U.S. History Identifications
| First Peoples & Columbian Exchange | Southern Colonies | Northern Colonies |
Continental Drift | Juan Ponce de Leon Florida Virginia Starving Time John Smith Pocahontas Indentured Servant Headright Seasoning Period Demographic Transition Powhatan John Rolfe Tobacco Boom Planters demographic transition Great Chain of Being race-based slavery slave laws freedom dues William Berkley Bacon's Rebellion Lord Baltimore Maryland Sugar Islands Middle Passage Barbados Maroon Colonies Carolina Charlestown Rice Stono Rebellion Georgia Debtors James Oglethorpe Silk Corporate Colonies Proprietary Colonies Royal colonies | English Reformation Henry VIII Church of England Calvinism Predestination Plymouth Plantation Pilgrims (Separtists) Squanto Puritans Congregationalists Presbyterians Covenanture Massachusetts Bay Colony John Winthrop Arabella sermon The Great Migration Rhodes Island Connecticutt Anne Hutchinson Roger Williams Regicide English Civil War Oliver Cromwell The Stuart Restoration Half-Way Covenant Dominion of New England The Glorious Revolution Metacomet (King Phillip) Salem Witchcraft Trials declension New Neatherlands Peter Stuyvesant New Sweden Duke of York East & West Jersey William Penn Society of Friends Pennsylvania Dutch Quebec |
| Eighteenth Century America | American Revolution | Confederation & Constitution |
| Great Wagon Road Atlantic Trade The Great Awakening Jonathan Edwards George Whitefield John Wesley religious revivals the Enlightenment Benjamin Franklin Deism Oladuah Equiano New York Slave Conspiracy Acadia Nova Scotia Hudson's Bay Company Ohio Company War for the Empire French and Indian War Seven Years War Pondicherry George Washington Fort Duquesne Fort Necessity James Braddock Albany Plan of Union James Wolfe Plains of Abraham Marquis de Montcalm William Pitt 1763 Treaty of Paris East & West Florida Proclamation of 1763 Pontiac's Rebellion Junipero Serra California Missions | George III actual representation virtual representation Country Party ideology "Power v Liberty" standing army Sugar Act Stamp Act Quartering Act Sons of Liberty Townshend Acts non-importation non-consumption Boston Massacre Coercive or Intolerable Acts Quebec Act Continental Congress Lexington & Concord Bunker Hill Boston's Evacuation Day Olive Branch Petition Lord Dunmore's Proclamation Abigail Adams John Adams Thomas Jefferson Committee of Safety Common Sense Virginia Declaration of Religious Freedom Declaration of Independence Battle of New York "American Crisis" Valley Forge Benedict Arnold Silas Dean Loyalists French Alliance Saratoga Southern Strategy Cowpens Comte de Rochambeau Comte de Grasse Cornwallis Yorktown 1783 Treaty of Paris | Articles of Confederation hierarchy township land cessation Western Reserve Northwest Ordinance Critical Period Philadelphia Convention Shay's Rebellion Great Compromise Federalist Papers Antifederalists Bill of Rights Republican Motherhood Judith Sargent Murray James Madison Mary Otis Warren Alexander Hamilton Assumption of the Public Debt Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures Bank of the US Whiskey Rebellion Federalist Party (Democratic) Republican Party First Party System French Revolution Jay's Treaty Quasi-War XYZ Affair Alien & Sedition Acts Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions Nullification Revolution of 1800 Gabriel's Rebellion Midnight Judges Marbury v Madison McCullough v. Maryland John Marshall Louisiana Purchase Aaron Burr Tecumseh War of 1812 Treaty of Ghent Battle of New Orleans Hartford Convention Era of Good Feelings Adams-Onís Treaty |
| Antebellum America | Secession, Civil War & Reconstruction | Late 19th Century America |
James Monroe | California Gold Rush Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act Stephen Douglas Transcontinental Railroad Gadsden Purchase Kansas-Nebraska Act Popular Sovereignty Know-Nothings John C. Fremont Bleeding Kansas John Brown Pottawatomie Massacre Dred Scott Republican Party Third Party System Caning of Sumner Andrew Butler Panic of 1857 Harpers Ferry Fire Eaters Election of Lincoln Secession Winter Civil War Abraham Lincoln Secession Commissioners Jefferson Davis Fort Sumter Quantrill's Raiders The Morrill Act of 1862 Homestead Act Naval Blockade Total War Conscription Draft Riots Desertion Manassas/Bull Run Antietam/Sharpesburg Vicksburg Gettysburg Ulysses S. Grant Battle of Atlanta William T. Sherman Robert E. Lee Election of 1864 George McClellan John Wilkes Booth Ford's Theater Andrew Johnson Slave States that did not secede Slave States that waited to secede State that seceded from a seceding state Republic of Jones Fall of Richmond Appomatox Court House Contrabands Massachusetts' 54th Infantry Presidential Reconstruction Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln's 10% Plan Loyalty Oath Amnesty Freedmen Carpetbaggers Scallawags Sherman Land Andrew Johnson Black Codes Congressional Reconstruction Military Occupation Freedmens Bureau 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment Memphis Riots Impeachment Sharecroppers Mississippi Plan Ku Klux Klan Redemption Panic of 1873 Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden Compromise of 1877 Slaughterhouse Cases | Gilded Age James Garfield Charles J. Guiteau Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison Mugwumps Civil Service Reform Patronage White Graft Political Bosses Political Machines Tammany Hall Boss Tweed Credit Mobilier Dawes Severality Act Black Hills Gold Rush Buffalo Soldiers George Armstrong Custer Seventh Calvary Ghost Dance Little Big Horn Battle of Wounded Knee Sand Creek Massacre Jesse James Buffalo Bill Turner Thesis transconinental railroad New South Crusade Henry Grady Jim Crow Segregation Lost Cause Sharecropping Crop-Lien System Furnishing Merchants Fence Laws Lynching Plessy v Ferguson Homer Plessy Cotton States Exposition Booker T. Washington Atlanta Compromise W.E.B. DuBois Niagra Movement NAACP Knights of Labor Terrence Powderly American Federation of Labor Samuel Gompers Great Strike of 1877 Jay Gould Andew Carnegie Henry Clay Frick Homestead Strike Bessemer Process John D. Rockefeller "Robber-Barons" "Captains of Industry" 10 Hour Movement Haymarket Riot Pullman Strike Eugene Debs National Railway Union Standard Oil Trust vertical integration horizontal integration oligopoly monopoly Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railroad Company laissez-faire government Horatio Alger Ragged Dick Gospel of Wealth Social Darwinism Herbert Spencer nouveau riche millionaire "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt Child Labor New Middle Class Managers Sweat Shop new immigrants pogrom Los Angeles Anti-Chinese Riots Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Roosevelt's Gentlemen's Agreement Ellis Island Angel Island American Protective Association Immigration Act of 1924 Immigration Quotas eugenics Americanization assimilation melting pot urbanization Thomas Edison Electricity tenement structural steel skyscraper Louis Sullivan Otis Elevator Brooklyn Bridge Vaudeville Coney Island Typewriter Department store Sears & Roebuck Montgomery Ward Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives |
| From 19th to 20th Century | Imperialism & World War | Normalcy & Depression |
| “Crime of '73" Bimetalism Gold Bugs Patrons of Industry The Grange Greenback Party Granger Laws Farmers Alliance Sockless Jerry "Raise more hell and less corn" Cooperative Capitalism Ocala Demands Sub-Treasury Plan People's Party Populism Omaha Platform Fusionists William Jennings Bryan "Cross of Gold" Speech Tom Watson Plutocrats Panic of 1893 Coxey’s Army Progressivism Income Tax Direct Election of Senators Initiative & Referendum Political Primary City Manager Sherman Anti-Trust Act Clayton Anti-Trust Act Trust Busters Theodore Roosevelt The New Nationalism US Steel John Pierpont Morgan Social Gospel Jane Addams Settlement Houses Social Workers Gifford Pinchot conservation William Howard Taft Upton Sinclair The Jungle Pure Food and Drug Act Thorstein Veblen Federal Reserve System Muckrakers Lincoln Steffens Taylorism Technocracy Bull Moose Party | Coaling Stations Annexation of Hawaii William McKinley Leon Czolgosz Spanish-American War Yellow Press De Lome Letter U.S.S. Maine Albert Beveridge “White Man’s Burden” Anti-Imperialists Mark Twain The War Prayer Platt Amendment Teller Amendment Filipino Insurgency Roosevelt Corallary Open Door Policy Alfred Thayer Mahan Sea Power Great White Fleet Panama Canal World War I Arch-Duke Ferdinand Sarajevo Central Powers Allied Powers "Rape of Belgium" Woodrow Wilson "He Kept Us Out of War" Neutrality Battle of Jutland Submarine Warfare Lusitania Mexican Revolution Zimmerman Telegram Pancho Villa John J. Pershing American Expeditionary Force Trench Warfare Gas Warfare Armistice Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles League of Nations Spanish Flu Pandemic Bolshevism First Great Migration Bernard Baruch War Industries Board Sedition Act of 1918 Shenk v United States Socialist Party Emma Goldman Joe Hill Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Wobblies Red Scare Soviet Ark Palmer Raids Sacco & Vanzetti Boston Police Strike | Normalcy Roaring 20s New Negro New Woman Flappers Harlem Renaissance Middletown Industrial Bonds Teapot Dome Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Suffrage Movement Prohibition Speakeasy Mobsters G-Men Scopes Trial H. L. Mencken Florida Land Boom Radio stations Henry Ford Model T Assembly Line William Joseph Simmons Ku Klux Klan Birth of a Nation David Stephenson "100 percent Americanism" Charles Lindbergh Sinclair Lewis Andrew Mellon "Trickle Down" Economics Herbert Hoover "Chicken in Every Pot" Hawley-Smoot Tariff Stock Market Crash The Great Depression "Hoover flags" Hoovervilles Bonus Army Franklin D. Roosevelt Polio Epidemic The New Deal Brain Trust Bank Holiday The “100 Days” Fireside Chats "Alphabet Soup" Federal Agencies National Industrial Recovery Act Federal Deposit Insurance Quasi-Governmental Agencies Francis Townsend Old Age Pensions Huey Long The Kingfish Father Caughlin Radio Priest John L. Lewis Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Sit Down Strikes Second New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) "Court Packing" Social Security Act Wagner Act Roosevelt's Purge Route 66 Dust Bowl Okies "Invisible Scar" "Nation's Number 1 Economic Problem" |
| World War 2 | The Cold War | Conformity, Rebellion & Reorganization |
| Japanese militarism Mukden Incident Manchukuo Benito Mussolini Fascism Invasion of Ethopia Adolph Hitler National Socialism (Nazis) Spanish Civil War Sudetenland Munich Conference Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact Blitzkrieg Invasion of Poland Holocaust Kristallnacht Battle of France Battle of Britain London Blitz Nye Committee Merchants of Death America First Cash & Carry Lend-Lease Pearl Harbor Axis Powers Allies Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Atlantic Conference Tehran Conference Yalta Conference Battle of Stalingrad Invasion of Normandy D-Day Dwight D. Eisenhower Air Power Strategic Bombing Dresden Firestorm Chester Nimitz Battle of Midway Battle of Coral Sea Battle of Iwo Jima Plan to Invade Japan Kamikaze Pilots VE-Day Harry S. Truman Potsdam Conference Manhattan Project Atomic Bomb Enola Gay Hiroshima Nagasaki VJ-Day Nuremburg Trials Rosie the Riveter Ration Book Recycling Victory Garden Eleanor Roosevelt A. Phillip Randolph Double V Campaign Tuskegee Airmen Second Great Migration Executive Order 9066 Japanese Internment Korematsu v United States | Iron Curtain Greek Civil War Truman Doctrine Berlin Airlift George Kennan Containment North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Warsaw Pact Marshal Plan NSC-68 Peacetime Military Buildup Chinese Revolution Mao Ze Dong United Nations Korean Police Action Pusan Perimeter Inchon Landing Yalu River Chinese Volunteers 38th parallel Joseph McCarthy Hollywood Investigation Blacklists House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Richard Nixon Alger Hiss Rosenberg Trial Hydrogen Bomb Bikini Atoll Nuclear Deterrent Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) John Foster Dulles Central Intelligence Agency Mohammed Mossadegh Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán "Bigger Bang for the Buck" Marshall Tito French Indo-China Ho Chi Mihn Vietmihn Bao Dai 1954 Geneva Accords Hungarian Uprising Spheres of Influence Nikita Krushev De-Stalinization Kitchen Debate Sputnik Space Race Wars of National Liberation Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro U-2 Spy Plane Berlin Wall Bay of Pigs Invasion Cuban Missle Crisis Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Robert McNamara Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) Domino Theory Prague Spring Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia Space Treaty Anti-Ballistic Missle (ABM) Treaty Detente Henry Kissinger Opening of China Proxy Wars Vietnamese Boat People Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Leonid Breshnev 1980 Olympics Boycott Nicaraguan Revolution Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Ronald Reagan Mikhail Gorbachev Glasnost Perestroika Fall of Berlin Wall Velvet Revolution | The Fair Deal Beat Generation Jack Kerouac Allen Ginsberg Marlon Brando James Dean Television Sitcoms Military-Industrial Complex Organization Man Cardinal Spellman Anticommunism Suburbanization White Flight Elvis Presley Sunbelt Air Conditioning Billy Graham Televangelists NAACP Legal Defense Fund Thurgood Marshall Desegregation Brown v Board of Education Southern Manifesto Massive Resistance White Citizens Councils Emmitt Till Montgomery Bus Boycott Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Non-violent Resistance Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Crisis at Central High Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Integration of "Ole Miss" Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Freedom Rides Baker v Carr Medgar Evers Malcolm X Civil Rights Act of 1964 Freedom Summer Voting Rights Act of 1965 Black Power Stokley Carmichael Eldridge Cleaver Huey Newton Black Panthers Green v School Board of New Kent County Affirmative Action John F. Kennedy The New Frontier Camelot Engel v Vitale Berkely Free Speech Movement Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Port Huron Statement New Left Bob Dylan British Invasion The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan National Organization of Women (NOW) Contraception Griswold v Connecticut Roe v Wade Rachel Carson Silent Spring Ecology Movement Earth Day Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Counter Culture Hippies Youth International Party (Yippies) LSD Timothy Leary Woodstock Michael Harrington The Other America Lyndon Johnson The Great Society The War on Poverty Gideon v Wainwright Miranda v. Arizona César Chávez United Farm Workers Stonewall Riot Gay Liberation Patty Hearst Symbionese Liberation Army Weather Underground |
| Vietnam War | Presidential Scandalgates | Ascendance of the Conservatives |
| North Vietnam Dien Bien Phu Seventeenth Parallel Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Viet Cong Saigon Green Berets fragging Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) Diem Assassination Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Limited War Nguyen Van Thieu William C. Westmoreland Tet Offensive Escalation Vietnamization Nixon's Secret Plan Ho Chi Mihn Trail Operation Rolling Thunder Mining of Haiphong Harbor Napalm Agent Orange defoilant Jane Fonda Bombing of Hanoi POW/MIA Hanoi Hilton Paris Peace Talks "Peace with Honor" My Lai Massacre Draft Lotteries Draft Card Democratic National Convention Anti-war Movement Chicago Seven "Mobilization" peace demonstration Henry Kissinger Robert Kennedy Eugene McCarthy Invasion of Cambodia Prince Sihanouk Lon Nol Khmer Rouge Illegal War Kent State Shootings Illegal Wiretaps Weather Underground War Powers Resolution Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg Daniel and Phillip Berrigan Christmas Bombings Case-Church Amendment Fall of Saigon | Plumbers Dirty Tricks CREEP Watergate Democratic National Committee (DNC) George McGovern Archibald Cox Special Prosecutor Saturday Night Massacre Robert Bork Leon Jaworski Spiro T. Agnew "I'm not a crook" John Mitchell Martha Mitchell G. Gordon Liddy John Dean John Sirica Nixon Tapes 18 ½-Minute Gap Senate Watergate Committee Smoking Gun Woodward & Bernstein Washington Post Deep Throat Mark Feltman 25th Amendment Gerald R. Ford "Nixon Resigns" Nixon Pardon Iran-Contra Scandal Beirut Bombing Hezbollah Terry Anderson Oliver North Fawn Hall Richard Secord William Casey Lawrence Walsh Caspar Weinberger George Bush Contras El Salvador War Bill Clinton Whitewater Investigation Kenneth Starr Paula Jones "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Policy Travelgate Vince Foster Suicide Monica Lewinsky Clinton Impeachment "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" | Bradley v Milliken Allan Bakke Resegregation William Rhenquist Jimmy Carter Iranian Revolution Ayatollah Khomeini Shah Reza Pahlavi Savak Hostage Crisis Seymour Hersch Three Mile Island Nuclear Disaster AIDS Epidemic Reagan Revolution Teflon Presidency Phyllis Schafly Equal Rights Amendment Moral Majority Jerry Falwell Religous Right Savings and Loan (S&L) Scandal Challenger Disaster Bill Gates Personal Computer George Bush Willie Horton "Politics of Personal Destruction" Clarence Thomas Anita Hill "No New Taxes" "Come Back Kid" Ross Perot Newt Gingrich Contract with America NAFTA Illegal Immigration Waco Seige David Koresh Oklahoma City bombing Timothy McVeigh The Turner Diaries Columbine Massacre Eric Robert Rudolph George W. Bush Al Gore Social Security Lockbox Budget Surplus Florida Recount chads Bush v Gore |
| Global Realities | ||
| OPEC Muramar Kaddafi European Union The Euro globalization New World Order Invasion of Panama Manuel Noriega Invasion of Kuwait Operation Desert Storm Gulf War Saddam Hussein Somalia Black-Hawk Down Bosnia Nation Building Osama bin Laden Al Qaeda Attack on USS Cole Khobar Towers bombing East Africa Embassy Bombings Millennium Bug Y2K Thwarted Millenium Attacks 9/11 Twin Towers Flight 93 NYPD FDNY Richard Clark Colin Powell Condoleezza Rice Michael Moore Fahrenheit 9/11 “Axis of Evil” Taliban Northern Alliance Operation Iraqi Freedom Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) "Mission Accomplished" Bush Doctrine L. Paul Bremer Coalition Provisional Authority Sunni Insurgency Improvised Explosive Devices (IED's) Oslo Accords Palestinian State Kyoto Protocols Global Warming An Inconvenient Truth You-Tube |
