Ch. 1, New World Beginnings, 33,000 BC – 1769 AD

  1. Marco Polo
  2. Francisco Pizarro
  3. Juan Ponce de Leon
  4. Hernando de Soto
  5. Montezuma
  6. Christopher Columbus
  7. Hernan Cortes
  8. Francisco Coronado
  9. Robert de La Salle
  10. Jacques Cartier
  11. Giovanni da Verrazano
  12. John Cabot
  13. Vasco Nunez de Balboa
  14. Ferdinand of Aragon
  15. Isabella of Castile
  16. Quetzalcoatl
  17. Bartholomeu Dias
  18. Hiawatha
  19. Bartolome de Las Casas
  20. Ferdinand Magellan
  21. Vasco da Gama
  22. Renaissance
  23. Mestizos
  24. Treaty of Tordesillas
  25. Òthree sisterÓ farming
  26. Great Ice Age
  27. Canadian Shield
  28. Mound Builders
  29. Spanish Armada
  30. black legend
  31. conquistadores
  32. Aztecs
  33. PopeÕs Rebellion
  34. Pueblo Indians
  35. Iroquois Confederacy
  36. cartography
  37. Native Americans
  38. Vineland
  39. St. Augustine, Florida
  40. Kiva
  41. Spice Islands
  42. Moors
  43. ecosystem
  44. encomienda
  45. malinchista
  46. Dia de la Raza

 

Ch. 2, The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

  1. Lord De La Warr
  2. Pocahontas
  3. Powhatan
  4. Handsome Lake
  5. John Rolfe
  6. Lord Baltimore
  7. Water Raleigh
  8. James Oglethorpe
  9. Humphrey Gilbert
  10. Oliver Cromwell
  11. John Smith
  12. John Wesley
  13. Francis Drake
  14. George Percy
  15. William Penn
  16. Richard Hakluyt
  17. Henry VIII
  18. Elizabeth I
  19. Philip II
  20. James I
  21. Charles I
  22. Charles II
  23. Deganawidah and Hiawatha
  24. George II
  25. nation-state
  26. joint-stock company
  27. slavery
  28. enclosure
  29. House of Burgesses
  30. royal charter
  31. slave codes
  32. yeoman
  33. proprietor
  34. longhouse
  35. squatter
  36. law of primogeniture
  37. indentured servitude
  38. starving time
  39. sea dogs
  40. surplus population
  41. Anglo-Powhatan Wars
  42. Maryland Act of Toleration
  43. Barbados slave code
  44. Virginia Company
  45. Restoration
  46. Savannah Indians
  47. Iroquois Confederacy
  48. Ireland
  49. Santa Fe
  50. Quebec
  51. Jamestown
  52. Charles Town
  53. Protestant Reformation
  54. Chesapeake
  55. English Civil War

 

Ch. 3, Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

  1. John Calvin
  2. Anne Hutchinson
  3. Roger Williams
  4. Henry Hudson
  5. William Bradford
  6. Peter Stuyvesant
  7. William Laud
  8. Thomas Hooker
  9. William Penn
  10. John Winthrop
  11. King Philip (Metacom)
  12. John Cotton
  13. Sir Edmund Andros
  14. Gustavus Adolphus
  15. William and Mary
  16. Massasoit
  17. Fernando Gorges
  18. Myles Standish
  19. Martin Luther
  20. Michael Wigglesworth
  21. Squanto
  22. the ÒelectÓ
  23. franchise
  24. predestination
  25. freemen
  26. Òvisible saintsÓ
  27. conversion
  28. doctrine of a calling
  29. covenant
  30. antinomianism
  31. sumptuary laws
  32. salutary neglect
  33. passive resistance
  34. Òcity upon a hillÓ
  35. Pilgrims
  36. New England Confederation
  37. Calvinism
  38. Massachusetts Bay Company
  39. Dominion of New England
  40. Institutes of the Christian Religion
  41. Navigation Laws
  42. Great Migration
  43. Glorious Revolution
  44. Puritans
  45. General Court
  46. Dutch West India Company
  47. Separatists
  48. Bible Commonwealth
  49. Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
  50. Mayflower
  51. Protestant ethic
  52. Mayflower Compact
  53. Fundamental Orders
  54. French Huguenots
  55. Scottish Presbyterians
  56. Church of England
  57. Dutchification
  58. Plymouth Bay
  59. Congregational Church
  60. Pequot War
  61. Dutch Ògolden ageÓ
  62. New Netherland
  63. New Amsterdam
  64. New Sweden
  65. PennÕs Woodland

 

Ch. 4, American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

  1. William Berkeley
  2. Nathaniel Bacon
  3. Yarrow Mamout
  4. William Bradford
  5. Matthew Hopkins
  6. indentured servitude
  7. slave codes
  8. headright system
  9. jeremiads
  10. Middle Passage
  11. freedom dues
  12. Òwitch huntingÓ
  13. Yankee ingenuity
  14. family stability
  15. conversions
  16. BaconÕs Rebellion
  17. LeslerÕs Rebellion
  18. Half-Way Covenant
  19. African American
  20. New England Primer

 

Ch. 5, Colonial Society on the Eve of the Revolution, 1700-1775

  1. Jonathan Edwards
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Michel-Guillaume de Crevecoeur
  4. George Whitefield
  5. John Peter Zenger
  6. Phillis Wheatley
  7. John Singleton Copley
  8. John Trumbull
  9. Charles Wilson Peale
  10. Benjamin West
  11. Jacobus Arminius
  12. Andrew Hamilton
  13. Paxton Boys
  14. Great Awakening
  15. Anglicans
  16. rack-renting
  17. Regulator movement
  18. old and new lights
  19. triangular trade
  20. Molasses Act
  21. Scots-Irish
  22. naval stores
  23. praying towns
  24. almshouses
  25. jayle birds
  26. taverns
  27. Congregational Church
  28. Presbyterian
  29. Arminians
  30. heresies

 

Ch. 6, The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

  1. Samuel de Champlain
  2. William Pitt
  3. Antoine Cadillac
  4. Robert de La Salle
  5. James Wolfe
  6. Edward Braddock
  7. Pontiac
  8. Louis XIV
  9. Marquis de Montcalm
  10. Benjamin Franklin
  11. George Washington
  12. Huguenots
  13. Seven YearsÕ War (French and Indian War)
  14. Acadians
  15. War of Spanish Succession
  16. Albany Congress
  17. Iroquois
  18. New France
  19. Proclamation of 1763
  20. Cajun
  21. Edict of Nantes
  22. coureurs de bois
  23. Jesuits
  24. salutary neglect
  25. War of JenkinÕs Ear
  26. Louisbourg
  27. Fort Duquesne
  28. Fort Necessity

 

Ch. 7, The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

  1. John Hancock
  2. Lord North
  3. George Grenville
  4. Samuel Adams
  5. Charles Townshend
  6. John Adams
  7. Crispus Attucks
  8. Marquis de Lafayette
  9. King George III
  10. Baron von Steuben
  11. Thomas Hutchinson
  12. Abigail Adams
  13. Benjamin Franklin
  14. Edmund Burke
  15. Ann Hulton
  16. John Dickinson
  17. Adam Smith
  18. mercantilism
  19. Òno taxation without representationÓ
  20. nonimportation agreement
  21. Òroyal vetoÓ
  22. internal/external taxation
  23. ÒvirtualÓ representation
  24. boycott
  25. ÒenumeratedÓ products
  26. Board of Trade
  27. Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty
  28. Quebec Act
  29. Navigation Acts
  30. Declaratory Act
  31. First Continental Congress
  32. Sugar Act
  33. Townshend Acts
  34. Quartering Act
  35. Boston Massacre
  36. The Association
  37. Stamp Act
  38. committees of correspondence
  39. Hessians
  40. admiralty courts
  41. Boston Tea Party
  42. Loyalists
  43. Stamp Act Congress
  44. Intolerable Acts
  45. British East India Company
  46. Battles of Lexington and Concord

 

Ch. 8, America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783

  1. George Washington
  2. William Howe
  3. Nathaniel Greene
  4. Benedict Arnold
  5. John Burgoyne
  6. Charles Cornwallis
  7. Thomas Paine
  8. Barry St. Leger
  9. George Rogers Clark
  10. Richard Henry Lee
  11. Horatio Gates
  12. John Paul Jones
  13. Thomas Jefferson
  14. Marquis de Lafayette
  15. Admiral de Grasse
  16. Patrick Henry
  17. Comte de Rochambeau
  18. John Jay
  19. Ethan Allen
  20. Abigail Adams
  21. Richard Montgomery
  22. George III
  23. mercenaries
  24. natural rights
  25. privateering
  26. republicanism
  27. natural aristocracy
  28. popular consent
  29. civic virtue
  30. Second Continental Congress
  31. Common Sense
  32. Declaration of Independence
  33. Loyalists/Tories
  34. Patriots/Whigs
  35. Treaty of Paris of 1783
  36. Bunker Hill
  37. Battle of Saratoga
  38. Battle of Yorktown
  39. Hessians

 

Ch. 9, The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

  1. Abigail Adams
  2. Daniel Shays
  3. Alexander Hamilton
  4. James Madison
  5. Governeur Morris
  6. Thomas Jefferson
  7. primogeniture
  8. federation
  9. checks and balances
  10. sovereignty
  11. ÒmobocracyÓ
  12. consent of the governed
  13. republicanism
  14. statesÕ rights
  15. popular sovereignty
  16. confederation
  17. anarchy
  18. republican motherhood
  19. loose confederation
  20. civic virtue
  21. nonimportation agreements
  22. ratification
  23. constitutional convention
  24. Society of the Cincinnati
  25. ÒGreat CompromiseÓ
  26. Articles of Confederation
  27. Electoral College
  28. Land Ordinance of 1785
  29. Òthree-fifths compromiseÓ
  30. Northwest Ordinance of 1787
  31. antifederalists
  32. ShaysÕs Rebellion
  33. Federalists
  34. Òlarge-state planÓ
  35. Constitution of the United States
  36. The Federalist
  37. Òbundle of compromisesÓ
  38. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
  39. Continental Congress

 

Ch. 10, Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

  1. John Adams
  2. Thomas Jefferson
  3. Alexander Hamilton
  4. Henry Knox
  5. John Jay
  6. Citizen Edmond Genet
  7. Anthony Wayne
  8. Talleyrand
  9. Matthew Lyon
  10. James Madison
  11. Little Turtle
  12. funding at par
  13. strict constructionism
  14. assumption
  15. implied powers
  16. protective tariff
  17. agrarian
  18. excise tax
  19. compact theory
  20. nullification
  21. amendment
  22. Òloyal oppositionÓ
  23. impressments
  24. cabinet
  25. Bank of the United States
  26. Bill of Rights
  27. French Revolution
  28. JayÕs Treaty
  29. Convention of 1800
  30. Neutrality Proclamation of 1793
  31. Whiskey Rebellion
  32. Ninth Amendment
  33. Pinckney Treaty
  34. Alien and Sedition Acts
  35. Battle of Fallen Timbers
  36. WashingtonÕs Farewell Address
  37. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
  38. Democratic-Rebuplicans
  39. Judiciary Act of 1789
  40. Treaty of Greenville
  41. XYZ Affair
  42. Miami Confederacy

 

Ch. 11, The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. James Monroe
  3. William Clark
  4. Albert Gallatin
  5. Robert R. Livingston
  6. Zebulon Pike
  7. John Marshall
  8. Napoleon Bonaparte
  9. Aaaron Burr
  10. William Marbury
  11. James Madison
  12. Tecumseh
  13. Tenskwatawa – Òthe ProphetÓ
  14. Toussaint LÕOuverture
  15. Samuel Chase
  16. Meriwether Lewis
  17. Henry Clay
  18. John Quincy Adams
  19. Sally Hemings
  20. James Wilkinson
  21. patronage
  22. judicial review
  23. impeachment
  24. impressments
  25. economic coercion
  26. MaconÕs Bill No. 2
  27. War Hawks
  28. three-fifths clause
  29. Judiciary Act of 1789
  30. Battle of Austerlitz
  31. Judiciary Act of 1801
  32. Orders in Council
  33. ÒRevolution of 1800Ó
  34. Òmidnight judgesÓ
  35. Chesapeake incident
  36. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
  37. Embargo Act of 1807
  38. Louisiana Purchase Treaty
  39. Non-Intercourse Act of 1809
  40. mosquito fleet
  41. Tripolitan War

 

Ch. 12, The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

  1. Oliver Hazard Perry
  2. Thomas Macdonough
  3. William Henry Harrison
  4. Francis Scott Key
  5. Andrew Jackson
  6. Washington Irving
  7. James Monroe
  8. James Fenimore Cooper
  9. John Marshall
  10. John C. Calhoun
  11. John Quincy Adams
  12. Daniel Webster
  13. Henry Clay
  14. nationalism
  15. peculiar institution
  16. protective tariff
  17. sectionalism
  18. noncolonization
  19. internal improvements
  20. nonintervention
  21. sectionalism
  22. isolationism
  23. Ohio fever
  24. Second Bank of the United States
  25. McCulloch v. Maryland
  26. Tariff of 1816
  27. Cohens v. Virginia
  28. American System
  29. Gibbons v. Ogden
  30. Bonus Bill of 1817
  31. Battle of Horseshoe Bend
  32. Fletcher v. Peck
  33. Virginia dynasty
  34. Dartmouth College v. Woodward
  35. Era of Good Feelings
  36. Treaty of 1818
  37. Panic of 1819
  38. Adams-Onis Treaty (aka Florida Purchase Treaty of 1819)
  39. Tippecanoe
  40. Constitution
  41. Battle of the Thames
  42. Land Act of 1820
  43. Monroe Doctrine
  44. Tallmadge Amendment
  45. Russo-American Treaty of 1824
  46. Missouri Compromise
  47. Treaty of Ghent
  48. Battle of Plattsburgh
  49. Hartford Convention
  50. Battle of New Orleans
  51. ÒBlue LightÓ Federalists

 

Ch. 13, The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy, 1824-1830

  1. Andrew Jackson
  2. John C. Calhoun
  3. Henry Clay
  4. Martin Van Buren
  5. William Crawford
  6. John Quincy Adams
  7. Daniel Webster
  8. Nicholas Biddle
  9. Osceola
  10. Stephen Austin
  11. William Harrison
  12. Sam Houston
  13. John Tyler
  14. Santa Anna
  15. Black Hawk
  16. William Travis
  17. Denmark Vesey
  18. annexation
  19. antislavery
  20. Òfavorite sonÓ
  21. common man
  22. nullification
  23. spoils system
  24. rotation in office
  25. wildcat banks
  26. speculation
  27. nationalism
  28. minority president
  29. National Republicans
  30. Anti-Masonic party
  31. ÒRevolution of 1828Ó
  32. Twelfth Amendment
  33. ÒKing MobÓ
  34. Òcorrupt bargainÓ
  35. Tariff of Abominations
  36. South Carolina Exposition
  37. Tariff of 1832
  38. specie circular
  39. ÒslavocracyÓ
  40. Tariff of 1833
  41. ÒTrail of TearsÓ
  42. Panic of 1837
  43. Force Bill
  44. Seminoles
  45. Divorce Bill
  46. Bank of the United States
  47. Lone Star
  48. independent treasury
  49. Democratic party
  50. ÒpetÓ banks
  51. Whig party
  52. Indian Removal Act (1830)
  53. Five Civilized Tribes
  54. Nullifiers
  55. Unionists

 

Ch. 14, Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

  1. Samuel Slater
  2. Cyrus McCormick
  3. Eli Whitney
  4. Carl Schurz
  5. Robert Fulton
  6. Samuel F.B. Morse
  7. DeWitt Clinton
  8. Catharine Beecher
  9. George Catlin
  10. industrial revolution
  11. limited liability
  12. transportation revolution
  13. nativism
  14. cult of domesticity
  15. ecological imperialism
  16. factory system
  17. market revolution
  18. rendezvous system
  19. homesteaders
  20. domestic feminism
  21. scabs
  22. interchangeable parts
  23. rugged individualism
  24. cotton gin
  25. Clermont
  26. Boston Associates
  27. clipper ships
  28. Ancient Order of Hibernians
  29. ÒMolly MaguiresÓ
  30. General Incorporation of Law
  31. Pony Express
  32. Commonwealth v. Hunt
  33. Tammany Hall
  34. Order of the Star-Spangled Banner
  35. sewing machine
  36. Know Nothing Party
  37. Kentucky bluegrass
  38. Òtwisting the lionÕs tailÓ

 

Ch. 15, The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

  1. Dorothea Dix
  2. Stephen Foster
  3. James Russell Lowell
  4. William Miller
  5. Washington Irving
  6. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  7. Lucretia Mott
  8. James Fenimore Cooper
  9. Elizabeth Blackwell
  10. Horace Mann
  11. Peter Cartwright
  12. Noah Webster
  13. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  14. Sylvester Graham
  15. Edgar Allan Poe
  16. Susan B. Anthony
  17. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  18. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  19. Robert Owen
  20. Henry David Thoreau
  21. Herman Melville
  22. Charles G. Finney
  23. William H. McGuffey
  24. Joseph Smith
  25. Emma Willard
  26. Louis Agassiz
  27. Walt Whitman
  28. John J. Audubon
  29. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  30. Louisa May Alcott
  31. Gilbert Stuart
  32. Margaret Fuller
  33. Francis Parkman
  34. Brigham Young
  35. Phineas T. Barnum
  36. Stephen Foster
  37. American Temperance Society
  38. Shakers
  39. Maine Law
  40. Unitarianism
  41. Second Great Awakening
  42. Hudson River school
  43. WomenÕs Rights Convention
  44. Knickerbocker group
  45. Burned-Over District
  46. Declaration of Sentiments
  47. transcendentalism
  48. Millerites
  49. Oneida Community
  50. Mormons

 

Ch. 16, The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  2. William Lloyd Garrison
  3. Denmark Vesey
  4. David Walker
  5. Nat Turner
  6. Sojourner Truth
  7. Theodore Dwight Weld
  8. Frederick Douglass
  9. Arthur and Lewis Tappan
  10. Elijah P. Lovejoy
  11. John Quincy Adams
  12. oligarchy
  13. abolitionism
  14. Òpositive goodÓ
  15. breakers
  16. plantation system
  17. monopolistic
  18. mulatto population
  19. Cotton Kingdom
  20. The Liberator
  21. American Anti-Slavery Society
  22. peculiar institution
  23. Liberty party
  24. Lane rebels
  25. Gag Resolution
  26. American Colonization Society
  27. Uncle TomÕs Cabin

 

Ch. 17, Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

  1. John Tyler
  2. John Slidell
  3. Winfield Scott
  4. Lord Ashburton
  5. Zachary Taylor
  6. Nicholas P. Trist
  7. James K. Polk
  8. Stephen W. Kearny
  9. David Wilmot
  10. Robert Gray
  11. John C. Fremont
  12. William Henry Harrison
  13. Santa Anna
  14. Joint resolution
  15. Manifest Destiny
  16. Fiscal Bank
  17. Webster-Ashburton Treaty
  18. ÒspotÓ resolutions
  19. Tariff of 1842
  20. ÒconscienceÓ Whigs
  21. Bear Flag Revolt
  22. Caroline
  23. HudsonÕs Bay Company
  24. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
  25. Californios
  26. Liberty party
  27. Òall of MexicoÓ
  28. Aroostook War
  29. Walker Tariff
  30. Wilmot Proviso
  31. Whigs
  32. Oregon fever
  33. Maine
  34. Rio Grande

 

Ch. 18, Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

  1. Lewis Cass
  2. Stephen A. Douglas
  3. Franklin Pierce
  4. Zachary Taylor
  5. John C. Calhoun
  6. Winfield Scott
  7. Martin Van Buren
  8. Daniel Webster
  9. Matthew C. Perry
  10. Harriet Tubman
  11. William H. Seward
  12. James Gadsden
  13. Henry Clay
  14. Millard Fillmore
  15. William Walker
  16. popular sovereignty
  17. filibustering
  18. Free Soil party
  19. Fugitive Slave Law
  20. ÒconscienceÓ Whigs
  21. Òpersonal liberty lawsÓ
  22. Underground Railroad
  23. Compromise of 1850
  24. Òfire eatersÓ
  25. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
  26. Ostend Manifesto
  27. Òhigher lawÓ
  28. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  29. Gadsden Purchase
  30. Treaty of Wanghia

 

Ch. 19, Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  2. Hinton R. Helper
  3. John Brown
  4. James Buchanan
  5. Charles Sumner
  6. John C. Fremont
  7. Dred Scott
  8. Roger Taney
  9. John C. Breckinridge
  10. John Bell
  11. Abraham Lincoln
  12. Jefferson Davis
  13. John Crittenden
  14. self-determination
  15. southern nationalism
  16. Uncle TomÕs Cabin
  17. The Impending Crisis of the South
  18. New England Immigrant Aid Society
  19. Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
  20. Lecompton Constitution
  21. ÒBleeding KansasÓ
  22. American or Know-Nothing Party
  23. Dred Scott decision
  24. Panic of 1857
  25. Lincoln-Douglas debates
  26. Freeport Doctrine
  27. Harpers Ferry raid
  28. Constitutional Union party
  29. ÒBeecherÕs BiblesÓ
  30. Crittenden Compromise
  31. Bleeding Sumner

 

Ch. 20, Girding for War, The North and the South, 1861-1865

  1. Napoleon III
  2. Maxmilian
  3. Charles Francis Adams
  4. Clara Barton
  5. William H. Seward
  6. Edwin M. Stanton
  7. Jefferson Davis
  8. Abraham Lincoln
  9. Morrill Tariff Act
  10. National Banking Act
  11. Trent Affair
  12. Alabama
  13. Laird rams
  14. King Cotton
  15. Draft Riots
  16. Butternut Region
  17. martial law
  18. Border States
  19. Fort Sumter
  20. ÒJohnny RebÓ
  21. ÒBilly YankÓ
  22. Indian Territory
  23. Union
  24. Confederacy

 

 

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