Ch. 1: Ancient America and Africa
The Aztecs
Tenochtitlan
Potlatch
Algonquian
Iroquoian
Muskhogean
Siouan
Maize
League of the Iroquois
Ch. 2: Europeans and Africans reach the Americas
Ferdinand and Isabella
Christopher Columbus
San Salvador (Holy Savior)
Vasco da Gama
The Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Predestination
Visible Saints
Presbyteries
Henry VIII
Anglican Church
Queen Elizabeth
Aztec and Inca Empires
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Conquistadors
Cortes
Pizarro
The Columbian Exchange
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernan de Soto
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Ch. 3: Colonizing a Continent in the Seventeenth Century
Jamestown, Virginia
Charter
Virginia Company
Joint-Stock Company
Tobacco
Indentured Servants
Powhatan
Pocahontas and John Rolfe
George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon
Sir William Berkeley
Separatists
Pilgrims
William Bradford
Non-Separatists
Puritans
John Winthrop
“City Upon A Hill”
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Antinomianism
Confederation of New England
Metacom (King Philip)
Samuel de Champlain
Dutch West India Company
Charles II
Society of Friends
William Penn
Glorious Revolution
King James II
Prince William of Orange
Edmund Andros
Dominion of New England
Salem Witchcraft Trial
Betty Parris
Abigail Williams
Tituba
Ch. 4: The Maturing of Colonial Society
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanack
“Deputy Husband” and “Yolk Mate”
Charleston, South Carolina
Mercantilism
Thomas Hancock
The Age of Reason
John Locke
The Great Awakening
The Congregational Church
The Half-Way Covenant
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Whig Ideology
John Peter Zenger
Ch. 5: The Strains of Empire
The Seven Year's War
“Salutary Neglect”
War of Jenkins' Ear
King George's War
The War of Austrian Succession
The Albany Plan
William Pitt
The Treaty of Paris
The Proclamation of 1763
George Grenville
The Revenue Act (Sugar Act)
The Currency Act
Patrick Henry
Andrew Oliver
Thomas Hutchinson
The Sons of Liberty
The Declaratory Act
Samuel Adams
The “Boston Massacre”
The Tea Act
The Boston Tea Party
The Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
The Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress
Homespun
The Regulators
Ch. 6: A People in Revolution
Lexington and Concord
Minutemen
Second Continental Congress
Olive Branch Petition
Ethan Allen
Green Mountain Boys
Thomas Paine
Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson
“The Declaration of Independence”
John Dickinson
The Articles of Confederation
Loyalists
Ch. 7: Consolidating the Revolution
Newburgh, New York
Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1787
Shays's Rebellion
James Bowdoin
Daniel Shays
Federalists
Virginia Plan
Edmund Randolph
New Jersey Plan
William Paterson
Great Compromise
Roger Sherman
Anti-Federalists
Publius: Madison, Hamilton, and John Jay
Federalist Papers
Ch. 8: Creating a Nation
The Bill of Rights
Jeffersonian Republicans
Alexander Hamilton
Report on the Public Credit
National Bank
Report on Manufactures
Whiskey Tax
The Whiskey Rebellion
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Democratic-Republican Societies
Edmund Genet
Neutrality Proclamation
Jay's Treaty
Treaty of San Lorenzo
Washington's Farewell Address
President John Adams
The XYZ Affair
The Alien and Sedition Acts
The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Nullification
The “Revolution of 1800”
President Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Malthus
The Louisiana Purchase
Adams-Onis Treaty
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Sacagawea
Zebulon Pike
Non-Importation Act
The Embargo Act
Ch. 9: Society and Politics in the Early Republic
The War of 1812
War Hawks
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
The Hartford Convention
Andrew Jackson
The Battle of New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent
Francis Scott Key
The Monroe Doctrine
The Missouri Crisis
Rufus King
The Missouri Compromise
36' 30”
The American System
Ch. 10: Economic Transformations in the Northeast and Old Northwest
The Transportation Revolution
The Erie Canal
Railroads
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Chicago
National Road
Palmer v. Mulligan
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Sturgis v. Crowninshield
The McCormick Reaper
The Colt Revolver
Goodyear Vulcanized Rubber
Massachusetts Common School
Horace Mann
Putting-Out System
Francis Cabot Lowell
Paul Moody
The Market Revolution
McGuffey Readers
Irish Immigrants and Famine
German Immigrants
Ch. 11: Slavery and the Old South
Frederick Douglass
The “Peculiar Institution”
The “Cotton Kingdom”
The Cotton Gin'
Eli Whitney
Alexandria, Virginia
Natchez, Mississippi
Nat Turner Revolt
Planter Paternalism
Southern Code of Honor
The Mammy
Pro-Slavery Argument
The “Big House”
Black Christianity
Br're Rabbit
Black Drivers
Overseers
Maroons
The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Gabriel
Denmarck Vescey
Ch. 12: Shaping America in the Antebellum Age
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Second Great Awakening
Lyman Beecher
Charles G. Finney
The Transcendentalists
Margaret Fuller
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Henry David Thoreau
Walden Pond
“Civil Disobedience”
Walden
Horace Greeley
Andrew Jackson “Old Hickory”
Democratic Party
Martin Van Buren
National Republicans
“Tariff of Abominations”
Rotation of Office (Spoils System)
Maysville Road
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Exposition and Protest
Daniel Webster
Force Bill of 1833
The “Trail of Tears”
The Bank War (B.U.S.)
“The Monster”
Nicholas Biddle
Whigs
Roger Taney
Specie Circular
Panic of 1837
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Utopianism
Robert Owen
John Humphrey Noyes
Oneida
Shakers
Mother Ann Lee
New Harmony
Brook Farm
Margaret Fuller
William Miller (Millerites)
Seventh-Day Adventists
Joseph Smith
The Book of Mormon
Brigham Young
Social Reforms
Temperance
Theodore Dwight Weld
The American Temperance Society
The Washington Temperance Society
Dietary Reform
Sylvester Graham
Asylum Reform
Dorothea Dix
Charles Loring Brace
Samuel Gridley Howe
Thomas Gallaudet
Lane Seminary
Arthur and Lewis Tappan
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
New England Anti-Slavery Society
American Anti-Slavery Society
American Colonization Society
David Walker
Henry Highland Garnet
Wendell Phillips
Frederick Douglass
The North Star
Martin Delaney
The Gag Rule
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
New York Female Moral Reform Society
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
1848 Seneca Falls Convention
“Declaration of Sentiments”
Susan B. Anthony
Ch. 13: Moving West
The Gadsden Purchase
Manifest Destiny
John L. O'Sullivan
Stephen F. Austin
Sam Houston
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
The Alamo
San Jacinto
The Lone Star Republic
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
John L. Slidell
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Homestead Act
The Overland and Oregon Trails
Ch. 14: The Union in Peril
David Wilmot
The Wilmot Proviso
“Popular Sovereignty”
Lewis Cass
Free-Soil Party
Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas
The Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Winfield Scott
William Seward
Franklin Pierce
Kansas-Nebraska Act
James Gadsden
William Walker
Ostend Manifesto
Know-Nothing Party
John C. Fremont
James Buchanan
Bleeding Kansas
Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society
Topeka and Lecompton
Pottawatomie Creek (and Massacre)
Charles Sumner
Andrew Butler
Preston Brooks
The Dred Scott Case
Chief Justice Roger Taney
The Lecompton Constitution
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Freeport (Doctrine)
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
The “Black Republican”
John C. Breckinridge
John Bell
Jefferson Davis
Fort Sumter
Secession
Ch. 15: The Union Severed
The Border States
Anaconda Plan
Battle of Bull Run
P.G.T. Beauregard
George McClelland
Ulysses S. Grant
Shiloh Church
The Merrimac and the Monitor
1863 Draft (and Anti-Draft Riots)
The Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
Pickett's Charge
Vicksburg
William Tecumseh Sherman
1862 Conscription Act
Appomattox
Pacific Railroad Act
Homestead Act
Morrill Act
Banking Acts
Ford's Theater
John Wilkes Booth
Ch. 16: The Union Reconstructed
“Black Codes”
Presidential Reconstruction
Thirteenth Amendment
Congressional Reconstruction
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
Joint Committee on Reconstruction
Fourteenth Amendment
The “Bloody Shirt”
The Tenure of Office Act
Benjamin Wade
Ulysses S. Grant
Fifteenth Amendment
Freedmen's Bureau
American Missionary Association
O.O. Howard
Sharecropping
Tenant Farmers
Debt Peonage
Reconstruction-Era Ku Klux Klan
Negro Baptist Church
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church
Colored Presbyterian Church
Fisk, Howard, and Atlanta Colleges
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
Exodusters
“Black and Tan” Governments
“Carpetbaggers” (and “Scalawags”)
Redemption
Force Acts
Ku Klux Klan Act
Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads
National Labor Union
Era of Good Stealings
Boss Tweed
Jay Gould
Whisky Ring
Credit Mobilier
Horace Greeley
The Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden
Ch. 17: Rural America: The West and the South
Bonanza Farms
Frederick Jackson Turner
The Frontier Thesis
Great Plains
Cattle Kingdom
Barbed Wire
The Dust Bowl
Timber and Stone Act
John Muir
Yosemite National Park
Forest Reserve Act
Sierra Club
Gifford Pinchot
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
Ghost Dance
The New South
Henry Grady
American Tobacco Company
James Duke
Southern Cotton Mills
Lien (Crop Lien System)
Minstrel Show
Lynching
Black Beast Rapist
Black Disenfranchisement
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Clause
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ida B. Wells
T. Thomas Fortune
Afro-American League
J. C. Price
Citizens Equal Rights Association
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Tuskeegee Institute
Cotton States and International Exposition
Atlanta Compromise Speech
The National Grange
Oliver Kelley
Order of the Patrons of Husbandry
Granger Laws
Munn v. Illinois
Wabash v. Illinois
Interstate Commerce Act
Interstate Commerce Commission
The Southern Farmers' Alliance
Colored Farmers' Alliance
Sub-treasuries
Ocala Platform
Ch. 18: The Rise of Smokestack America
Steel Production
Bessemer Process
Andrew Carnegie
Electricity
Anthracite
Thomas Edison
“Pools”
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Monopoly
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil of New Jersey
Incorporation
Stock
Limited Liability
J.P. Morgan (and Company)
Slums
Tenements
Streetcar Suburbs
The “New Woman”
Gibson Girl
Jane Addams
Hull House
Professionalism
Licensing
Career
American Medical Association
American Bar Association
Horatio Alger
Sweatshops
Foreman
Real Wages
Child Labor
Prostitution
Wage Slaves
Strikes
Sympathy Strikes
National Labor Union
Eight-Hour Day
Knights of Labor
Terence V. Powderly
Haymarket Riot
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union
Scabs
Homestead Strike
Henry Clay Frick
Eugene Debs
American Railway Union
Pullman Strike
Richard Altgeld
Richard Olney
Chinese Exclusion Act
Ch. 19: Politics and Reform
Mark Twain
“Gilded Age”
Roscoe Conkilin
Henry Adams
James G. Blaine
The Tariff
Greenbacks
Specie Resumption Act
Pendleton Act
Civil Service Reform
Michael “Hinky Dink” Kenna
Tammany Hall
George Washington Plunkitt
Santa Fe Ring
Frances Willard
Women's Christian Temperance Union
The Gospel of Wealth
Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
William Graham Sumner
Brook Adams
Henry George
Progress and Poverty
Lester Frank Ward
Richard T. Ely
John Dewey
William James
Pragmatism
Jane Addams
Hull House
Vida Sculler
Dwight Moody
YMCA
Walter Rauschenbusch
Kate Chopin
The Awakening
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
Emma Goldman
North American Woman Suffrage Association
Carrie Chapman Catt
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
William McKinley
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Silverites
The “Billion-Dollar Congress”
Peoples Party (Populists)
James B. Weaver
James G. Field
Ignatius Donnelly
Omaha Demands
The Depression of 1893
World's Columbian Exposition
Jacob Coxey
L. Frank Baum
The Wizard of Oz
William Jennings Bryan
“Cross of Gold” Speech
Mark Hanna
Ch. 20: Becoming a World Power
William Seward
Alaska (Seward's Icebox)
Pan-American Conference
Queen Liliuokalani
Imperialism
Expansionism
Albert Beveridge
Orville Platt
Overproduction
National Association of Manufacturers
United Fruit Company
Alcoa Aluminum
Du Pont
American Tobacco Company
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry Cabot Lodge
“Large Policy”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
“White Man's Burden”
Josiah Strong
Our Country
Yellow Journalism
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
General Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau (“The Butcher”
“Reconcentration” Policy (and Camps)
The de Lome Letter
Explosion of the Maine
George Dewey
Teller Amendment
“A Splendid Little War”
Guam
Puerto Rico
John Hay
“Benevolent Assimilation
Emilio Aguinaldo
Anti-Imperialism League
Panama Canal
Philippe Bunau-Varilla
Platt Amendment
Guantanamo Bay
Roosevelt Corollary
Open Door Notes (and Policy)
Boxer Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War
Ch. 21: The Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism
The Progressive Movement
Toynbee Hall
Lewis Hine
John Sloan
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