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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: | |||
== Colonial | * create general terms list; meanwhile see [[SAT Reading section historical timeline & themes]] (includes wars timeline) | ||
** to add: political expediency | |||
** Wars timeline | |||
== Terms to know == | |||
<div style="column-count:3"> | |||
* 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 | |||
</div> | |||
== Colonial Periods == | |||
=== Pre-Columbian === | |||
<div style="column-count:3"> | |||
* indigenous | |||
=== Age of Exploration === | |||
* Caravel | |||
* Conquistador | |||
</div> | |||
=== Colonial === | |||
<div style="column-count:3"> | <div style="column-count:3"> | ||
* Bacon’s Rebellion | * Bacon’s Rebellion | ||
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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> | ||
== American Revolution == | === American Revolution === | ||
<div style="column-count:3"> | <div style="column-count:3"> | ||
* 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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== Articles of Confederation Period == | |||
== Early Republic == | |||
=== Articles of Confederation Period === | |||
* Articles of Confederation | * Articles of Confederation | ||
* Shay’s Rebellion | * Shay’s Rebellion | ||
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* unicameral | * unicameral | ||
== U.S. Constitution == | === U.S. Constitution === | ||
<div style="column-count:3"> | <div style="column-count:3"> | ||
* 3/5ths Compromise | * 3/5ths Compromise | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
== Early Republic == | === Early Republic === | ||
<div style="column-count:3"> | <div style="column-count:3"> | ||
* 12th Amendment | * 12th Amendment | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
== Jacksonian period == | == Antebellum period == | ||
=== Jacksonian period === | |||
<div style="column-count:3"> | <div style="column-count:3"> | ||
* John Quincy Adams | * John Quincy Adams | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
=== Antebellum === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
===Social reform === | ===Social reform === | ||
* cult of domesticity | * cult of domesticity | ||
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* transcendentalism | * transcendentalism | ||
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin | * Uncle Tom’s Cabin | ||
< | </div> | ||
=== Antebellum === | === Antebellum === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Compromise of 1850 | * Compromise of 1850 | ||
* Dred Scott decision | * Dred Scott decision | ||
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* Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | * Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
== Civil War == | == Latter 19th Century == | ||
=== Civil War === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* 1860 Election | * 1860 Election | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
== Reconstruction == | |||
=== Reconstruction === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments | * 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments | ||
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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 | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
== Post-Reconstruction == | === Post-Reconstruction === | ||
<div style="column-count:3"> | <div style="column-count:3"> | ||
== Economic & Political == | === Economic & Political === | ||
* Andrew Carnegie | * Andrew Carnegie | ||
* Battle of Wounded Knee | * Battle of Wounded Knee | ||
* bimetallism | * bimetallism | ||
* Chinese Exclusion Act | * Chinese Exclusion Act | ||
* Dawes Act /assimilation | * Dawes Act /assimilation | ||
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* transcontinental railroad | * transcontinental railroad | ||
* U.S. Steel | * U.S. Steel | ||
</div> | |||
=== Imperialism === | === Imperialism === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Battle of Manila | * Battle of Manila | ||
* “Big Stick Policy” | * “Big Stick Policy” | ||
* Cuba | * Cuba | ||
* de Lôme Letter, | * de Lôme Letter, | ||
* imperialism | * imperialism | ||
* William McKinley | * William McKinley | ||
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* USS Maine | * USS Maine | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
== Progressive Era == | |||
</div> | |||
== First half 20th Century == | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
=== Labor === | |||
* American Federation of Labor (AFL) | |||
* Samuel Gompers | |||
</div> | |||
=== Progressive Era === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* "Square Deal” | * "Square Deal” | ||
* 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments | * 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments | ||
* Bull Moose Party | * Bull Moose Party | ||
* Elkins Act (1903) | |||
* Eugene V. Debs | |||
* Direct democracy | * Direct democracy | ||
* Federal Reserve Act (1913) | |||
* Gifford Pinchot | |||
* Hepburn Act | |||
* initiative | * initiative | ||
* Jacob Riis | * Jacob Riis | ||
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* Meat Inspection Act | * Meat Inspection Act | ||
* muckrakers | * muckrakers | ||
* New Freedom | |||
* New Nationalism | |||
* Newlands Act of 1902 | |||
* Progressive Party | * Progressive Party | ||
* Progressives / progressivism | * Progressives / progressivism | ||
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* Settlement houses | * Settlement houses | ||
* socialism | * socialism | ||
* Square Deal | |||
* Upton Sinclair | * Upton Sinclair | ||
* Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt | * Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt | ||
* "Three Cs": Conservation, Corporate law, Consumer protections | |||
* William Howard Taft | * William Howard Taft | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
== World War I == | |||
=== World War I era === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
=== WWI === | |||
* Bolsheviks | |||
* Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917) | |||
* "He kept us out of the war" (1916) | |||
* Jones Act (1916) | |||
* Liberty Loans | |||
* Lusitania sinking (1915) | |||
* Pancho Villa (1914) | |||
* Russian Revolution | |||
* Sussex Pledge (1916) | |||
* U-Boats | |||
* War bonds | |||
* War Industries Board | |||
* Zimmerman Note | |||
</div> | </div> | ||
== | |||
=== Post-WWI === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* Collective Security | |||
* Depression of 1920-1921 | |||
* Fourteen Points | |||
* League of Nations | |||
* Senate Foreign Relations Committee | |||
* Treaty of Versailles | |||
</div> | |||
=== post-WWI & 1920s === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* "America First" | |||
* Black Tuesday | |||
* Court-packing scheme | |||
* deficit spending | |||
* Dust Bowl | |||
* Harlem Renaissance | |||
* Hoover | |||
* Immigration Act of 1924 | |||
* League of Nations | |||
* Lusitania/Zimmerman Note | |||
* National Origins Act | |||
* New Deal | |||
* Palmer Raids | |||
* Proclamation of Neutrality | |||
* prohibition | |||
* pump-priming | |||
* Red Scare | |||
* Return to ‘normalcy’ | |||
* Roarding Twenties | |||
* Sacco and Vanzetti | |||
* Scopes Trial | |||
* Teapot Dome Scandal | |||
* Wilsonianism | |||
</div> | </div> | ||
== | === 1920s === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* automobiles | |||
* consumerism | |||
* credit | |||
* Bathtub gin | |||
* Harlem Renaissance | |||
* Jazz Age | |||
* Klu Klux Klan | |||
* Margin buying | |||
* radio | |||
* refrigerators | |||
* Scopes "Monkey" Trial | |||
</div> | |||
=== Great Depression === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Black Monday | |||
* Black Thursday | |||
* Hawley-Smoot Tariff | |||
* Hoovervilles | |||
</div> | </div> | ||
=== FDR & New Deal === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Social Security | |||
* Supreme Court | |||
</div> | |||
=== Roosevelt Administrations === | === Roosevelt Administrations === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Brain Trust | * Brain Trust | ||
* Harry Hopkins | * Harry Hopkins | ||
* Francis Perkins | * Francis Perkins | ||
</div> | |||
=== Pre-WWII === | |||
* isolationism | |||
* "war footing" | |||
=== Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
== | * A Philip Randolph | ||
* America First Committee | |||
* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act | |||
* isolationisms | |||
* Lindburgh | |||
* Maginot Line | |||
* Munich Agreement | |||
* "Peace for our time" | |||
* Sudetenland | |||
</div> | |||
=== WWII === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* "arsenal of democracy" | |||
* D-Day | |||
* Eastern Front | |||
* Hiroshima, Nagasaki | |||
* Homefront | |||
* Island Hopping | |||
* Japanese Internment Camps | |||
* Korematsu v. U.S. | |||
* Manhattan Project | |||
* mechanized warfare | |||
* Nuremburg Trials | |||
* Poland invasion | |||
* Potsdam Conference | |||
* propaganda | |||
* rationing | |||
* recycling | |||
* Rosie the Rivitor | |||
* Sudatenland invasion | |||
* Tehran Conference | |||
* Truman’s decision | |||
* U.S. Neutrality Acts | |||
* United Nations | |||
* "Victory Gardens" | |||
* war bonds | |||
* Yalta Conference | |||
</div> | |||
== | == Latter half 20th Century == | ||
=== | === Early Cold War Foreign Affairs === | ||
* Berlin crisis | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift | |||
* | * Bretton Woods Conference | ||
* capitalism | * capitalism | ||
* Chiang Kai-shek | |||
* China, loss of | |||
* communism | * communism | ||
* containment policy | * containment policy | ||
* George F. Kennan | * George F. Kennan | ||
* Greek Civil War | |||
* ideology/ ideological | |||
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech | |||
* Israel/ Palestine | |||
* Long Telegram / Article “X” | * Long Telegram / Article “X” | ||
* Mao Zedong | |||
* Marshall Plan | |||
* NATO | |||
* NATO/Warsaw Pact | |||
* NSC-68 | |||
* proxy war | |||
* SEATO | |||
* sphere/s of influence | |||
* Suez Canal Crisis | |||
* Truman Doctrine | * Truman Doctrine | ||
* Turkey | * Turkey | ||
* | * United Nations | ||
* | * UK sterling crisis | ||
* Warsaw Pact | * Warsaw Pact | ||
=== | === Atomic age === | ||
* | * atmospheric testing | ||
* testing | * atomic testing | ||
* bombers | * bombers | ||
* A-bomb | * A-bomb | ||
* German scientists | |||
* H-bomb | * H-bomb | ||
* brinkmanship | * brinkmanship | ||
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* nuclear shield | * nuclear shield | ||
=== Korean War === | === Korean War === | ||
* Truman v. Gen. MacArthur | |||
* Chinese Revolution | |||
</div> | |||
=== Cold War diplomacy === | === Cold War diplomacy === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* East, the | |||
* hegemony / hegemonic power | |||
* nation-building | |||
* Palestine partition | |||
* Security Council | |||
* Third World | |||
* unaligned nations | |||
* United Nations | * United Nations | ||
* | * West, The | ||
=== Eisenhower period === | === Eisenhower period === | ||
* containment | |||
* containment in Asia | |||
* containment in Europe | |||
* containment in Latin America | |||
* containment in the Middle East | |||
* Cuba | |||
* Domino Theory | |||
* Dwight Eisenhower | |||
* Eisenhower Doctrine | |||
* HUAC Committee | |||
* Joseph McCarthy | |||
* Marshall Plan | |||
* McCarthyism | |||
* "military industrial complex" | |||
* Suez crisis | * Suez crisis | ||
</div> | |||
=== Domestic US Cold War === | === Domestic US Cold War === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Executive Order 9835 | |||
* Second Red Scare | * Second Red Scare | ||
* McCarthyism | * McCarthyism | ||
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* Rosenbergs | * Rosenbergs | ||
* Alger Hiss | * Alger Hiss | ||
* Space Race | * Space Race | ||
=== Cuban Missile Crisis | |||
=== Kennedy === | |||
* Bay of Pigs Invasion | |||
* Berlin Wall | |||
* CIA | |||
* Cuban Missile Crisis | |||
* Domino Theory | |||
* Bay of Pigs | * Bay of Pigs | ||
* Hot-Line | * Hot-Line | ||
* Robert F. Kennedy | |||
* Limited Test Ban Treaty | * Limited Test Ban Treaty | ||
* quarantine v. blockade | * quarantine v. blockade | ||
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | * Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | ||
* | * Peace Corps | ||
</div> | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
== Vietnam War == | |||
* French involvement, 1954-1955 | * French involvement, 1954-1955 | ||
* US involvement, 1959-1973 | * US involvement, 1959-1973 | ||
=== Eisenhower period of Vietnam War === | |||
* Dien Bien Phu | * Dien Bien Phu | ||
=== Kennedy period of Vietnam War === | |||
* JFK | * JFK | ||
* Robert McNamara | * Robert McNamara | ||
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* Camelot | * Camelot | ||
* assassination | * assassination | ||
=== Johnson period of Vietnam War === | |||
* Gulf of Tonkin Incident | * Gulf of Tonkin Incident | ||
* Tet Offensive | * Tet Offensive | ||
* Walter Cronkite | * Walter Cronkite | ||
* U.S. Public support of the War | |||
* Vietnamization | |||
* War Powers Acts | |||
* Gulf of Tonkin | |||
* Attrition | |||
* Hearts and Minds | |||
* Rolling Thunder | |||
* My Lai Massacre | |||
* Escalation | |||
=== Nixon period of Vietnam War === | |||
* Operation Linebacker II | |||
* Christmas bombings | |||
* "silent majority” | * "silent majority” | ||
* | * Paris Peace Accords | ||
* Bombing of Laos and Cambodia | * Bombing of Laos and Cambodia | ||
* Paris Peace Accords | * Paris Peace Accords | ||
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* Kissinger | * Kissinger | ||
* Pentagon Papers | * Pentagon Papers | ||
* White House protests | * White House protests | ||
==== protest movements ==== | |||
==== Vietnam War protest movements ==== | |||
* draft, the | * draft, the | ||
* hippies | * hippies | ||
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* Jackson State | * Jackson State | ||
==== post-Nixon | ==== post-Nixon==== | ||
* Fall of Saigon | * Fall of Saigon | ||
* Cambodian genocide | * Cambodian genocide | ||
=== 1970s: Ford & Carter === | == post-WWII Domestic U.S == | ||
* | |||
* baby boom | |||
* "Fair Deal" (1945-49) | |||
* suburbia | |||
* conformity | |||
* Interstate Highway Act | |||
=== Civil Rights === | |||
* “Little Rock Nine” | |||
* Brown v. Board of Education | |||
* civil disobedience | |||
* Civil Rights Act of 1964 | |||
* Executive Order 9981 | |||
* Jackie Robinson | |||
* Malcolm X | |||
* March on Washington | |||
* Martin Luther King, Jr. | |||
* Montgomery bus boycott | |||
* nonviolence | |||
* Voting Rights Act of 1965 | |||
=== Other Civil Rights and Political Movements === | |||
* Silent Spring | |||
* Michael Harrington | |||
* Roe v. Wade | |||
* women’s liberation movement (NOW) | |||
* Cesar Chavez | |||
* Grapes Boycott | |||
* Chicano Movement | |||
* American Indian Movement (AIM) | |||
* Wounded Knee Incident | |||
=== Johnson === | |||
* Great Society | |||
* War on Poverty | |||
=== 1970s: Nixon, Ford & Carter === | |||
* Watergate | |||
* pardoning of Nixon | * pardoning of Nixon | ||
* stagflation | * stagflation | ||
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* Olympic boycott | * Olympic boycott | ||
* Iranian hostage crisis | * Iranian hostage crisis | ||
* OPEC | |||
* oil embargo | |||
* Camp David Accords | |||
=== Reagan era === | === Reagan era === | ||
* Iran-Contra Affair | |||
* John Stockton | |||
* Landslide | |||
* Star Wars | |||
* "Reagan Revolution” | * "Reagan Revolution” | ||
* | * Reaganomics | ||
* Supply-side economics | |||
=== End of the Cold War === | === End of the Cold War === | ||
* HW Bush | * George HW Bush | ||
* Military spending cuts | |||
* Gulf War | * Gulf War | ||
* Bill Clinton | |||
* Peace Dividend | |||
* NAFTA | |||
* service sector economy | |||
* New Immigration | |||
* Haiti | |||
* Yugoslavia and Bosnia | |||
* Rwanda | |||
== 21st Century == | |||
=== War on Terror === | |||
* September 11th | |||
* Al Queda | |||
* Afghanistan War | |||
* Iraq | |||
* Patriot Act | |||
== Obama Administration == | |||
* Great Recession | |||
* ISIS | |||
* Affordable Care Act | |||
* Obama Care | |||
* DREAM Act | |||
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Revision as of 13:51, 27 April 2024
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[edit | edit source]
- 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
Colonial Periods[edit | edit source]
Pre-Columbian[edit | edit source]
Colonial[edit | edit source]
- Bacon’s Rebellion
- headright system
- House of Burgesses
- indentured servitude
- Jamestown- general characteristics
- John Rolfe
- John Smith
- Jonathan Edwards
- King Philip’s War
- Massachusetts Bay – general characteristics
- Mercantilism
- Native American-European interactions, including disease, treatment of
- Navigation Acts
- New England town meetings
- Pequot War
- Puritan
- Queen Anne's War
- Roanoke
- salutary neglect
- St. Augustine
- the Great Awakening
- "triangle trade"
- William Penn
American Revolution[edit | edit source]
- ABC Boards
- Boston Massacre
- Boston Tea Party
- Common Sense
- Declaration of Independence
- Enlightenment philosophers
- First Continental Congress
- French and Indian War
- John Locke
- Lexington/Concord
- Loyalist
- Montesquieu
- natural rights
- Navigation Acts
- Patrior
- Proclamation of 1763
- Saratoga
- social contract theory
- Sons of Liberty
- Sugar Act
- Thomas Paine
- Townsend Acts
- Treaty of Paris of 1783
- Valley Forge
- Yorktown
- Continental Congress/es
Early Republic[edit | edit source]
Articles of Confederation Period[edit | edit source]
- Articles of Confederation
- Shay’s Rebellion
- confederation
- sovereignty
- supermajority
- unicameral
U.S. Constitution[edit | edit source]
- 3/5ths Compromise
- amendment process
- anti-Federalists
- bicameral
- Bill of Rights
- checks and balances
- Connecticut Compromise
- Constitution
- elastic clause
- electoral college
- Federalists
- Federalism
- Federalist no. 10
- Federalist no. 51
- Federalist Papers
- Federalists
- George Washington
- Great Compromise
- impeachment
- James Madison
- New Jersey Plan
- Northwest Ordinance
- preamble
- preamble to the Constitution
- ratification
- separation of powers
- strict vs. loose interpretation
- unwritten Constitution
- Virginia Plan
Early Republic[edit | edit source]
- 12th Amendment
- American System
- Cabinet
- Democratic-Republicans
- election of 1800
- Era of Good Feelings
- Federalists
- George Washington
- Hamilton
- impressment
- Jefferson
- John Marshall
- Louisiana Purchase
- Marbury v. Madison
- McColluch v. Maryland
- Monroe Doctrine
- Mossouri Compromise
- National Bank
- nullification
- political parties
- Republican motherhood
- Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
- War of 1812
- Whiskey Rebellion
Antebellum period[edit | edit source]
Jacksonian period[edit | edit source]
- John Quincy Adams
- Bank War
- Corrupt Bargain
- Force Bill
- Henry Clay
- Jacksonian democracy
- Indian Removal Act
- Nullification Crisis
- Petticoat affair
- Postal Service
- Panic of 1837
- Second Party System
- spoils system
- Tariff of 1833
- Trail of Tears
- Daniel Webster
- Worcester v. Georgia
Antebellum[edit | edit source]
Social reform[edit | edit source]
- cult of domesticity
- Declaration of Sentiments
- emancipation
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Second Great Awakening
- Seneca Falls Convention
- suffrage
- transcendentalism
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Antebellum[edit | edit source]
- Compromise of 1850
- Dred Scott decision
- Gadsden Purchase
- Gold Rush of 1849
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- manifest destiny
- Mexican American War
- popular sovereignty
- sectionalism
- Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Latter 19th Century[edit | edit source]
Civil War[edit | edit source]
- 1860 Election
- Anaconda Plan
- Appomattox
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Ft. Sumter
- Gettysburg
- Gettysburg Address
- Lincoln’s pre-war stance on slavery
- Sherman’s March
- U.S. Grant
Reconstruction[edit | edit source]
- 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
- black codes
- Compromise of 1877
- 40 acres and a mule
- Freedman’s Bureau
- grandfather clause
- homestead
- Jim Crow laws
- land grant
- literacy tests
- Morill Land-Grant Act (1862)
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- poll taxes
- Radical Republicans
- Reconstruction Act of 1867
- Reconstruction programs:
- Lincoln's plan
- Johnson's program
- Congressional program
Post-Reconstruction[edit | edit source]
Economic & Political[edit | edit source]
- Andrew Carnegie
- Battle of Wounded Knee
- bimetallism
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Dawes Act /assimilation
- Gentlemen’s Agreement
- Great Migration
- Homestead Act of 1862
- laissez-faire capitalism
- melting pot
- monopoly
- nativism
- Nelson Rockefeller
- political bosses
- political machine
- Populist Party
- robber barons
- Sand Creek Massacre
- Sherman Anti-trust Act
- social Darwinism
- Standard Oil
- transcontinental railroad
- U.S. Steel
Imperialism[edit | edit source]
- Battle of Manila
- “Big Stick Policy”
- Cuba
- de Lôme Letter,
- imperialism
- William McKinley
- Open Door Policy
- Panama Canal
- Roosevelt Corollary
- Spanish-American War
- yellow journalism
- USS Maine
First half 20th Century[edit | edit source]
Labor[edit | edit source]
- American Federation of Labor (AFL)
- Samuel Gompers
Progressive Era[edit | edit source]
- "Square Deal”
- 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
- Bull Moose Party
- Elkins Act (1903)
- Eugene V. Debs
- Direct democracy
- Federal Reserve Act (1913)
- Gifford Pinchot
- Hepburn Act
- initiative
- Jacob Riis
- Jane Addams
- Meat Inspection Act
- muckrakers
- New Freedom
- New Nationalism
- Newlands Act of 1902
- Progressive Party
- Progressives / progressivism
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- recall
- referendum
- Rule of Reason
- Settlement houses
- socialism
- Square Deal
- Upton Sinclair
- Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
- "Three Cs": Conservation, Corporate law, Consumer protections
- William Howard Taft
World War I era[edit | edit source]
WWI[edit | edit source]
- Bolsheviks
- Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917)
- "He kept us out of the war" (1916)
- Jones Act (1916)
- Liberty Loans
- Lusitania sinking (1915)
- Pancho Villa (1914)
- Russian Revolution
- Sussex Pledge (1916)
- U-Boats
- War bonds
- War Industries Board
- Zimmerman Note
Post-WWI[edit | edit source]
- Collective Security
- Depression of 1920-1921
- Fourteen Points
- League of Nations
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Treaty of Versailles
post-WWI & 1920s[edit | edit source]
- "America First"
- Black Tuesday
- Court-packing scheme
- deficit spending
- Dust Bowl
- Harlem Renaissance
- Hoover
- Immigration Act of 1924
- League of Nations
- Lusitania/Zimmerman Note
- National Origins Act
- New Deal
- Palmer Raids
- Proclamation of Neutrality
- prohibition
- pump-priming
- Red Scare
- Return to ‘normalcy’
- Roarding Twenties
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Scopes Trial
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Wilsonianism
1920s[edit | edit source]
- automobiles
- consumerism
- credit
- Bathtub gin
- Harlem Renaissance
- Jazz Age
- Klu Klux Klan
- Margin buying
- radio
- refrigerators
- Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Great Depression[edit | edit source]
- Black Monday
- Black Thursday
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- Hoovervilles
FDR & New Deal[edit | edit source]
- Social Security
- Supreme Court
Roosevelt Administrations[edit | edit source]
- Brain Trust
- Harry Hopkins
- Francis Perkins
Pre-WWII[edit | edit source]
- isolationism
- "war footing"
Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation[edit | edit source]
- A Philip Randolph
- America First Committee
- “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
- isolationisms
- Lindburgh
- Maginot Line
- Munich Agreement
- "Peace for our time"
- Sudetenland
WWII[edit | edit source]
- "arsenal of democracy"
- D-Day
- Eastern Front
- Hiroshima, Nagasaki
- Homefront
- Island Hopping
- Japanese Internment Camps
- Korematsu v. U.S.
- Manhattan Project
- mechanized warfare
- Nuremburg Trials
- Poland invasion
- Potsdam Conference
- propaganda
- rationing
- recycling
- Rosie the Rivitor
- Sudatenland invasion
- Tehran Conference
- Truman’s decision
- U.S. Neutrality Acts
- United Nations
- "Victory Gardens"
- war bonds
- Yalta Conference
Latter half 20th Century[edit | edit source]
Early Cold War Foreign Affairs[edit | edit source]
- Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift
- Bretton Woods Conference
- capitalism
- Chiang Kai-shek
- China, loss of
- communism
- containment policy
- George F. Kennan
- Greek Civil War
- ideology/ ideological
- Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
- Israel/ Palestine
- Long Telegram / Article “X”
- Mao Zedong
- Marshall Plan
- NATO
- NATO/Warsaw Pact
- NSC-68
- proxy war
- SEATO
- sphere/s of influence
- Suez Canal Crisis
- Truman Doctrine
- Turkey
- United Nations
- UK sterling crisis
- Warsaw Pact
Atomic age[edit | edit source]
- atmospheric testing
- atomic testing
- bombers
- A-bomb
- German scientists
- H-bomb
- brinkmanship
- ICBM
- Nike missile system
- MAD/ mutually-assured destruction
- anti-ballistic missile
- nuclear shield
Korean War[edit | edit source]
- Truman v. Gen. MacArthur
- Chinese Revolution
Cold War diplomacy[edit | edit source]
- East, the
- hegemony / hegemonic power
- nation-building
- Palestine partition
- Security Council
- Third World
- unaligned nations
- United Nations
- West, The
Eisenhower period[edit | edit source]
- containment
- containment in Asia
- containment in Europe
- containment in Latin America
- containment in the Middle East
- Cuba
- Domino Theory
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- HUAC Committee
- Joseph McCarthy
- Marshall Plan
- McCarthyism
- "military industrial complex"
- Suez crisis
Domestic US Cold War[edit | edit source]
- Executive Order 9835
- Second Red Scare
- McCarthyism
- HUAC
- Hollywood 10
- McCarren Act
- Rosenbergs
- Alger Hiss
- Space Race
Kennedy[edit | edit source]
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Berlin Wall
- CIA
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Domino Theory
- Bay of Pigs
- Hot-Line
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Limited Test Ban Treaty
- quarantine v. blockade
- Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- Peace Corps
Vietnam War[edit | edit source]
- French involvement, 1954-1955
- US involvement, 1959-1973
Eisenhower period of Vietnam War[edit | edit source]
- Dien Bien Phu
Kennedy period of Vietnam War[edit | edit source]
- JFK
- Robert McNamara
- "Whiz Kids"
- “flexible response”
- advisors
- Camelot
- assassination
Johnson period of Vietnam War[edit | edit source]
- Gulf of Tonkin Incident
- Tet Offensive
- Walter Cronkite
- U.S. Public support of the War
- Vietnamization
- War Powers Acts
- Gulf of Tonkin
- Attrition
- Hearts and Minds
- Rolling Thunder
- My Lai Massacre
- Escalation
Nixon period of Vietnam War[edit | edit source]
- Operation Linebacker II
- Christmas bombings
- "silent majority”
- Paris Peace Accords
- Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
- Paris Peace Accords
- opening of China
- Kissinger
- Pentagon Papers
- White House protests
Vietnam War protest movements[edit | edit source]
- draft, the
- hippies
- Kent State
- Jackson State
post-Nixon[edit | edit source]
- Fall of Saigon
- Cambodian genocide
post-WWII Domestic U.S[edit | edit source]
- baby boom
- "Fair Deal" (1945-49)
- suburbia
- conformity
- Interstate Highway Act
Civil Rights[edit | edit source]
- “Little Rock Nine”
- Brown v. Board of Education
- civil disobedience
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Executive Order 9981
- Jackie Robinson
- Malcolm X
- March on Washington
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Montgomery bus boycott
- nonviolence
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
Other Civil Rights and Political Movements[edit | edit source]
- Silent Spring
- Michael Harrington
- Roe v. Wade
- women’s liberation movement (NOW)
- Cesar Chavez
- Grapes Boycott
- Chicano Movement
- American Indian Movement (AIM)
- Wounded Knee Incident
Johnson[edit | edit source]
- Great Society
- War on Poverty
1970s: Nixon, Ford & Carter[edit | edit source]
- Watergate
- pardoning of Nixon
- stagflation
- Afghanistan
- Olympic boycott
- Iranian hostage crisis
- OPEC
- oil embargo
- Camp David Accords
Reagan era[edit | edit source]
- Iran-Contra Affair
- John Stockton
- Landslide
- Star Wars
- "Reagan Revolution”
- Reaganomics
- Supply-side economics
End of the Cold War[edit | edit source]
- George HW Bush
- Military spending cuts
- Gulf War
- Bill Clinton
- Peace Dividend
- NAFTA
- service sector economy
- New Immigration
- Haiti
- Yugoslavia and Bosnia
- Rwanda
21st Century[edit | edit source]
War on Terror[edit | edit source]
- September 11th
- Al Queda
- Afghanistan War
- Iraq
- Patriot Act
Obama Administration[edit | edit source]
- Great Recession
- ISIS
- Affordable Care Act
- Obama Care
- DREAM Act