ap us history summer assignment your summer assignment

AP US History Summer Assignment Your summer assignment contains two parts:

(1) Populists DBQ – complete according to the instructions on the DBQ. You may access additional resources to help you with background information but should not cite this information in your written response. Your written response should be based on the provided document. Typically the DBQ response is about 3 – 4 typed pages.

(2) US History I Thematic Response – First, review the attached PowerPoint presentation reviewing key US History I information. The AP US history test holds you responsible for understanding the overarching themes and specific details of the entirety of United States history from pre-Columbian civilizations to the modern era. Though the early portion of US History was the focus of your sophomore year, reviewing this PowerPoint should keep many of the major names, issues, and developments fresh as we move into September. Because the AP Test will assess your knowledge of US I content, the AP US History course at NHS will also assess your knowledge of US I content. You should be ready for these assessments at the beginning of the school year in September. In the interest of keeping you in US History I “mode” you will be responsible for completing the following based on the provided PowerPoint.

US History I Thematic Response: The College Board’s AP US History curriculum identifies the following themes around which the course and the AP test are structured:

• Identity • Work, Exchange, and Technology • Peopling • Politics and Power • America in the World • Environment and Geography – Physical and Human • Ideas, Belief, and Culture

After viewing the PowerPoint you should select 15 events, people, inventions, ideas, etc. that you believe were most critical in the development of U.S. History from 1607 – 1877. Next, you should determine the theme under which each of your selections falls. For each selection you should write 2 – 4 sentences describing your rationale for why this event, person, invention, idea, etc. was most critical in the development of U.S. History from 1607 – 1877. Additionally you should provide your rationale for why you chose to attach your selection to your chosen theme. If you want, you could select more than one theme to attach to your selection. One of your entries might look like the following:

The Proclamation of 1763 – The Proclamation of 1763 was one of the most critical developments in U.S. History form 1607 – 1877 because it represents the first significant restrictive policies toward the North American colonies by the British Crown following the French and Indian War after decades of “salutary neglect.” Though not destructive to the colonial way of life, it was the first sign for many colonists that the Crown did not necessarily have the best interests of Americans in mind. The Proclamation would fall under politics and power because it was a decision of the British Crown that impacted colonial relations. It would also fall under Environment and Geography because it restricted movement WEST of the APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS. Arguably it could also fit under identity because it impacted how Americans felt about their place in the British Empire.

All response should be typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman font, and follow MLA formatting for page

set-up and in-text citations.

Feel free to email Mr. Dwyer at [email protected] with any questions or clarifications.

The College Board Advanced Placement Examination

AMERICAN HISTORY SECTION I1

(Suggested writing time--40 minutes)

Directions: The following question requires you to construct a coherent essay that integrates your interpretation of Documents A-H and your knowledge of the period referred to in the question. In your essay, you should strive to demonstrate a broad grasp of the documents and to support your assertions about the documents by citing key pieces of evidence from them. Be sure to use your knowledge of the period to develop your answer to the two parts of the question.

1. Documents A-H reveal some of the problems that many farmers in the late nineteenth century (1880-1900) saw as threats to their way of life. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period, (a) explain the reasons for agrarian discontent and @) evaluate the validity of the farmers' complaints.

Document A

I Source: The platform of the People's (Populist) party (1892)

The conditions which surround us best justify our cooperation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the legislatures, the Congress, and even touches the ermine of the bench. The people are demoral- ized. . . . The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, homes covered with mortgages, labor irnpoveriqhed, and the land concentrating in the hands of the capitalists. The urban workmen are denied the right of organization for self- protection. . . .

The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders; a vast public debt payable in legal-tender currency has been funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people.

Silver, which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been demonetized to add to the purchasing power of gold by decreasing the value of all forms of property as well as human labor, and the supply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise, and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized on two continents, and it is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible convulsions, the destruction of civilization, or the establishment of an absolute despotism.

Copyright 0 1983 by Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. All rights reserved.

I

Document B

Source: Acceptance speech of William McKinley, Canton, Ohio (August 26,1896)

It is proposed by one wing of the Democratic party and its allies, the People's and Silver parties, to inaugurate action on the part of the United States at a ratio of 16 ounces of silver to one ounce of gold. . . .

We must not be misled by phrases, nor deluded by false theories. Free silver would not mean that silver dollars were to be freely had without cost or labor. . . . It would not make labor easier, the hours shorter, or the pay better. It would not make farming less laborious or more profitable. . . .

Debasement of the currency means destruction of values. No one suffers so much from cheap money as the farmers and laborers. They are the first to feel its bad effects and the last to recover from them. . . .

It is mere pretense to attribute the hard times to the fact that all our currency is on a gold basis. Good money never made times hard. . . .

I Document C I Source: United States government data (1961) I

I , UNITED STATES POPULATION AND MONEY IN CIRCULATION, 1865-1895 I Povulation

(in thousands) 1865 35,701 1870 39,905 1875 45,073 1880 50,262 1885 56,658 1890 63,056 1895 69,580

Monev in Circulation (in thousands of dollars)

1,083,541 774,966 833,789 973,382

1,292,569 1,429,251 1,601,968

Document D

Source: The Farmer's Voice, a Chicago newspaper (late 1880's or early 1890's)

Designed and Engraved expressly for "The Farmer's Voice."

T H E EASTERN MASTER AND HIS WESTERN SLAVES

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1983 >DQ Document E

Source: J. Laurence Laughlin, "Causes of Agricultural Unrest," Atlantic Monthly (November, 1896)

Of course, the farmer who has overtraded, or expanded his operation beyond his means, in a time of commercial depression is affected just as anyone else is in like conditions. I The simple fact that we produce more wheat than we consume, and that, consequently, the price of the whole crop is determined, not by the markets within this country, but by the world-markets, is sufficient to put wheat, as regards its price, in a different class from those articles whose markets are local. . . . And it need not be said that many wheat-growing farmers make little or no allowance for events beyond their limited range of local information. . . .

The sudden enlargement of the supply without any corresponding increase of demand produced that alarming fall in the price of wheat which has been made the farmer's excuse for thinking that silver is the magic panacea for all his ills. . . .

Feeling the coils of some mysterious power about them, the farmers, in all honesty, have attributed their misfortunes to the "constriction" in prices, caused, as they think, not by an increased produc- tion of wheat throughout the world, but by the "scarcity of gold."

Document F

Source: James B. Weaver, A Call to Action: A n Interpretation of the Great Uprising. Its Source and Causes (1892)

It is clear that trusts are contrary to public policy and hence in conflict with the Common law. They are monopolies organized to destroy competition and restrain trade. . . . Once they secure control of a given line of business, they are master of the situation and can dictate to the two great classes with which they deal-the producer of the raw material and the consumer of the finished product. They limit the price of the raw material so as to impoverish the producer, drive him to a single market, reduce the price of every class of labor connected with the trade, throw out of employment large numbers of persons who had before been engaged in a meritorious calling and finally. . . they increase the price to the consumer. . . . The main weapons of the trust are threats, intimidation, bribery, fraud, wreck, and pillage.

Document G

Source: Testimony of George W. Parker, vice-president of the Cairo Short Line Railroad, before the Senate Cullom Committee (1885)

Mr. Parker. There is a decided distinction between local and through business: They are influenced by different considerations. Different rules and practices apply to them. . . .

About 33% percent of the operating expenses of this road is continuous, regardless of whether the road is earning much or little, and it there'fore requires a certain volume of business to meet these fixed expenses. In most cases, and especially in some seasons of the year, the local business of the road of itself is not of sufficient volume to make up paying trains, nor is it sufficient to make the earnings, over and above current expenses, sufficient to meet the fixed charges against the road. So that in order to run paying trains we generally, after we have built the road to accommodate the local territory, endeavor to get a connection for through business to be super-added to the local business. Then when we make up a train of ten or fifteen cars of local freight to go over our line from Saint Louis, we can attach fifteen or twenty cars more of strictly through business. We can take the latter at a very low rate rather than go without it. We are justified in doing so, as one does no prejudice to the other. . . .

The Chairman. Suppose you were to carry the freights that you gather along the line of your road for the same rate you carry through freight . . . what would be the consequence?

Mr. Parker. Bankruptcy, inevitably and speedily. . . .

I Document H

Source: Frank Norris, The Octopus (1901)

For a moment Dyke was confused. Then swiftly the matter became clear in his mind. The Railroad had raised the rate on hops from two cents to five.

All his calculations as to a profit on his little investment he had based on a freight rate of two cents a pound. He was under contract to deliver his crop. He could not draw back. The new rate ate up every cent of his gains. He stood there ruined.

"Why, what do you mean?" he burst out. "You promised me a rate of two cents and I went ahead with my business with that understanding. . . ."

I "The rate is five cents," declared the clerk doggedly.

"Well that ruins me," shouted Dyke. "Do you understand? I won't make fifty cents. Make? Why, I will owe.-I'll be-be-That ruins me, do you understand?"

I I The other raised a shoulder.

"We don't force you to ship. You can do as you like. The rate is five cents." I . "Well-but-. . . . You told m e y o u promised me a two-cent rate."

. . . Dyke stared in blank astonishment. . . .

". . . Look here. What's your basis of applying freight rates, anyhow?" he suddenly vociferated with furious sarcasm. . . .

S. Behrman emphasized each word of his reply with a tap of one forefinger on the counter before him:

"All-the traffic-willbear."

END OF 1983 DBQ DOCUMENTS

US History 1607 to 1877

Overview

1

6 Key Dates

6 Eras

10 Territories

36 Important People

5 Wars

11 Documents

24 Inventions

2

1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

6 Key Dates

1776 1787 1803 1861 to 1865

1607: Jamestown, VA First permanent English settlement

1776: DOI Declaration of Independence

1787: USC United States Constitution

1803: LA Purchase Louisiana Purchase

1861 to 1865: CW Civil War

1877: End of REC Federal troops removed from the South

3

6 Key Dates

6 Eras

10 Territories

36 Important People

5 Wars

11 Documents

24 Inventions

4

1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

6 Eras

1607: Jamestown, VA First permanent English settlement

1877: End of REC Federal troops removed from the South

270 Years

5

REC CW GnR BaN REV COL 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

6 Eras

270 Years

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

6

COL = Colonization REV = Revolution BaN = Building a Nation GnR = Growth and Reform CW = Civil War REC = Reconstruction

COL 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

156 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

Colonization (COL) 1607 to 1763 (156 Years)

7


England planted the Original 13 Colonies along the Atlantic Coast of North America.

1st Colony 1607 VA (Jamestown)

2nd Colony 1620 MA (Plymouth Rock)

12th Colony 1682 PA (Philadelphia)

13th Colony 1733 GA (Savannah) 8


The Original 13 Colonies were squeezed between the Atlantic Ocean

and the Appalachian Mountains.

Needing room to grow, the Colonists crossed the Appalachian Mountains and tried to take land that was claimed by the French and the Indians

in the Ohio River Valley.

This caused the French and Indian War. 9


In 1754 Benjamin Franklin told the Colonists: “Join or Die”

(Albany Plan of Union) But the Colonies refused to give up their power

to a central government.

In 1754 George Washington served as a Colonel leading a regiment of Virginia militia against the French and the Indians.

He lost the fight. 10


In 1756 the King of England declared war on France and sent more troops to America to defend the Colonists

from the French and the Indians.

The King ran up a huge debt defending the Colonists. ! This debt led to the Revolution.

The Treaty of Paris of 1763 marked the end of the French and Indian War

and the end of the Colonization Era. 11

COL 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

156 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


1st Colony – Jamestown, VA

Treaty of Paris of 1763

12

REV

1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

Revolution (REV) 1763 to 1783 (20 Years)

20 Yrs

13


In 1763 the King of England, King George III, issued the Proclamation of 1763 in which he told the colonists:

“Do not cross the Appalachian Mountains!”

This angered the colonists. (Why?)

They thought that winning the French and Indian War would give them access to the Ohio River Valley.

14


In 1764 King George III decided that the Colonists should help pay off the debt that England had incurred

in defending the Colonies from the French and the Indians, so he began raising their taxes.

Acts of Parliament that taxed the Colonies:

Sugar Act (1764) Stamp Act (1765) Declaratory Act (1766) Townshend Acts (1767) Tea Act (1773) Coercive Acts (1774)

Etc, Etc, Etc . . . 15


Parliament passed Acts that raised their taxes, but Colonists did not get to elect Members of Parliament.

This led to the battle-cry:

“No Taxation without Representation!”

The King could have avoided Revolution by lowering taxes or by allowing the Colonists

to elect Members of Parliament. He did neither.

16


In 1776 the Colonies declared their independence.

In 1777 the Colonies wrote our 1st constitution: Articles of Confederation (1777/1781)

In 1781 Washington defeated Cornwallis at Yorktown, VA.

In 1783 the British signed the Treaty of Paris of 1783 acknowledging that the Colonies were

“Free and Independent States.” 17

REV

1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


20 Yrs

Proclamation of 1763


18

BaN 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

20 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

Building a Nation (BaN) 1783 to 1803 (20 Years)

19


Now that the Colonies were “Free and Independent States”

they had to figure out how to be a “Nation.”

In 1777 they had written our 1st constitution: Articles of Confederation (1777/1781)

But the Articles created a central government that was too weak.

20


In 1787 they wrote the US Constitution (USC), which was ratified in 1788,

creating a much stronger central government.

In 1789 George Washington became our 1st President.

Also in 1789 they made 10 changes to the USC.

These first ten changes (aka amendments), which were ratified in 1791, are called the Bill of Rights.

21


Our 1st President, George Washington (VA), served for 8 years (1789 to 1797).

Our 2nd President, John Adams (MA), served for 4 years (1797 to 1801).

Our 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson (VA), served for 8 years (1801 to 1809).

22

BaN 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

20 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865



Louisiana Purchase

23

GnR 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

58 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

Growth and Reform (GnR) 1803 to 1861 (58 Years)

24


In just 50 years – from 1803 to 1853 – the United States expanded “from sea to shining sea”

thereby fulfilling our “Manifest Destiny.”

The growth began in 1803 when President Thomas Jefferson (#3)

obtained the Louisiana Purchase from France, doubling the size of the country, and moving our western border

from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. 25


In just 50 years – from 1803 to 1853 – the United States expanded “from sea to shining sea”

thereby fulfilling our “Manifest Destiny.”

The growth was completed in 1853 when President Franklin Pierce (#14)

obtained the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico, completing the contiguous continental United States.

“Purchase to Purchase = 50 Years” 26


This growth raised 2 questions:

Would there be slavery in the new territories? Who would make that decision?

The people in each State and Territory? OR

The Federal Government in Washington, DC?

This is referred to as the “States’ Rights” issue. 27


This growth also triggered 4 reform movements:

Movement #1 = Abolition End Slavery

Movement #2 = Suffrage Equal Rights for Women (ESP: The right to vote!)

28


This growth also triggered 4 reform movements:

Movement #3 = Temperance Stop Drinking

Movement #4 = Education Free Public Schools for Everyone

29

GnR 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

58 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


Louisiana Purchase

Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, SC

30

CW 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

4 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

Civil War (CW) 1861 to 1865 (4 Years)

31


In November of 1860 Abraham Lincoln (#16) was elected US President.

In December of 1860 South Carolina (SC) seceded from the Union.

In February of 1861 SC and 6 other states (GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, and TX)

formed the Confederate States of America (CSA) electing Jefferson Davis as their 1st (and only) President.

32


In March of 1861 Abraham Lincoln (#16) was inaugurated as US President.

In April of 1861 Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter, SC.

The Civil War had begun!

In July of 1861 the first major battle of the Civil War

was fought near Bull Run Creek (Manassas) in VA. 33


In January of 1863 President Abraham Lincoln (#16) issued the

Emancipation Proclamation.

The Emancipation Proclamation changed the focus of the war:

It had started – in 1861 – as a war to preserve the Union.

It now – in 1863 – became a war to end slavery. 34


In July of 1863 the Union won two major battles

that marked the turning point of the war:

The Union victory at Gettysburg, PA stopped Robert E. Lee’s final advance into the North.

The Union victory at Vicksburg, MS gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.

35


In April of 1865 Confederate General Robert E. Lee

surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, VA.

The Civil War had ended!

President Abraham Lincoln (#16) was assassinated 5 days later.

36

CW 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

4 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, SC

Lee surrendered to Grant

37

REC 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

Reconstruction (REC) 1865 to 1877 (12 Years)

38


It took 4 years of Civil War to tear the country apart.

It took 12 years of Reconstruction to sew it back together.

re = again construct = to build

reconstruct = to build again

Reconstruction: Rebuilding the nation that had been torn apart by Civil War.

39


One of the main issues during Reconstruction was the question of how to deal with the South:

Should the South be punished for having caused the war? OR

Should the North “forgive and forget”?

President Andrew Johnson (#17) said “forgive and forget” . . .

but the Radical Republicans in Congress disagreed. 40


The other main issue during Reconstruction was the question of how to deal with the former slaves:

13th Amendment (1865) Ended Slavery

14th Amendment (1868) Defined the Rights of Citizenship

15 Amendment (1870) Guaranteed the Right to Vote to ALL MEN 41


President Ulysses S. Grant (#18) sent Federal troops to the South

to suppress the terrorist organization known as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

It worked! The KKK was stopped, for a while . . .

In 1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes (#19) removed the last of the Federal troops from the south,

marking the end of Reconstruction. 42

REC 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

270 Years

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


Lee surrendered to Grant

Federal troops removed from the South

43

6 Eras

10 Territories

36 Important People

5 Wars

11 Documents

24 Inventions

44


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Original 13 Colonies 1607 to 1763

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

45


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

USA 1783

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

46


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

USA 1783

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

47


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Louisiana Purchase 1803

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

48


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Louisiana Purchase 1803

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

49


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Florida Territory 1819

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

50


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Florida Territory 1819

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

51


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Texas 1845

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

52


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Texas 1845

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

53


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Oregon Territory 1846

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

54


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Oregon Territory 1846

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

55


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Mexican Cession 1848

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

56


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Mexican Cession 1848

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

57


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Gadsden Purchase 1853

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

58


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Gadsden Purchase 1853

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

59


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Alaska Territory 1867

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

60


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Alaska Territory 1867

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

61


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Hawaii Territory 1898

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

62


1 8 7 7

10 Territories

Hawaii Territory 1898

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

63

10 Territories

36 Important People

5 Wars

11 Documents

24 Inventions

64

COL 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


William Penn

Benjamin Franklin

George Washington

1-3 of 3

65

REV

1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


Benjamin Franklin

George Washington

John Adams

1-3 of 15

66

REV

1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


Samuel Adams

John Hancock

King George III

4-6 of 15

67

REV

1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


Patrick Henry

Thomas Paine

Thomas Jefferson

7-9 of 15

68

REV

1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


Roger Sherman

John Jay

Alexander Hamilton

10-12 of 15

69

REV

1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


John Paul Jones

Marquis de Lafayette

James Monroe

13-15 of 15

70

BaN 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


1-3 of 12

Benjamin Franklin

Roger Sherman

John Marshall 71

BaN 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


4-6 of 12

James Madison

Alexander Hamilton

John Jay 72

BaN 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


7-9 of 12

Patrick Henry

George Mason

James Monroe 73

BaN 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


10-12 of 12

#1 – George Washington

#2 – John Adams

#3 – Thomas Jefferson 74

GnR 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


1-3 of 21

75

#3 – Thomas Jefferson

#4 – James Madison

#5 – James Monroe

GnR 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


4-6 of 21

76

#6 – John Quincy Adams

#7 – Andrew Jackson

#11 – James K. Polk

GnR 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


7-9 of 21

77

Daniel Webster

Henry Clay

John C. Calhoun

GnR 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


10-12 of 21

78

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Susan B. Anthony

Harriet Beecher Stowe

GnR 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


13-15 of 21

79

Sojourner Truth

Henry David Thoreau

Horace Mann

GnR 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


16-18 of 21

80

Robert E. Lee

Ulysses S. Grant

Jefferson Davis

GnR 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


19-21 of 21

81

John Marshall

Frederick Douglass

Abraham Lincoln

CW 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


1-3 of 5

82

#16 – Abraham Lincoln

Ulysses S. Grant

Frederick Douglass

CW 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


4-5 of 5

83

#1 (CSA) Jefferson Davis

Robert E. Lee

REC 1 6 0 7

1 8 7 7

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865


1 of 1

84

#18 – Ulysses S. Grant

36 Important People

5 Wars

11 Documents

24 Inventions

85


1 8 7 7

5 Wars

French and Indian War 1754 to 1763 (9 Years)

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

86

British and Colonists defeated French and Indians Ending Event = Treaty of Paris of 1763


1 8 7 7

5 Wars

Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783 (8 Years)

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

58 Yrs

4 Yrs

12 Yrs

1763 1783 1803 1861 1865

87

Patriots and French defeated Loyalists and British Ending Event = Treaty of Paris of 1783


1 8 7 7

5 Wars

War of 1812 1812 to 1815 (3 Years)

156 Yrs

20 Yrs

20 Yrs

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Union defeated Confederacy North defeated South Blue defeated Gray

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Magna Carta 1215

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Limited Government Due Process of Law

Trial by Jury


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1620

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Social Contract for Self-Government Town Hall Meetings

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of Connecticut 1639

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1st Written Constitution in North America But it only applied to one Colony – Connecticut


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Served as a model for the US Bill of Rights The US Bill of Rights was written in 1789 – exactly 100 years later!


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Explained why the Colonies were separating from England


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1st Constitution for the United States of America But it created a central government that was too weak.


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Northwest Ordinance 1787

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Established the criteria by which territories could become states. Guaranteed Religious Freedom

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New Constitution for the United States of America Replaced the Articles of Confederation

“Supreme Law of the Land”


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1st Ten Amendments to the US Constitution Added to satisfy the Anti-Federalists

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Landmark Supreme Court Cases 1803 / 1819 / 1824 / 1832 / 1841 / 1857

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Established the Power of the Supreme Court and the Supremacy of the National Government over the States.


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Amendments 1865 / 1868 / 1870

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13th Amendment – 1865 – Ended Slavery 14th Amendment – 1868 – Defined the Rights of Citizenship

15th Amendment – 1870 – Guaranteed the Right to Vote to ALL MEN

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Johann Gutenberg 1450

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James Watt 1769

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Industrial Revolution


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Andrew Meikle 1784

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Edmund Cartwright 1785

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Samuel Slater 1789

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24 Inventions Cotton Gin Eli Whitney

1793

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24 Inventions Interchangeable Parts

Eli Whitney 1798

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Robert Fulton 1807

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24 Inventions Lowell’s Textile Mill Francis Cabot Lowell

1814

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Governor DeWitt Clinton 1825

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Peter Cooper 1830

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24 Inventions McCormick Reaper Cyrus McCormick

1834

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24 Inventions Colt Revolver Samuel Colt

1835

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24 Inventions Steel-Tipped Plow

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24 Inventions Daguerreotype Louis Daguerre

1839

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24 Inventions Telegraph and Morse Code

Samuel Morse 1844

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Elias Howe 1846

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24 Inventions Bessemer Steel Converter

Sir Henry Bessemer 1856

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24 Inventions Transcontinental Railroad

Leland Stanford 1869

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24 Inventions Suez Canal

Ferdinand de Lesseps 1869

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24 Inventions Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell 1876

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