Key Terms in US History The Thirteen Colonies and the British Empire 1607-1750 Colonies: corporate, royal, proprietary Wampanoags Regions: South, Chesapeake, Middle, New England Metacom; King Phillip’s War Early attempts at colonization: Roanoake Restoration Colonies: Carolinas; New York; New Jersey Jamestown Rice and indigo The Starving Time Tobacco Lord Baltimore New York Act of Toleration (1649) Quakerism Virginia William Penn Sir William Berkeley “holy experiment” Bacon’s Rebellion Georgia Indentured servitude James Oglethorpe Headright system Mercantilism Slavery (rise of) Navigation Acts Rhode Island Dominion of New England Roger Williams Sir Edmund Andros Anne Hutchinson Glorious Revolution (1688) Antinomianism Triangular trade Connecticut Middle passage Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) Half-way Covenant New England Confederation Salem Trials, 1692 Colonial Society in the 18th c. Immigrants: English, Germans, Scots-Irish, Africans Poor Richard’s Almanac Characteristics: English culture dominates; self-gov’t; no Phyllis Wheatley hereditary aristocracy (a meritocracy); religious toleration (to John Bartram an extent); social mobility Education: sectarian/non-sectarian Religions: Congregationalists, Anglicans, etc. Education: sectarian/non-sectarian Established church Professions: medicine, religion, law Colonial family life Newspapers Economics…varies by region/topography…cash-poor b/c of John Peter Zenger reliance on imports from England Great Awakening Colonial governors and legislatures Jonathon Edwards & George Whitefield Town meetings Georgian-style architecture Limited democracy Painting: John Copley Benjamin Franklin The Coming of the American Revolution, 1754-1775 French and Indian War, 1754 Declaratory Act (1766) George Washington Townshend Duties (1767) Albany Plan of Union , 1754 Writs of Assistance Peace of Paris, 1763 James Otis Salutary neglect Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer – John Dickinson George III Lord North Whigs Boston Massacre (1770) Pontiac’s Rebellion Crispus Attucks Proclamation of 1763 Committees of Correspondence Sugar Act (1764) Gaspee Incident Quartering Act (1765) Tea Act (1773) Stamp Act (1765) Boston Tea Party (1773) Patrick Henry and Virginia Resolves Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts (1774) Stamp Act Congress Enlightenment Sons/Daughters of Liberty John Locke American Revolution and the Confederation, 1776-1787 First Continental Congress, 1774 Thomas Paine, Common Sense, The Crisis Samuel Adams Declaration of Independence John Adams Patriots and Loyalists George Washington Valley Forge John Jay Continentals Joseph Galloway George Rogers Clark Declaration of Rights and Grievances Battle of Saratoga Minutemen Battle of Yorktown Lexington and Concord Treaty of Paris (1783) Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) Articles of Confederation Second Continental Congress (1775) Land Ordinance of 1785/NW Ordinance of 1787 Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms Shay’s Rebellion Olive Branch Petition Abigail Adams…”remember the ladies” The Constitution and the Federal Period, 1787-1800 Mt. Vernon Conference/Anapolis Convention Tariffs, excise taxes Constitutional Convention French Revolution Framers: Madison, Hamilton Neutrality Proclamation (1793) Checks and Balances Citizen Genet Virginia Plan v. New Jersey Plan Right of Deposit and Pickney’s Treaty (1795) Connecticut Plan…aka Great Compromise Unresolved issues with Britain: British Forts and Loyalist Property…Jay’s Treaty (1794) House of Representatives & Senate Whiskey Rebellion (1794) 3/5 Compromise; slave trade compromise Political Parties: Federalists and Dem-Republicans Limits to “mobocracy”: electoral college, senate Washington’s Farewell Address (1796) Federalists and Anti-Federalists John Adams Bill of Rights XYZ Affair Executive dep’ts formed: War, Treasury, State; the Cabinet Alien and Sedition Acts Judiciary Act (1789) Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions National Debt…assumption…Hamilton Undeclared war with France…war averted Report of Manufactures…National Bank Revolution of 1800 The Jeffersonian Era 1800-1816 Louisiana Purchase (1803) Tecumseh and the Prophet Jefferson’s “style” of presidency” Lewis and Clark Expedition Napoleon Bonaparte Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810) Toussaint L’Ouverture Tecumseh and the Prophet Strict construction of constitution William Henry Harrison Lewis and Clark Battle of Tippecanoe John Marshall War Hawks Marbury v. Madison (1803) Henry Clay Barbary Pirates John C. Calhoun Neutrality, impressments, Orders in Council, Andrew Jackson and New Orleans and Continental system Battle of Lake Erie The Chesapeake Incident Francis Scott Key Embargo Act (1807) …dambargo…ograbme Treaty of Ghent (1814) James Madison Blue Light Federalists Non-intercourse Act (1808) Hartford Convention Nationalism and Economic Growth, 1817-1850 Era of Good Feelings American culture: Hudson River School, Washington Irving, Adams-Onis (Transcontinental) Treaty 1819 James Fennimore Cooper, North Am. Review, etc. James Monroe Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817) Nationalism: cultural, economic, diplomatic, judicial Adams-Onis (Transcontinental) Treaty 1819 Tariff of 1816 Florida Purchase Treaty (1819) Henry Clay; American System Monroe Doctrine (1823) Second Bank of the United States Turnpikes, National (Cumberland Road) Panic of 1819 Erie Canal John Marshall (Cases: FMMDCG) Robert Fulton Implied powers (loose construction) Early railroads Tallmadge Amendment Eli Whitney, interchangeable parts, cotton gin Missouri Compromise (1820) Samuel Slater and the factory system Sectionalism 1820-1850 Sectionalism Early unions Daniel Webster The “peculiar institution” Industrial Revolution King Cotton Urbanization, urban life The “peculiar institution” Irish; Potato Famine Denmark Vessey; Nat Turner German “48-ers” Free blacks: “slaves without masters” Old Northwest Planters, poor whites, mountain whites Nativists The frontier American Party Native American removal Great Plains – settlement of The Age of Jackson, 1824-1840 The rise of the common man Trail of tears Universal male suffrage Worchester v. Georgia (1832) Party nominating conventions emerge Trail of tears Death of “King Caucus” States’ rights Anti-Masonic Party Nullification crisis Workingmen’s Party Webster-Hayne Debate Spoils system John C. Calhoun John Quincy Adams South Carolina Exposition and Protest Henry Clay Bank of the United States “corrupt bargain” Nicholas Biddle (Czar Biddle) Tariff of Abominations Two-party system reemerges: Democrats v. Whigs Andrew Jackson Roger Taney Popular campaigning “pet banks” Revolution of 1828 Specie Circular Rotation in office Panic of 1837 Peggy Eaton Affair (Eaton Malaria) Martin Van Buren Indian Removal Act (1830) Subtreasury system The Age of Reform, 1820-1860 Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “Civil Disobedience” McGuffey Reader Utopian Communes Public school mov’t: Horace Mann Brook Farm McGuffey Reader Oneida Community Women’s Rights: Seneca Falls Convention (1848) New Harmony, Indiana Feminists: Susan B. Anthony Temperance Movement: WCTU, Maine Law The Grimke sisters Second Great Awakening Lucrecia Mott Shakers Elizabeth Cady Stanton Millerites Abolitionism: Garrison millenialism Frederick Douglass Mormons The North Star Asylum reform: Dorothea Dix The Liberty Party Penitentiaries Harriet Tubman Territorial and Economic Expansion, 1830-1860 Manifest Destiny Mexican Cession Texas Wilmot Proviso Stephen Austin “conscience Whigs” Santa Anna Ostend Manifesto (1852) Alamo Walker Expedition John Tyler and the Whigs Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850) Aristook War Gadsen Purchase (1853) Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) Great American Desert Oregon Territory Far West “54° 40’ or Fight!” Overland Trails: Oregon, etc. James K. Polk Mining frontier Rio Grande/Nueces River Gold rush, silver rush John Slidell Mission 49-ers Mexican War (1846-1847) Acquisition of Alaska Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott Matthew Perry in Japan John C. Fremont Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) Bear Flag Republic The Union in Peril, 1848-1860 Free soil mov’t; Free Soil Party “The Sack of Lawrence” Popular Sovereignty “Bleeding Kansas” Lewis Cass “The Sack of Lawrence” Henry Clay John Brown; Potawatomic Creek Massacre Zachary Taylor Sumner-Brooks Incident Compromise of 1850 Lecompton Constitution Stephen Douglas Dredd Scott v. Sandford Fugitive Slave Law Roger Taney Underground railroad Abraham Lincoln Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Lincoln-Douglass Debates The Impending Crisis in the South “House-Divided” Speech Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) Freeport Doctrine Republican party Harper’s Ferry New England Emigrant Aid Society Election of 1860; split in parties Split in Churches Crittenden Compromise The Civil War, 1861-1865 wartime powers: Habeus Corpus, conscription, taxes, Confiscation Acts Confederate States of America Vicksburg, July 4, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation Jefferson Davis and Alexander P. Stephens Sherman’s March CSA constitution Election of 1864 Bull Run War of Attrition Anaconda Plan Appomattox Court House George MacClellan John Wilkes Booth Robert E. Lee Ex Parte Milligan Antietam Draft Riots Monitor and Merrimac Greenbacks Ulysses S. Grant Morrill Tariff Act (1861) Shiloh Homestead Act (1862) David Farragut Morrill Land Grant Act (1862) Trent Affair Pacific Railway Act (1862) Laird Rams Second American Revolution Alabama…Alabama Claims Reconstruction, 1863-1877 Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction, 1863 (10% Plan) 15th Amendment Wade Davis Bill (1864) Impeachment Andrew Johnson 15th Amendment Presidential Reconstruction Civil Rights Act of 1875 Freedman’s