Important People Events Ideas First Great

Important People, Events & Ideas

First Great Awakening

All men are created equal

Natural Rights

French Revolution

Federalism

English Parliament

Magna Carta

English Bill of Rights

Mayflower Compact

Declaration of Independence

Articles of Confederation

Northwest Ordinance

Constitution

Great Compromise

Three-fifths Compromise

Bill of Rights

Federalist Papers (& authors)

Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom

Enumerated Powers

Elastic Clause

Checks & Balances

Simple Majority

State Constitutions

Jefferson vs. Hamilton

Democratic-Republican vs. Federalist party

Alien & Sedition Acts

National Bank

Shays' Rebellion

Whiskey Rebellion

Voting system

Washington's Farewell Address

French Revolution

Citizen Genet

Louisiana Purchase

Lewis and Clark

Jacksonian Politics

Spoils System

Indian Removal Policy

Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper

Major Battles of the War of 1812

Monroe Doctrine

Mexican-American War

Henry Clay's American System

Leaders of Women's Rights Movement

Suffrage

Transcendentalism

American Writers

Antebellum South

North vs. South economies

African-American culture

Cotton Gin

Nat Turner

Plantation System

Rights' of Blacks (pre Civil War)

Manifest Destiny

Lewis & Clark

Trail of Tears

Pioneer Women

Mexican-American Influences

Lone Star Republic

John Quincy Adams

Abolitionists

John Brown

Underground Railroad

William Lloyd Garrison

Frederick Douglass

Free States

Missouri Compromise

Popular Sovereignty

Compromise of 1850

Daniel Webster vs. John C. Calhoun

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

'House Divided'

Mason-Dixon Line

Nullification

States Rights

Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses

Secession

Northern states

Antietam

Emancipation Proclamation

Gettysburg Address

High Water Mark'

'Turning Point'

Ulysses S. Grant

Jefferson Davis

Robert E. Lee

African-American Soldiers

Total War

Civil War resources: advantages/disadvantages

Appomattox Courthouse

Reconstruction Plans

Reconstruction Plans

Reconstruction Plans

40 acres and a mule

Freedmen's Bureau

Ku Klux Klan

Jim Crow

Indian Wars

Second Industrial Revolution

Robberbarons

Urbanization

Laissez-faire

Big Business

Labor Movements

Progressives

Nativism

Grangers

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