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US HISTORY EOC REVIEW: EVENTS & PLACES
Directions: Explain the significance of each event/place to United States history.
Unit 1
Tobacco
Cash crop that saved the Jamestown colony from failure
Bacon’s Rebellion
1676 rebellion in Virginia that proved that the poor would not follow a government that
catered only to the rich
Northern most colonies in America (MA, CT, RI, NH) settled originally by the Puritans and
founded as a place for religious freedom
1675-1876 war between Native Americans and Puritan settlers in New England. The war
drove Native Americans out of New England forever
Founded by Roger Williams as a colony for religious tolerance
New England Colonies
King Philip’s War
Rhode Island
Salem Witch Trials
Pennsylvania
1692 incident of mass hysteria in colonial New England over the supposed presence and
influence of witchcraft
Middle colonies in America (NY, NJ, PA, DE) that were founded and settled mainly by the
Quakers and other religious groups seeking religious tolerance
Colony founded at the mouth of the Hudson River by the Dutch, later renamed New York
after the British takeover
Mid-Atlantic colony founded by William Penn and mainly settled by the Quakers
Quebec
French colony founded in Canada as a center for the fur trade
Trans-Atlantic Trade
Trade routes between Europe and America
Triangular Trade
Trade route pattern that shipped slaves from Africa to the Americas, raw goods from the
Americas to Europe, and manufactured goods from Europe back to Africa
The leg of the Triangle trade between Africa and the Americas that transported slaves
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
New Amsterdam
Middle Passage
Great Awakening
Unit 2
French & Indian War
1763 Treaty of Paris
Crossing the Delaware
Valley Forge
Battle of Yorktown
1783 Treaty of Paris
Shays’ Rebellion
Great Compromise
Whiskey Rebellion
Unit 3
Louisiana Purchase
War of 1812
Widespread period of religious revival in colonial America that laid the moral foundation
for the American Revolution
1754-1763 war fought in America between France and Britain that established colonial
dominance in America for the British
Treaty that ended the French & Indian War
1776 event when General Washington secretly moved the Continental Army across the
Delaware River and attacked a Hessian (British allied) force at Trenton, NJ. This moved
saved the Continental Army
1777-1778 winter encampment where the Continental Army was born after undergoing
training from Baron von Steuben to become a professional fighting force
1781 battle in Virginia that resulted in Lord Cornwallis surrendering his British forces to
the Americans (in effect winning the war for the Americans)
Official treaty between Britain and America that ended the American Revolution and
ensured American independence
1786 rebellion in Massachusetts that exposed the weaknesses in the Articles of
Confederation
Proposed by Roger Sherman to the Constitutional Convention that adopted parts of both
the Virginia Plan (bicameral government with representation based on population) and
the New Jersey Plan (EQUAL representation)
1790s rebellion that proved that the new Constitution worked effectively
Negotiation between Emperor Napoleon of France and President Thomas Jefferson to
purchase the Louisiana Territory. Effectively doubled the size of the United States
War between Britain and the United States that resulted in the US securing its
independence and promoted a new sense of unity and nationalism
Erie Canal
New York City
Industrial Revolution
Cotton Gin
Interchangeable Parts
Manifest Destiny
Seneca Falls Convention
Jacksonian Democracy
Missouri Compromise
Nullification Crisis
Mexican American War
Wilmot Proviso
Unit 4
John Brown’s Raid
Fort Sumter
Antietam
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Battle for Atlanta
March to the Sea
Morehouse College
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
Reconstruction
First canal to link the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. The canal opened the interior
of America to international trade.
Grew to be among the largest and most important cities in America mainly due to the
completion of the Erie Canal
Period characterized by a large influx of new technological innovations to make
manufacturing and production better and more efficient
Invented by Eli Whitney as a means to reducing that need for slavery (with the intention
of ending it) but instead it had the opposite effect
Invented by Eli Whitney in order to make muskets cheaper to produce. Allowed to
individual parts to be made instead of remaking the entire gun
The idea that it was “God’s will” for the United States to occupy all land between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
First women’s rights convention in America. Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Lucretia Mott and resulted in the adoption of the Declaration of Sentiments
Championed by President Andrew Jackson and pushed for suffrage to be extended to all
white makes regardless of land ownership
1820 compromise that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state if Maine entered as a
free state. Also established the 36o 30’ boundary line between slave territories and free
territories in the West
Crisis over the import tax (tariff) that President Jackson placed on British goods that was
opposed, and ultimately nullified, by South Carolina (and John C. Calhoun). Caused a
questioning of the Federalism process in the US (how much authority does the federal
government have over the affairs of a stat)
1846-1848 war between the US and Mexico caused by a border dispute (remember Rio
Grande vs. Nueces River). Led to the US acquiring the territory that now contains the
states of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and parts of California, Colorado, and Utah)
Proposed by Senator David Wilmot to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico
after the Mexican War
Radical abolitionist John Brown conducted a failed raid to capture the US military arsenal
in Harper’s Ferry in an attempt to start an armed slave uprising in the South. Brown was
captured and executed.
The first shots of the American Civil War fired by Confederate forces in South Carolina on
April 12, 1861
Bloodiest single day in US history. The Union “victory” in the battle allowed for President
Lincoln to pass the Emancipation Proclamation
One of the turning points in the Civil War. The Union victory at the battle divided the
Confederacy into two halves and allow the Union to gain control of the Mississippi River
The major turning point in the Civil War that ended any more Confederate invasion
attempts of the North and would eventually allow the Union victory in the war
The major supply and transportation center of the Confederacy that was captured by
Union General William T. Sherman. The capture of Atlanta secured Lincoln’s reelection
in 1864 and ensured an eventual Union victory in the war
Union armies under General Sherman march from Atlanta to Savannah in order to
destroy the morale of the South and capture the port city of Savannah
First dedicated college for the education of freed slaves opened during the
Reconstruction period
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction that focused on forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation
with the South. Lincoln used the Ten Percent Rule (only 10% of a southern state’s
population were required to take a loyalty oath in order for that state to regain
admission into the Union)
The opposing plan for Reconstruction promoted by Thaddeus Stevens and the Radical
Republicans that focused on punishing the South and all its leaders
The period of time after the Civil War that focused on rebuilding the infrastructure of the
country that had been virtually destroyed during the war
Election of 1876
Contested election between Democrat Samuel Tilden and Republican Rutherford Hayes.
Both sides eventually agreed to the Compromise of 1877 that allowed Hayes to become
president if all Federal troops were removed from the South