AP US History vocabulary list

US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events

Colonial Period

• 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
• Puritans/intolerance
• Queen Anne's War
• Roanoke
• salutary neglect
• St. Augustine
• the Great Awakening
• William Penn

American Revolution

• Boston Massacre
• Boston Tea Party
• Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence
• Enlightenment philosophers
• First Continental Congress
• French and Indian War
• John Locke
• Lexington/Concord
• Montesquieu
• natural rights
• Navigation Acts
• Proclamation of 1763
• Saratoga
• social contract theory
• Thomas Paine
• Treaty of Paris of 1783 - provisions
• Valley Forge
• Yorktown
• Continental Congress/es

Articles of Confederation Period

• Articles of Confederation
• Shay’s Rebellion
• confederation
• sovereignty
• supermajority
• unicameral

== U.S. Constitution

• 3/5ths Compromise
• amendment process
• anti-Federalists
• bicameral
• Bill of Rights/10th Amendment
• 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

         

FDR & New Deal vocabulary

Roosevelt Administrations

• Brain Trust
• Harry Hopkins
• Francis Perkins

== Worl

Cold War vocabulary

=== start of Cold War

• Berlin crisis
• Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
• NSC-68
• ideology/ ideological
• capitalism
• communism
• sphere/s of influence
• UK sterling crisis
• containment policy
• George F. Kennan
• Long Telegram / Article “X”
• Truman Doctrine
• Greece
• Turkey
• Marshall Plan
• NATO
• Warsaw Pact
• China, loss of
• Mao Zedong
• Chiang Kai-shek
• Israel/ Palestine
• SEATO

atomic age

• German scientists
• testing
• atmosphere
• bombers
• A-bomb
• H-bomb
• brinkmanship
• ICBM
• Nike missile system
• MAD/ mutually-assured destruction
• anti-ballistic missile
• nuclear shield

Cold War diplomacy

• United Nations
• unaligned nations
• third world
• nation-building
• Peace Corps

Eisenhower period

• Suez crisis
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• containment in the Middle East
• containment in Latin America
• Cuba “Falls to communism”
• CIA

Domestic US Cold War

• Second Red Scare
• McCarthyism
• HUAC
• Hollywood 10
• McCarren Act
• Rosenbergs
• Alger Hiss
• baby boom
• suburbia
• conformity
• Space Race

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs

Cu* ban Missile Crisis

• Hot-Line
• Limited Test Ban Treaty
• quarantine v. blockade
• Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
• RFK

Vietnam War

• French involvement, 1954-1955
• US involvement, 1959-1973

= Eisenhower period of Vietnam War

• Dien Bien Phu

Kennedy period of Vietnam War

• JFK
• Robert McNamara
• "Whiz Kids"
• “flexible response”
• advisors
• Camelot
• assassination

Johnson period of Vietnam War

• Gulf of Tonkin Incident
• Tet Offensive
• Walter Cronkite

Nixon

• "silent majority”
• Vietnamization
• Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
• Paris Peace Accords
• opening of China
• Kissinger
• Pentagon Papers
• Watergate
• White House protests

protest movements

• draft, the
• hippies
• Kent State
• Jackson State

post-Nixon =

• Fall of Saigon
• Cambodian genocide

1970s: Ford & Carter

• pardoning of Nixon
• stagflation
• Afghanistan
• Olympic boycott
• Iranian hostage crisis

Reagan era

• "Reagan Revolution”
• Iran-Contra Affair

End of the Cold War

• HW Bush
• Gulf War