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* anti-Federalists
* anti-Federalists
* bicameral
* bicameral
* Bill of Rights/10th Amendment
* Bill of Rights
* checks and balances
* checks and balances
* Connecticut Compromise
* Connecticut Compromise
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* unwritten Constitution
* unwritten Constitution
* Virginia Plan
* Virginia Plan
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== Early Republic ==
* 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
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== Jacksonian period ==
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* 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
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== Early Republic ==


         
== Antebellum social reform ==
* cult of domesticity
* Declaration of Sentiments
* emancipation
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Second Great Awakening
* Seneca Falls Convention
* suffrage
* transcendentalism
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 
== Antebellum ==
 
 
 


== FDR & New Deal vocabulary  ==
== FDR & New Deal vocabulary  ==

Revision as of 20:09, 4 April 2024

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

Pre-Columbian[edit | edit source]

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

American Revolution[edit | edit source]

  • 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[edit | edit source]

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

== U.S. Constitution

  • 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

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 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]

FDR & New Deal vocabulary[edit | edit source]

Roosevelt Administrations[edit | edit source]

  • Brain Trust
  • Harry Hopkins
  • Francis Perkins

== Worl

Cold War vocabulary[edit | edit source]

=== 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[edit | edit source]

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

Korean War[edit | edit source]

Cold War diplomacy[edit | edit source]

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

Eisenhower period[edit | edit source]

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

Domestic US Cold War[edit | edit source]

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

Cuban Missile Crisis[edit | edit source]

  • Bay of Pigs

Cu* ban Missile Crisis

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

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

Nixon[edit | edit source]

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

protest movements[edit | edit source]

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

post-Nixon =[edit | edit source]

  • Fall of Saigon
  • Cambodian genocide

1970s: Ford & Carter[edit | edit source]

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

Reagan era[edit | edit source]

  • "Reagan Revolution”
  • Iran-Contra Affair

End of the Cold War[edit | edit source]

  • HW Bush
  • Gulf War
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