STAAR Category 1 Key Dates 1607 – Jamestown 1620 – Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
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STAAR Category 1 Key Dates 1607 – Jamestown 1620 – Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1776 – Signing of the Declaration of Independence 1787 – The Constitutional Convention
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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
