Florida U.S. History EOC cheat sheet
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U.S. History
Colonial foundations: Jamestown (1607, Virginia Company, tobacco economy) and Plymouth (1620, Mayflower Compact) established contrasting labor systems-indentured servitude in the Chesapeake versus family farming and Puritan town covenants in New England.
Road to Revolution: the 1763 end of salutary neglect, then Sugar Act (1764), Stamp Act (1765), Townshend Acts (1767), Boston Massacre (1770), Tea Act and Boston Tea Party (1773), and Intolerable Acts (1774) produced the First Continental Congress.
Founding documents: Declaration of Independence (1776) draws on Locke's natural rights and social contract; the Articles of Confederation (1781) created a weak league of states with no power to tax or regulate commerce.
Constitutional compromises: Great (Connecticut) Compromise-bicameral Congress; Three-Fifths Compromise counted enslaved people as 3/5 of a person for representation; the Constitution was ratified 1787–1790 after Federalist Papers advocacy.
Early republic debates: Hamilton's financial program (national bank, assumption of debt, tariffs) versus Jeffersonian agrarianism; the Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) prompted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions asserting state compact theory.
Sectional conflict: Missouri Compromise (1820, 36°30′ line), Compromise of 1850 (Fugitive Slave Act, popular sovereignty in Utah/New Mexico), Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854, repealed Missouri line), Dred Scott (1857), and the election of Lincoln (1860) preceded secession.
Civil War and Reconstruction: Emancipation Proclamation (effective January 1, 1863, only in rebelling states), Gettysburg Address, 13th (1865), 14th (1868, citizenship and equal protection), and 15th (1870, Black male suffrage) Amendments; Reconstruction ended with the Compromise of 1877.
Industrialization and reform: transcontinental railroad (1869), Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), Progressive amendments-16th (income tax), 17th (direct Senate election), 18th (Prohibition), 19th (women's suffrage, 1920)-and New Deal programs (Social Security 1935, Wagner Act, FDIC) responding to the Great Depression.
Modern era: U.S. entry into World War II after Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941); Cold War containment (Truman Doctrine 1947, Marshall Plan, NATO 1949); Brown v. Board (1954), Civil Rights Act (1964), Voting Rights Act (1965); Great Society, Vietnam, and post-1980 conservative realignment.