Module 4 - Colonial America and the American President - Activity 2

Activity 1 : : Activity 2 : : Activity 3 : : Activity 4 : : Activity 5

Activity 2: Topics

Prelude to War:
- The Seven-Years War
- Proclamation of 1763
- The Sugar Act
- Stamp Act
- Townsend Duties
- Declaratory Acts
- Coercive Acts
- Tea Act
- Quebec Act
- The Sons of Liberty
- Boston Massacre
- Intolerable Acts
- Navigation Acts
The Revolutionary War
- “The shot heard round the world”
- Important Battles
  - Lexington
  - Concord
  - Valley Forge
  - Battle of Yorktown
- First Continental Congress
- Second Continental Congress
- Articles of Confederation
- Declaration of Independence
- Treaty of Paris
Important People
- Aaron Burr
- Paul Revere
- General LaFayette
- John Locke
- James Madison
- James Monroe
- Benjamin Franklin
- George Washington
- Adams
  - John
  - Samuel
- Ethan Allen
The Presidents and their legacies
- George Washington
  - Determining the role of the presidency
  - Term limits
- Thomas Jefferson
  - Louisiana Purchase
- Andrew Jackson
  - Trail of Tears
- Abraham Lincoln
  - Emancipation Proclamation
  - Civil War
- Theodore Roosevelt
  - Spanish American War
    - Cuba
  - Panama Canal
  - “Big Stick” diplomacy
- Woodrow Wilson
  - Fourteen Points
  - Moral diplomacy
  - First World War
  - League of Nations
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  - New Deal
  - Second World War
- Harry S. Truman
  - First use of atomic bomb
  - Desegregating the military
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  - Alaska & Hawaii admitted to statehood
  - Military industrial complex
  - Cold War
- John F. Kennedy
  - Cuban Missile Crisis
  - Cold War
  - NASA
  - Civil Rights Movement
  - Vietnam
- Lyndon B. Johnson
  - The Great Society
  - Vietnam
- Richard Nixon
  - Watergate
  - Henry Kissinger
  - China
- Ronald Reagan
  - Reagonomics

Create a visual schematic of these terms using either concept maps, notes, or flash cards. Enter your definitions of key terms, definitions, concepts and vocabulary into your notebook or computer file.

Citation: sguy. (2007, March 01). Module 4 - Colonial America and the American President - Activity 2. Retrieved March 19, 2010, from Western Governors University Web site: http://ocw.wgu.edu/liberal-arts/geography-u-s-history-government-parts-i-and-ii-after-11-26-07/a42.html.