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| the Columbian Exchange | variety of patterns of colonization | ||
| English colonial system of slavery | a strict racial system | ||
| indentured servants | racial and cultural justifications for subjugation | ||
| enslaved black people in perpetuity | dehumanizing aspects of slavery | ||
| regional differences | The New England colonies | ||
| Puritans | Chesapeake colonies | ||
| middle colonies | colonies of southernmost Atlantic coast | ||
| British Islands in the West Indies | Metacom's (King Philip's) War | ||
| the Pueblo Revolt | first Great Awakening | ||
| developed autonomous political communities | began to unite the colonists against... | ||
| efforts to raise revenue and consolidate control | effort for American independence energized | ||
| Benjamin Franklin | American Revolution | ||
| the natural rights of the people | Thomas Paine's Common Sense | ||
| the Declaration of Independence | ideal of "republican motherhood" | ||
| Articles of Confederation | new Constitution | ||
| federalism and separation of powers | Anti-Federalists | ||
| Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton | ||
| James Madison | addition of a Bill of Rights | ||
| John Adams | formation of political parties | ||
| Federalists and Democratic-Republicans in the 1790s | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| distinctive regional attitudes toward slavery | the Northwest Ordinance | ||
| George Washington's Farewell Address | new political parties, Democrats and Whigs | ||
| Andrew Jackson | Henry Clay | ||
| Second Great Awakening | Abolitionist and anti-slavery movements | ||
| Seneca Falls Convention | the market revolution | ||
| a distinctive Southern regional identity | the American System | ||
| Louisiana Purchase | Monroe Doctrine | ||
| Missouri Compromise | Manifest Destiny | ||
| Mexican-American War | Civil War | ||
| legislation promoting economic development | Anti-Catholic nativist movement | ||
| states' rights | issue of slavery in the territories | ||
| Compromise of 1850 | the Kansas-Nebraska Act | ||
| the Dred Scott decision | second party system | ||
| emergence of the Republican Party | Lincoln's election | ||
| free soil platform | election of 1860 | ||
| secession | the Emancipation Proclamation | ||
| Gettysburg Address | The 13th Amendment | ||
| 14th and 15th Amendments | radical and moderate Republicans | ||
| citizenship, equal protection, voting rights | The women's rights movement | ||
| sharecropping system | rise of industrial capitalism | ||
| consolidating corporations into trusts | "New South" | ||
| the People's (Populist) Party | Social Darwinism | ||
| Gospel of Wealth | the Social Gospel | ||
| Jane Addams | settlement houses | ||
| Plessy v. Ferguson | the Great Depression | ||
| Progressive Era, Progressives | redefined modern American liberalism | ||
| President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal | groups identified with the Democratic Party | ||
| the Harlem Renaissance | the first "Red Scare" | ||
| a "Great Migration" | Spanish-American War | ||
| Wilson's call for defense of democratic principles | Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations | ||
| Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | The Cold War | ||
| major military engagements in Korea and Vietnam | the "military-industrial complex" | ||
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | desegregation of the armed services | ||
| Brown v. Board of Education | the Civil Rights Act of 1964 | ||
| Liberalism reached a high point of political influence | Lyndon Johnson's Great Society | ||
| the baby boom | "Sun Belt" emerged as a significant force | ||
| new immigration law [Hart-Celler Act] in 1965 | the counterculture of the 1960s | ||
| A newly ascendant conservative movement | Reagan's 1980 victory an important milestone | ||
| migration from Latin America and Asia | ending of the Cold War | ||
| Reagan's diplomatic initiatives, changes in the Soviet Union | attacks of September 11, 2001 | ||
| controversial conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq | debates regarding climate change |
