People—When did they live, what did they do, why are they important?
American Indians (Aztec, Maya, Inca, Iroquois League, Five Civilized Tribes)
King George III
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
John Adams
James Madison
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Andrew Jackson
Eli Whitney, James Watt, Cyrus McCormick, John Deere
Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey
Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Dorothea Dix, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth C. Stanton
James K. Polk
Abraham Lincoln & Jefferson Davis
Union and Confederate Officers (Scott, Lee, Grant, Jackson, Johnston, McClellan, Burnside, Sherman, Hooker, Longstreet, Stuart, Meade, Farragut)
Andrew Johnson
Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Bessemer
William Jennings Brian
Eugene V. Debbs
Frederick Jackson Turner and his ‘Frontier Thesis’
Theodore Roosevelt
Gavrilo Princip, Archduke Franz-Ferdinand, Woodrow Wilson, V. I. Lenin, Kaiser Wilhelm II, David Lloyd-George
Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt
Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan
Langston Hughes
Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chamberlain, De Gaulle, Hirohito, Truman
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Rachel Carson, Ralph Nader
JFK, LBJ, Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
Draft dodgers
The plumbers
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Mikhail Gorbechev
George H. W. Bush
Saddam Hussein
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush

Wars—When did they occur, why did they start, who was on which side, who won (with what treaty), and what did they get?
French and Indian War (Seven Years War)
The American Revolution
The War of 1812
The Mexican War
The Civil War
The Spanish-American War
The Great War
World War II
The Cold War
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
The Gulf War

Events—When did they happen and why do they matter?
European Exploration of the New World
The Declaration of Independence
Battles of Lexington, Concord, Trenton, Saratoga, King’s Mountain, Yorktown
Shays’s Rebellion
Battles of Tippecanoe, Lake Erie, and New Orleans
The Settlement of the West
The Corrupt Bargain
Irish and German immigration
Battles of Manassas/Bull Run, Shiloh, Sharpsburg/Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (Little Round Top, Picket’s Charge), Vicksburg, Petersburg; Sherman’s March, Appomattox Courthouse
Presidential Impeachments
Tilden-Hayes Compromise
Presidential Assassinations
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Red Scare
The Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression
The Rape of Nanking, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Invasion of Poland, D-Day, the A-Bomb
The fall of Dien Bien Phu, the Tet Offensive
The Watergate Scandal
Ford’s Pardon of Nixon
Carter’s Amnesty
The 1980 Olympics
The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Things and Concepts—When were they prevalent, what were they, why are they significant?
The Northwest Passage
Jamestown, Virginia
Massachusetts Bay (City on a Hill)
Regional economies in different eras (what did they do in the North, South, West, et cetera at different times)
Triangular Trade
The Proclamation of 1763 and the Proclamation Line
The First and Second Continental Congresses
Common Sense
The State of Franklin
The Articles of Confederation
The Land Ordinance and the Northwest Ordinance
The US Constitution
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
The Bill of Rights
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Impressment
The Spoils System
The Missouri Compromise
Bank notes
Reform movements
The Compromise of 1850
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, popular sovereignty, Bleeding Kansas
The Anaconda Plan
The Emancipation Proclamation
Civil War-era military technology
Copperheads, Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags
Plans for Reconstruction (the Ten Percent Plan, the Wade-Davis Bill, Presidential Reconstruction, Congressional Reconstruction, Military Reconstruction)
XIII, XIV, XV, XIX, XXVI Amendments
Black Codes
Tenure of Office Act
The Transcontinental Railroad
Graft
Populists, Progressives, and their reforms
Plessy v Ferguson
Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
The Balance of Power
The von Schlieffen Plan
Trench Warfare
The Zimmerman Note
The Fourteen Points
The Treaty of Versailles
The Dust Bowl
Totalitarianism
Fascism
Communism
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
The Maginot Line
The Manhattan Project
The Marshall Plan
The Cold War, The Iron Curtain, Containment, Deterrence, the Truman Doctrine, NATO, Warsaw Pact
The Baby Boom
Beatniks and Hippies
Montgomery Bus Boycott; sit-ins
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietnamization
Saturation Bombing, Agent Orange, Napalm
War Powers Act
Glasnost and Perestroika

Supreme Court Cases—When did they happen and what precedent did they set?
Marbury v Madison
Dred Scott v Sanford
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Topeka Board of Education
Roe v Wade

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