Unit 1, ID’s
MercantilismHouse of Burgesses
IncaRoyal African Company of England
MayansTriangular Trade
AztecsSlave Codes
Mound BuildersGovernor Berkeley
PueblosBacon’s Rebellion
CreeksMaryland
Iroquois Confederacy George Calvert / Lord Baltimore
Elements of CivilizationHouse of Delegates
Columbian ExchangeAct of Toleration
Black LegendRestoration Colonies
Three G’sCarolinas
Treaty of TordesillasAshley Cooper
De las CasasCharlestown
De BalboaGeorgia
MagellanJames Oglethorpe
De LeonChesapeake
CoronadoFirst Families of Virginia
De SotoElect
CortesVisible Saints
PizarroPlymouth
Black GoldMayflower Compact
UtopiaWilliam Bradford
Sir Thomas MooreGeneral Court
Enclosure MovementBody of Liberties
PrimogenitureOligarchy
Martin LutherCongregational Church
Puritans Covenant
SeparatistsTheocracy
DrakeProtestant Work Ethic
Spanish ArmadaThomas Hooker
Joint Stock CompanyFundamental Orders of Connecticut
NewfoundlandRoger Williams
RoanokeAnn Hutchinson
JamestownPequot Wars
Virginia CompanyKing Phillips War
John SmithNew England Confederation
PowhatanDominion of New England
PocahantasNavigation Acts
De La WarrLeisler’s Rebellion
John RolfePatroonships
Headright SystemGeorge Fox
Indentured ServantsWilliam Penn
Freedom DuesSalutary / Benign Neglect
PresbyteriansOld Lights
Diversity in the ColoniesNew Lights
Paxton BoysEdmond Andross
Regulator MovementJonathan Edwards
JeremiadsGeorge Whitefield
Half way covenantCotton Mather
Salem Witch TrialsJohn Peter Zenger
Great AwakeningBenjamin Franklin
John CabotAntinomian Heresy
Unit 1, Essays
- To what extent can Native Americans be considered “civilized” or “uncivilized” when Columbus set foot in the Americas in 1492?
- What motivated Europeans to colonize the Americas after the 15th Century?
- What factors motivated the British in particular to colonize North America.
- “The settling of British North America had more to do with Religion than Economics.” Evaluate this statement.
- To what extent did the British colonies evolve into three distinct regions? Consider Political, Economic, Religious, and Social (Cultural) differences.
- Compare the Northern and Southern Colonies in terms of Political, Religious, Economic, and Social development. (could be North and Middle, or South and Middle)
- Explain how the policy of “Salutary Neglect” impacted the British colonies in North America.
- Evaluate the Political, Economic, Religious, Social, and Cultural differences between the British, French, and Spanish colonization of the Americas.
- How important was Religion in Colonial British North America? Why was
there a need for a “Great Awakening”?
Unit 2 ID’s
French ColonizationBoston Massacre
JesuitsCommittees of Correspondence
King William’s and Queen Anne’s WarsTea Act, 1773
Peace of UtrechtCoercive or Intolerable Acts, 1774
War of Jenkin’s EarQuebec Act, 1774
King George’s WarFirst Continental Congress, 1774
FortNecessityThe Association
FortDuquesneConciliatory Propositions
Albany CongressLexington
Albany PlanConcord
Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die”Second Continental Congress, 1775
William PittOlive Branch Petition
Peace of ParisProhibitory Act
New ImperialismThomas Paine
George IIICommon Sense
George GrenvilleRichard Henry Lee
Chief PontiacDeclaration of Independence
Proclamation of 1763Thomas Jefferson
Sugar Act, 1764Minutemen
Vice-admiralty courtsBunker / Breeds Hill
Writs of AssistanceTiconderoga
Currency Act, 1764Sir William Howe
Stamp Act, 1765Trenton
James OtisPrinceton
Virtual RepresentationBenedict Arnold
Actual RepresentationBrandywine Creek
Patrick HenryGermantown
Virginia ResolvesValley Forge
Mob RiotsSaratoga
Sons of LibertyGeorge Rogers Clarke
Daughters of LibertyPrivateers
Sam AdamsJohn Paul Jones
Thomas HutchinsonNathaniel Green
Stamp Act Congress, 1765Yorktown
Marquis of RockinghamCornwallis
Declaratory Act, 1766Treaty of Paris
Charles TownshendArticles of Confederation
Quartering Act, 1766Land Ordinance of 1785
Townshend Duties, 1767Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Lord NorthShays Rebellion
John DickinsonAnnapolis Convention, 1786
Letters from a Pennsylvania FarmerPhiladelphia Convention
Thomas PrestonVirginia Plan
Crispus AttucksNew Jersey Plan
Great CompromiseBeard Thesis
Roger ShermanChecks and Balances
Three Fifth’s CompromiseSeparation of Powers
Federalist PapersFederalist Paper #51
Federalists / Anti-FederalistsFederalist Paper #10
Bill of RightsJames Madison
Implied Powers / Elastic ClauseJohn Jay
Expressed Powers / Enumerated PowersAlexander Hamilton
Principles of the Constitution
Influences on the Constitution
Unit 2 Essays
- Was the American Revolution inevitable or could it have been avoided?
- Evaluate the relative importance of the following as factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776:
Parliamentary taxation
Restriction of Civil Liberties
British Military measures
The legacy of colonial religious and political ideas
- What evidence is there for the assertion that the basic principles of the Constitution were firmly grounded in the political and religious experiences of America’s colonial and revolutionary periods?
- How did the American Revolution impact social, economic, religious, and political life in the North America, from 1775 to 1800? Was it really a radical or a conservative revolution?
- What were the basic principles of the Constitution of 1878 and what were the main influences on these principles?
- Was the first American constitution, the Articles of Confederation, a success or a failure?
- “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.”
Evaluate this accusation made against George III in the Declaration of Independence.
- What were the weaknesses and strengths of the Articles of Confederation and the government it created?
9. Evaluate the impact of the Declaration of Independence.
- What were the main weakness of the government created by the Articles of Confederation and how did the Constitution remedy them?
- What were the advantages and disadvantages for both the British and the Colonists during the Revolutionary War?
Unit 3 ID’s
1.8.18Alien and Sedition Acts
Delegated Powers / Enumerated PowersNullification
Amendment 10Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Reserved PowersRevolution of 1800
Elastic ClauseTammany Society
Loose / Broad ConstructionJudiciary Acts of 1789 and 1801
Strict ConstructionMidnight Appointments
Alexander Hamilton12th Amendment
Funding at ParMarbury v Madison
AssumptionJudicial Review
Trickle DownJohn Marshall
Bank of the US (BUS)Samuel Chase
Jefferson v HamiltonLouisiana Purchase
Whiskey RebellionLewis and Clarke
Federalist ProgramZebulon Montgomery Pike
Excise TaxEssex Junto
Import TariffCompact Theory
CabinetJames Wilkinson
Yeoman FarmerOrders in Council
First Two Party SystemContinental System
Neutrality ProclamationChesapeake v Leopard
Neutrality ActEmbargo Act, 1807
Edmund GenetNon-Intercourse Act
ImpressmentMacon Bill #2
Jay’s TreatyBattle of Tippecanoe
Pinckney’s TreatyTenskwatawa / Tecumseh
Aaron BurrGen. William Harrison
John AdamsWar Hawks
Quasi War with FranceHenry Clay
XYZ AffairJohn C. Calhoun
War of 1812Missouri Compromise
Hartford ConventionJohn Quincy Adams
Second War of IndependenceCorrupt Bargain
Battle of New OrleansDemocrats
Rush-Bagot Treaty, 1817National Democrats
James Fenimore CooperTallmadge Amendment
WashingtonIrvingDartmouthCollege v Woodward
Thomas ColeFletcher v Peck
Frances Scott KeyesEconomic Crisis, 1819
Hudson RiverSchoolMonroe Doctrine
Banking Act, 1816American System
Tariff Act, 1816Burr Conspiracy
Era of Good FeelingsSpoils System
McCulloch v MarylandConvention of 1800
Cohens v Virginia
Gibbons v Ogden
Adams Onis Treaty / Florida Purchase Treaty
Bonus Bill / Internal Improvements Bill
Unit 3 Essays
- Evaluate the relative importance of domestic and foreign affairs in shaping American policies in the 1790s.
- Evaluate US foreign policy from1790 to 1823.
- To what extend did the election of 1800 represent a revolution?
- Each of the following individuals expressed strong opinions concerning the policies of the new nation. What opinions were expressed by TWO of the following? How did they agree or disagree with each other? Of the two, whose opinions had the greatest impact on the new nation? Explain.
Hamilton, Jefferson, Marshall, Madison, Monroe
- Was the era after the War of 1812 really an “era of good feelings”?
7. Why did political parties emerge in the US in the 1790s?
Unit 4 ID’s
Corrupt BargainEli Whitney
Tariff of AbominationsOliver Evans
South Carolina ExpositionCharles Goodyear
John C. CalhounJeremiads
“King Caucus”Great Awakening
LocofocosJonathan Edwards
“Old Hickory”New Lights
Revolution of 1828Old Lights
Inaugural BrawlUnitarianChurch
King MobBurned Over District
Spoils System (Jackson)Peter Cartwright
Anti-Masonic PartyCharles G. Finney
John EatonAdventists
Kitchen CabinetBrigham Young
Webster-Hayne DebateTranscendentalists
Tariff of 1832Hudson RiverSchool
Nullification CrisisManifest Destiny
Force BillStephen Austin
Great PacificatorSanta Anna
Maysville Road BillEquality Treaty
Indian Removal ActThomas Larkin
Cherokee Nation v GeorgiaSpotty Lincoln
Treaty of EchotaNicholas Trist
Trail of TearsWilmot Proviso
Worcester v GeorgiaGadsden Purchase
Treaty PartyKnickerbocker Group
National PartyJohn Trumbull
Nicholas BiddleGeorge Bancroft
Pet BanksDorothea Dix
Biddle PanicHorace Mann
Specie CircularLyman Beecher
Panic of 1837Cult of Domesticity
Charles RiverBridge v Warren Bridge John Slidell
Cooley v Board of WardensMargaret Fuller
Whig PartyElizabeth Cady Stanton
NINADeclaration of Sentiments
Know Nothing PartyMary Lyon
Draft RiotsGrimke sisters
Molly MaguiresLucy Stone
Tammany HallBenjamin Lundy
Robert FultonMother Ann Lee
Erie CanalRobert Owen
Lowell SystemJohn Humphrey Noyes
Samuel SlaterGeorge Ripley
Wm. L GarrisonTreaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
John L. SullivanOregon Fever / Trail
Pres. TylerSutter’s Fort
Pres. Polk54’ 40” or Fight
Lone StarRepublicStephen Kearney
John FremontZachary Taylor
Gen. Winfield ScottPackenham
Neal DoweCharles Fourier
Unit 4 Essays
- Why did Andrew Jackson win the presidential election of 1828?
- To what extent was Jackson’s victory in the presidential election of 1828 a revolution?
- Can Andrew Jackson be considered a Democrat or a Dictator?
- What were the differences between Jackson’s Democratic Party and the Whigs?
- What factors contributed to Ante-Bellum Industrialization in the US?
- How important was the role of the government in Ante-Bellum Industrialization?
- How successful was the Second Great Awakening?
- Compare and contrast the expansionist policies of Jefferson and Polk.
- How successful was the Ante-Bellum period of Reform?
Unit 5 ID’s
Peculiar InstitutionFreeport Doctrine
Indentured ServantsLincoln-Douglas debates
Cotton GinHarpur’s Ferry
“Cotton is King”Presidential Election of 1860
Slave CodesCrittenden Compromise
Stono RebellionFortSumpter
Gabriel ProsserPeace Democrats
Denmark VeseyCopperheads
Nat TurnerGeorge McClellan
SlaveocracyBorder States
Gag ResolutionButternut States
Lane RebelsHorace Greeley
Theodore Dwight WeldWade-Davis Bill
Benjamin Lundy10% Plan
William L. Garrison13th Amendment
David Walker14th Amendment
Soujourner Truth15th Amendment
Frederick DouglassAndrew Johnson
Harriet TubmanBlack Codes
Underground RailroadFreedman’s Bureau
Harriet Beecher StoweMilitary Districts
Hinton HelperTenure of Office Act
Elijah LovejoyCommand of Army Act
Dred Scott v SanfordImpeachment of Johnson
Missouri CompromiseEx Part Milligan
Wilmot ProvisoScalawags
Free SoilCarpetbaggers
Popular SovereigntyRedemption
William SewardNegro Rule
Fugitive Slave LawFreedom Conventions
Omnibus BillGrantism
Compromise of 1850Commerce Raiders
Ostend ManifestoSeward’s Ice Box
Gadsden PurchaseHamilton Fish
Kansas-Nebraska ActAlabama Claims
Republican PartyCredit Mobilier Scandal
John BrowneBelknap Scandal
Border RuffiansWhiskey Ring
Shawnee LegislaturePanic of 1873
Pottawatomie MassacreAmnesty Act, 1872
Bleeding KansasKKK
Sumner v BrooksCompromise of 1877
Lecompton ConstitutionHayes-Tilden “Sell-Out”
Economic Crisis of 1857Sharecropping
Unit 5 Essays
- Why did the South support slavery? What arguments did they put forward in defense of the institution?
- Account for the rise of Abolitionism and explain their arguments against slavery.
- Explain the details of the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and explain why they all failed to successfully solve the issue of Slavery?
- What were the long term and immediate causes of the American Civil War? (include all the important events of the 1850s)
- To what extent can Abraham Lincoln be considered a racist?
- Contrast Radical Reconstruction with Presidential Reconstruction.
- Explain to what extent Radical Reconstruction was a success for approximately 10 years (to 1877) and evaluate why it ended?
Unit 6 ID’s
Edwin Drake / Drake’s FollyPikes Peak
Seward’s Folly / Polar Bear Gardens Abeline, Kansas / Sedalia, Missouri
Cyrus FieldHomestead Acts
Christopher SholesJoseph Glidden
James Ritty“Galloping Department Store”
William Kelly(and Bessemer)Sand Creek
Frederick Taylor George Custer
Eli WhitneyLittle Big Horn
Cornelius VanderbiltNez Perce
Jay GouldGhost Dance
Erie WarsWounded Knee
Gustavus SwiftDawes Severalty Act
Shoddy MillionairesHelen Hunt Jackson
Vertical IntegrationCrime of ’73 (Free Silver / Bi-metallism)
Horizontal Integration / monopolies / trusts /Spencer / Sumner
Holding companiesBland Allison Act
J. P. MorganGreenback Party
Interlocking DirectoriesGranges
Social DarwinismMunn v Illinois
Gospel of WealthOcala Demands
Andrew CarnegiePeople’s (Populist) Party
Henry GeorgeJames B. Weaver
Horatio Alger (Algerisms) Jacob Coxey
Morrill Act, 1863Cross of Gold Speech
McKinley Tariff. Morrill TariffWilliam JenningsBryan
Wilson-Gorman Act / TariffMarcus Hanna
Wabash Case / RulingWizard of Oz
Interstate Commerce Act / CommissionSedalia, Missouri
Granger LawsPikes Peak
Sherman Anti-Trust ActWashoe District
Gilded AgeCrazy Horse
Triangle Shirtwaiste FireSitting Bull
National Labor Union / William SylvisTitusville, Pennsylvania
Knights of Labor; Stephens, PowderlyCharles Bush
Samuel GompersThomas Edison
American Federation of Labor (AFL)Robber Barons / Captains of Industry
Pullman StrikeProgress and Poverty
Eugene V. DebsEdward Bellamy
International Workers of the WorldDumb-bell tenements
National Railroad Strike (1877)Henry Frick
Haymarket Square ProtestPinkertons
John Altgeld“Birds of Passage”
Homestead StrikeOklahomaSooners
Richard OlneyTurner Thesis
Muller v OregonComstock
Timber Culture ActFarmers Declaration of Independence
DesertLand ActCarnegie Steel
Buffalo SoldiersWilliam Burroughs
Wild Bill CodyFarmers Alliances
A Century of DishonorMary Lease
Laissez FaireCoxey’s Army
Oliver KelleySherman Silver Purchase Act
William McKinleyCredit Mobilier Scandal
Pacific Railroad Acts, 1862, 1864Central Pacific
First Transcontinental Railroad, 1869Union Pacific
US Steel
Unit 6 Essays
- What groups of people moved West and for what reasons, in the years after the Civil War?
- What problems did farmers encounter in the Far West and how did they respond?
- What were the goals and demands of the Populist movement and to what extent did they achieve these goals?
- What factors contributed to Post-Bellum Industrialization?
- What was the attitude to the wealth generated in the US in the Post Bellum years of ; Carnegie, Morgan, Rockefeller, and of Debs, and Henry George
- What problems was labor faced with and how successful were Labor groups in achieving their goals in the Post Bellum Industrial Age?
- Why did Labor Unions make so little progress in the Post-Bellum Period?
- What factors contributed to the demise of Native American Indian civilization on the Great Plains in the decades after the Civil War?
Unit 7 ID’s
MuckrakerPresident Taft
Yellow JournalismMann Elkins Act
Ida TarbellPhysical Evaluation Act
Ida B. WellsPostal Savings Act
Upton SinclairRule of Reason
Lincoln SteffensAldrich Payne Tariff
Jacob RiisTrust Busting
Theodore DreiserBull Moose Party
David PhillipsNew Nationalism
Ray Stannard BakerNew Freedom
John SpargoUnderwood Simmons Tariff
Social Gospel16th Amendment
Walter RauschenbuschFederal Reserve Act / Glass Owen
Washington GladdenFederal Trade Commission
Settlement House / Hull HouseClayton Anti Trust Act
Jane AddamsKeating Owen Act
Lillian WaldAdamson Act
Florence KellySmith-Hughes Act
Carrie NationBooker T. Washington
Women’s Christian Temperance UnionPoll Tax
Dry Laws / Dry StatesGrandfather Clause
18th Amendment / Volstead ActJim Crow Laws
Carrie Chapman CattSeparate but Equal Doctrine
National American Women’s Suffrage AssociationUp From Slavery
19th AmendmentTuskegee Institute
Bob La FolletteAtlanta Compromise / Gradualism
Galveston, TexasAccommodation
Wisconsin IdeaNAACP
InitiativeW.E.B Du Bois
RecallTalented Tenth
ReferendumThe Souls of Black Folk
Direct PrimariesNiagara Movement
Bully PulpitGuinn v US
Modern PresidencyBuchanan v Worley
Newlands Reclamation ActMarcus Garvey
TR RooseveltKearneyites
Forest Reserve ActBoss Tweed
Northern Securities CompanyGentleman’s Agreement
Elkins ActEllis Island
Hepburn ActChinese Exclusion Act
John MitchellEmergency Quota Act, 1921
Pure Food and Drug ActImmigration Act, 1924
Meat Inspection ActNew Immigration
Depression of 1907AngelIsland
Root-Takahira AgreementJones Act, 1916
Steerage PassengersJohn J. Pershing
NativismAdmiral Perry
Ethnic CommunitiesWhite Man’s Burden
“Yellow Peril”Large Policy
Monroe DoctrineInternational Darwinism
James BlaineWilliam Randolph Hearst
Josiah StrongKing Kal
Turner ThesisJohn Hay
Alfred T. MahanRoot-Takahira Agreement
Queen Lil
Butcher Weyler
De Lome letter
Remember the Maine
Teller Amendment
Rough Riders
Emilio Aguinaldo
Insular Cases
Platt Amendment
Open Door
Big Stick
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Bad Neighbor Policy
Hay – Buneau – Varilla Treaty
Dollar Diplomacy
Moral Diplomacy
Pancho Villa / Emiliano Zapata
Carranza
Benevolent Assimilation
Unit 7 Essays
- To what extent were the Progressives successful in achieving their goals?
- What political reforms were the Progressive concerned with? Why was political reform so important to them?
- Which of the three Progressive Presidents – TR, Taft, Wilson – was the most Progressive?
- Explain the differences in the policies and goals of Washington or Du Bois? Whose policies were more successful?
- Why were Americans so concerned about immigration from the 1870s to the 1920? What steps were taken to control / limit the problem?
- Why and how did the US become an Imperialist power after 1898? How different was US Expansion after the Civil War from before the Civil War?
- Explain and show how each of the following were applied by US Presidents: Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy.
Unit 8 ID’s
Benevolent NeutralityZora Neale Hurston
Unrestricted submarine warfare (USW)Model T / Model A
Lusitania18th Amendment
Arabic PledgeLost Generation
Sussex PledgeSinclair Lewis
National Defense Act, 1916David Stephenson
“Overt acts”Butler Act
Zimmerman TelegramJohn Scopes
Selective Services Act Clarence Darrow
American Expeditionary ForceScopes / Monkey Trial
Liberty BondsAl Capone
William McAdoo21st Amendment
Railroad BoardBoston Police Strike
Fuel AdministrationSteelworkers strike, 1918
Food AdministrationA. Mitchell Palmer
VictoryGardensSoviet Ark (249)
War Industry’s BoardVeteran’s Bureau Scandal
National War Labor BoardAnarchism
Committee on Public InformationRed Scare
Espionage Act, 1917Sacco and Vanzetti
Sabotage and Sedition Acts, 1918Michael Dukakis
Vigilante Groups (WWI)Teapot Dome Scandal / Elk’s Hill
Liberty CabbageAlbert Fall
American Civil Liberties UnionCalvin Coolidge
Schenck v US / Clear and Present Danger“The business of America is business”
Conscientious ObjectorsAl Smith