Ms. Valenteen's Classes

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PERIOD 1 (1491-1607)

• ●  American Indian groups: Southwest, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northeast, Mississippi River Valley, Atlantic seaboard, Northwest, California

• ●  Spanish

• ●  Encomienda system

• ●  African slavery

• ●  Columbian Exchange

• ● Joint Stock Companies

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• PERIOD 2 (1607-1754)

• ●  Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonizers

• ●  New England, Middle, Chesapeake, North Carolina, Southern colonies

• ●  British West Indies

• ●  Indentured servants

• ●  Puritans

• ●  Metacom/King Philip's War

• ●  Pueblo Revolt

• ●  Great Awakening

• ●  Enlightenment

• ● Anglicization

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• PERIOD 3 (1754-1800)

  • ●  Seven Years’ War/French and

    Indian

  • ●  Benjamin Franklin

  • ●  Patriot

  • ●  Continental Army/George

    Washington

  • ●  Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

  • ●  American Revolution

  • ●  Declaration of Independence

  • ●  "republican motherhood"

  • ●  Articles of Confederation

  • ●  Constitutional Convention

  • ●  Constitution

  • ●  Federalist/Anti-Federalist

  • ●  Federalist Papers/Alexander

    Hamilton, James Madison

  • ●  Bill of Rights
    ● George Washington

  • ● John Adams

  • ●  Federalist Party/Alexander

    Hamilton

  • ●  Democratic Republicans/Thomas

    Jefferson and James Madison

  • ●  Northwest Ordinance

  • ●  Northwest Territory

  • ●  Spanish mission settlements

  • ●  French Revolution

  • ●  Quasi War

  • ●  George Washington's Farewell

    Address

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PERIOD 4 (1800-1848)

● Marshall Court
● Democrats/Andrew Jackson

● Whigs/Henry Clay
● The American System
● Market Revolution
● Second Great Awakening
● Romanticism
● Abolition
● Seneca Falls Convention
● Louisiana Purchase
● Monroe Doctrine
● Missouri Compromise

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PERIOD 5 (1844-1877)

● Manifest Destiny ● Mexican War
● Nativism
● Free Soil Party

● Abolitionists
● States' rights
● Mexican Cession
● Compromise of 1850

● Kansas-Nebraska Act

● Dred Scott decision

● Second Party System

-Republican Party
● Election of 1860
● Abraham Lincoln
● Civil War
● Union/Confederacy
● Emancipation Proclamation

● Gettysburg Address
● Reconstruction
● Radical Republicans
● 13th, 14th, 15th Amendment

● Sharecropping
● Supreme Court decisions

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Period 6 (1865-1898)

• ●  Industrial capitalism

• ●  Trusts

• ●  Laissez-faire

• ●  Tenant farming

• ●  “New South”

• ●  People’s (Populist) Party

• ●  Americanization

• ●  Political Machines

• ●  Transcontinental railroad(s)

• ●  Indian Wars/reservations

• ●  Gilded Age

• ●  Social Darwinism, Gospel of

  Wealth, Social Gospel

• ●  Jane Addams/Settlement Houses

• ● Plessy v. Ferguson

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PERIOD 7 (1890-1945)

● Progressive Era
● Prohibition
● Women's Suffrage
● Preservationists/Conservationists
● Imperialists/Anti-Imperialists
● Isolationism
● Spanish American War
● Woodrow Wilson
● World War I
● American Expeditionary Force
● Treaty of Versailles
● League of Nations
● Great Migration
● Harlem Renaissance
● Red Scare
● Immigration quotas/restrictions
● Great Depression
● Franklin Roosevelt
● New Deal (relief, recovery, reform)

● World War II
● Pearl Harbor
● Fascism/Totalitarianism (Holocaust,

Nazi concentration camps, Japanese wartime atrocities – as they pertain to the USA)

• ●  Japanese American Internment

• ●  D-Day invasion

• ●  "Island-hopping"

• ●  Atomic bombs

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  PERIOD 8 (1945-1980)

  ●Cold War/Détente
  ●Communism (worldwide/at home)

• ●Korean conflict
  ●“military industrial complex”

• ●Oil crises/energy policy
  ●Civil rights movement/other

  activists
  ●Martin Luther King, Jr.

• ●Brown v. Board of Education

• ●Lyndon Johnson
  ●The Great Society
  ●Civil Rights Act (1964)
  ●Supreme Court decisions

• ●Vietnam War

• ● Sunbelt
  ● Détente
  ●1965 immigration laws
  ● Feminists/counterculture
  ● Evangelism/religious

  fundamentalism

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  PERIOD 9 (1980-present)

  ●New Conservativism

• ●Election of 1980

• ●Ronald Reagan
  ● Deregulation

  ●End of Cold War

• ●Internet; climate change

• ●9/11 and the War on Terror