250 (more or less) Things Every AP/Dual Credit Student Should Know About U.S. History

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1 250 (more or less) Things Every AP/Dual Credit Student Should Know About U.S. History 1. Demographic of indigenous settlements 2. Jamestown, First Africans brought to Virginia, Mayflower Compact, Great Migration of Puritans to Massachusetts, 1630ʼs and 1640ʼs 6. Puritan Dissent: a. Roger Williams established Rhode Island, 1636 b. Anne Hutchinson, antinomianism c. Thomas Hooker and Connecticut 7. Pequot and King Phillip s War 8. The Calverts establish Maryland 9. Maryland Act of Toleration 10. William Penn established Pennsylvania, Salem Witch Trials, James Oglethorpe established Georgia, The Great Awakening, 1734 a. Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God b. George Whitefield 14. French and Indian War, Proclamation of Pontiac s Rebellion 17. Frontier Rebellion a. Bacon s Rebellion b. The Paxton Boys c. The Regulators 18. James Otis and the Writs of Assistance 19. British Taxation and Colonial Regulation a. Sugar Act b. Stamp Act, c. Declaratory Act, 1766 d. Townshend Acts, 1767 (Tea Act) e. Boston Tea Party, 1773 f. Coercive Acts 20. First Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord, Second Continental Congress, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, The American Revolution a. The Battle of Trenton b. Battle of Saratoga; Treaty of Alliance w/france, 1778 c. Battle of Yorktown, Articles of Confederation went into effect, Peace of Paris, Northwest Ordinance of 1785, Land Ordinance of Shayʼs Rebellion, Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, The Federalist Papers published, Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury, Samuel Slater established the first textile mill, 1790

2 34. Constitution ratified, Bill of Rights, Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin, Washington s Proclamation of Neutrality, Whiskey Rebellion, Washington s Farewell Address, XYZ Affair, Alien & Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Election of 1800 (The Revolution of 1800: we are all Federalists, we are all Republicans ) 43. Midnight judges, Marbury v. Madison, 1803: judicial review 45. Louisiana Purchase, 1803; Lewis and Clark expedition, Jefferson s Embargo Act, War of Hartford Convention, Treaty of Ghent, Battle of New Orleans, Henry Clay and the American System, Era of Good Feelings, McCulloch v. Maryland, Adams-Onis (aka Transcontinental) Treaty, Missouri Compromise, First Lowell factory opened, Monroe Doctrine, Election of 1824: the corrupt bargain 59. Indian Removal Act, 1830; Trail of Tears Maysville Road Veto, Nat Turnerʼs revolt, Nullification Crisis, Jacksonian Democracy 64. Jackson destroyed Bank of the United States, Panic of Horace Mann began school reform in Massachusetts, Election of 1840 (First modern election) 68. Term Manifest Destiny first used, Annexation of Texas, Mexican-American War, Wilmot Proviso, Mormons migrated to Utah, Seneca Falls convention, Mexican Cession, California gold rush, Compromise of Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom s Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Creation of the Republican Party, Dred Scot v. Sandford, Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown s raid, Election of Southern secession, Fort Sumter, 1861

3 86. Homestead Act, Morrill Land-Grant Act, Emancipation Proclamation, Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg, Appomattox Court House, Abraham Lincoln assassination, Freedman s Bureau, th Amendment, Purchase of Alaska, Radical Reconstruction began, Andrew Johnson impeachment trial, th Amendment, Transcontinental railroad completed, Standard Oil created, Knights of Labor created, Wyoming gave women right to vote, Battle of Little Big Horn, Election of Great Railroad Strike, Chief Joseph surrendered, James Garfield assassinated, Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute, Chinese Exclusion Act, Pendleton Civil Service Act, Haymarket Square Riot, American Federation of Labor created, Dawes Severalty Act, Jane Addams founded Hull House, The Gospel of Wealth Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Wounded Knee massacre, Ellis Island opened, Homestead Strike, Panic of Pullman Strike, Plessy v. Ferguson, Election of Spanish-American War, Open Door policy, Filipino rebellion, William McKinley assassinated, Theodore Roosevelt mediated coal miner s strike, Wright Brothers flew first airplane, Northern Securities Company broken up, Roosevelt Corollary, Panama Canal Treaty Upton Sinclair published The Jungle, Henry Ford, Model T introduced, NAACP organized, Election of th Amendment, 1913

4 th Amendment, Federal Reserve System created, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, Birth of a Nation, Pancho Villaʼs raid, United States entered WWI, The Fourteen Points, th Amendment, Versailles Treaty defeated, Palmer Raids, th Amendment, National Origin Act, Teapot Dome Scandal, Scopes Trial, KKK marched on Washington, Charles Lindbergh s flight, Sacco and Vanzetti executed, The Jazz Singer, Stock Market crash, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Stimson Doctrine, Bonus march, First New Deal, Good Neighbor Policy, Schecter v. the United States, Dust Bowl, Second New Deal, Wagner Act, Social Security Act, Huey Long assassinated, Congress of Industrial Organization created, FDRʼs court-packing plan, Roosevelt recession, Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American internment, Normandy invasion, G.I. Bill, Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Iron Curtain speech, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Taft-Hartley Act, Brooklyn Dodgers sign Jackie Robinson, National Security Act, Berlin Airlift, Election of NATO formed, Joseph McCarthy attacked the State Department, 1950

5 190. Korean War, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed, Brown v. Board of Education, Geneva Accords, Joseph McCarthy condemned for misconduct, Montgomery bus boycott, Interstate Highway Act, Hungarian Revolution Suez Crisis 1956 ***World faces destruction: Scalia born March Integration of Little Rock H.S., Sputnik, U-2 aircraft shot down by USSR, Greensboro sit-ins, Eisenhower s Farewell Address, Bay of Pigs, Freedom Riders, Peace Corps, Cuban Missile Crises, Betty Freidan published The Feminine Mystique, March of Washington, John F. Kennedy assassinated, The Great Society, Civil Rights Act of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Malcolm X assassinated, Vietnam War escalated, Voting Rights Act, Watts riots, Miranda v. State of Arizona, Tet Offensive, Johnson withdrew from presidential race, Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated, Robert Kennedy assassinated, Anti-war riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention, AIM created, Election of Neil Armstrong walked on moon, Vietnamization, My Lai massacre made public, Kent State, Pentagon Papers, Nixon visited China, Watergate break-in, SALT I and the policy of detention, Roe v. Wade, OPEC oil embargo, Nixon resigned, Panama Canal Treaty, Camp David Accords, Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Iranian hostage crises,

6 241. Reaganomics began, Beirut embassy bombed, Invasion of Grenada, Iran-Contra scandal, INF Treaty, Berlin Wall torn down, Persian Gulf War, Soviet Union dissolved, Oklahoma City bombing, Balanced Budget Agreement passed, Clinton impeachment trial, September 11th terrorist attacks, Election of Barak Obama