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TERMS: Define the term, providing historical context, and include its significance! (in other words, why do we study this term, idea, event, or person?)
 | Colonial Era : Mercantilism, Jamestown, Columbus, Puritans, Mayflower Compact, William Penn, Ben Franklin, Enlightenment. |
| Revolutionary Era: Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Proclamation Line of 1763, Boston Massacre, Sons of Liberty, Intolerable Acts, Boston Tea Party, First and Second Constitutional Congresses, Sam Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Yorktown, Crispus Attucks, John Locke, French and Indian War, George Whitefield, Great Awakening. |
| Federalist Papers: the Federalist Papers, Constitutional Convention, Great Compromise, 3/5 Compromise, Bill of Rights, Checks and Balances. |
| Confederation and Constitutional Era: Articles of Confederation, Shay's Rebellion, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Northwest Land Ordinances |
| Federalist Era: Federalist Party, Hamilton's Economic Program, Washington's Farewell Address, Alien and Sedition Acts |
| Basic Court Cases: Marbury v. Madison, Dred Scott v. Sanford, Plessy v. Ferguson, Worcester v. Georgia |
| Jeffersonian Era: Jefferson, Treaty of Ghent, War of 1812, Clay's American System, Era of Good Feelings, Monroe Doctrine, John Marshall, Lewis and Clark, Louisiana Purchase, Battle of New Orleans. |
| Jackson: Spoils System, Democrats, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, nullification, Trail of Tears, Indian Removal |
| Pre-Civil War: Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, Dorothea Dix, Brigham Young, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, Seneca Falls Convention, James K. Polk, Compromise of 1850, Eli Whitney, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt |
| Civil War: Election of 1860, Robert E. Lee, Antietam, Gettysburg Address, U.S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Ft. Sumter, Battle of Gettysburg, Emancipation Proclamation, Appomattox Courthouse. |
| Reconstruction: Lincoln's Plan, Scalawags and Carpetbaggers, Freedman's Bureau, Andrew Johnson, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Radical Republicans, Compromise of 1877 |
| Frontier: Wounded Knee, Joseph Glidden, Battle of Little Big Horn, John Chivington, the Black Hills |
| The Gilded Age: Bessemer Process, Edwin Drake, Interstate Commerce Act, Andrew Carnegie, Laissez Faire, The Grange, Populist Movement, Trust, Monopoly, the Sherman Anti-trust Act. |
| Age of Imperialism: Yellow Journalism, Open Door Policy, Gentlemen's Agreement, U.S.S. Maine, Rough Riders, Alfred T. Mahan, Teddy Roosevelt, Panama Canal, the Roosevelt Corollary. |
| Labor: The AFL, the Haymarket Riots, Samuel Gompers, John L. Lewis, Knights of Labor, Mother Jones, Eugene Debs. |
| Progressivism: Muckrakers, Federal Reserve System, The New Freedom, The Square Deal, Upton Sinclair, 18th and 19th Amendments, Progressive Party |
| WWI: Woodrow Wilson, Zimmerman Telegram, Lusitania, Causes of WWI (4 long term causes), Treaty of Versailles, General Pershing, Central Powers, 14 Points. |