Year

Core Topics

Important Events

Significance

250

Mayan Civilization Begins to Rise

-Developed concept of zero

-Developed a 365-Day Calendar

-Developed a System of hieroglyphic writing

1100

   1325

Aztec Civilization Arrives in Central America

Tenochtitlan

-Built Irrigation System

-Highly populated nation due to success in agriculture

-Built capital city in Present Day Mexico City

1438

Inca Civilization Expands in South America

-Empire Expanded to cover the majority of the Pacific Coast of South America

-Skilled Engineers: Advanced system of Roads & Bridges

-Advancements in medicine

1492

Columbus lands in the Caribbean

-Sailing for Spain

-Intended to reach Japan, but stumbled on a New World

1500s

1570

Iroquois

Iroquois Confederacy was founded

-Longhouse was the basic unit of society

-One of two tribes that dominated the area which is now New York State

-Each of the five tribes had their own name and identity.

Year

Core Topics

Important Events

Significance

1600

Colonization of the New World

English colonies

-         Roanoke

-         Jamestown

-         Plymouth

-         John Smith

-         Pilgrims

-         Puritans

-         Great Migration

-         Navigation Acts

-         William Penn/ PA 

Dutch

-         New Amsterdam

-         Fort Orange

-         Patroons

-         Peter Stuyvesant

 French

-         DeChamplain

-         La Salle

-         Cartier

-         Fur trappers

 Spanish

-         Conquistadors

-         Missions

-         Horse

-         Gold

Impact on Native Americans

Columbian exchange

-         Crops

-         Disease

-         Horse

Indian Wars 

Year

Core Topics

Important Events

Significance

1700

 British Policies and practices

-Mercantilism

-Triangular Trade - Navigation Acts

1725

Enlightenment ideas

-Enlightenment writers

      *John Locke

      *Rousseau

1750

French and Indian War

-Proclamation of 1763

-Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War

-Albany Plan of Union

1775

Revolutionary War Era

New York State Constitution was ratified.

-Boston Tea Party

-Boston Massacre

-Restrictions on Colonists

-“Taxation without representation”

-Continental Congress

Declaration of Independence

-Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”

-Constitutional Convention

-Patriots & Loyalists

-Ratification of Constitution

-Articles of Confederation

-Shays's Rebellion

Year

      Core Topic

      Important events

        Significance

1800 – 1867

Territorial expansion

- Louisiana Purchase

- Oregon territory

- Mexican Cession

- Florida Purchase

- Gadsden Purchase

- Alaska

-Texan War for independence

- Mexican War

- War of 1812

- Hawaii

- Marbury v. Madison

- Lewis and Clark

1820’s

Era of Good Feelings

- Monroe Doctrine

- Internal improvements

- National Road

- Erie Canal

-Manifest Destiny

1830’s

 Jacksonian Era

- Spoils system

- Trail of Tears

- Tariff of Abominations

1840’s-
1850's

Antebellum Period

- Sectionalism

- Harper’s Ferry

- Abolitionists

-Seneca Falls (1848)

-Missouri Compromise

- Compromise of 1850

- Bleeding Kansas

- Dred Scott Case

- Lincoln Douglas Debates

1820-1890

Old Immigration

-Northern and Western European “waves”

- Irish/Potato famine

- Chinese/Transcontinental Railroad

- Push-pull theory

- Melting Pot/Salad Bowl theories

!861-1865

Civil War

- Gettysburg Address

- Emancipation Proclamation

- Union vs. Confederacy

- Draft laws and riots

1865-1877

Reconstruction Period

- Lincoln’s Assassination

- Black Codes

- Amendments 13, 14, and 15

- Jim Crow Laws

- Radical Republicans

- Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

1865-1900

Industrial Revolution (Phase II)

- Factory system

- Corporations

- Monopoly

- Robber Barons

- Unions/Strikes

- Political  machines

- Free enterprise

-Laissez-faire

- Regulation (I.C.C.)

1865- 1890

Settling the West

- Trails  west

- Long Drives

- Ranchers

- Indian Wars

- Wounded Knee

- Chief Joseph/NezPerce

- Reservations

- Buffalo Soldiers

-End of the Frontier

1880-1900

Gilded Age

- Urbanization

- Philanthropists

- Populist Movement

- Grange

- Entertainment/Leisure time

-Vaudeville

- Baseball

-Alaskan Gold Rush