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US History Table of Contents	3
Chapter 1: The First Americans	16
Early America: Pre Columbus	16
1.1 Early America up till 1492	16
1.3 Tribes of the Northwest	16
1.4 Great Basin Culture Area	17
1.5 Plateau Culture Area	17
1.6 Tribes of the Southwest	17
1.7 Tribes of the Great Plains	17
1.8 Tribes of the Southeast	17
1.9 Tribes of the Northeast	18
1.11 Chapter One Practice Exam	19
Chapter 2: Age of Exploration 1492-1600s	21
2.1 Age of Exploration 1492-1600s	21
2.2 The Age of Exploration	21
2.3 Columbus	21
2.4 The Columbian Exchange	22
2.5 The Treaty Tordesillas	22
2.6 The Spanish Conquistadors	23
2.7 Conquistadors take the New World	23
2.8 French Explorers	24
2.9 Dutch (Netherlands) Explorers	25
2.10 English Explorers	25
2.11 European Effects on Native Population	25
2.12 Slavery in the New World	26
2.13 Chapter Two Practice Exam	27
Chapter 3: Early Settlements and Colonies mid 1500s- Mid 1600s	29
3.1 Settlements and Colonies mid 1500s- Mid 1600s	29
3.2 New Spain	29
3.3 New France	30
3.4 The English Colonies	30
3.5 Colonization	31
3.6 Jamestown	32
3.7 The Massachusetts Bay Colony	33
3.8 Under the Leadership of John Winthrop	34
3.9 Dissension in the Colony	34
3.10 The New World Powers	38
3.11 Chapter Three Practice Exam	39
Chapter 4: Colonial Life mid 1600s-1763	42
4.1 Colonial Life	42
4.2 Early Colonial Economy	42
4.3 The Navigation Acts	42
4.4 The Triangular Trade	43
4.5 Bacon's Rebellion	44
4.6 King Phillip's War (King Mediacom’s War) and the New England Confederation	44
4.7 The Half-Way Covenant	45
4.9 The Enlightenment	46
4.10 Ideas on a Social Contract	47
4.11 The First Great Awakening	48
4.12 Colonial Culture	49
4.13 Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (The Middle Passage)	51
4.14 Slavery in North America	52
4.15 Conflicts Leading to the French and Indian War	52
4.16 The Albany Plan	53
4.17 The French and Indian War	53
4.18 Pontiac's Rebellion	54
4.19 The Colonial Landscape	54
4.20 Chapter Four Practice Exam	56
Chapter 5: Road to Independence 1763-1776	59
5.1 Road to Independence	59
5.2 The Beginnings of Unpleasantness	59
5.3 The Writs of Assistance	59
5.4 The Proclamation Line	60
5.5 The Sugar Act	60
5.6 The Stamp Act	60
5.7 Stamp Act Repealed and Declaratory Act Enacted	61
5.8 The Sons of Liberty and the Daughters of Liberty	61
5.9 The Townshend Duties	62
5.10 Boston Massacre	62
5.11 Committees of Correspondence	63
5.12 The Tea Act	64
5.13 The Boston Tea Party	64
5.14 The Hutchinson Letters Affair	64
5.15 The Intolerable Acts	65
5.16 The Four Coercive Acts:	65
5.17 The First Continental Congress	65
5.18 The First Battles	66
5.19 The Second Continental Congress	66
5.20 The Olive Branch Petition	67
5.21 Washington Elected as Commanding General	67
5.22 The Declaration of Independence	67
5.23 Common Sense	68
5.24 Chapter Five Practice Exam	70
Chapter 6: The Revolution 1776-1783	73
6.1 Revolution 1776-1783	73
6.2 The Continental Army	73
6.3 Division among the Colonists	73
6.4 Benjamin Franklin in France	73
6.5 War in the North	74
6.6 The Campaign in New York	74
6.7 Battle of Saratoga	75
6.8 France and American Alliance	76
6.9 Valley Forge	76
6.10 War in the South	77
6.11 Yorktown	78
6.12 The Treaty of Parris 1783	78
6.13 Chapter Six Practice Exam	79
Chapter 7: Creating a Government	81
7.1 Creating a Government	81
7.2 State Constitutions	81
7.3 The Articles of Confederation (1776-1787)	81
7.4 The Events which lead to the Constitution	82
7.5 Toward a New Constitution (1787-1789)	84
7.6 The Annapolis Convention	84
7.7 The Constitutional Convention	85
7.8 The Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan	85
7.9 The Great Compromise	86
7.10 The Three-Fifths Compromise	86
7.11 Electing a President	86
7.12 Electoral College	86
7.13 The Struggle for Ratification	87
7.14 Outline of the Unites States Constitution	87
7.15 Amendments to the Constitution	89
7.16 Separation and Limitation Of Powers	90
7.17 Required Percentages of voting	92
7.18 Chapter Seven Practice Exam	93
Chapter 8: Creating a Nation (1789-1817)	95
8.1 Creating a Nation	95
8.2 The Federalist Era	95
8.3 The New Executive	95
8.4 The Establishment of the Federal Court System	96
8.5 The Establishment of the Executive Departments	96
8.6 Washington’s Administration, 1789-1797	96
8.7 Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists	97
8.8 Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans (Democratic-Republicans)	97
8.9 Foreign and Frontier Affairs	97
8.10 Frontier Problems	98
8.11 Treaty of Greenville	98
8.12 The Whiskey Rebellion	99
8.13 Washington's Farewell Address (1796)	99
8.14 John Adams Administration, 1797-1801	100
8.15 Repression and Protest	100
8.16 The Election of 1800 (The Revolution of 1800)	101
8.17 The Jeffersonian Era, 1801-1817	101
8.18 Conflict with the Constitution	102
8.19 The Louisiana Purchase	103
8.20 The Burr Conspiracy	104
8.21 The Yazoo Land Scandal	104
8.22 International Involvement	104
8.23 Madison's Administration 1809-1817	105
8.24 Events Leading to the War of 1812	105
8.25 Native American Resistance and Tippecanoe Creek (Tecumseh's War)	106
8.26 War Hawks	106
8.27 The War of 1812	106
8.28 The Battle of New Orleans	106
8.29 The Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve 1814	107
8.30 The Hartford Convention (1814)	107
8.31 Post War Development	108
8.32 Chapter Eight Practice Exam	109
Chapter 9 The Era of Good Feelings and the John Quincy Adams Administration 1817-1829	112
9.1 Era of Good Feelings and the John Quincy Adams Administration 1817-1829	112
9.2 The Monroe Presidency 1817-1825	112
9.3 Jackson’s Florida Invasion (1817)	112
9.4 The Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)	112
9.5 The Monroe Doctrine	113
9.6 Postwar Boom	113
9.7 The Depression of 1819	113
9.8 The John Marshall Court	114
9.9 Mason-Dixon Line	115
9.10 The Missouri Compromise (1820)	115
9.11 Tallmadge Amendment	115
9.12 Henry Clay’s Compromise Solution	116
9.13 Missouri Compromise Final Outcome	116
9.14 Culture, Economy, and Innovations	116
9.15 Industrialization	118
9.16 Education	119
9.17 The Growth of Cultural Nationalism	120
9.18 The Election of 1824	121
9.19 The Adams Administration 1825-1829	122
9.20 Return of the Two-Party System	122
9.21 The Election of 1828	122
9.22 Chapter Nine Practice Exam	123
Chapter 10: Jacksonian Democracy and Westward Expansion (1829-1848)	125
10.1 Jacksonian Democracy and Westward Expansion (1829-1848)	125
10.2 The Petticoat Affair (Eaton Affair)	125
10.3 The Kitchen Cabinet and Spoils System	126
10.4 Tariff of Abominations and Nullification Crisis	126
10.5 South Carolina Exposition and Protest	127
10.6 Nat Turner's Revolt	127
10.7 Indian Removal Act of 1830	128
10.8 The Trail of Tears	128
10.9 The Bank War	129
10.10 The Election of 1832	129
10.11 The Rise of the Whig Party	130
10.12 The Election of 1836	130
10.13 Van Buren’s Administration 1837-1841	130
10.14 The Panic of 1837	130
10.15 The Election of 1840 and End of Jacksonian Era	131
10.16 The "Log Cabin Campaign"	131
10.17 Harrison Administration 1841-1841	131
10.18 John Tyler Administration 1841-1845	131
10.19 Manifest Destiny	132
10.20 The Election of 1844	132
10.21 Polk Administration 1844-1848	132
10.22 Texas Annexed into the Union	133
10.23 The Lead-up to War with Mexico	133
10.24 The Mexican American War	134
10.25 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	134
10.26 California Gold Rush	134
10.27 The Oregon Trail 1843	135
10.28 Effects of Expansion: Sectional Tension Intensified	136
10.29 Wilmot Proviso	136
10.30 The Free Soil Party	137
10.31 Chapter Ten Practice Exam	138
Chapter 11: Antebellum Culture 1820-1860	140
11.1 Antebellum Culture 1820-1860	140
11.2 Tocqueville’s Democracy in America	140
11.3 Developments in Religion	140
11.4 Inventions and Innovations	142
11.5 Transportation and Leisure	142
11.6 Social Reforms of the Period	143
11.7 Utopian Communities	146
11.8 American Literature	147
11.9 Economic Growth	147
11.10 Northern Culture	148
11.11 Southern Culture	150
11.12 Southern Slave Culture	151
11.13 Chapter Eleven Practice Exam	153
Chapter 12: Events that Lead to the Civil War, 1848-1861	155
12.1 The Election of 1848	155
12.2 Taylor's Administration 1848-1850	155
12.3 Fillmore Administration 1850-1853	155
12.4 The Compromise of 1850	155
12.5 The Great Debate	156
12.6 The Fugitive Slave Acts	156
12.7 Election of 1852	157
12.8 Pierce Administration 1852-1856	157
12.9 Gadsden Purchase 1854	158
12.10 The Kansas-Nebraska Act	158
12.11 Bleeding Kansas and John Brown 1855-1858	158
12.12 From Whigs to Republicans	159
12.13 The Election of 1856	159
12.14 Buchanan Administration 1856-1860	160
12.15 The Dred Scott Decision	160
12.16 Republicans and Democrats Face Off	161
12.17 The Impending Crisis	161
12.18 Republican Ascendancy: The Election of 1860	162
12.19 The Secession Crisis	162
12.20 The Confederate States of America	163
12.21 Chapter Twelve Practice Exam	164
Chapter 13: The Civil War 1861-1865	166
13.1 War Was Inevitable	166
13.2 Union and Confederacy: Advantages/Disadvantages	166
13.3 Reasons the North and South Fought	167
13.4 Fighting Breaks Out	168
13.5 Border States	168
13.6 The Anaconda Plan and Winfield Scott	169
13.7 The Beginning of the Civil War	169
13.8 Theaters of War	169
13.9 Confederate Generals	170
13.10 Union Generals	170
13.11 Civil War Hospitals	171
13.12 Naming the Battles	171
13.13 Civil War 1861	171
13.14 Civil War 1862	172
13.15 The Emancipation Proclamation	173
13.16 Lincoln's Martial Law	174
13.17 Raising Money and Troops	174
13.18 Helping the Union Settle the West	175
13.19 Civil War 1863	176
13.20 Civil War 1864	177
13.21 The Election of 1864	178
13.22 Civil War 1865	179
13.23 Lincoln Assassinated	179
13.24 Chapter Thirteen Practice Exam	181
Chapter 14: Reconstruction, 1865-1877	183
14.1 Reconstruction	183
14.2 Reconstruction under Lincoln Administration	183
14.3 The Ten Percent Plan	183
14.4 The Wade-Davis Bill	184
14.5 The Freedmen’s Bureau	184
14.6 The Thirteenth Amendment Passed	184
14.7 Reconstruction under Johnson Administration	184
14.8 Black Codes	185
14.9 Congressional Reconstruction	185
14.10 The Fourteenth Amendment Passed	185
14.11 Reconstruction Act of 1867	186
14.12 Impeachment Crisis	186
14.13 The Fifteenth Amendment Passed	186
14.14 The Rise of the KKK	187
14.15 Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871 and the Klu Klux Klan Act 1871	187
14.16 Reconstructed Governments in the New South	187
14.17 Reconstruction under Grant Administration 1869-1877	188
14.18 Liberal Republicans	189
14.19 The Panic of 1873	189
14.20 The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Battle of Wounded Knee	189
14.21 The United States Purchases Alaska (Seward's Folly)	190
14.22 The End of Reconstruction	190
14.23 Hayes-Tilden Compromise	190
14.24 Chapter Fourteen Practice Exam	192
Answer Keys	195

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