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Period 1

Work, Migration, and Geography

Columbian Exchange, Encomienda System, Hacienda System, Joint-stock Company, Northwest Passage, Prince Henry the Navigator, Roanoke Island, Seven Cites of Gold

Identify, Politics, and Culture

Algonquians, Aztecs, Bartolome de Las Casas, Bering Strait, Cahokia, California, Chinook, Christopher Columbus, Incas, Iroquois, Mayas, Mid-west US American Indian Tribes, Northeast US American Indian Tribes, Northwest US American Indian Tribes , Pueblo people, Sir Walter Raleigh, Southwest US American Indian Tribes

America in the World

Conquistadors, European Disease, Florida, Francis Drake, John Cabot , San Diego, CA, Santa, Fe New Mexico, Treaty of Tordesillas, Valladolid Debate

Period 2

Work, Migration, and Geography

African Slavery, Captain John Smith, Chesapeake Bay, Corporate Colony, Indentured Servant, Indigo, Jamestown, John Rolfe, Mercantilism, Middle Passage, North Carolina, Poor Richard’s Almanac, Royal Colony, South Carolina, Tobacco, Triangular Trade, Virginia Company

Identify, Politics, and Culture

Absolutist, Ann Hutchinson, Ben Franklin, Calvinist, Connecticut, Dominion of New England, English Civil War, George Whitefield, Halfway Covenant, Harvard, House of Burgesses, John Winthrop, Jonathan Edwards, Limits of early colonial democracy, Maryland, Massachusetts Bay, Mayflower, Navigation Acts, New Amsterdam/New York, New Jersey, Oliver Cromwell, Pennsylvania, Pilgrims, Plymouth, Puritans, Roger Williams, Salem Witch Trials, The First Great Awakening, William Bradford, William Penn

America in the World

Samuel de Champlain, Bacon’s Rebellion, Henry Hudson, Huron Confederacy, King Philip’s War, Nathaniel Bacon, Pequot War, Pueblo Revolt, Rene-Robert Cavelier/Sieur de La Salle, Stono Uprising

Period 3

Work, Migration, and Geography

Appalachian Mountains, Ben Franklin, “Continentals”, Cumberland Gap, Excise Tax, Hamilton’s Financial Program, National Bank- Bank of the United States, National Debt, Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Ohio River Valley, Revenue Act of 1789

Identify, Politics, and Culture

Abigail Adams, Act of Toleration, Albany Plan of Union, Alexander Hamilton, Alien and Sedition Acts, Annapolis Convention of 1786, Anti-Federalist Papers, Articles of Confederation, Bill of Rights, Boston Tea Party, British Boycotts, Charles Townshend, Checks and Balances, Commercial Compromise, Committees of Correspondence, Connecticut Plan (The Great Compromise), Constitutional Convention of 1787, Currency Act of 1764, Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Rights and Grievances, Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms, Declaratory Act, Election of 1796, Esther Reed, Federalist Papers, First Continental Congress, George Grenville, George Washington, Intolerable Acts/Coercive Act, James Madison, James Otis, Jay Treaty, John Jay, John Locke, King George III, Loose Constructionist, Loyalist, Martha Washington, Massachusetts Circular Letter, Mercy Otis Warren, New Jersey Plan, Olive Branch Petition, Patrick Henry, Patriots, Prohibitory Act, Quartering Act, Quebec Act of 1774, Revolution of 1800, Samuel Adams, Second Continental Congress, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act, Stamp Act Congress, Strict Constructionist, Sugar Act, Tea Act of 1773, The Enlightenment, Thomas Paine, Three-Fifths Compromise, Townshend Acts, Typical Voting Requirements, Virginia Plan, Virtual Representation, Washington, D.C., Washington’s Cabinet, Washington’s Farewell Address, Writs of Assistance, XYZ Affair

America in the World

Battle of Camden in South Carolina, Battle of Fallen Timbers, Battle of Long Island, Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Valcour Island, Battle of Washington Heights, Benedict Arnold, Boston Massacre, Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill), Delaware River Christmas, Ethan Allen, Francis Marion (The Swamp Fox), French and Indian War, French Revolution, Gaspee, General Burgoyne, General Cornwallis, General Howe, Hessians, John Paul Jones, Lexington & Concord, Nathaniel Greene, Neutrality Proclamation, Paul Revere, Paxton Boys, Pontiac’s Rebellion, Redcoats, Shay’s Rebellion, Treaty of Greenville, Treaty of Paris, Treaty of Paris, Valley Forge, Whiskey Rebellion, Yorktown

Period 4

Work, Migration, and Geography

American Fur Company/ John Jacob Astor, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, Boom & Bust Cycle, Cotton Gin, Cumberland Road, Eli Whitney, Erie Canal, Industrial Revolution begins, Interchangeable Parts, Lowell System, Machine tooling, Market Economy, Mechanical Reaper/Cyrus McCormick, New York Corporation Law, Pennsylvania’s Lancaster Turnpike, Railroads, Samuel Slater, Steam Engine/James Watt, Steamboat/Robert Fulton/Clermont, Steel Plow/John Deere, Telegraph/Samuel Morse

Identify and Culture

12th amendment; Party Ticket, Aaron Burr, Alexis de Tocqueville, American Temperance Society, Andrew Jackson, Antebellum Period, Brigham Young, Brook Farm, Charles Finney, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Cohens v. Virginia, Commonwealth v. Hunt, Cult of Domesticity, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, David Ruggles, Democrat-Republicans, Dorothea Dix/Public Asylums, Election of 1808, Election of 1812, Election of 1816, Election of 1824, Election of 1828, Election of 1840, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Era of Good Feelings, Federalist Party, Fletcher v. Peck, Force Bill, Frederick Douglass, Free Blacks, German Immigration, Gibbons v. Ogden, Hartford Convention, Henry Clay, Henry David Thoreau, Horace Mann, Hudson River School, Irish Immigration, Jacksonian Democracy, James Fennimore Cooper/Leather Stocking Tales, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, Joseph Smith, King Caucus, Know-Nothing Party, Letter of the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes, Lucretia Mott, Marbury v. Madison, Martin v. Hunter’s Lease, Martin Van Buren, McCulloch v. Maryland, McGuffey Readers, Missouri Compromise, Mountain Men, Nullification Crisis/Nullification Theory, Panic of 1819, Panic of 1837, Peggy Eaton Affair, Quids, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Romanticism, Rush-Bagot Agreement, Second Bank of the United States, Sectionalism, Seneca Falls Convention, Slave Codes, Southern Paternalism, Southern Social Hierarchy, State’s Rights, Tammany Hall, Tariff of 1816, Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations), Tariff of 1832, The American System, The North Star, The Second Great Awakening, Thomas Jefferson, Utopian Societies, War Hawks, Webster-Haynes debate, William Henry Harrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Worcester v. Georgia

America in the World

Adams-Onis Treaty/ Florida Purchase Treaty, Barbary Pirates/ First Barbary War, Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Battle of New Orleans, Battle of Thames, Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, Denmark Vesey, Embargo Act of 1807, End of the War of 1812, Fort McHenry/Star Spangled Banner, Indian Removal Act, Invasion of Canada, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Louisiana Purchase, Macon’s Bill No. 2, Monroe Doctrine, Nat Turner, Non-intercourse Act of 1809, Old Ironsides / USS Constitution, Pinckney Treaty of 1795, Tecumseh, Treaty of 1818, Treaty of Ghent, War of 1812, Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842

Period 5

Work, Migration, and Geography

California Gold Rush of 1849, Carpetbaggers, Hillbillies, Irish Potato Famine, King Cotton, Oregon Trail, Panic of 1857, Panic of 1873, Scalawags, Spoilsmen, Stephen F. Austin, William Tweed/Tweed Ring

Identity, Culture, and Politics

13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, Abraham Lincoln, Aftermath of Civil War, Andrew Johnson, Black Codes, Bleeding Kansas, Civil Rights Act of 1866, Civil Rights Act of 1875, Compromise of 1850, Compromise of 1877, Dred Scott Decision, Election of 1860, Fifty-four Forty or Fight!, Franklin Pierce, Free Soil Party, Freedmen’s Bureau, Fugitive Slave Law, Harriet Tubman, Impending Crisis of the South, James Buchanan, James K. Polk, John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Tyler, Johnson’s Reconstruction, Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, Know-Nothing Party, Liberty Party, Manifest Destiny, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Preemption Acts, Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Reconstruction Act of 1867, Redeemers/End of Reconstruction, Republican Party, Rutherford B. Hayes, Sojourner Truth, Stephen A. Douglas, Susan B. Anthony / New York Women’s state temperance society, Ulysses Grant, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Underground Railroad, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor

America in the World

Alamo, Aroostook War, Bear Flag Republic, Confederate States of America, Emancipation Proclamation, Frontier 1800-1820: Appalachian to Mississippi, Frontier 1820-1840: Louisiana Purchase and Texas, Frontier 1840-1880: West of the Rocky Mountains, Frontier Expands, Gadsden Purchase, Lincoln Assassinated, Mexican American War, Ostend Manifesto, Republic of Texas, Sherman’s March to the Sea, South Carolina Secedes, Surrender at Appomattox, Texas Annexed, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, Wilmot Proviso, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Romanticism, Rush-Bagot Agreement, Second Bank of the United States, Sectionalism, Seneca Falls Convention, Slave Codes, Southern Paternalism, Southern Social Hierarchy, State’s Rights, Tammany Hall, Tariff of 1816, Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations), Tariff of 1832, The American System, The North Star, The Second Great Awakening, Thomas Jefferson, Utopian Societies, War Hawks, Webster-Haynes debate, William Henry Harrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Worcester v. Georgia

America in the World

Adams-Onis Treaty/ Florida Purchase Treaty, Barbary Pirates/ First Barbary War, Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Battle of New Orleans, Battle of Thames, Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, Denmark Vesey, Embargo Act of 1807, End of the War of 1812, Fort McHenry/Star Spangled Banner, Indian Removal Act, Invasion of Canada, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Louisiana Purchase, Macon’s Bill No. 2, Monroe Doctrine, Nat Turner, Non-intercourse Act of 1809, Old Ironsides / USS Constitution, Pinckney Treaty of 1795, Tecumseh, Treaty of 1818, Treaty of Ghent, War of 1812, Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842

Period 6

Work, Migration, and Geography 

Alexander Graham Bell, American Federation of Labor, Barbed wire, California Gold Rush of 1849, Cattle Drives, Collective Bargaining, Cornelius Vanderbilt, “Edison Menlo Park, NJ”, Gospel of Wealth, Great Railroad strike of 1877, Haymarket Bombing, Homestead Strike, Iron Law of Wages, J.P. Morgan, Jay Gould, Jim Crow Laws, Knights of Labor, Laissez-faire capitalism, Modern stockholder corporation, Munn v. Illinois, Natural Resources of the United States, Ocala Platform, Panic of 1873, Panic of 1893, Pullman Strike, Railroad Competition, Rise of Merchants, Rise of the Middle Class, Robber Barons, Sherman Silver Purchase of 1890, Standard Oil, Transcontinental Railroad, Tuskegee Institute, U.S. Steel, United States v. E.C. Knight Co., Urbanization, Wabash v. Illinois, Wage Workers

Identify and Culture 

Ellis Island, Forest Reserve Act, Great Plains, Indian Country, Mark Twain, National Grange of Patrons and Husbandry, Social Gospel, The Great American Desert, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, Women’s Activism, Yellowstone

Politics 

Alien Contract Labor Law of 1885, Benjamin Harrison, Chester A. Arthur, Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Election of 1896, Gilded Age Democrats, Gilded Age Republicans, Grover Cleveland, Homestead Act of 1862, Interstate Commerce Act of 1886, James Garfield, Money Question, Omaha Platform, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, Plessy v. Ferguson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, Ulysses S. Grant

America in the World

Century of Dishonor, Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, George Custer, The Indian Appropriation Act of 1871, South Carolina Secedes, Surrender at Appomattox, Texas Annexed, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, Wilmot Proviso, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Romanticism, Rush-Bagot Agreement, Second Bank of the United States, Sectionalism, Seneca Falls Convention, Slave Codes, Southern Paternalism, Southern Social Hierarchy, State’s Rights, Tammany Hall, Tariff of 1816, Tariff of 1828 (Tariff of Abominations), Tariff of 1832, The American System, The North Star, The Second Great Awakening, Thomas Jefferson, Utopian Societies, War Hawks, Webster-Haynes debate, William Henry Harrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Worcester v. Georgia

America in the World,

Century of Dishonor, Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, George Custer, The Indian Appropriation Act of 1871,

Period 7

Work, Migration, and Geography

War Industries Board, Henry Ford / Assembly Line, Andrew Mellon, Black Tues/Thursday, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, New Deal, Congress of Industrialization Organizations, Dust Bowl, Radio (Mass Consumption), Gangster Era, Hooverville, Deficient Spending, Dawes Plan, Merchants of death, Hepburn Act, Underwood Tariff, Glass-Steagall Act, Securities and Exchange Commission

Culture

Joseph Pulitzer, Yellow Press, The Jungle/Upton Sinclair, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B Du Bois, Tuskegee Institute, The Great Migration, NAACP, National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA), Harlem Renaissance, Scopes Trial, Margaret Sanger, Lost Generation, John Steinbeck, Rosie the Riveter, Xenophobia/Nativism, Ku Klux Klan, Progressivism, Modernists v. Fundamentalists, Ida Tarbell, Zoot Suit Riots, Double V for Victory, Code Talkers

Politics

William H Seward, William McKinley, Teller Amendment, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, Platt Amendment of 1901, John Hay, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, John J. Pershing, Wealth against Commonwealth, Lochner v. New York, Muller v. Oregon, Bull Moose Party, New Nationalism/New Freedom, Federal Reserve Act of 1914, Nineteenth Amendment, Sixteenth Amendment, Seventeenth Amendment, Eighteenth Amendment, Warren G. Harding, Teapot Dome Scandal, Calvin Coolidge, Hebert Hoover, 21st Amendment, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Supreme Court Packing Plan, Good-Neighbor Policy, Isolationist/Neutrality Acts, Four Freedoms Speech, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, Insular Cases, Social Gospel, Muckrakers, Australian Ballot, John Dewey, Direct Primary, Wartime Propaganda, Japanese Internment Camps, Espionage and Sedition Acts, Election of 1912, Francis Townsen, First One Hundred Days, Civilian Conservation Corps, Works Progress Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Social Security Act, National Labor Relations Act, Bracero Program

America in the World

Purchase of Alaska, New Imperialism, Pan-American Conference of 1889, Richard Olney, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish-American War, Rough Riders, Treaty of Peace, Anti-Imperialism League, Boxer Rebellion, Panama Canal, Hay-Paunceforte Treaty, Roosevelt Corollary, Big Stick Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Lodge Corollary, International Darwinism, Great White Fleet, Lusitania Crisis, Zimmerman Telegram, Sussex Pledge, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, Fourteen Points, League of Nations, Bolsheviks, Red Scare, Palmer Raids, Allied Powers, Central Powers, D-Day, Holocaust, Soviet Union Formed, Douglas MacArthur, Atlantic Charter, Casablanca Conference, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, United Nations, FBI (J Edgar Hoover), Lend-Lease Act, Iron Curtain, Robert Oppenheimer, Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, Manhattan Project, Jingoism, Joseph Stalin, Pancho Villa, George Dewey 

Period 8

Work, Migration, and Geography 

Baby Boom, Levittown, Suburban Growth, Stagflation, Cesar Chavez, National Interstate and Defense Highways Act,

Politics 

Committee on Civil Rights, Twenty-second Amendment, Taft-Hartley Act, Election of 1948, The Fair Deal, National Security Act, Loyalty Review Board, McCarran Internal Security Act, Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Second Red Scare, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Hiss Case, Joseph McCarthy, George Marshal, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), Dulles’ Diplomacy, Military-Industrial Complex, Election of 1960, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Warren Commission, Great Society Reforms, 1964 Civil Rights Act, 24th Amendment, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Earl Warren, Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright, Escobedo v. Illinois, Miranda v. Arizona, Baker v. Carr, Yates v. the United States, Engel v. Vitale, Griswold v. Connecticut, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Henry Kissinger, Pentagon Papers, Burger Court, Roe v. Wade, The United States v. Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Camp David Accords, Strom Thurmond, Civil Rights Act of 1957, George Wallace, New Frontier, Peace Corps, War on Poverty, 26th Amendment, Watergate, War Powers Act,

Identify and Culture

 Jackie Robinson, Brown v. Board of Topeka, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr., Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Operation Wetback, Rise of Television, Suburban Shopping Centers, Credit Cards, Paperback Books, The Organization Man, Baby and Child Care, The Catcher in the Rye, March on Washington, March to Montgomery, Black Panther Party, Woodstock Music Festival, The Feminine Mystique, Sexual Revolution, Rock n’ Roll, White Flight, Sunbelt, Little Rock Nine, White Citizens’ Councils, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Counterculture, Kent State,

American in the World

Cold War, Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (GI Bill of Rights), World Bank, Containment in Europe, Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan, The Berlin Airlift, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), U.S. Japanese Security Treaties, The Korean War, U.N. Security Council, Decolonization, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), Suez Crisis, Eisenhower Doctrine, Atoms for Peace Program, Sputnik, National Defense Education Act (NDEA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Spirit of Geneva, CIA / Covert Action, Fall of Indochina, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Cuban Missile Crisis, Operation Rolling Thunder, Tet Offensive, Paris Accords of January 1973, Iranian Hostage Crisis, Domino Theory, George F. Kennan, Nuremberg Trials, Point Four Program, NSC-68, Cuban Revolution, Massive retaliation, Hungarian Revolt, U-2 Incident, Flexible Response, Détente, Vietnamization, My Lai Massacre, SALT I, SALT II, OPEC Embargo, Helsinki Accords, Robert McNamara, Robert Oppenheimer, Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings, Manhattan Project, Jingoism, Joseph Stalin, Pancho Villa, George Dewey

Period 9

Work, Migration, and Geography

Arthur Laffer/ Laffer Curve, Reaganomics, Economic Recovery Act of 1981, North American Free Trade Agreement, The Euro, World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, The Group of Eight, Milton Friedman, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, Bernie Madoff, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 1987 stock market crash,

Politics

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Ronald Reagan, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, William Rehnquist, National Rainbow Coalition, Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget Act, Michael Dukakis, George H.W. Bush, Clarence Thomas, Americans with Disabilities Act, U.S. Term Limits Inc. v. Thornton, 27th Amendment, William Jefferson Clinton, Ross Perot, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Family and Medical Leave Act, Clinton’s Anti-Crime Bill, National Rifle Association, Contract With America, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Moral Majority, Gerrymandering, George W. Bush, Bush v. Gore, Colin Powell, No Child Left Behind Act, Chief Justice John Roberts, FEMA, Barack Obama, Patient and Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, The Tea Party, District of Columbia v. Heller, Jesse Jackson, The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, Defense of Marriage Act, Impeachment of President Bill Clinton

Culture

Yuppies, First personal computer, Challenger disaster, AIDs crisis, Exxon Valdez oil spill, World Wide Web

America in the World

Strategic Defense Initiative, Boland Amendment, Iran-Contra Affair, Grenada Invasion, Mikhail Gorbachev, Tiananmen Square, START I, Norman Schwarzkopf, European Union, Boris Yeltsin, Panama Invasion, Saddam Hussein, Operation Desert Storm, September 11 Attacks, USA Patriot Act, Bush Doctrine, Department of Homeland Security, Osama Bin Laden, Fall of Berlin Wall, Fall of the Soviet Union, Kyoto Protocol, Taliban, Dayton Peace Accords