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History of USA United States of America  / American History

The French and Indian War (1754-1763)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Places Qs	2. Overview
3. Early Battles and Fort Necessity	4. Failure of General Braddock
5. Undeclared War	6. Declared War and French Dominance
7. Massacre at Fort William Henry	8. British Ascension (1758)
9. Battle of Quebec	10. Tenuous Peace (1760-63)

Pre-Revolutionary America (1763-1776)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs	2. Overview
3. Colonies and Mother Country at the Close of the French and Indian War	4. British on the Frontier
5. Writs of Assistance	6. Stamp Act
7. Sugar Act	8. Colonial Opposition to the Stamp Act
9. Further Impositions: Quartering Act and Townshend Duties	10. Reaction to the Townshend Duties
11. Customs Racketeering and Repeal of Townshend Duties	12. To the Brink: Boston Massacre and Committees of Correspondence

The American Revolution (1754–1781)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. French and Indian War 1754 – 1763	4. Sugar and Stamp Acts 1763 – 1766
5. Boston Massacre and Tea Party 1767 – 1774	6. Revolution Begins 1772 – 1775
7. American Society in Revolt 1776 – 1777	8. Declaration of Independence 1776
9. Revolutionary War 1775 – 1783

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

1. Brief Overview Historical Figures & Qs	2. Overview
3. Preamble	4. List of Abuses and Usurpations
5. Past Actions of Colonists	6. Conclusion and Definition of a New Government

Building the State (1781-1797)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs	2. Overview
3. Beginning of Self-Government: The States	4. Articles of Confederation as Law of the Land
5. Settling the West	6. Demise of Articles of Confederation
7. Constitutional Convention	8. Constitution and a New Government
9. Ratification	10. Defining National Government
11.  Alexander Hamilton and Finance in the Washington Administration	12. Increasing Tensions & Whiskey Rebellion
13. Expansion and Conflict	14. Division into Parties & George Washington’s Farewell Address

The Articles of Confederation (1781-1789)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs	2. Overview
3. Articles 1-2	4. Articles 3-4
5. Article 5	6. Article 6
7. Articles 7-8	8. Article 9
9. Article 10	10. Article 11
11. Article 12	12. Article 13 and Conclusion

The Constitution (1781–1815)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Articles of Confederation 1777-1787	4. Creating the Constitution 1786-1787
5. Federalist Papers and Bill of Rights 1788-1791	6. Washington Strengthens the Nation 1789-1792
7. Washington’s Troubles at Home & Abroad 1790-1796	8. Adams Presidency 1797-1800
9. Jefferson’s Agrarian Republic 1800-1808	10. Madison & War of 1812: 1808-1815

The Federalist Papers (1787-1789)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs	2. Overview
3. Essays No 1-5	4. Essays No 6-9
5. Essays No 10-17	6. Essays No 18-22
7. Essays No 23-29	8. Essay No 30-36
9. Essays No 37-40	10. Essays No 41-44
11. Essays No 45-46	12. Essays No 47-51

The First Years of the Union (1797 - 1809)

1. Brief Overview People Timeline People Events & Qs	2. Overview
3. Election of 1796 and the Quasi-War	4. Alien and Sedition Acts
5. Election of 1800	6. Jefferson’s Early Days in Office
7. Attack on the Judiciary	8. Louisiana Purchase
9. Exploring Louisiana	8. Further Exploration & West Florida Controversy
9. Coalition Begins to Fragment: The Quids & Burr Conspiracy	10. Fighting for Neutrality: Embargo Act

Westward Expansion (1807-1912)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs	2. Overview
3. The Surge West	4. Land Policy & Speculation
5. Western Economy: Boom & Panic	6. Indian Removal
7. Transportation Revolution & Rise of Cities	8. Opening of Far West
9. Texas	10. Settling California, New Mexico and Oregon
11. Foreign Policy in Texas and Oregon	12. Mexican War and Political Aftermath
13. Plains Indians	14. Transcontinental Railroad & Admission of Western States

The War of 1812 (1809-1815)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs	2. Overview
3. Economic Warfare	4. Madison
5. War Hawks	6. Attack on Canada
7. War in the North (1813)	8. Renewed British Vigor: The Invasion of New York (1814)
9. Renewed British Vigor: Attack on Middle States (1814)	10. Hartford Convention (1814)
11. Treaty of Ghent (December 1814)	12. New Orleans

The Pre-Civil War Era (1815–1850)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Monroe’s Era of Good Feelings: 1816 – 1824	4. Adams and Jackson: 1824 – 1833
5. Jackson and the Whigs: 1830 – 1844	6. Manifest Destiny: 1835 – 1850
7. Mexican War: 1844 – 1848	8. Market Revolution: 1793 – 1860
9. Changing Society and Culture: 1820 – 1860	10. Religious Revivalism: 1800 – 1850
11. Era Spirit of Reform: 1820 – 1850

The Civil War 1850–1865

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Expansion and Slavery: 1846 – 1855	4. Bleeding Kansas: 1854 – 1856
5. Buchanan Years: 1857 – 1858	6. Election of 1860 and Secession: 1859 – 1861
7. Union Side: 1861 – 1863	8. Confederate Side: 1861 – 1863
9. Major Battles: 1861- 1863	10. Final Year: 1864 – 1865

Reconstruction (1865–1877)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan: 1863 – 1865	4. Presidential Reconstruction: 1865 – 1867
5. Reconstruction: 1867 – 1877	6. Postwar South & Black Codes: 1865 – 1877
7. Grant’s Presidency: 1869 – 1876	8. End of Reconstruction: 1873 – 1877

The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (1877–1917)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Gilded Age Politics: 1877 – 1892	4. Industrialization: 1869 – 1901
5. Labor Movement: 1866 – 1894	6. Gilded Age Society: 1870 – 1900
7. The West: 1860 – 1900	8. The Rise and Fall of Populism: 1892 – 1896
9. The Spanish-American War: 1898 – 1901	10. Roosevelt’s Big Stick Diplomacy: 1899 – 1908
11. Roosevelt & Progressives: 1901 – 1908	12. The Taft Presidency: 1909 – 1912
13. Wilsonian Progressivism: 1913 – 1916

The Spanish American War (1898-1901)

1. Brief Overview People Timeline Events & Qs	2. Overview
3. Increasing Spanish-Cuban Tensions: Late 19th Century	4. Yellow Journalism & Rise of American Anger: 1895 – 1897
5. The Maine Explosion: 1898	6. US Goes to War: 1898
7. Dewey and the Philippines: 1898	8. American Imperialism: 1898
9. Ground War in Cuba: 1898	10. Treaty of Paris: August – December 1898
11. Effects of the Treaty of Paris: 1899	12. Puerto Rico & Cuba After the Treaty of Paris

World War I (1914–1919)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Road to War	4. Opening Moves
5. Germany’s Assault on France	6. The War at Sea
7. War in the Air	8. War in Near East
9. War of Attrition in Europe	10. United States Enters the War
11. Russia Exits the War	12. Endgame
13. Collapse of Central Powers

The Interwar Years (1919-1938)

1. Brief Overview Timeline Events People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Economics During the Inter-War Years (1919-1938)	4. League of Nations (1920-1935)
5. Attempts at Reconciliation and Disarmament (1921-1930)	6. The Soviet Union During the Inter-War Years (1924-1935)
7. Eastern Europe During the Inter-War Years (1919-1938)	8. Italian Fascism during the Inter-War Years (1919-1938)
9. Britain During the Inter-War Years (1919-1938)	10. France During the Inter-War Years (1919-1938)
11. Spanish Civil War (1931-1939)	12. Nazi Germany (1919-1938)

The Great Depression (1920–1940)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Politics of Conservatism: 1920 – 1928	4. Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age: 1920 – 1929
5. Conservative Backlash: 1919 – 1929	6. Onset of the Depression: 1928 – 1932
7. First New Deal: 1933 – 1934	8. Second New Deal: 1935 – 1938
9. Demise of New Deal: 1935 – 1939

World War II (1939–1945)

1. Brief Overview People Terms & Qs	2. Overview
3. Invasion of France	4. Start of the War
5. Battle of Britain	6. Italy and the Mediterranean
7. Invasion of Russia	8. Japan and Pearl Harbor
9. The Nazis’ “Final Solution”	10. Total War in the Pacific
11. Strengthening Alliance	12. Southeast Asia
13. North Africa and Invasion of Italy	14. German Retreat from Russia
15. Allied Invasion of France	16. Fall of Germany
17. Fall of Japan

The Cold War (1945–1963)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Postwar World: 1945 – 1949	4. Start of the Cold War: 1947 – 1952
5. Korean War: 1950 – 1953	6. Postwar Prosperity at Home: 1945 – 1960
7. Eisenhower at Home: 1952 – 1959	8. Eisenhower & Cold War: 1954 – 1960
9. Kennedy and Liberalism: 1960 – 1963

The Korean War (1950-1953)

1. Brief Overview Timeline People Events & Qs	2. Overview
3. Background on Korea	4. Origins of the Korean War
5. North Korea’s Surprise Attack	6. Commitment of US Ground Troops
7. Inchon Invasion	8. Chinese Intervention
9. MacArthur’s Dismissal	10. Ridgway & end of “Accordion-War”
11. Long Path of Negotiations	12. Eisenhower, War’s End, and the Aftermath

The Civil Rights Era (1865–1970)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Failure of Reconstruction: 1877 – 1900	4. Twentieth-Century Roots: 1900 – 1950
5. Early Legal Victories: 1938 – 1957	6. Nonviolent Protest: 1960 – 1963
7. Political Action: 1963 – 1965	8. Black Power: 1952 – 1968

The Vietnam War (1945–1975)

1. Brief Overview People & Qs	2. Overview
3. Historical Background: 900 – 1900	4. Vietnamese Nationalism & First Indochina War: 1900 – 1954
5. U.S. Involvement & Cold War Context: 1947- 1955	6. Diem & Republic of Vietnam: 1955 – 1960
7. Kennedy & First U.S. Involvement: 1961 – 1963	8. Johnson and Escalation: 1964 – 1966
9. Quagmire & Tet Offensive: 1966 – 1968	10. U.S. Antiwar Movement: 1960 – 1970
11. Nixon and Vietnamization: 1969 – 1975	12. Aftermath of the War