusetts

Antietam

Appomattox Courthouse

Bull Run

Confederacy

Conscription Act (Enrollment Act)

Fort Sumter

George McClellan

George Meade

Gettysburg

Gettysburg Address

Jefferson Davis

John Wilkes Booth

McCormick Reaper

Robert E. Lee

Ulysses S. Grant

Vicksburg

William Tecumseh Sherman

 

Reconstruction

“Carpet-baggers”

Andrew Johnson 

Freedmen’s Bureau

Impeachment Crisis

Ku Klux Klan

Reconstruction

XV Amendment