Ch. 1, New World
Beginnings, 33,000 BC – 1769 AD
- Marco Polo
- Francisco Pizarro
- Juan Ponce de Leon
- Hernando de Soto
- Montezuma
- Christopher Columbus
- Hernan Cortes
- Francisco Coronado
- Robert de La Salle
- Jacques Cartier
- Giovanni da Verrazano
- John Cabot
- Vasco Nunez de Balboa
- Ferdinand of Aragon
- Isabella of Castile
- Quetzalcoatl
- Bartholomeu Dias
- Hiawatha
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Vasco da Gama
- Renaissance
- Mestizos
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Òthree sisterÓ farming
- Great Ice Age
- Canadian Shield
- Mound Builders
- Spanish Armada
- black legend
- conquistadores
- Aztecs
- PopeÕs Rebellion
- Pueblo Indians
- Iroquois Confederacy
- cartography
- Native Americans
- Vineland
- St. Augustine, Florida
- Kiva
- Spice Islands
- Moors
- ecosystem
- encomienda
- malinchista
- Dia de la Raza
Ch. 2, The Planting of
English America, 1500-1733
- Lord De La Warr
- Pocahontas
- Powhatan
- Handsome Lake
- John Rolfe
- Lord Baltimore
- Water Raleigh
- James Oglethorpe
- Humphrey Gilbert
- Oliver Cromwell
- John Smith
- John Wesley
- Francis Drake
- George Percy
- William Penn
- Richard Hakluyt
- Henry VIII
- Elizabeth I
- Philip II
- James I
- Charles I
- Charles II
- Deganawidah and Hiawatha
- George II
- nation-state
- joint-stock company
- slavery
- enclosure
- House of Burgesses
- royal charter
- slave codes
- yeoman
- proprietor
- longhouse
- squatter
- law of primogeniture
- indentured servitude
- starving time
- sea dogs
- surplus population
- Anglo-Powhatan Wars
- Maryland Act of Toleration
- Barbados slave code
- Virginia Company
- Restoration
- Savannah Indians
- Iroquois Confederacy
- Ireland
- Santa Fe
- Quebec
- Jamestown
- Charles Town
- Protestant Reformation
- Chesapeake
- English Civil War
Ch. 3, Settling the
Northern Colonies, 1619-1700
- John Calvin
- Anne Hutchinson
- Roger Williams
- Henry Hudson
- William Bradford
- Peter Stuyvesant
- William Laud
- Thomas Hooker
- William Penn
- John Winthrop
- King Philip (Metacom)
- John Cotton
- Sir Edmund Andros
- Gustavus Adolphus
- William and Mary
- Massasoit
- Fernando Gorges
- Myles Standish
- Martin Luther
- Michael Wigglesworth
- Squanto
- the ÒelectÓ
- franchise
- predestination
- freemen
- Òvisible saintsÓ
- conversion
- doctrine of a calling
- covenant
- antinomianism
- sumptuary laws
- salutary neglect
- passive resistance
- Òcity upon a hillÓ
- Pilgrims
- New England Confederation
- Calvinism
- Massachusetts Bay Company
- Dominion of New England
- Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Navigation Laws
- Great Migration
- Glorious Revolution
- Puritans
- General Court
- Dutch West India Company
- Separatists
- Bible Commonwealth
- Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
- Mayflower
- Protestant ethic
- Mayflower Compact
- Fundamental Orders
- French Huguenots
- Scottish Presbyterians
- Church of England
- Dutchification
- Plymouth Bay
- Congregational Church
- Pequot War
- Dutch Ògolden ageÓ
- New Netherland
- New Amsterdam
- New Sweden
- PennÕs Woodland
Ch. 4, American Life in the
Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692
- William Berkeley
- Nathaniel Bacon
- Yarrow Mamout
- William Bradford
- Matthew Hopkins
- indentured servitude
- slave codes
- headright system
- jeremiads
- Middle Passage
- freedom dues
- Òwitch huntingÓ
- Yankee ingenuity
- family stability
- conversions
- BaconÕs Rebellion
- LeslerÕs Rebellion
- Half-Way Covenant
- African American
- New England Primer
Ch. 5, Colonial Society on
the Eve of the Revolution, 1700-1775
- Jonathan Edwards
- Benjamin Franklin
- Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur
- George Whitefield
- John Peter Zenger
- Phillis Wheatley
- John Singleton Copley
- John Trumbull
- Charles Wilson Peale
- Benjamin West
- Jacobus Arminius
- Andrew Hamilton
- Paxton Boys
- Great Awakening
- Anglicans
- rack-renting
- Regulator movement
- old and new lights
- triangular trade
- Molasses Act
- Scots-Irish
- naval stores
- praying towns
- almshouses
- jayle birds
- taverns
- Congregational Church
- Presbyterian
- Arminians
- heresies
Ch. 6, The Duel for North
America, 1608-1763
- Samuel de Champlain
- William Pitt
- Antoine Cadillac
- Robert de La Salle
- James Wolfe
- Edward Braddock
- Pontiac
- Louis XIV
- Marquis de Montcalm
- Benjamin Franklin
- George Washington
- Huguenots
- Seven YearsÕ War (French and Indian War)
- Acadians
- War of Spanish Succession
- Albany Congress
- Iroquois
- New France
- Proclamation of 1763
- Cajun
- Edict of Nantes
- coureurs de bois
- Jesuits
- salutary neglect
- War of JenkinÕs Ear
- Louisbourg
- Fort Duquesne
- Fort Necessity
Ch. 7, The Road to
Revolution, 1763-1775
- John Hancock
- Lord North
- George Grenville
- Samuel Adams
- Charles Townshend
- John Adams
- Crispus Attucks
- Marquis de Lafayette
- King George III
- Baron von Steuben
- Thomas Hutchinson
- Abigail Adams
- Benjamin Franklin
- Edmund Burke
- Ann Hulton
- John Dickinson
- Adam Smith
- mercantilism
- Òno taxation without representationÓ
- nonimportation agreement
- Òroyal vetoÓ
- internal/external taxation
- ÒvirtualÓ representation
- boycott
- ÒenumeratedÓ products
- Board of Trade
- Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty
- Quebec Act
- Navigation Acts
- Declaratory Act
- First Continental Congress
- Sugar Act
- Townshend Acts
- Quartering Act
- Boston Massacre
- The Association
- Stamp Act
- committees of correspondence
- Hessians
- admiralty courts
- Boston Tea Party
- Loyalists
- Stamp Act Congress
- Intolerable Acts
- British East India Company
- Battles of Lexington and Concord
Ch. 8, America Secedes from
the Empire, 1775-1783
- George Washington
- William Howe
- Nathaniel Greene
- Benedict Arnold
- John Burgoyne
- Charles Cornwallis
- Thomas Paine
- Barry St. Leger
- George Rogers Clark
- Richard Henry Lee
- Horatio Gates
- John Paul Jones
- Thomas Jefferson
- Marquis de Lafayette
- Admiral de Grasse
- Patrick Henry
- Comte de Rochambeau
- John Jay
- Ethan Allen
- Abigail Adams
- Richard Montgomery
- George III
- mercenaries
- natural rights
- privateering
- republicanism
- natural aristocracy
- popular consent
- civic virtue
- Second Continental Congress
- Common Sense
- Declaration of Independence
- Loyalists/Tories
- Patriots/Whigs
- Treaty of Paris of 1783
- Bunker Hill
- Battle of Saratoga
- Battle of Yorktown
- Hessians
Ch. 9, The Confederation
and the Constitution, 1776-1790
- Abigail Adams
- Daniel Shays
- Alexander Hamilton
- James Madison
- Governeur Morris
- Thomas Jefferson
- primogeniture
- federation
- checks and balances
- sovereignty
- ÒmobocracyÓ
- consent of the governed
- republicanism
- statesÕ rights
- popular sovereignty
- confederation
- anarchy
- republican motherhood
- loose confederation
- civic virtue
- nonimportation agreements
- ratification
- constitutional convention
- Society of the Cincinnati
- ÒGreat CompromiseÓ
- Articles of Confederation
- Electoral College
- Land Ordinance of 1785
- Òthree-fifths compromiseÓ
- Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- antifederalists
- ShaysÕs Rebellion
- Federalists
- Òlarge-state planÓ
- Constitution of the United States
- The Federalist
- Òbundle of compromisesÓ
- Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
- Continental Congress
Ch. 10, Launching the New
Ship of State, 1789-1800
- John Adams
- Thomas Jefferson
- Alexander Hamilton
- Henry Knox
- John Jay
- Citizen Edmond Genet
- Anthony Wayne
- Talleyrand
- Matthew Lyon
- James Madison
- Little Turtle
- funding at par
- strict constructionism
- assumption
- implied powers
- protective tariff
- agrarian
- excise tax
- compact theory
- nullification
- amendment
- Òloyal oppositionÓ
- impressments
- cabinet
- Bank of the United States
- Bill of Rights
- French Revolution
- JayÕs Treaty
- Convention of 1800
- Neutrality Proclamation of 1793
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Ninth Amendment
- Pinckney Treaty
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- Battle of Fallen Timbers
- WashingtonÕs Farewell Address
- Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
- Democratic-Rebuplicans
- Judiciary Act of 1789
- Treaty of Greenville
- XYZ Affair
- Miami Confederacy
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Ch. 11, The Triumphs and
Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812
- Thomas Jefferson
- James Monroe
- William Clark
- Albert Gallatin
- Robert R. Livingston
- Zebulon Pike
- John Marshall
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Aaaron Burr
- William Marbury
- James Madison
- Tecumseh
- Tenskwatawa – Òthe ProphetÓ
- Toussaint LÕOuverture
- Samuel Chase
- Meriwether Lewis
- Henry Clay
- John Quincy Adams
- Sally Hemings
- James Wilkinson
- patronage
- judicial review
- impeachment
- impressments
- economic coercion
- MaconÕs Bill No. 2
- War Hawks
- three-fifths clause
- Judiciary Act of 1789
- Battle of Austerlitz
- Judiciary Act of 1801
- Orders in Council
- ÒRevolution of 1800Ó
- Òmidnight judgesÓ
- Chesapeake incident
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- Embargo Act of 1807
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty
- Non-Intercourse Act of 1809
- mosquito fleet
- Tripolitan War
Ch. 12, The Second War for
Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824
- Oliver Hazard Perry
- Thomas Macdonough
- William Henry Harrison
- Francis Scott Key
- Andrew Jackson
- Washington Irving
- James Monroe
- James Fenimore Cooper
- John Marshall
- John C. Calhoun
- John Quincy Adams
- Daniel Webster
- Henry Clay
- nationalism
- peculiar institution
- protective tariff
- sectionalism
- noncolonization
- internal improvements
- nonintervention
- sectionalism
- isolationism
- Ohio fever
- Second Bank of the United States
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Tariff of 1816
- Cohens v. Virginia
- American System
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Bonus Bill of 1817
- Battle of Horseshoe Bend
- Fletcher v. Peck
- Virginia dynasty
- Dartmouth College v. Woodward
- Era of Good Feelings
- Treaty of 1818
- Panic of 1819
- Adams-Onis Treaty (aka Florida Purchase Treaty
of 1819)
- Tippecanoe
- Constitution
- Battle of the Thames
- Land Act of 1820
- Monroe Doctrine
- Tallmadge Amendment
- Russo-American Treaty of 1824
- Missouri Compromise
- Treaty of Ghent
- Battle of Plattsburgh
- Hartford Convention
- Battle of New Orleans
- ÒBlue LightÓ Federalists
Ch. 13, The Rise of
Jacksonian Democracy, 1824-1830
- Andrew Jackson
- John C. Calhoun
- Henry Clay
- Martin Van Buren
- William Crawford
- John Quincy Adams
- Daniel Webster
- Nicholas Biddle
- Osceola
- Stephen Austin
- William Harrison
- Sam Houston
- John Tyler
- Santa Anna
- Black Hawk
- William Travis
- Denmark Vesey
- annexation
- antislavery
- Òfavorite sonÓ
- common man
- nullification
- spoils system
- rotation in office
- wildcat banks
- speculation
- nationalism
- minority president
- National Republicans
- Anti-Masonic party
- ÒRevolution of 1828Ó
- Twelfth Amendment
- ÒKing MobÓ
- Òcorrupt bargainÓ
- Tariff of Abominations
- South Carolina Exposition
- Tariff of 1832
- specie circular
- ÒslavocracyÓ
- Tariff of 1833
- ÒTrail of TearsÓ
- Panic of 1837
- Force Bill
- Seminoles
- Divorce Bill
- Bank of the United States
- Lone Star
- independent treasury
- Democratic party
- ÒpetÓ banks
- Whig party
- Indian Removal Act (1830)
- Five Civilized Tribes
- Nullifiers
- Unionists
Ch. 14, Forging the
National Economy, 1790-1860
- Samuel Slater
- Cyrus McCormick
- Eli Whitney
- Carl Schurz
- Robert Fulton
- Samuel F.B. Morse
- DeWitt Clinton
- Catharine Beecher
- George Catlin
- industrial revolution
- limited liability
- transportation revolution
- nativism
- cult of domesticity
- ecological imperialism
- factory system
- market revolution
- rendezvous system
- homesteaders
- domestic feminism
- scabs
- interchangeable parts
- rugged individualism
- cotton gin
- Clermont
- Boston Associates
- clipper ships
- Ancient Order of Hibernians
- ÒMolly MaguiresÓ
- General Incorporation of Law
- Pony Express
- Commonwealth v. Hunt
- Tammany Hall
- Order of the Star-Spangled Banner
- sewing machine
- Know Nothing Party
- Kentucky bluegrass
- Òtwisting the lionÕs tailÓ
Ch. 15, The Ferment of
Reform and Culture, 1790-1860
- Dorothea Dix
- Stephen Foster
- James Russell Lowell
- William Miller
- Washington Irving
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Lucretia Mott
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Horace Mann
- Peter Cartwright
- Noah Webster
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Sylvester Graham
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Susan B. Anthony
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Robert Owen
- Henry David Thoreau
- Herman Melville
- Charles G. Finney
- William H. McGuffey
- Joseph Smith
- Emma Willard
- Louis Agassiz
- Walt Whitman
- John J. Audubon
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Louisa May Alcott
- Gilbert Stuart
- Margaret Fuller
- Francis Parkman
- Brigham Young
- Phineas T. Barnum
- Stephen Foster
- American Temperance Society
- Shakers
- Maine Law
- Unitarianism
- Second Great Awakening
- Hudson River school
- WomenÕs Rights Convention
- Knickerbocker group
- Burned-Over District
- Declaration of Sentiments
- transcendentalism
- Millerites
- Oneida Community
- Mormons
Ch. 16, The South and the
Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Denmark Vesey
- David Walker
- Nat Turner
- Sojourner Truth
- Theodore Dwight Weld
- Frederick Douglass
- Arthur and Lewis Tappan
- Elijah P. Lovejoy
- John Quincy Adams
- oligarchy
- abolitionism
- Òpositive goodÓ
- breakers
- plantation system
- monopolistic
- mulatto population
- Cotton Kingdom
- The Liberator
- American Anti-Slavery Society
- peculiar institution
- Liberty party
- Lane rebels
- Gag Resolution
- American Colonization Society
- Uncle TomÕs Cabin
Ch. 17, Manifest Destiny
and Its Legacy, 1841-1848
- John Tyler
- John Slidell
- Winfield Scott
- Lord Ashburton
- Zachary Taylor
- Nicholas P. Trist
- James K. Polk
- Stephen W. Kearny
- David Wilmot
- Robert Gray
- John C. Fremont
- William Henry Harrison
- Santa Anna
- Joint resolution
- Manifest Destiny
- Fiscal Bank
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- ÒspotÓ resolutions
- Tariff of 1842
- ÒconscienceÓ Whigs
- Bear Flag Revolt
- Caroline
- HudsonÕs Bay Company
- Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
- Californios
- Liberty party
- Òall of MexicoÓ
- Aroostook War
- Walker Tariff
- Wilmot Proviso
- Whigs
- Oregon fever
- Maine
- Rio Grande
Ch. 18, Renewing the
Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854
- Lewis Cass
- Stephen A. Douglas
- Franklin Pierce
- Zachary Taylor
- John C. Calhoun
- Winfield Scott
- Martin Van Buren
- Daniel Webster
- Matthew C. Perry
- Harriet Tubman
- William H. Seward
- James Gadsden
- Henry Clay
- Millard Fillmore
- William Walker
- popular sovereignty
- filibustering
- Free Soil party
- Fugitive Slave Law
- ÒconscienceÓ Whigs
- Òpersonal liberty lawsÓ
- Underground Railroad
- Compromise of 1850
- Òfire eatersÓ
- Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
- Ostend Manifesto
- Òhigher lawÓ
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Gadsden Purchase
- Treaty of Wanghia
Ch. 19, Drifting Toward
Disunion, 1854-1861
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Hinton R. Helper
- John Brown
- James Buchanan
- Charles Sumner
- John C. Fremont
- Dred Scott
- Roger Taney
- John C. Breckinridge
- John Bell
- Abraham Lincoln
- Jefferson Davis
- John Crittenden
- self-determination
- southern nationalism
- Uncle TomÕs Cabin
- The Impending Crisis of the South
- New England Immigrant Aid Society
- Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
- Lecompton Constitution
- ÒBleeding KansasÓ
- American or Know-Nothing Party
- Dred Scott decision
- Panic of 1857
- Lincoln-Douglas debates
- Freeport Doctrine
- Harpers Ferry raid
- Constitutional Union party
- ÒBeecherÕs BiblesÓ
- Crittenden Compromise
- Bleeding Sumner
Ch. 20, Girding for War,
The North and the South, 1861-1865
- Napoleon III
- Maxmilian
- Charles Francis Adams
- Clara Barton
- William H. Seward
- Edwin M. Stanton
- Jefferson Davis
- Abraham Lincoln
- Morrill Tariff Act
- National Banking Act
- Trent Affair
- Alabama
- Laird rams
- King Cotton
- Draft Riots
- Butternut Region
- martial law
- Border States
- Fort Sumter
- ÒJohnny RebÓ
- ÒBilly YankÓ
- Indian Territory
- Union
- Confederacy
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