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

Index

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U.S. History course pages:

• US History
• AP United States History

Concepts & Themes

PERIOD / TIMELINE	Major Events, Concepts & Themes	Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events
1607 pre-Colonial 1607-1765 Colonial period 1730s-40s First Great Awakening<< confirm dates 1765-1783 Revolutionary Era 1783-1789 Articles of Confederation period (post-Revolution) 1789-1815 Early Republic 1815-1827 Era of Good Feelings 1827-1833 Jacksonian period 1830s-40s Second Great Awakening 1833-1850s Antebellum 1860-1865 Civil War 1865-1876 Reconstruction 1876-1898 Industrialization 1898-1917 Progressive Era 1917-1919 World War I 1920s Roaring Twenties, Prohibition 1929-1941 Great Depression 1941-1945 World War II 1950-1953 Korean War 1959-1974 Vietnam War 1946-1989 Cold War 1950s-60s Popular Culture, Youth Movements 1970s Stagflation 1980s Wall Street Culture 1990s 2000s War on Terror see U.S. History Primary Source Timeline (Library of Congress AP United States History units (collegeboard) Outline of United States History #named eras (wikipedia)	BIG IDEAS What does it MEAN? every issue, dispute, event, represents someone’s perspective, ideal or outlook connections how are events related? what common themes occur across American history causality >> Constitutionalism	"The American Experience" religious, economic & political freedom “land of opportunity” "The American Promise” slavery, segregation, discrimination land ownership self-governance & political participation >> get into modern experience colonialism & push-pull factors opportunity primogeniture >> build out American colonial perceptions viz Britain citizens or subjects? duty & responsibilities as British direct v. indirect representation Enlightenment ideas Declaration of Independence self-governance/ self-government extents and limits of self-government to consider: what does it mean and how do different people & times interpret it? what is democracy? How can it work? What are its limits? How does it empower people? faction & disagreement sectionalism political parties compromise conflict radicalism dissent to consider: How do Americans resolve disputes? Why do some Americans feel isolated and start radical movements? How do the big political parties adapt to those movements? Constitution forms the structure of the federal government what does "to form a more perfect union" mean? Bill of Rights Constitutional principles judicial review change over time in interpretations, Bill of Rights = strong expression of what is important to Americans: 1st amendment as expression of American ideals: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition of government Electoral College Two-party system slavery Northwest Ordinance, 178>> << banned slavery in NW Territory expansion of slavery experience of slaves consequences of slavery upon slaves and former slaves upon slave-owners upon white non-slave owners "frontier" western expansion >>details List of major territorial acquisitions & treaties UnitedStatesExpansion 1818 Treaty of 1818 Britain ceded land northwest of the Northwest Territory (western modern MN and north & east ND) US ceded lands north of the 49th parallel above modern MT established the 49th parallel as the border of US and Canada from MN to the Rocky Mountains (leaving Oregon Country in joint-control) called for "joint occupation" by British and Americans of Oregon Country (northwest corner of present US, including OR, WA, ID) 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty Spain ceded Florida to the US 1842 Webster–Ashburton Treaty settled border disputes along modern US-Canadian border, including in the modern states of ME, MN, MT, ID & WA (reaffirming the 49th parallel) 1846 Oregon Treaty Britain ceded claims to "Oregon Country," setting the 49th parallel across to the Pacific Ocean as the northern border Oregon Country included modern OR, WA, ID and parts of WY and MT 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1853 Gadsden Purchase negotiated after the Mexican-American war to purchase Mexican territory in the south of modern AZ and southwest area of NM includes modern AZ cities of Yuma & Tucson cost was $10 million and motive for Mexico to sell it was likely to get the money before the Americans fully populated and/or seized it US was motivated by railroad route through the region religious awakenings >>details politics & democracy Tocqueville cultural expression news and journalism, “pamphleteering” radio/ tv political participation dissent reform movements public and private religious awakenings agitation for reform reform (public/ private) fear, crisis, opportunism economics banks/ debt hard money v. soft money tariff business / commerce prosperity panics, recessions, depressions usually the result of over-production, speculation (in land or businesses), money supply, war >> to do: chart of panics causes & effects Panic of 1837 ><? Panic of 1893 Panic of 1907 Recession of 1920 private v public lives of Americans