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Chapter 4 The Colonial Period

Terms
Lost Colony
Jamestown
John Smith
Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Plymouth
Separatists
Mayflower Compact
Wampanoag Indians
John Rolfe
Nathaniel Bacon
Bacons Rebellion
William Berkeley
Virginia House of Burgesses
Barbados Slave Codes
Lord Baltimore
Maryland Act of Toleration
James Oglethorpe
Great Migration
John Winthrop

Salem Witch Trials


Roger Williams
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New England Confederation
Metacom/King Philip
Dominion of New England
Peter Stuyvesant
William Penn
Enclosing
Depression
Primogeniture
Markets
Protestant Reformation
Joint Stock Company
Proprietary Colony
Royal Colony
Self-governing colonies
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Sir Walter Raleigh
Virginia Company of London
Captain John Smith

Pocohantas

1558 Elizabeth I Becomes Queen of England


1585 Roanoke Colony founded
1607 Jamestown founded
1612 John Rolfe perfects tobacco raising
1619 First Slaves brought to the colonies/ Virginia House of Burgesses Established
1620 Mayflower Compact signed/ Plymouth Colony founded
1622 First Anglo-Powhatan War takes place
1624 Virginia becomes a royal colony/ Dutch settle New Netherlands
1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony founded by Puritans
1634 Maryland founded by Lord Baltimore
1636 Rhode Island established by Roger Williams/ Harvard College founded to educate young
ministers
1637 Pequot Wars take place
1643 New England Confederation established
1644 Second Anglo-Powhatan War takes place
1649 Maryland Act of Toleration
1664 New York acquired from the Dutch
1675 King Philips War occurs
1676 Bacons Rebellion occurs
1681 Pennsylvania established by William Penn
1686 Dominion of New England created under the leadership of Sir Edmund Andros
1691 Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes a royal colony
1692 Salem Witch trials take place
1693 William and Mary College founded
1696 Barbados Slave Codes of 1661 adopted by South Carolina
1702 New Jersey becomes a royal colony
1703 Delaware granted an assembly by the crown

1712 North Carolina officially separates from South Carolina


1713 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe
Chapter 5
Colonial Society in the 1700s
Terms
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Old Lights
New Lights
Middle Passage
Triangular Trade
Power of the Purse
Peter Zenger
Seven Years War
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Albany Plan of the Union
Treaty of Paris (1763)
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
Salutary Neglect

Slavers
Timeline
1730

The Great Awakening Begins

1734

Peter Zenger arrested for libel

1754

Benjamin Franklin proposes the Albany Plan of the Union/ French and Indian War
commences

1763

Treaty of Paris signed, ending the French and Indian War/ Pontiac attacks British
fort near Detroit/ Proclamation of 1763 issued

Chapter 6 the American War for Independence


Terms
John Locke
Virtual Representation
Actual Representation
Mercantile System
Navigation Acts
Molasses Act
Proclamation of 1763
King George III
Sugar Act
Currency Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Declaration of Rights and Grievances

Stamp Act Congress


Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Townshend Acts
Writs of Assistance
Crispus Attucks
Boston Massacre
Tea Act
Samuel Adams
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress
George Washington
Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill
Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
General William Howe
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Timeline

1651 First of a Series of Navigation Acts passed


1733 Molasses Act passed
1754 French and Indian War begins
1760 George III becomes King of England
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French and Indian War/ Proclamation of 1763 issued
1764 Sugar Act passed/ Currency Act passed
1765 Quartering Act passed/ Stamp Act passed/ Declaration of Rights and Grievances issued/
Stamp act congress meets/ Sons and Daughters of Liberty formed
1766 Stamp Act repealed/ Declaratory Act Passed/ Townshend Acts passed
1769 Writs of Assistance issued
1770 Boston Massacre occurs/ Townshend Acts repealed, except for the tax on tea
1773 Tea Act passed/ Boston Tea Party takes place
1774 Intolerable(Coercive) Acts passed/ Quebec Act passed/ First continental Congress called
1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord takes place/ Battle of Bunker (Breeds) Hill occurs/
Second Continental Congress called
1776 Thomas Paines Common Sense published/ Declaration of Independence issued
1777 Second Battle of Saratoga occurs
1778 French declares war on England, joins U.S. efforts
1779 Spain declares war on England
1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown/Articles of Confederation Written
1783 Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Revolutionary War

Chapter 7 Experiments in Government


Terms
Articles of Confederation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance
Shayss Rebellion

Constitutional Convention
James Madison
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
Electoral College
Antifederalists
Patrick Henry Federalists
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay
The Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights
1781

Articles of Confederation adopted

1783

Treaty of Paris signed, ending the Revolutionary War

1785

Land Ordinance enacted

1786

Shayss Rebellion occurs

1787

Northwest Ordinance enacted/ Constitutional Convention held

1788

Constitution ratified/ George Washington inaugurated as first president of the United


States

1791

Bill of Rights adopted

Chapter 8 The Federalist Era

Terms
George Washington
Federalists
Alexander Hamilton
Judiciary Act
Bill of Rights
10th Amendment
Thomas Jefferson
Bank of the United States
Hamiltons financial program
McCulloch v. Maryland
John Marshall
Whiskey Rebellion
Democratic-RepublicansFrench Revolution
Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793
Citizen Genet
John Jay
Pinckneys Treaty
Treaty of Greenville
Washingtons Farewell Address

Election of 1796
John Adams
Talleyrand
XYZ Affair
Napoleon Bonaparte
Election of 1800
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
James Madison
1789

Washington inaugurated as the first president of the United States/ French Revolution
Begins/ Judiciary Act passed by Congress

1791

Bill of Rights added to the Constitution/ Hamiltons financial program approved by


congress

1793

Reign of Terror begins in France

1794

Whiskey Rebellion occurs/ Citizen Genet tries to recruit Americans to invade Florida
and Louisiana/ Jay Treaty signed/ Battle of Fallen Timbers takes place

1795

Treaty of Greenville signed

1796

John Adams elected president

1797

XYZ Affair occurs/ Navy Department established

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress

1798-

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions published

99
1800

Thomas Jefferson elected president

Chapter 9 The Republicans in Power 1800-1824


Terms

Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson
Federalists
James Madison
Republicans
John Adams
Midnight appointments
Marbury v. Madison
John Marshall
Four Pillars of Posterity
Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon Bonaparte
Embargo Act of 1807
Macons Bill No.2
War of 1812
William Henry Harrison
Tecumseh
Tippecanoe
Fort McHenry
Francis Scott Key
Hartford Convention

Treaty of Ghent
Rush-Bagot Agreement
Adams-Onis Treaty
James Monroe
Henry Clay
The American System
Tariff of 1816
Fletcher v. Peck
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise
Timeline
1800 Thomas Jefferson elected president
1803 Louisiana Purchase made
1805 Treaty signed with Tripoli
1807 Embargo Act passed
1808 James Madison elected president
1810 Fletcher v. Peck decision
1812 United States declares war on England
1814 Francis Scott Key composes the Star-Spangled Banner/ New England states meet at
Hartford Convention/ Treaty of Ghent signed
1816 James Monroe elected president/ Tariff of 1816 passed/ Second bank of the United States

chartered
1818 Rush-Bagot Agreement signed
1819 Adams-Onis Treaty signed/ Dartmouth College v. Woodward decision/ McCulloch v.
Maryland decision
1820 Missouri Compromise preserves balance of power in Congress
1823 Monroe Doctrine proclaimed
1824 Gibbons v. Ogden decision
1825 Erie Canal completed

Chapter 10 Jacksonian Democracy 1824-1836


Terms
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Daniel Webster
Disputed election of 1824
Henry Clay
Corrupt bargain
American Plan
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Bank War
Whigs
Panic of 1837
John C. Calhoun

Nullification Crisis
Ordinance of Nullification
Nullification Proclamation
Force Bill
Compromise of 1833
Timeline
1824 John Quincy Adams wins in a disputed presidential election
1828 South Carolina Exposition and Protest written in protest of Tariff of Abominations
1830 Indian Removal Act passed/ Webster v. Hayne debate takes place/ Trail of Tears begins
with Choctaws
1832 Worcester v. Georgia decision/ South Carolina nullifies Tariff if 1832/ Jackson vetoes
Bank Bill
1836 Specie circular issued/ Martin Van Buren elected president
1837 Panic of 1837 begins

Chapter 11 Growth, Slavery, and Reform, 1800-1850


Terms
Transportation Revolution
National Road
Robert Fulton
Erie Canal
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Elias Howe

Samuel F.B. Morse


Black Belt
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
American Renaissance
Second Great Awakening
Temperance movement
Convention in Seneca Falls
William Lloyd Garrison
American Anti-Slavery Society
Nat Turner
Timeline
1793

Cotton Gin invented

1801

Interchangeable parts exhibited

1807

Fulton perfects the steamboat

1811

National Road begins

1817-

Erie Canal Built

1825
1820s-30s

The Height of the Second Great Awakening

1821

United States consists of 12 slave states and 12 free states

1829

David Walkers appeal published

1831

Nat Turner Rebellion takes place/ Liberator published

1840

Liberty Party splits the American anti-Slavery Society

1844

Samuel F.B. Morse invents the telegraph

1840s

American Renaissance in literature takes place

1848

Convention held at Seneca Falls/ Martin Van Buren runs for president on Free Soil
Ticket

1860

United States consists of 15 Slave states and 23 free states/ 4 Million slaves exist

Chapter 12 Expansion, Conflict, and Compromise, 1820-1850


Terms
No Irish Need Apply (NINA)
Gag rule
Anti-Masonic party
American Party
Liberty Party
Non-Cooperators
Lone Star Republic
James K. Polk
Nueces River
General Zachary Taylor
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Wilmot Provisio
Free Soil Party
Compromise of 1850
Golf Rush
Fugitive Slave law

Stephen Douglas
Millard Fillmore
Timeline
1821 Mexico Gains independence from Spain
1836 Texas-the line Star Republic- declares independence/ House of Representatives imposes
gag rule
1840 Harrison runs log Cabin Campaign/ American Anti-Slavery Society splits, forming the
Liberty party
1844 James K. Polk elected president
1845 Texas Admitted into the Union/ Mexican War begins
1846 Wilmot Provisio passes in the House, fails in the Senate
1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo signed/ Gold found in California/ Whig Zachary Taylor
elected president
1850 Clay introduces Compromise/ Taylor dies, Millard Fillmore becomes president/
Compromise passed

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