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KC →  Key Concept 1  Key Concept 2  Quick Tips 

PERIOD 1  MC​ ​→​ read Q, read doc/source, answer Q 

● Native American tribes were diverse based on  ● Columbian Exchange for 3 Gs (Gold, Glory, God)  SAQ​ ​→​ ​A​nswer, ​Ci​ te, ​Ex
​ plain 
COLUMBIAN   cultural and environmental differences  ● New crops, diseases, coerced labor systems - slaves   
1491–1607 
Contextualization → ​background info (3–4 sentences) 
Thesis →​ ____ (qualifier) ____ because ____, but ____. 
PERIOD 2  ● Diverse English colonies → NE = Puritan, small town /  ● Euro ideas spread → Enlightenment, 1​st​ Great Awaken  DBQ Evidence → u ​ se doc/out. info to support arg, cite (1) 
MID = cash crops, relIg toler / S = plantation  ● Colonies influenced by GB (House of Burgesses)  DBQ Analysis → ​Hi​ storical Context ​OR​ I​ n
​ tended Audience 
COLONIAL  ● Slavery expanded → triangular trade, mercantilism  ● All colonies involved in slave trade, S created racial 
1607–1754  OR​ ​P​urpose ​OR​ P
​ O​ V 
● Early conflicts (Chickasaw, King Phillip’s, Bacon’s)  polices, black resistance (Stono, NY Consp)  LEQ Evidence → ​specific people, places, events, etc. 
LEQ Analysis →​ connect evidence to arg & explain 
● New government → influenced by Enlightenment  Complexity​ → ​ ​ counter-argument throughout essay ​OR 
● GB debt from 7 Years’ War → limit colonial growth 
PERIOD 3  ● Articles of Confed → weak/limited central powers  consider alternate lens ​OR ​synthesis across time 
(Proc of 1763) & raise taxes (stamps, sugar, etc) 
● Constitution → federalism, sep of powers, bicameral  
REVOLUTION  ● Colonial resistance (Sons of Lib, Boston Tea Party) 
● Washington → Judiciary Act, Jay’s Treaty, Whiskey 
1754–1800  ● Wanted salutary neglect, not independence 
Reb  Key Concept 3 
● America wins → home field adv, leadership, France 
● Adams → XYZ, Alien & Sedition 

PERIOD 4  ● Political parties → feds / anti-feds, dems / whigs  ● New tech, ↑ markets (machines, mass prod.)  ● ↑ foreign affairs (annexation of TX, Monroe Doctrine) 
● More fed powers → McCulloch v MD, Mar v Mad  ● Market Rev → Lowell System, canal, train, steam eng  ● Expansion → conflict with Natives (Trail of Tears) 
EXPANSION  ● Embargo Act, Nullification Crisis  ● Regional specialization → American System (Clay)  ● Slave vs. free states → MO Compromise (36°30’) 
1800–1848  ● Reform movements → abolition, suffrage, temperance  ● Effects → ↑ immigration, King Cotton, middle class  overturned by KS-NE Act → tensions increasing 

PERIOD 5  ● Manifest Destiny → move west & acquire land (Mex)  ● S defended slavery, nullification  ● 13​th​ (abolish slavery), 14​th​ (citizenship), 15​th​ (voting) 
● Initiatives in Asia → Matthew Perry, missionaries  ● Lincoln elected in 1860 → cause of secession  ● AA rights still limited (sharecropping, Jim Crow, 
CIVIL WAR  ● ↑ immigrants from W Euro (Irish, German)  ● Emancipation Proclamation → kept Euro out of war  Plessy v Ferguson, voter suppression) 
1844–1877  ○ Push (famine, rev), Pull (jobs, Homestead Act)  ● North wins → leadership, strategy, resources  ● Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction 

PERIOD 6  ● Rockefeller (oil), Morgan ($), Carnegie (steel)  ● Migrants → Asia, E. Euro, AAs from South  ● “Superiority” → xenophobia, social darwinism 
● ↑ supply = ↓ prices = ↑ real wages & access  ● ↑ education = ↑ middle class = ↑ consumerism  ● Social Gospel → Carnegie library, YMCA, Hull House 
GILDED AGE  ● US imperialism for resources & markets (HI, AK, PR)  ● Move west → conflicts w/ Natives → Sand Creek  ● Biz vs. gov → Sherman Antitrust Act, Pendleton 
1865–1898  ● Reactions → unions (Knights of L, AFL), Populists  ● Assimilation (Dawes Act) vs. Acculturation   ● Segregation → Plessy v Ferguson, Jim Crow, KKK 

PERIOD 7  ● Mass media → fireside chats, talkies, Harlem Ren  ● West closed → Imperialism → Sp-Am War → Guam/PR 
● Rural → urban, Great Migration, Fordism, Taylorism 
● Controversies → Red Scare, Scopes Monkey Trial  ● WWI → isolationist, trench, 14 pts, Treaty of Versailles 
WWI, WWII  ● Progressive reforms → muckrakers, conservation 
● Wars ↑ immigration → quotas & barriers  ● WWII → 4 freedom, mass mobil, Japanese Internment 
1890–1945  ● FDR → New Deal → relief, recovery, reform 
● US migration to cities, Okies → CA, AA → N & W  ● Allied victory → Marshall Plan, UN, IMF, World Bank 

● Cold War → containment, dominoes, space, detente   ●
PERIOD 8  ● Paranoia → HUAC, Hollywood 10, McCarthyism  ●
COLD WAR  ● Vietnam → hawks vs doves, DNC ‘68, SDS, Kent St  ●
1945–1980  ● Military-industrial complex (Eisenhower, War Powers)  ●
● Conflict w/ Middle East → Energy Crisis of 1970s  ●
Civil Rights → CORE, SNCC, Brown v Board, Panthers  ●
Feminism/LGBTQ → NOW, Title XI, Roe, Stonewall  ●
LBJ → Great Society → healthcare, education  ●
1960s liberalism → silent majority & conservatism  ●
1970s → Watergate, Stagflation, Iran Hostage  ●
Postwar growth → baby boom, tech, NASA, education 
Migrations → suburbs, new immigrants (Latin A, Asia) 
Counterculture → beats, hippies, Woodstock 
Sexual Revolution → birth control, Masters & Johnson 
Evangelism → moral majority, televangelists, Falwell 

PERIOD 9  ● Reaganism → trickle-down, tax cuts, crime bills  ● Dot-com boom, Y2K, ↑ service jobs, ↑ inequality  ● ↑ military $ + diplomacy + USSR debt → end of Cold 
PRESENT  ● Debates about scope of government → healthcare,  ● Continued debates → LGBTQ rights, feminism,  War 
1980–present  trade  immigration  ● New foreign policy → peacekeeping, interventionist 
 

Dates to Know​: 1​ 607​ Jamestown // 1​ 776​ Dec of Ind // 1​ 787​ Constitution // 1​ 803​ LA Purchase // ​1816–1824​ Era of Good Feelings // ​1823​ Monroe Doc // 1​ 830​ Indian Removal Act // 1​ 848​ Seneca Falls 
// 1​ 850​ Fugitive Slave Law // ​1861–1865​ Civil War // ​1862​ Homestead Act // 1​ 877​ End of Reconstruction // ​1890​ Sherman Antitrust Act // 1​ 896​ Plessy v Ferguson // 1​ 898​ Sp-Am War // 1​ 914–1918 
WWI // ​1929​ Stock Market Crash // 1​ 939–1945​ WWII // ​1950​ Korea // ​1950s​ McCarthyism // 1​ 954​ Brown v Board // ​1964​ Civil Rights // 1​ 972​ Watergate // ​1973​ Roe v Wade // ​1989​ End Cold War // 
2001​ 9/11