ap us history summer assignment your summer assignment
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AP US History Summer Assignment Your summer assignment contains two parts:
(1) Populists DBQ – complete according to the instructions on the DBQ. You may access additional resources to help you with background information but should not cite this information in your written response. Your written response should be based on the provided document. Typically the DBQ response is about 3 – 4 typed pages.
(2) US History I Thematic Response – First, review the attached PowerPoint presentation reviewing key US History I information. The AP US history test holds you responsible for understanding the overarching themes and specific details of the entirety of United States history from pre-Columbian civilizations to the modern era. Though the early portion of US History was the focus of your sophomore year, reviewing this PowerPoint should keep many of the major names, issues, and developments fresh as we move into September. Because the AP Test will assess your knowledge of US I content, the AP US History course at NHS will also assess your knowledge of US I content. You should be ready for these assessments at the beginning of the school year in September. In the interest of keeping you in US History I “mode” you will be responsible for completing the following based on the provided PowerPoint.
US History I Thematic Response: The College Board’s AP US History curriculum identifies the following themes around which the course and the AP test are structured:
• Identity • Work, Exchange, and Technology • Peopling • Politics and Power • America in the World • Environment and Geography – Physical and Human • Ideas, Belief, and Culture
After viewing the PowerPoint you should select 15 events, people, inventions, ideas, etc. that you believe were most critical in the development of U.S. History from 1607 – 1877. Next, you should determine the theme under which each of your selections falls. For each selection you should write 2 – 4 sentences describing your rationale for why this event, person, invention, idea, etc. was most critical in the development of U.S. History from 1607 – 1877. Additionally you should provide your rationale for why you chose to attach your selection to your chosen theme. If you want, you could select more than one theme to attach to your selection. One of your entries might look like the following:
The Proclamation of 1763 – The Proclamation of 1763 was one of the most critical developments in U.S. History form 1607 – 1877 because it represents the first significant restrictive policies toward the North American colonies by the British Crown following the French and Indian War after decades of “salutary neglect.” Though not destructive to the colonial way of life, it was the first sign for many colonists that the Crown did not necessarily have the best interests of Americans in mind. The Proclamation would fall under politics and power because it was a decision of the British Crown that impacted colonial relations. It would also fall under Environment and Geography because it restricted movement WEST of the APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS. Arguably it could also fit under identity because it impacted how Americans felt about their place in the British Empire.
All response should be typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font, and follow MLA formatting for page
set-up and in-text citations.
Feel free to email Mr. Dwyer at [email protected] with any questions or clarifications.
The College Board Advanced Placement Examination
AMERICAN HISTORY SECTION I1
(Suggested writing time--40 minutes)
Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to demonstrate a broad grasp of the documents and to support your assertions about the documents by citing key pieces of evidence from them. Be sure to use your knowledge of the period to develop your answer to the two parts of the question.
1. Documents A-H reveal some of the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century (1880-1900) saw as threats to their way of life. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period, (a) explain the reasons for agrarian discontent and @) evaluate the validity of the farmers' complaints.
Document A
I Source: The platform of the People's (Populist) party (1892)
The conditions which surround us best justify our cooperation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the legislatures, the Congress, and even touches the ermine of the bench. The people are demoral- ized. . . . The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, homes covered with mortgages, labor irnpoveriqhed, and the land concentrating in the hands of the capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organization for self- protection. . . .
The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders; a vast public debt payable in legal-tender currency has been funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people.
Silver, which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been demonetized to add to the purchasing power of gold by decreasing the value of all forms of property as well as human labor, and the supply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise, and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible convulsions, the destruction of civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despotism.
Copyright 0 1983 by Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. All rights reserved.
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Document B
Source: Acceptance speech of William McKinley, Canton, Ohio (August 26,1896)
It is proposed by one wing of the Democratic party and its allies, the People's and Silver parties, to inaugurate action on the part of the United States at a ratio of 16 ounces of silver to one ounce of gold. . . .
We must not be misled by phrases, nor deluded by false theories. Free silver would not mean that silver dollars were to be freely had without cost or labor. . . . It would not make labor easier, the hours shorter, or the pay better. It would not make farming less laborious or more profitable. . . .
Debasement of the currency means destruction of values. No one suffers so much from cheap money as the farmers and laborers. They are the first to feel its bad effects and the last to recover from them. . . .
It is mere pretense to attribute the hard times to the fact that all our currency is on a gold basis. Good money never made times hard. . . .
I Document C I Source: United States government data (1961) I
I , UNITED STATES POPULATION AND MONEY IN CIRCULATION, 1865-1895 I Povulation
(in thousands) 1865 35,701 1870 39,905 1875 45,073 1880 50,262 1885 56,658 1890 63,056 1895 69,580
Monev in Circulation (in thousands of dollars)
1,083,541 774,966 833,789 973,382
1,292,569 1,429,251 1,601,968
Document D
Source: The Farmer's Voice, a Chicago newspaper (late 1880's or early 1890's)
Designed and Engraved expressly for "The Farmer's Voice."
T H E EASTERN MASTER AND HIS WESTERN SLAVES
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1983 >DQ Document E
Source: J. Laurence Laughlin, "Causes of Agricultural Unrest," Atlantic Monthly (November, 1896)
Of course, the farmer who has overtraded, or expanded his operation beyond his means, in a time of commercial depression is affected just as anyone else is in like conditions. I The simple fact that we produce more wheat than we consume, and that, consequently, the price of the whole crop is determined, not by the markets within this country, but by the world-markets, is sufficient to put wheat, as regards its price, in a different class from those articles whose markets are local. . . . And it need not be said that many wheat-growing farmers make little or no allowance for events beyond their limited range of local information. . . .
The sudden enlargement of the supply without any corresponding increase of demand produced that alarming fall in the price of wheat which has been made the farmer's excuse for thinking that silver is the magic panacea for all his ills. . . .
Feeling the coils of some mysterious power about them, the farmers, in all honesty, have attributed their misfortunes to the "constriction" in prices, caused, as they think, not by an increased produc- tion of wheat throughout the world, but by the "scarcity of gold."
Document F
Source: James B. Weaver, A Call to Action: A n Interpretation of the Great Uprising. Its Source and Causes (1892)
It is clear that trusts are contrary to public policy and hence in conflict with the Common law. They are monopolies organized to destroy competition and restrain trade. . . . Once they secure control of a given line of business, they are master of the situation and can dictate to the two great classes with which they deal-the producer of the raw material and the consumer of the finished product. They limit the price of the raw material so as to impoverish the producer, drive him to a single market, reduce the price of every class of labor connected with the trade, throw out of employment large numbers of persons who had before been engaged in a meritorious calling and finally. . . they increase the price to the consumer. . . . The main weapons of the trust are threats, intimidation, bribery, fraud, wreck, and pillage.
Document G
Source: Testimony of George W. Parker, vice-president of the Cairo Short Line Railroad, before the Senate Cullom Committee (1885)
Mr. Parker. There is a decided distinction between local and through business: They are influenced by different considerations. Different rules and practices apply to them. . . .
About 33% percent of the operating expenses of this road is continuous, regardless of whether the road is earning much or little, and it there'fore requires a certain volume of business to meet these fixed expenses. In most cases, and especially in some seasons of the year, the local business of the road of itself is not of sufficient volume to make up paying trains, nor is it sufficient to make the earnings, over and above current expenses, sufficient to meet the fixed charges against the road. So that in order to run paying trains we generally, after we have built the road to accommodate the local territory, endeavor to get a connection for through business to be super-added to the local business. Then when we make up a train of ten or fifteen cars of local freight to go over our line from Saint Louis, we can attach fifteen or twenty cars more of strictly through business. We can take the latter at a very low rate rather than go without it. We are justified in doing so, as one does no prejudice to the other. . . .
The Chairman. Suppose you were to carry the freights that you gather along the line of your road for the same rate you carry through freight . . . what would be the consequence?
Mr. Parker. Bankruptcy, inevitably and speedily. . . .
I Document H
Source: Frank Norris, The Octopus (1901)
For a moment Dyke was confused. Then swiftly the matter became clear in his mind. The Railroad had raised the rate on hops from two cents to five.
All his calculations as to a profit on his little investment he had based on a freight rate of two cents a pound. He was under contract to deliver his crop. He could not draw back. The new rate ate up every cent of his gains. He stood there ruined.
"Why, what do you mean?" he burst out. "You promised me a rate of two cents and I went ahead with my business with that understanding. . . ."
I "The rate is five cents," declared the clerk doggedly.
"Well that ruins me," shouted Dyke. "Do you understand? I won't make fifty cents. Make? Why, I will owe.-I'll be-be-That ruins me, do you understand?"
I I The other raised a shoulder.
"We don't force you to ship. You can do as you like. The rate is five cents." I . "Well-but-. . . . You told m e y o u promised me a two-cent rate."
. . . Dyke stared in blank astonishment. . . .
". . . Look here. What's your basis of applying freight rates, anyhow?" he suddenly vociferated with furious sarcasm. . . .
S. Behrman emphasized each word of his reply with a tap of one forefinger on the counter before him:
"All-the traffic-willbear."
END OF 1983 DBQ DOCUMENTS
US History 1607 to 1877
Overview
1
6 Key Dates
6 Eras
10 Territories
36 Important People
5 Wars
11 Documents
24 Inventions
2
1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
6 Key Dates
1776 1787 1803 1861 to 1865
1607: Jamestown, VA First permanent English settlement
1776: DOI Declaration of Independence
1787: USC United States Constitution
1803: LA Purchase Louisiana Purchase
1861 to 1865: CW Civil War
1877: End of REC Federal troops removed from the South
3
6 Key Dates
6 Eras
10 Territories
36 Important People
5 Wars
11 Documents
24 Inventions
4
1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
6 Eras
1607: Jamestown, VA First permanent English settlement
1877: End of REC Federal troops removed from the South
270 Years
5
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
6 Eras
270 Years
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
6
COL = Colonization REV = Revolution BaN = Building a Nation GnR = Growth and Reform CW = Civil War REC = Reconstruction
COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
156 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Colonization (COL) 1607 to 1763 (156 Years)
7
Colonization (COL) 1607 to 1763 (156 Years)
England planted the Original 13 Colonies along the Atlantic Coast of North America.
1st Colony 1607 VA (Jamestown)
2nd Colony 1620 MA (Plymouth Rock)
12th Colony 1682 PA (Philadelphia)
13th Colony 1733 GA (Savannah) 8
Colonization (COL) 1607 to 1763 (156 Years)
The Original 13 Colonies were squeezed between the Atlantic Ocean
and the Appalachian Mountains.
Needing room to grow, the Colonists crossed the Appalachian Mountains and tried to take land that was claimed by the French and the Indians
in the Ohio River Valley.
This caused the French and Indian War. 9
Colonization (COL) 1607 to 1763 (156 Years)
In 1754 Benjamin Franklin told the Colonists: “Join or Die”
(Albany Plan of Union) But the Colonies refused to give up their power
to a central government.
In 1754 George Washington served as a Colonel leading a regiment of Virginia militia against the French and the Indians.
He lost the fight. 10
Colonization (COL) 1607 to 1763 (156 Years)
In 1756 the King of England declared war on France and sent more troops to America to defend the Colonists
from the French and the Indians.
The King ran up a huge debt defending the Colonists. ! This debt led to the Revolution.
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 marked the end of the French and Indian War
and the end of the Colonization Era. 11
COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
156 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Colonization (COL) 1607 to 1763 (156 Years)
1st Colony – Jamestown, VA
Treaty of Paris of 1763
12
REV
1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
20 Yrs
13
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
In 1763 the King of England, King George III, issued the Proclamation of 1763 in which he told the colonists:
“Do not cross the Appalachian Mountains!”
This angered the colonists. (Why?)
They thought that winning the French and Indian War would give them access to the Ohio River Valley.
14
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
In 1764 King George III decided that the Colonists should help pay off the debt that England had incurred
in defending the Colonies from the French and the Indians, so he began raising their taxes.
Acts of Parliament that taxed the Colonies:
Sugar Act (1764) Stamp Act (1765) Declaratory Act (1766) Townshend Acts (1767) Tea Act (1773) Coercive Acts (1774)
Etc, Etc, Etc . . . 15
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
Parliament passed Acts that raised their taxes, but Colonists did not get to elect Members of Parliament.
This led to the battle-cry:
“No Taxation without Representation!”
The King could have avoided Revolution by lowering taxes or by allowing the Colonists
to elect Members of Parliament. He did neither.
16
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
In 1776 the Colonies declared their independence.
In 1777 the Colonies wrote our 1st constitution: Articles of Confederation (1777/1781)
In 1781 Washington defeated Cornwallis at Yorktown, VA.
In 1783 the British signed the Treaty of Paris of 1783 acknowledging that the Colonies were
“Free and Independent States.” 17
REV
1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
20 Yrs
Proclamation of 1763
Treaty of Paris of 1783
18
BaN 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
20 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)
19
Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)
Now that the Colonies were “Free and Independent States”
they had to figure out how to be a “Nation.”
In 1777 they had written our 1st constitution: Articles of Confederation (1777/1781)
But the Articles created a central government that was too weak.
20
Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)
In 1787 they wrote the US Constitution (USC), which was ratified in 1788,
creating a much stronger central government.
In 1789 George Washington became our 1st President.
Also in 1789 they made 10 changes to the USC.
These first ten changes (aka amendments), which were ratified in 1791, are called the Bill of Rights.
21
Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)
Our 1st President, George Washington (VA), served for 8 years (1789 to 1797).
Our 2nd President, John Adams (MA), served for 4 years (1797 to 1801).
Our 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson (VA), served for 8 years (1801 to 1809).
22
BaN 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
20 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Louisiana Purchase
23
GnR 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
58 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
24
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
In just 50 years – from 1803 to 1853 – the United States expanded “from sea to shining sea”
thereby fulfilling our “Manifest Destiny.”
The growth began in 1803 when President Thomas Jefferson (#3)
obtained the Louisiana Purchase from France, doubling the size of the country, and moving our western border
from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. 25
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
In just 50 years – from 1803 to 1853 – the United States expanded “from sea to shining sea”
thereby fulfilling our “Manifest Destiny.”
The growth was completed in 1853 when President Franklin Pierce (#14)
obtained the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico, completing the contiguous continental United States.
“Purchase to Purchase = 50 Years” 26
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
This growth raised 2 questions:
Would there be slavery in the new territories? Who would make that decision?
The people in each State and Territory? OR
The Federal Government in Washington, DC?
This is referred to as the “States’ Rights” issue. 27
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
This growth also triggered 4 reform movements:
Movement #1 = Abolition End Slavery
Movement #2 = Suffrage Equal Rights for Women (ESP: The right to vote!)
28
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
This growth also triggered 4 reform movements:
Movement #3 = Temperance Stop Drinking
Movement #4 = Education Free Public Schools for Everyone
29
GnR 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
58 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
Louisiana Purchase
Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, SC
30
CW 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
4 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
31
Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
In November of 1860 Abraham Lincoln (#16) was elected US President.
In December of 1860 South Carolina (SC) seceded from the Union.
In February of 1861 SC and 6 other states (GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, and TX)
formed the Confederate States of America (CSA) electing Jefferson Davis as their 1st (and only) President.
32
Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
In March of 1861 Abraham Lincoln (#16) was inaugurated as US President.
In April of 1861 Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter, SC.
The Civil War had begun!
In July of 1861 the first major battle of the Civil War
was fought near Bull Run Creek (Manassas) in VA. 33
Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
In January of 1863 President Abraham Lincoln (#16) issued the
Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation changed the focus of the war:
It had started – in 1861 – as a war to preserve the Union.
It now – in 1863 – became a war to end slavery. 34
Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
In July of 1863 the Union won two major battles
that marked the turning point of the war:
The Union victory at Gettysburg, PA stopped Robert E. Lee’s final advance into the North.
The Union victory at Vicksburg, MS gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
35
Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
In April of 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee
surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, VA.
The Civil War had ended!
President Abraham Lincoln (#16) was assassinated 5 days later.
36
CW 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
4 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, SC
Lee surrendered to Grant
37
REC 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Reconstruction (REC) 1865 to 1877 (12 Years)
38
Reconstruction (REC) 1865 to 1877 (12 Years)
It took 4 years of Civil War to tear the country apart.
It took 12 years of Reconstruction to sew it back together.
re = again construct = to build
reconstruct = to build again
Reconstruction: Rebuilding the nation that had been torn apart by Civil War.
39
Reconstruction (REC) 1865 to 1877 (12 Years)
One of the main issues during Reconstruction was the question of how to deal with the South:
Should the South be punished for having caused the war? OR
Should the North “forgive and forget”?
President Andrew Johnson (#17) said “forgive and forget” . . .
but the Radical Republicans in Congress disagreed. 40
Reconstruction (REC) 1865 to 1877 (12 Years)
The other main issue during Reconstruction was the question of how to deal with the former slaves:
13th Amendment (1865) Ended Slavery
14th Amendment (1868) Defined the Rights of Citizenship
15 Amendment (1870) Guaranteed the Right to Vote to ALL MEN 41
Reconstruction (REC) 1865 to 1877 (12 Years)
President Ulysses S. Grant (#18) sent Federal troops to the South
to suppress the terrorist organization known as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
It worked! The KKK was stopped, for a while . . .
In 1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes (#19) removed the last of the Federal troops from the south,
marking the end of Reconstruction. 42
REC 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
270 Years
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Reconstruction (REC) 1865 to 1877 (12 Years)
Lee surrendered to Grant
Federal troops removed from the South
43
6 Eras
10 Territories
36 Important People
5 Wars
11 Documents
24 Inventions
44
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Original 13 Colonies 1607 to 1763
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
45
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
USA 1783
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
46
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
USA 1783
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
47
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Louisiana Purchase 1803
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
48
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Louisiana Purchase 1803
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
49
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Florida Territory 1819
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
50
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Florida Territory 1819
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
51
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Texas 1845
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
52
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Texas 1845
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
53
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Oregon Territory 1846
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
54
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Oregon Territory 1846
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
55
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Mexican Cession 1848
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
56
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Mexican Cession 1848
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
57
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Gadsden Purchase 1853
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
58
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Gadsden Purchase 1853
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
59
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Alaska Territory 1867
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
60
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Alaska Territory 1867
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
61
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1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Hawaii Territory 1898
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
62
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
10 Territories
Hawaii Territory 1898
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
63
10 Territories
36 Important People
5 Wars
11 Documents
24 Inventions
64
COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Colonization (COL) 1607 to 1763 (156 Years)
William Penn
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
1-3 of 3
65
REV
1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
John Adams
1-3 of 15
66
REV
1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
Samuel Adams
John Hancock
King George III
4-6 of 15
67
REV
1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
7-9 of 15
68
REV
1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
Roger Sherman
John Jay
Alexander Hamilton
10-12 of 15
69
REV
1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)
John Paul Jones
Marquis de Lafayette
James Monroe
13-15 of 15
70
BaN 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)
1-3 of 12
Benjamin Franklin
Roger Sherman
John Marshall 71
BaN 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)
4-6 of 12
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
John Jay 72
BaN 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)
7-9 of 12
Patrick Henry
George Mason
James Monroe 73
BaN 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)
10-12 of 12
#1 – George Washington
#2 – John Adams
#3 – Thomas Jefferson 74
GnR 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
1-3 of 21
75
#3 – Thomas Jefferson
#4 – James Madison
#5 – James Monroe
GnR 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
4-6 of 21
76
#6 – John Quincy Adams
#7 – Andrew Jackson
#11 – James K. Polk
GnR 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
7-9 of 21
77
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
GnR 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
10-12 of 21
78
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Harriet Beecher Stowe
GnR 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
13-15 of 21
79
Sojourner Truth
Henry David Thoreau
Horace Mann
GnR 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
16-18 of 21
80
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
GnR 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)
19-21 of 21
81
John Marshall
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
CW 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
1-3 of 5
82
#16 – Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Frederick Douglass
CW 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
4-5 of 5
83
#1 (CSA) Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
REC 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
Reconstruction (REC) 1865 to 1877 (12 Years)
1 of 1
84
#18 – Ulysses S. Grant
36 Important People
5 Wars
11 Documents
24 Inventions
85
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
5 Wars
French and Indian War 1754 to 1763 (9 Years)
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
86
British and Colonists defeated French and Indians Ending Event = Treaty of Paris of 1763
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
5 Wars
Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783 (8 Years)
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
87
Patriots and French defeated Loyalists and British Ending Event = Treaty of Paris of 1783
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
5 Wars
War of 1812 1812 to 1815 (3 Years)
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
88
Americans defeated British Ending Event = Treaty of Ghent in 1814
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
5 Wars
War with Mexico 1846 to 1848 (2 Years)
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
89
Americans defeated Mexicans Ending Event = Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
5 Wars
Civil War 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
90
Union defeated Confederacy North defeated South Blue defeated Gray
Yankees defeated Rebels Ending Event = Lee surrendered to Grant in 1865
5 Wars
11 Documents
24 Inventions
91
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents
Magna Carta 1215
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
92
Limited Government Due Process of Law
Trial by Jury
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents Mayflower Compact
1620
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
93
Social Contract for Self-Government Town Hall Meetings
Majority Rule
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents Fundamental Orders
of Connecticut 1639
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
94
1st Written Constitution in North America But it only applied to one Colony – Connecticut
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents
English Bill of Rights 1689
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
95
Served as a model for the US Bill of Rights The US Bill of Rights was written in 1789 – exactly 100 years later!
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents
Declaration of Independence 1776
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
96
Explained why the Colonies were separating from England
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents
Articles of Confederation 1777 / 1781
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
97
1st Constitution for the United States of America But it created a central government that was too weak.
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents
Northwest Ordinance 1787
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
98
Established the criteria by which territories could become states. Guaranteed Religious Freedom
Banned Slavery
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents
US Constitution 1787 / 1788
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
99
New Constitution for the United States of America Replaced the Articles of Confederation
“Supreme Law of the Land”
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents
Bill of Rights 1789 / 1791
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
100
1st Ten Amendments to the US Constitution Added to satisfy the Anti-Federalists
and to protect the rights of individuals.
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents
Landmark Supreme Court Cases 1803 / 1819 / 1824 / 1832 / 1841 / 1857
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
101
Established the Power of the Supreme Court and the Supremacy of the National Government over the States.
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
11 Documents Civil War
Amendments 1865 / 1868 / 1870
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
102
13th Amendment – 1865 – Ended Slavery 14th Amendment – 1868 – Defined the Rights of Citizenship
15th Amendment – 1870 – Guaranteed the Right to Vote to ALL MEN
11 Documents
24 Inventions
103
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Printing Press
Johann Gutenberg 1450
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
104
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Lightning Rod
Benjamin Franklin 1752
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
105
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Spinning Jenny
James Hargreaves 1764
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
106
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Steam Engine
James Watt 1769
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
107
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Bifocal Lens
Benjamin Franklin 1780
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
108
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Threshing Machine
Andrew Meikle 1784
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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58 Yrs
4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
109
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Power Loom
Edmund Cartwright 1785
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
110
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Slater’s Textile Mill
Samuel Slater 1789
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
111
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Cotton Gin Eli Whitney
1793
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
112
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Interchangeable Parts
Eli Whitney 1798
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
113
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Steamboat
Robert Fulton 1807
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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58 Yrs
4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
114
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Lowell’s Textile Mill Francis Cabot Lowell
1814
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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58 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
115
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Erie Canal
Governor DeWitt Clinton 1825
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
116
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Steam-Powered Locomotive
Peter Cooper 1830
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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58 Yrs
4 Yrs
12 Yrs
1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
117
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions McCormick Reaper Cyrus McCormick
1834
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
118
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Colt Revolver Samuel Colt
1835
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
119
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Steel-Tipped Plow
John Deere 1837
156 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
120
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Daguerreotype Louis Daguerre
1839
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
121
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Telegraph and Morse Code
Samuel Morse 1844
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
122
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
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24 Inventions Sewing Machine
Elias Howe 1846
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
123
Industrial Revolution
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1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Bessemer Steel Converter
Sir Henry Bessemer 1856
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
124
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Transcontinental Railroad
Leland Stanford 1869
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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58 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
125
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps 1869
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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58 Yrs
4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
126
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps 1869
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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58 Yrs
4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
127
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps 1869
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
128
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps 1869
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
20 Yrs
58 Yrs
4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
129
Industrial Revolution
REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7
1 8 7 7
24 Inventions Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps 1869
156 Yrs
20 Yrs
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58 Yrs
4 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
130
Industrial Revolution
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24 Inventions Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell 1876
156 Yrs
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1763 1783 1803 1861 1865
131
Industrial Revolution