Focus on the following when studying:

1. Period of time2. Basic definition3. How did it impact the US both positively

and negatively4. Key Terms/People and other topics I

stressed in class

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(175-1783)US Constitution(1789)Westward expansion(1800’s)Louisiana Purchase(1803)(Lewis & Clark-1804-06)Texas War for Ind.(1835-36)/Mexican-American

War(1846-1848)Civil War(1861-1865)Reconstruction(1865-1877)

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

Republican Radical Reconstruction

Rebuilt south socially, politically and physically

Split South into five military district controlled by US Army

13th, 14th and 15th Amendments passedFreedmen’s Bureau set up to help former

slavesSouthern 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

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

The End of Reconstruction-1877

The Compromise of 1877Unwritten 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

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

Student Topics Not On My List

French and Indian War(1754-1763)Articles of Confederation(1781-1788)George Washington’s Presidency(1789-1797)Industrial Revolution-early 1800’sWar of 1812Women’s Rights Movement(1848)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

Missouri Compromise-1820

Compromise of 1850