STAAR Category 1

Key Dates

1607 – Jamestown1620 – Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock1776 – Signing of the Declaration of Independence1787 – The Constitutional Convention1803 – The Louisiana Purchase1861-65 – The Civil War

Spain: Columbus landed in 1492

Spanish conquistadores came for Gold, Glory & God!

Spain built missions to help spread Christianity and the Catholic faith to the New World!

France: landed in Canada and along the Mississippi River

Made a profit off of fish/furs!

Jamestown 1607

* The House of Burgesses

The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620

Before going ashore they signed the MAYFLOWER COMPACT – a form of Self-Government

The New England ColoniesMassachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire Major Economies:

Fishing and Ship-building (lumber)

Puritans –settled in Massachusetts for religious freedom!

Penn., New York, New Jersey, Delaware

Economy: The Breadbasket Colonies

**Pennsylvania – started by William Penn for Quakers

MarylandVirginiaNorth & South CarolinaGeorgia

Economy: Plantations growing tobacco/rice

Maryland – for Catholics

Georgia – for poor people from debtor’s prison

IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION ON 13 COLONIES

****THE GREAT AWAKENING

Led to people wanting more Freedoms!!

THE TRIANGULAR TRADE

MIDDLE PASSAGE – HORRIBLE FOR SLAVES

Mercantilism – the mother country (England) set up the colonies to get rich off of them!

Navigation Act – the colonies could trade with NO ONE but England! (designed to help English Merchants get rich)

The Proclamation of 1763

The Colonists could NOT cross west of the Appalachian Mountains (Britain wanted to protect the colonies from Indians, but the Colonies felt that the British were just trying to push them around)

England put taxes on the colonies to pay for the French & Indian WarStamp Act, Sugar Act, etc.

Colonists motto: No Taxation without Representation!

Intolerable Acts: Punishment to the colonists for destroying the tea

Boston Massacre

Boston Tea Party

Key People of the American Revolution:The Sons of Liberty led by Samuel & John Adams

Daughters of Liberty: led by Abigail Adams & Mercy Otis Warren

Crispus Attucks – 1st to die at Boston mass.

Thomas Jefferson – Declaration of Independence “Unalienable Rights”

Thomas Paine – Common Sense & the Crisis

Patriot: wanted to fight for independence!

Loyalists: supported the King and England (Britain)

Ben Franklin – went to France for help!

George Washington – Commander in Chief

Wentworth Cheswell – African –American who fought at Saratoga (& midnight ride)

James Armistead – African American Spy

The Marquis De LaFayette – French officer who helped Washington’s Army

Haym Salomon – Bernardo De GalvezJewish American Spanish Governor of Who gave money to Texas who sent food The Continental Army to the Cont. Army

Key Battles of American Revolution:

Lexington & Concord

Saratoga – turning point

Valley Forge

Yorktown

Treaty of Paris of 1783

The New Republic

George Washington’s Farewell Address:

1.) Stay out of Foreign Affairs

2.) Don’t form Political Parties

The 1st Political Parties:

Federalists – John Adams/Alexander Hamilton(Strong Federal Government/England/Bank of the U.S.)

Democratic- Republicans – Thomas Jefferson(Strong State Government/France/ no Bank!)

Thomas Jefferson (3rd President)

Louisiana Purchase 1803

Laissez Faire – the government does not control private business (Free Enterprise)

The War of 1812:Causes – Impressment & giving guns to the Indians

Francis Scott Key – Star Spangled Banner

Andrew Jackson – hero of New Orleans

Era of Good Feelings – Time period After the War of 1812!

Monroe Doctrine

ANDREW JACKSON

HERO OF NEW ORLEANS

DEMOCRATIC PARTY

INDIAN REMOVAL ACT

TRAIL OF TEARS

NULLIFICATION CRISIS

DESTROYED BANK

MANIFEST DESTINY

Texas Annexation

MEXICAN WAR:

CAUSE – BOUNDARY DISPUTE OVER TEXAS ANNEXATION!

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

(Mexican Cession)

Mormons

Gold Rush!

MAJOR COMPROMISES BEFORE CIVIL WAR:

The Missouri Compromise (Maine & Missouri)

Compromise of 1850: included the Fugitive Slave Law which made it harder for slaves to escape!

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the horror’s of slavery! Turned people into Abolitionists!

CIVIL WAR

1861-65

CAUSES: SLAVERY, TARIFF, STATES’ RIGHTS, LINCOLN’S ELECTIONKEY PEOPLE: ABE LINCOLN

JEFFERSON DAVIS ULYSSES S. GRANT WILLIAM SHERMAN

ROBERT E. LEE “STONEWALL JACKSON”

WILLIAM CARNEY & PHILLIP BAZAAR

CIVIL WAR KEY BATTLES:

FORT SUMTER – 1ST

Antietam – “Bloodiest Day!

GETTYSBURG – TURNING POINT

VICKSBURG (capture of Miss. River)

APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS - “so the dead shall not have died in vain and there will be a new birth of freedom”

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION – 1863 – Lincoln made it a war to end slavery!

RECONSTRUCTION:

13TH, 14TH AND 15TH AMENDMENTS

FREEDMEN’S BUREAU BLACK CODES

RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION

ELECTION OF HIRAM RHODES REVELS

The Homestead Act: to settle the west, men were given 160 acres for a small fee!

The Morrill Act: set aside land for colleges!

The Dawes Act: allowed the President to break up reservation land!

The Constitutional ConventionArticle of ConfederationNorthwest OrdinanceTerritory 60,000RepresentedVirginia PlanNew Jersey PlanGreat CompromiseThree-Fifths Compromise

Ideas that helped shape the ConstitutionMagna Carta

English Bill of Rights- government gets its power from the consent of the people

Mayflower Compact

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

1649 Act of Toleration

FederalistsAlexander Hamilton James MadisonJohn Jay

Anti-federalistsGeorge Mason Patrick Henry Thomas Jefferson

Bill of RightsRatifyFederalist Papers

Constitutional Principles

FederalismSeparation of PowersCheck and BalancesLimited GovernmentPopular SovereigntyRepublic2/3s 3/4s

Bill of Rights

1st Ten Amendments

Free Citizens Vote 13th 14th 15th SlaveryCitizenVote

The New Republic

George Washington’s Farewell Address:

1.) Stay out of Foreign Affairs

2.) Don’t form Political Parties

The 1st Political Parties:

Federalists – John Adams/Alexander Hamilton(Strong Federal Government/England/Bank of the U.S.)

Democratic Republicans – Thomas Jefferson(Strong State Government/France/ no Bank!)

Laissez Faire Free Enterprise

The War of 1812:Causes – Impressment & giving guns to the Indians

Francis Scott Key – Star Spangled Banner

Andrew Jackson – hero of New Orleans

Era of Good Feelings – Time period After the War of 1812!

Monroe Doctrine

MANIFEST DESTINY

Texas Annexation

MEXICAN WAR:

CAUSE – BOUNDARY DISPUTE OVER TEXAS ANNEXATION!

Factors that led to the Industrial Revolution

Technology/inventionsfactoriesjobs1812Cotton gin and interchangeable partsUrbanizationMonroeDemocraticWhig

Manifest Destiny(Texas Revolution, Mexican War, Gold Rush, Oregon Trail)

Famous Supreme Court Cases

Marbury vs. Madison-Judicial Review (M&Ms=Jolly Ranchers)Gibbons vs. OdgenMcCulloch vs. MarylandWorcester vs. Georgia