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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