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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 == | |||
<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 == | == Colonial Periods == | ||
=== Pre-Columbian === | === Pre-Columbian === | ||
<div style="column-count:3"> | |||
* indigenous | |||
=== Age of Exploration === | |||
* Caravel | |||
* Conquistador | |||
</div> | |||
=== Colonial === | === Colonial === | ||
<div style="column-count:3"> | <div style="column-count:3"> | ||
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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 === | ||
<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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</div> | </div> | ||
== Antebellum == | == Antebellum period == | ||
=== Jacksonian period === | === Jacksonian period === | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
=== Antebellum === | |||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
===Social reform === | ===Social reform === | ||
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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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* 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 | ||
</div> | |||
=== Imperialism === | === Imperialism === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Battle of Manila | * Battle of Manila | ||
* “Big Stick Policy” | * “Big Stick Policy” | ||
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</div> | </div> | ||
</div> | |||
== First half 20th Century == | == First half 20th Century == | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
=== Labor === | |||
* American Federation of Labor (AFL) | |||
* Samuel Gompers | |||
</div> | |||
=== Progressive Era === | === Progressive Era === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
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* 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 | ||
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<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> | |||
=== Post-WWI === | |||
<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 | * Black Tuesday | ||
* Court-packing scheme | * Court-packing scheme | ||
* deficit spending | * deficit spending | ||
* Dust Bowl | * Dust Bowl | ||
* Harlem Renaissance | * Harlem Renaissance | ||
* Hoover | * Hoover | ||
* | * Immigration Act of 1924 | ||
* League of Nations | * League of Nations | ||
* Lusitania/Zimmerman Note | * Lusitania/Zimmerman Note | ||
* National Origins Act | * National Origins Act | ||
* New Deal | * New Deal | ||
* Palmer Raids | |||
* Proclamation of Neutrality | * Proclamation of Neutrality | ||
* prohibition | * prohibition | ||
* pump-priming | * pump-priming | ||
* Red Scare | * Red Scare | ||
* | * Return to ‘normalcy’ | ||
* Roarding Twenties | |||
* Sacco and Vanzetti | * Sacco and Vanzetti | ||
* Scopes Trial | * Scopes Trial | ||
* Teapot Dome Scandal | * Teapot Dome Scandal | ||
* | * Wilsonianism | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
=== 1920s === | === 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> | </div> | ||
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=== Great Depression === | === Great Depression === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* Black Monday | |||
* Black Thursday | |||
* Hawley-Smoot Tariff | |||
* Hoovervilles | |||
</div> | </div> | ||
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=== FDR & New Deal === | === FDR & New Deal === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Social Security | |||
* Supreme Court | |||
</div> | |||
=== Roosevelt Administrations === | === Roosevelt Administrations === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
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* Harry Hopkins | * Harry Hopkins | ||
* Francis Perkins | * Francis Perkins | ||
</div> | |||
=== | === Pre-WWII === | ||
* isolationism | |||
* "war footing" | |||
=== Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation === | === Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation === | ||
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* A Philip Randolph | * A Philip Randolph | ||
* America First Committee | * America First Committee | ||
* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act | |||
* isolationisms | * isolationisms | ||
* Lindburgh | * Lindburgh | ||
* Maginot Line | * Maginot Line | ||
* "Peace | * Munich Agreement | ||
* | * "Peace for our time" | ||
* Sudetenland | |||
</div> | |||
=== WWII === | === WWII === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | <div style="column-count:2"> | ||
* "arsenal of democracy" | |||
* D-Day | * D-Day | ||
* Eastern Front | * Eastern Front | ||
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* Poland invasion | * Poland invasion | ||
* Potsdam Conference | * Potsdam Conference | ||
* propaganda | |||
* rationing | |||
* recycling | |||
* Rosie the Rivitor | |||
* Sudatenland invasion | * Sudatenland invasion | ||
* Tehran Conference | * Tehran Conference | ||
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* U.S. Neutrality Acts | * U.S. Neutrality Acts | ||
* United Nations | * United Nations | ||
* "Victory Gardens" | |||
* war bonds | |||
* Yalta Conference | * Yalta Conference | ||
</div> | </div> | ||
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== Latter half 20th Century == | == Latter half 20th Century == | ||
=== Early Cold War === | === Early Cold War Foreign Affairs === | ||
<div style="column-count:2"> | |||
* Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift | * Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift | ||
* Bretton Woods Conference | * Bretton Woods Conference | ||
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* containment policy | * containment policy | ||
* George F. Kennan | * George F. Kennan | ||
* | * Greek Civil War | ||
* ideology/ ideological | * ideology/ ideological | ||
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech | * Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech | ||
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* NATO/Warsaw Pact | * NATO/Warsaw Pact | ||
* NSC-68 | * NSC-68 | ||
* proxy war | |||
* SEATO | * SEATO | ||
* sphere/s of influence | * sphere/s of influence | ||
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* anti-ballistic missile | * anti-ballistic missile | ||
* 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 | ||
* containment in Asia | |||
* containment in Europe | |||
* containment in Latin America | |||
* containment in the Middle East | |||
* Cuba | |||
* Domino Theory | |||
* Dwight Eisenhower | * Dwight Eisenhower | ||
* Eisenhower Doctrine | |||
* HUAC Committee | * HUAC Committee | ||
* Joseph McCarthy | * Joseph McCarthy | ||
* Marshall Plan | * Marshall Plan | ||
* McCarthyism | * 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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* 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 == | ||
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* Cambodian genocide | * Cambodian genocide | ||
== post-WWII Domestic U.S | == post-WWII Domestic U.S == | ||
* | |||
* baby boom | * baby boom | ||
* "Fair Deal" (1945-49) | |||
* suburbia | * suburbia | ||
* conformity | * conformity | ||
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* civil disobedience | * civil disobedience | ||
* Civil Rights Act of 1964 | * Civil Rights Act of 1964 | ||
* | * Executive Order 9981 | ||
* Jackie Robinson | * Jackie Robinson | ||
* Malcolm X | * Malcolm X | ||
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* Voting Rights Act of 1965 | * Voting Rights Act of 1965 | ||
=== Other Civil Rights Movements === | === Other Civil Rights and Political Movements === | ||
* Silent Spring | |||
* Michael Harrington | |||
* Roe v. Wade | * Roe v. Wade | ||
* women’s liberation movement (NOW) | * women’s liberation movement (NOW) | ||
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=== End of the Cold War === | === End of the Cold War === | ||
* George HW Bush | * George HW Bush | ||
* Military spending cuts | |||
* Gulf War | * Gulf War | ||
* Bill Clinton | * Bill Clinton | ||
* | * Peace Dividend | ||
* NAFTA | * NAFTA | ||
* service sector economy | * service sector economy | ||