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'''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events''' | '''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events''' | ||
File to do: | |||
* create general terms list; meanwhile see [[SAT Reading section historical timeline & themes]] (includes wars timeline) | |||
** to add: political expediency | |||
** Wars timeline | |||
== Terms to know == | |||
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* abolitionism | |||
* aristocratic | |||
* blue collar v. white collar | |||
* cession | |||
* chain migration | |||
* class warfare | |||
* ''de facto'' v. ''de jure'' | |||
* delegate (as noun and verb) | |||
* direct tax | |||
* disenfranchised | |||
* dissent | |||
* domestic | |||
* duties | |||
* emancipation | |||
* embargo | |||
* equity | |||
* excise tax | |||
* franchise | |||
* imperialism | |||
* indemnity | |||
* intolerance | |||
* laissez-faire | |||
* mercantilism | |||
* nativism | |||
* nullify / nullification | |||
* Old World v. New World | |||
* popular sovereignty | |||
* precedent | |||
* prohibition | |||
* "Republican motherhood" | |||
* states rights | |||
* segregation | |||
* socialism | |||
* suffrage | |||
* suffragette | |||
* tariff | |||
* temperance movement | |||
* unalienable | |||
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== Colonial Periods == | == Colonial Periods == | ||
=== Pre-Columbian === | === Pre-Columbian === | ||
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* indigenous | |||
=== Age of Exploration === | |||
* Caravel | |||
* Conquistador | |||
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=== Colonial === | === Colonial === | ||
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* New England town meetings | * New England town meetings | ||
* Pequot War | * Pequot War | ||
* | * Puritan | ||
* Queen Anne's War | * Queen Anne's War | ||
* Roanoke | * Roanoke | ||
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* St. Augustine | * St. Augustine | ||
* the Great Awakening | * the Great Awakening | ||
* "triangle trade" | |||
* William Penn | * William Penn | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
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=== American Revolution === | === American Revolution === | ||
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* ABC Boards | |||
* Boston Massacre | * Boston Massacre | ||
* Boston Tea Party | * Boston Tea Party | ||
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* Declaration of Independence | * Declaration of Independence | ||
* Enlightenment philosophers | * Enlightenment philosophers | ||
* First Continental Congress | * First Continental Congress | ||
* French and Indian War | * French and Indian War | ||
* John Locke | * John Locke | ||
* Lexington/Concord | * Lexington/Concord | ||
* Loyalist | |||
* Montesquieu | * Montesquieu | ||
* natural rights | * natural rights | ||
* Navigation Acts | * Navigation Acts | ||
* Patrior | |||
* Proclamation of 1763 | * Proclamation of 1763 | ||
* Saratoga | * Saratoga | ||
* social contract theory | * social contract theory | ||
* Sons of Liberty | |||
* Sugar Act | |||
* Thomas Paine | * Thomas Paine | ||
* Treaty of Paris of 1783 | * Townsend Acts | ||
* Valley Forge | * Treaty of Paris of 1783 | ||
* Valley Forge | |||
* Yorktown | * Yorktown | ||
* Continental Congress/es | * Continental Congress/es | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
== Antebellum == | == Antebellum period == | ||
=== Jacksonian period === | === Jacksonian period === | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
=== Antebellum === | |||
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===Social reform === | ===Social reform === | ||
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* transcendentalism | * transcendentalism | ||
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin | * Uncle Tom’s Cabin | ||
< | </div> | ||
=== Antebellum === | === Antebellum === | ||
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* Compromise of 1850 | * Compromise of 1850 | ||
* Dred Scott decision | * Dred Scott decision | ||
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* Freedman’s Bureau | * Freedman’s Bureau | ||
* grandfather clause | * grandfather clause | ||
* homestead | |||
* Jim Crow laws | * Jim Crow laws | ||
* land grant | |||
* literacy tests | * literacy tests | ||
* Morill Land-Grant Act (1862) | |||
* Plessy v. Ferguson | * Plessy v. Ferguson | ||
* poll taxes | * poll taxes | ||
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* Reconstruction Act of 1867 | * Reconstruction Act of 1867 | ||
* Reconstruction programs: | * Reconstruction programs: | ||
** Lincoln's | ** Lincoln's plan | ||
** Johnson's program | ** Johnson's program | ||
** Congressional program | ** Congressional program | ||
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* transcontinental railroad | * transcontinental railroad | ||
* U.S. Steel | * U.S. Steel | ||
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=== Imperialism === | === Imperialism === | ||
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* Battle of Manila | * Battle of Manila | ||
* “Big Stick Policy” | * “Big Stick Policy” | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
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== First half 20th Century == | == First half 20th Century == | ||
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=== Labor === | === Labor === | ||
* American Federation of Labor (AFL) | * American Federation of Labor (AFL) | ||
* Samuel Gompers | * Samuel Gompers | ||
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=== Progressive Era === | === Progressive Era === | ||
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* War Industries Board | * War Industries Board | ||
* Zimmerman Note | * Zimmerman Note | ||
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=== Post-WWI === | === Post-WWI === | ||
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* Collective Security | * Collective Security | ||
* Depression of 1920-1921 | * Depression of 1920-1921 | ||
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* Senate Foreign Relations Committee | * Senate Foreign Relations Committee | ||
* Treaty of Versailles | * Treaty of Versailles | ||
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=== post-WWI & 1920s === | |||
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* "America First" | * "America First" | ||
* Black Tuesday | * Black Tuesday | ||
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=== 1920s === | === 1920s === | ||
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* automobiles | |||
* consumerism | * consumerism | ||
* credit | * credit | ||
* Bathtub gin | * Bathtub gin | ||
* Harlem Renaissance | * Harlem Renaissance | ||
* Jazz Age | * Jazz Age | ||
* Klu Klux Klan | * Klu Klux Klan | ||
* Margin buying | * Margin buying | ||
* radio | |||
* refrigerators | |||
* Scopes "Monkey" Trial | * Scopes "Monkey" Trial | ||
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=== FDR & New Deal === | === FDR & New Deal === | ||
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* Social Security | * Social Security | ||
* Supreme Court | * Supreme Court | ||
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=== Roosevelt Administrations === | === Roosevelt Administrations === | ||
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=== Pre-WWII === | === Pre-WWII === | ||
* isolationism | |||
* "war footing" | |||
=== Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation === | |||
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* A Philip Randolph | * A Philip Randolph | ||
* America First Committee | * America First Committee | ||
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=== Early Cold War Foreign Affairs === | === Early Cold War Foreign Affairs === | ||
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* Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift | * Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift | ||
* Bretton Woods Conference | * Bretton Woods Conference | ||
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* anti-ballistic missile | * anti-ballistic missile | ||
* nuclear shield | * nuclear shield | ||
=== Korean War === | === Korean War === | ||
Gen. MacArthur | * Truman v. Gen. MacArthur | ||
* Chinese Revolution | |||
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=== Cold War diplomacy === | === Cold War diplomacy === | ||
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* East, the | |||
* hegemony / hegemonic power | * hegemony / hegemonic power | ||
* | * nation-building | ||
* Palestine partition | |||
* Security Council | * Security Council | ||
* | * Third World | ||
* unaligned nations | * unaligned nations | ||
* | * United Nations | ||
* | * West, The | ||
=== Eisenhower period === | === Eisenhower period === | ||
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* containment in Latin America | * containment in Latin America | ||
* containment in the Middle East | * containment in the Middle East | ||
* Cuba | |||
* Domino Theory | * Domino Theory | ||
* Dwight Eisenhower | * Dwight Eisenhower | ||
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* "military industrial complex" | * "military industrial complex" | ||
* Suez crisis | * Suez crisis | ||
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=== Domestic US Cold War === | === Domestic US Cold War === | ||
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* Executive Order 9835 | * Executive Order 9835 | ||
* Second Red Scare | * Second Red Scare | ||
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* Bay of Pigs Invasion | * Bay of Pigs Invasion | ||
* Berlin Wall | * Berlin Wall | ||
* CIA | |||
* Cuban Missile Crisis | * Cuban Missile Crisis | ||
* Domino Theory | * Domino Theory | ||
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* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | * Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | ||
* Peace Corps | * Peace Corps | ||
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== Vietnam War == | == Vietnam War == | ||