1. 2014-2015

2.  Each six weeks this year, we covered a different era in US history. Categorizing the questions on STAAR by era might help you take the test better. Examine the following slides over each of the historical eras to help you remember what we’ve studied this year. Major Eras in History

3.   Colonial Era – reasons for exploration, colonization, life and government in the colonies  Revolutionary Era – events and people of the American Revolution  Articles of Confederation & Constitution – how our government was created and what it’s like today  New Republic – the early presidents and their policies  Growing Nation – manifest destiny and social reforms, art and literature  Civil War and Reconstruction – why the country was torn apart, the people & events of the war, and how it was put back together Major Eras in History

4.   Mercantilism  Jamestown 1607  House of Burgesses  Representative government  Mayflower Compact 1620  Religious freedom – Pilgrims, Catholics, Quakers, Puritans  Fundamental Orders of Connecticut  Shipping, trade, subsistence farming in New England  Middle – breadbasket colonies (grains)  Southern – cash crops: tobacco, rice, indigo  Geography determined economy  John Smith, John Rolfe  Mercantilism  Thomas Hooker  William Penn & Quakers  Anne Hutchinson  Native Americans The Colonial Era  Salutary neglect  Join or Die! – Ben Franklin vs. French  French and Indian War – France Loses to Britain – Treaty of Paris 1763  War debt  Great Awakening – led to ideas of equality  Colonial legislatures  Magna Cart  English Bill of Rights  King George III  13 original colonies  John Peter Zenger  Religion and civic virtue in society and government  Geographic differences between regions  Triangular trade routes  Tobacco  Enlightenment

5.   War debt  Proclamation of 1763  New taxes and unfair laws: Sugar Act, Stamp Tax, Townshend Acts, Intolerable Acts, Tea Act  King George III  1776 – Declaration of Independence  Unfair laws  Boston Massacre  Boston Tea Party  Stamp Act  Lexington & Concord  Bunker Hill  Saratoga  Valley Forge  Yorktown  Treaty of Paris, 1783  Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The Crisis  Paul Revere, Wentworth Cheswell  “Taxation without representation is tyranny!”  John Locke – natural Rights The Revolutionary Era  redcoats  Samuel Adams  Sons of Liberty  Unalienable rights  George Washington  Haym Salomon  James Armistead  John Paul Jones  Nathan Hale  Mercy Otis Warren  John Adams  Abigail Adams  Bernardo de Galvez  Crispus Attucks  Patrick Henry  Marquis de Lafayette  Thomas Jefferson  Writing the Articles of Confederation

6.   Shays’ Rebellion  Northwest Ordinance - 1787  Ordinance of 1785  Constitutional Convention – 1787  Great Compromise  3/5 Compromise  Ratification  Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists  Patrick Henry, George Mason  Federalism  Limited Government  Popular Sovereignty  Republicanism  Checks and balances  Separation of powers  Roger Sherman The Articles of Confederation & Constitution  Amendments/amendment process  Bill of Rights  State vs. Federal government  Citizenship and naturalization  Importance of free speech and free press  Locke – natural rights  Legislative branch  Executive branch  Judicial branch  Federalist Papers  AntiFederalist Papers  Montesquieu – separation of powers and checks and balances  Enlightenment

7.   Washington – precedents, Farewell Address, cabinet, treaties, debt, Whiskey Rebellion, Washington, DC, bill of rights  Setting up a new government: economy, military, court system, defining federal authority  Federal Judiciary Act  Hamilton’s Financial Plan: national bank, tariff  Federalists vs. Democratic- Republicans – first political parties  Jay’s Treaty, Pinckney’s Treaty  John Adams – midnight judges, XYZ affair, Federalists vs. Democratic- Republicans  Thomas Jefferson – pirates, Louisiana Purchase 1803, John Marshall court  James Madison – War of 1812, Star- Spangled Banner, Dolley Madison  James Monroe – Jackson invades Florida, Adams-Onis Treaty, Monroe Doctrine The New Republic  John Quincy Adams – Jackson’s “corrupt bargain”  Andrew Jackson – rise of common man, no property requirements to vote, spoils system, kitchen cabinet, Nullification Crisis, Trail of Tears  Martin Van Buren  William Henry Harrison – Died; VP John Tyler took over  Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, Worcestor v. Georgia  Industrial Revolution  Foreign policy  John Marshall

8.   Manifest Destiny  New Territories: Louisiana Purchase, Florida, Texas Annexation, 49 th Parallel, Oregon Territory, Mexican Cession, Gadsden Purchase  Texas Revolution, Mexican War, Gold Rush  Chinese immigrants, mountain men  Reformers: social reform, education, temperance, abolition, women’s rights  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman  Canals, Erie Canal  Inventors and inventions: Industrial Revolution  Second Great Awakening  Art and literature: Audubon, Bingham, Hudson River School, Thoreau, Emerson, Transcendentalism, Cole  railroads The Growing Nation  Cotton gin  Industrial Revolution  Interchangeable parts  Free enterprise/capitalism

9.   Sectionalism  Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun Daniel Webster  Missouri Compromise  North vs South  Nat Turner, slave codes  Irish, Germans  Compromise of 1850  Uncle Tom’s Cabin  Harriet Beecher Stowe  Underground Railroad  Harriet Tubman  Frederick Douglass  Stephen A. Douglas – popular sovereignty  Kansas-Nebraska Act  Bleeding Kansas  Dred Scott v. Sanford  John Brown  Lincoln-Douglas Debates  Fort Sumter  Lincoln’s 1 st and 2 nd inaugural addresses  Jefferson Davis’ inaugural address The Civil War and Reconstruction  1861-65 - Civil War  Union vs. Confederacy  Clara Barton  Antietam  Vicksburg  Gettysburg  Appomattox Courthouse  Emancipation Proclamation  Reconstruction  Hiram Rhodes Revels  13 th Amendment – freed slaves  14 th Amendment – citizenship  15 th Amendment – Vote  William Carney  Philip Bazaar  Lincoln’s assassination  Radical Reconstruction  Radical Republicans  Homestead Act  Dawes Act  Morrill Act  Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson