US History concept chart major concepts & themes across US History
US History concept chart: major concepts & themes across US History
Objective:
- overview of core ideas for understanding historical times, persons, places, and events in U.S. History
Main page
Concepts & themes overview
Timelines:
- US History timeline & concept chart: American colonies 17th & mid-18th centuries
- US History timeline & concept chart: French-Indian War to the American Revolution
- US History timeline & concept chart: U.S. History Decade-by-decade timeline, 1890s-1900
Concepts & Themes
PERIOD / TIMELINE | Major Events, Concepts & Themes | Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events |
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BIG IDEAS What does it MEAN?
connections
causality
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"The American Experience"
colonialism & push-pull factors
>> build out American colonial perceptions viz Britain
Enlightenment ideasDeclaration of Independenceself-governance/ self-government
faction & disagreement
Constitution
Bill of Rights
Electoral CollegeTwo-party systemslavery
"frontier" western expansion
religious awakenings
politics & democracy
dissentreform movements
economics
private v public lives of Americans |