US History

1. Focus on the following when studying:
1. Period of time
2. Basic explanation of what happened
3. Key people involved
3. How did it impact the US both positively and
negatively
4. Key Terms/People and other topics I stressed in
class
Include pictures/maps and sources

2. Ten Events That Shaped US History to 1877
Native Americans Coming and Going(Forced)(10,000 years
ago)
Columbus and Exploration(1492-early 1600’s)
Jamestown and Colonization(early 1600’s-1770’s)
Revolutionary War(1775-1783)
US Constitution(1789)
Westward expansion(1800’s)
Texas War for Ind.(1835-36)/Mexican-American
War(1846-1848)
Civil War(1861-1865)
Reconstruction(1865-1877)

18. Reconstruction-1865-1877
The period of time after the Civil War in which the
South had to be rebuilt and reorganized and brought
back into the Union
President’s Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy
on the South
That changed in the 1866 Congressional election

19. Republican Radical Reconstruction
Rebuilt south economically, socially, politically
and physically
Split South into five military district controlled
by US Army
13th
, 14th
and 15th
Amendments passed
Freedmen’s Bureau set up to help former slaves
Southern governments taken over by
“carpetbaggers” and “scalawags”
These governments set up schools, raised taxes,
built railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized
the South
Governments were accused of widespread
corruption by southerners

21. Reconstruction 1865-1877
Reconstruction left very deep divisions between the
northern states and southern states
Once the northern governments and military left the
south, traditional rich, white racist males took back
over
Jim Crow laws and segregation was established
African-Americans would not see the rights they
should have had in 1865 until 1964

22. The End of Reconstruction-1877
The Compromise of 1877
Unwritten deal between Northern and Southern
politicians that settled the heavily disputed 1876 U.S.
presidential election
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the
White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden
Hayes would then remove the federal troops from
the south ending Reconstruction

23. Election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes vs.
Samuel J. Tilden
Tilden won the Popular
vote and was leading
electoral vote
Four states(with 20
electoral votes) had
disputed results

24. Student Topics Not On My List
French and Indian War(1754-1763)
Articles of Confederation(1781-1788)
Industrial Revolution-early 1800’s
War of 1812
Women’s Rights Movement(1848)-Seneca Falls
Events Leading Up to Civil War
 Missouri Compromise-1820
 Compromise of 1850
 Dred Scott Cast-1857
 Kansas-Nebraska Act-1854
 Lincoln’s Election of 1860

26. Missouri Compromise-1820

27. Compromise of 1850