US history

French Treatment of Native Americans

Formed alliances, traded, intermarried, adopted culture, and converted to Christianity.

Spanish Treatment of Native Americans

Sought conquest, enforced rule through force, exploited, mistreated, and aimed for Catholic conversion.

English Treatment of Native Americans

Initially traded, later confiscated land, pushed off lands, viewed as obstacles, sought assimilation or eradication.

New England Colonies

Consisted of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, attracted Puritans, craftsmen, merchants, and farmers.

Middle Colonies

Included New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, attracted Quakers, Dutch, English, seeking economic opportunities and religious tolerance.

Southern Colonies

Comprised Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, attracted planters, indentured servants, and enslaved Africans for plantations.

Effects of French and Indian War on British Colonists

Economic strain, increased British control, expansion of territory, and colonist unity.

Shot Heard Around the World

First shot of the Revolution; major battle was Lexington and Concord.

Problems Faced by Washington Leading Continental Army

Low supplies, untrained volunteers, and food shortages.

Articles of Confederation

First constitution regulating 13 colonies, weak central government, allowed state independence.

Virginia and New Jersey Plans and Connecticut Compromise

Proposals for representation at Constitutional Convention, resolved through the Connecticut Compromise.

Bill of Rights

Guarantees individual rights against government, empowers people.

Election of 1800

Peaceful power transfer, Jefferson's presidency, political shift, and electoral system reform.

War of 1812

Defended American sovereignty, fostered unity, strengthened military, and ended with the Treaty of Ghent.

Andrew Jackson

7th president, ran on democratic principles, disliked National Bank, events included Indian Removal Act and Nullification Crisis.

Reconstruction

Controversial period post-Civil War, impacted by corruption and resistance to change.

Teddy Roosevelt

US president, major accomplishments include National Park System and Panama Canal construction.

W.E.B

African American leaders, differed in direct action vs. economic improvement approaches.

Muckraker

Journalist exposing societal issues.

WW1 Impacts on Homefront

Increased women in workforce, African American migration for job opportunities.

Consequences of Prohibition

Rise of illegal organized crime for alcohol supply.

US Return to Isolationism after WW1

Due to debt and focus on domestic issues.

Causes of Great Depression

Overproduction, economic problems, nature, and Hoover's policies.

Hoovervilles

Living spaces by homeless during the Great Depression.

Alphabet Soup

Policies to aid businesses post-Depression, significant agencies like FDIC, HOLC, PWA, AAA, CCC.

US Entry into WW2

Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Treatment of Minorities in WW2

Japanese internment, African American military service and job opportunities.

Brown v Board of Education

Ended school segregation.

Containment

US foreign policy to stop Communism post-WW2.

Nixon

Continued Cold War, lost trust, expanded war, Salt 1, Watergate scandal, resigned.

Iran Contra

Illegal arms trade involving Iran, Nicaragua, and Iraq.

Reagan-Gorbachev Meetings

Ended Cold War, significant for US-Russia relations.

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act signed by George H.W. Bush.

Globalization and Clinton

International business development under Clinton.

2000 Election Controversy

Close vote in Florida, Congress involvement.

2008 Financial Crisis

Housing market crash.

George Washington, Ben Franklin, James Madison, Upton Sinclair, John Brown, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Carnegie, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin D

Notable figures in American history.