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== U.S. Constitution  
== U.S. Constitution ==
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* 3/5ths Compromise
* 3/5ths Compromise
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== Early Republic ==
== Early Republic ==
 
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* 12th Amendment
* 12th Amendment
* American System
* American System
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== Antebellum social reform ==
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== Antebellum ==
===Social reform ===
* cult of domesticity
* cult of domesticity
* Declaration of Sentiments
* Declaration of Sentiments
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* transcendentalism
* transcendentalism
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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=== Antebellum ===
* 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
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== Civil War ==
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* 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


== Antebellum ==
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== Reconstruction ==
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* 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
* black codes
* Compromise of 1877
* 40 acres and a mule
* Freedman’s Bureau
* grandfather clause
* Jim Crow laws
* literacy tests
* Plessy v. Ferguson
* poll taxes
* Radical Republicans
* Reconstruction Act of 1867
* Reconstruction programs:
** Lincoln's plans
** Johnson's program
** Congressional program
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== Post-Reconstruction ==
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== Economic & Political ==
* 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 ===
* 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
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== Progressive Era ==
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* "Square Deal”
* 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
* Bull Moose Party
* Direct democracy
* initiative
* Jacob Riis
* Jane Addams
* Meat Inspection Act
* muckrakers
* Progressive Party
* Progressives / progressivism
* Pure Food and Drug Act
* recall
* referendum
* Rule of Reason
* Settlement houses
* socialism
* Upton Sinclair
* Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
* William Howard Taft
 
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== World War I ==
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== 1920s ==
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== Great Depression ==
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== FDR & New Deal vocabulary  ==
== FDR & New Deal ==


=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
=== Roosevelt Administrations ===

Revision as of 20:35, 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[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

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

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
  • Jim Crow laws
  • literacy tests
  • Plessy v. Ferguson
  • poll taxes
  • Radical Republicans
  • Reconstruction Act of 1867
  • Reconstruction programs:
    • Lincoln's plans
    • 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

Progressive Era[edit | edit source]

  • "Square Deal”
  • 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
  • Bull Moose Party
  • Direct democracy
  • initiative
  • Jacob Riis
  • Jane Addams
  • Meat Inspection Act
  • muckrakers
  • Progressive Party
  • Progressives / progressivism
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • recall
  • referendum
  • Rule of Reason
  • Settlement houses
  • socialism
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
  • William Howard Taft

World War I[edit | edit source]

1920s[edit | edit source]

Great Depression[edit | edit source]


FDR & New Deal[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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