A. Discovery and Settlement of the New World, 1492-1650

1. Europe in the Sixteenth Century
2. Spanish, English, and French exploration
3. First English settlements
   • Jamestown
   • Plymouth
4. Spanish and French settlements and long term influence
5. Native Americans (Indians)

1. Chesapeake country
2. Growth of New England
3. Restoration colonies
4. Mercantilism: the Dominion of New England
5. Origins of slavery

1. Social structure
   • Family
   • Farm & town life; the economy
2. Culture
   • Great Awakening
   • The American mind
   • "Folkways
3. New immigrants

1. Anglo-French rivalries and the Seven Years' War
2. Imperial reorganization of 1763
   • Stamp Act
   • Townshend Act
   • Declaratory Acts
   • Boston Tea Party
   Philosophy of the Revolution

1. Continental Congress
2. Declaration of Independence
3. The War
   • French alliance
   • War and society; Loyalists
   • War economy
4. Articles of Confederation
5. Peace of Paris
6. Creating state governments
   • Political organization
   • Social reform: women, slavery

1. Philadelphia Convention: drafting the Constitution
2. Federalists Vs. Anti-Federalists
3. Bill of Rights
4. Washington's Presidency
   • Hamilton's financial program
   • Foreign & domestic difficulties
   • Beginnings of political parties
5. John Adams' presidency
   • Alien & Sedition Acts
   • XYZ Affair
   • Election of 1800

1. Jefferson's presidency
   • Louisiana purchase
   • Burr conspiracy
   • The Supreme Court under John Marshall
   • Neutral rights, impressment, embargo
2. Madison
3. War of 1812
   • Causes
   • Invasion of Canada
   • Hartford Convention
   • Conduct of the war
   • Treaty of Ghent
   • Battle of New Orleans

1. James Monroe; Era of Good Feelings
2. Panic of 1819
3. Settlement of the West
4. Missouri Compromise
5. Foreign affairs: Canada, Florida, the Monroe Doctrine
6. Election of 1824: End of Virginia dynasty
7. Economic Revolution
   • Early railroads & canals
   • Expansion of business
     • Beginnings of factory system
     • Early labor movement; women
     • Social mobility; extremes of wealth
   • The cotton revolution in the South
   • Commercial agriculture

1. The South
   • Cotton Kingdom
   • Southern trade and industry
   • Southern Society and culture
     • Gradation of white society
     • Nature of slavery: "peculiar institution"
     • The mind of the South
2. The North
   • Northeast industry
     • Labor
     • Immigration
     • Urban slums
   • Northwest agriculture
3. Westward expansion
   • Advance of agricultural frontier
   • Significance of the frontier
   • Life on the frontier; squatters
   • Removal of the Native Americans (Indians)

1. Common man democracy
   • Expansion of suffrage
   • Rotation in office
2. Second party system
   • Democratic party
   • Whig party
3. Internal improvements and states' rights: Maysville Road veto
4. The Nullification Crisis
   • Tariff issue
   • The Union: Calhoun & Jackson
5. The Bank War: Jackson & Biddle
6. Martin Van Buren
   • Independent treasury system
   • Panic of 1837

1. Manifest destiny and mission
2. Texas annexation, the Oregon boundary, and California
3. James K. Polk and the Mexican War; slavery and the Wilmot Promiso
4. Later expansionist efforts

1. Cultural nationalism
2. Educational reform/professionalism
3. Religion; revivalism
   • Utopian experiments: Mormons, Oneida Community
4. Transcendentalists
5. National literature, art, architecture
6. Reform crusades
   • Feminism; roles of women in the 19th century
   • Abolitionism
   • Temperance
   • Criminals and the insana

1. Compromise of 1850
2. Fugitive Slave Act and Uncle Tom's Cabin
3. Kansas Nebraska Act and realignment of parties
   • Demise of the Whig party
   • Emergence of the Republican Party
4. Dred Scott decision and Lecompton crisis
5. Lincon-Douglas debates, 1858
6. John Brown's raid
7. The election of 1860; Abraham Lincoln
8. The secession crisis

1. Northern mobilization
   • Raising Union armies
   • Economic measures
2. Southern mobilization
   • Confederate government
   • Financing the war
3. Military strategy and diplomacy
4. Campaigns and battles
5. The abolition of slavery
   • Confiscation Acts
   • Emancipation Proclamation
   • Thirteenth Amendment
6. Effects of war on society
   • Inflation and public debt
   • Role of women
   • Devastation

1. Presidential plans: Lincoln and Johnson
2. Radical (Congressional) plans
   • Civil Rights and the 14th Amendment
   • Military Reconstruction
   • Impeachment of Johnson
   • Black suffrage: the 15th Amendment
3. Southern state governments: problems, achievements, weaknesses
4. Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction
5. The tragedy of Reconstruction

1. Politics and the New South
   • The Redeemers
   • Whites and blacks in the New South
   • Subordination of freedmen: Jim Crow
2. Southern economy; colonial status of the South
   • Agrarian pattern
   • Industrial stirrings
3. Cattle kingdom
   • Open range ranching
   • Day of the cowboy
4. Building the Western railroad
5. Subordination of the Native American (Indian): dispersal of tribes
6. Farming the plains; problems in agriculture
7. Mining bonanza

1. Industrial growth: railroads, iron, coal, electricity, steel, oil, banks
2. Laissez-faire conservatism
   • Gospel of Wealth
   • Myth of the self-made man
   • Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest
   • Social critics and dissenters
3. Effects of technological development on worker-workplace
4. Union movement
   • Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L)
   • Homestead and Pullman strikes

1. Lure of the city
2. Immigration
3. City problems
   • Slums
   • Boss rule
   • City Government
4. Awakening conscience; reforms
   • Social legilation
   • Settlement houses
   • Structural reforms in government

1. Education
   • Colleges & Universities
   • Scientific advances
2. New Social sciences
   • Law
   • History
   • New theorists
3. Realism in literature and art
4. Mass culture
   • Use of leisure
   • Publishing and journalism

1. Conservative ascendance
   • Hayes
   • Garfield
   • Arthur
   • Cleveland
2. Issues
   • Tariff controversy
   • Railroad regulation
   • Trusts
3. Agrarian Revolt
   • Grangers
   • Farmers' Alliance
   • Populists
4. Crisis of 1890s
   • Silver question
   • Election of 1896: McKinley V. Bryan

1. Seward and purchase of Alaska
2. The New Imperialism
   • Blaine and Latin America
   • International Darwinism: missionaries, politicians, and naval expansionists
   • Spanish-American War
     • Cuban independence
     • Debate on Philippines
   • The Far East: John Hay and the Open Door Policy
   • Theodore Roosevelt
     • The Panama Canal
     • Roosevelt Corollary
     • Far East
   • Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
   • Wilson and Moral Diplomacy

1. Origins of Progressivism
   • Progressive attitudes and motives
   • Muckrakers
   • Social Gospel
2. Municipal, state and national reforms
   • Political: suffrage
   • Social and economic: regulation
3. Socialism: Alternatives
4. Black America
   • Washington, DuBois, and Garvey
   • Urban migration
   • Civil Rights organizations
5. Women's role: family, work, education, unionization, and suffrage
6. Roosevelt's Square Deal
   • Managing the Trusts
   • Conservation
7. Taft
   • Pinchot-Ballinger controversy
   • Payne-Aldrich Tariff
8. Wilson's New Freedom
   • Tariffs
   • Banking Reform
   • Anti-Trust Act of 1914

1. Problems of neutrality
   • Submarines
   • Economic ties
   • Psychological and ethnic ties
2. Preparedness and pacifism
3. Mobilization
   • Fighting the war
   • Financing the war
   • War boards
   • Propaganda, public opinion, civil liberties
4. Wilson's Fourteen Points
   • Treaty of Versailles
   • Ratification fight
5. Postwar demobilization
   • Red scar
   • Labor strife

1. Republican Governments
   • Business creed
   • Harding scandals
2. Economic development
   • Prosperity and wealth
   • Farm and labor problems
3. New Culture
   • Consumerism: automobile, radio, movies
   • Women, the family
   • Modern religion
   • Literature of alienation
   • Jazz Age
   • Harlem Renaissance
4. Conflict of Cultures
   • Prohibition, bootlegging
   • Nativism
   • Ku Klux Klan
   • Religious fundamentalism Vs. Modernists
5. Myth of Isolation
   • Replacing the League of Nations
   • Business and diplomacy

1. Wall Street crash
2. Depression economy
3. Moods of despair
   • Agrarian unrest
   • Bonus March
4. Hoover-Stimson diplomacy; Japan

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
   • Background, ideas
   • Philosophy of New Deal
2. 100 Days; "alphabet agencies"
3. Second New Deal
4. Critics, left and right
5. Rise of the CIO; labor strikes
6. Supreme Court fight
7. Recession of 1938
8. American people in the Depression
   • Social values, women, ethnic groups
   • Indian Reorganization Act
   • Mexican-American deportation
   • The racial issue

1. Good Neighbor Policy: Montevideo, Buenos Aires
2. London Economic Conference
3. Disarmament
4. Isolationism: neutrality legislation
5. Aggressors: Japan, Italy, and Germany
6. Appeasement
7. Rearmament; Blitzkrieg; Lend-Lease
8. Atlantic Charter
9. Pearl Harbor

1. Organizing for war
   • Mobilizing production
   • Propaganda
   • Internment of Japanese-Americans
2. The war in Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean; D-Day
3. The war in the Pacific: Hiroshima, Nagasaki
4. Diplomacy
   • War aims
   • War-time conferences: Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam
5. Postwar atmosphere; the United Nations

1. Postwar domestic adjustments
2. TheTaft-Hartley Act
3. Civil Rights and the election of 1948
4. Containment in Europe and the Middle East
   • Truman Doctrine
   • Marshall Plan
   • Berlin Crisis
   • NATO
5. Revolution in China
6. Limited War: Korea, MacArthur
7. Questions on Cold War
   • Who caused it?
   • Could it have been avoided?

1. Domestic frustrations; McCarthyism
2. The Civil Rights movement
   • The Warren Court and Brown V. Board of Education
   • Montgomery bus boycott
   • Greensboro sit-in
3. John Foster Dulles' foreign policy
   • Crisis in Southeast Asia
   • Massive retaliation
   • Nationalism in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America
   • Khrushchev and Berlin
4. American People: Homogenized society
   • Prosperity: economic consolidation
   • Consumer culture
   • Consensus of Values
5. Space Race

1. New domestic programs
   • Tax cut
   • War on Poverty
   • Affirmative action
2. Civil Rights Movement
   • Black Americans: political, cultural & economc roles
   • The leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr.
   • Resurgence of feminism
   • The New Left and the Counterculture
   • Emergence of the Republican party in the South
   • The Supreme Court and the Miranda decision
3. Foreign Policy
   • Bay of Pigs
   • Cuban missile crisis
   • Vietnam quagmire

1. Election of 1968
2. Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy
   • Vietnam: excalation and pullout
   • China: restoring relations
   • Soviet Union: detente
3. New Federalism
4. Supreme Court and Roe V. Wade
5. Watergate crisis and resignation

1. The New Right and the conservative social agenda
2. Ford and Rockefeller
3. Carter
   • Deregulation
   • Energy and inflation
   • Camp David Accords
   • Iranian hostage crisis
4. Reagan
   • Tax cuts and budget deficits
   • Defense Buildup
   • New disarmament treaties
   • Foreign crisis: the Persian Gulf and Central America
5. Society
   • Old and new urban problems
   • Asian and Hispanic immigrants
   • Resurgent fundamentalism
   • Black Americans and local, state and national politics.

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