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== Colonial Periods == | == Colonial Periods == | ||
=== Pre-Columbian === | === Pre-Columbian === | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Algonquian|largest language group of North American tribes who occupied the northeastern coast, and central-east Canada; Algonquian tribes traded with the French and aligned with them against English colonists and their Iroquois allies, who were their traditional enemies}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Algonquian|largest language group of North American tribes who occupied the northeastern coast, and central-east Canada; Algonquian tribes traded with the French and aligned with them against English colonists and their Iroquois allies, who were their traditional enemies}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Hopewell tradition|Ohio Valley cultures of the '''Woodland Period''' that were interconnected by trade and shared cultural traits, such as mound building}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Hopewell tradition|Ohio Valley cultures of the '''Woodland Period''' that were interconnected by trade and shared cultural traits, such as mound building}}</ul></li> | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:reciprocal relations|Native American cultural and economic structures were largely based on reciprocal relations that shared territory, land use and labor; however, those relations were largely tied to linguistic and ethnic alliances that otherwise competed and warred with one another when in contact or conflict over resources; the reciprocal concept of land use, especially was not shared by European settlers who employed notions of private property and land ownership, which led to mistrust and conflict between indigenous and colonial populations}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:reciprocal relations|Native American cultural and economic structures were largely based on reciprocal relations that shared territory, land use and labor; however, those relations were largely tied to linguistic and ethnic alliances that otherwise competed and warred with one another when in contact or conflict over resources; the reciprocal concept of land use, especially was not shared by European settlers who employed notions of private property and land ownership, which led to mistrust and conflict between indigenous and colonial populations}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Woodland Period|Eastern and central North American indigenous cultures that thrived from 1000 BC to 1000 AD; period marked by trade, cultural exchange, population growth and linguistic variation}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Woodland Period|Eastern and central North American indigenous cultures that thrived from 1000 BC to 1000 AD; period marked by trade, cultural exchange, population growth and linguistic variation}}</ul></li> | ||
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=== Age of Exploration === | === Age of Exploration === | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Caravel|trans-oceanic sailing ship developed by the Portuguese that allowed for long voyages and the ability to "cut" into the wind for manueverability; since they were small and had a shallow draft (didn't go deep into the water), caravels were especially useful for exploring coastlines, bays and up rivers; into the "triangle trade" period, caravels were replaced by larger the "carrack" and, later, the "galleon"}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Henry Hudson|not an important name to know for the AP test, but Hudson exemplifies the British purposes of exploration: he desperately wanted to find a way to Asia, but kept running into more land}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:conquistador|Spanish explorers and adventurers who conquered parts of the Americas, particulary Hernán Cortés (Mexico, 1519-21) and Francisco Pizarro (Peru, 1532)}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: St. Lawrence waterways|the St. Lawrence River passageway that was an important pre-colonial trade route that explorer Jacques Cartier in 1532 claimed for France and that was a significant part of French trade and colonial possessions in "New France"; the St. Lawrence River connects to the Great Lakes and thus provided trade access to the Ohio Valley}}</ul></li> | |||
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=== Spanish Colonial === | === Spanish Colonial === | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:asiento|""asiento" means "contract; the "Asiento de Negros" was a trade agreement between Britain and Spain over rights to slave trade passages controlled by Spain}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:De Las Casas|Spanish priest Bartolomé de las Casas wrote in 1542 "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies" documenting Spanish abuse of Native Americans}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Encomienda|from ''encomendar'' for to "entrust", a land and labor grant as reward to ''conquistadores'' for conquests on behalf of Spain; the ''encomenderos'' thus claimed large lands and plantations using enslaved native labor; the ''encomienda'' system incentivized Spanish conquest and expansion across the world; the system was outlawed in 1542 when Natives were granted limited Spanish citizenship (i.e., "subjects" of the Spanish king); it was replaced by the ''repartiamento'' system}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:New Laws of 1542|replaced the Laws of Burgos of 1512 that were supposed to protect the rights of the native peoples; the New Laws ended the ''encomienda'' system by outlawing hereditary control; the New Laws met great and at times violent protest by the ''encomederos''; the New Laws marked more direct control of the colonies by Spanish King Charles I (who was also Holy Roman EMperor Charles V); the intervention by Charles may be usefully compared to that of various English monarchs}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Pueblo Revolt|1680 rebellion by the Pueblo (in modern New Mexico/ AZ), and led by Papé, for maltreatment by the Spanish, who had outlawed their religious practices, forced labor, resource extraction (maize and textiles); }}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:repartimiento|from ''reparto'' for "distribution", the Spanish system implemented in 1542 of regulated and forced labor that replaced direct slavery of Native Americans}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sepúlveda|Spanish philosopher Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda who in 1550/51 debated in writing De las Casas over legitimacy of Spanish colonization and treatment of Native Americans; Sepúlveda argued the superior Spanish culture justified the conquest of "savage" natives and forced conversion to Christianity; his views were shared by later Americans who justified westward expansion and maltreatment of Native tribes)}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Spanish social heirarchies (terms)|''peninsulares'' = born in Spain; ''criolles'' = born in New World of Spanish descent; ''mestizos'' = mixed Spanish and Native American parentage}}</ul></li> | |||
===Dutch and French colonialism === | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Beaver War| 1600s conflicts between the French and their Algonquin allies and the Iroquois League that opposed them}}}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:''couriers de bois''|French "runners" sent to explore and live with local inhabitants across the Great Lakes region}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Manhattan (New Amsterdam)|a Dutch city established at head of the Hudson River and which served as an important port for Dutch fur trade and trade and piracy across the Atlantic Coast and Caribbean; Dutch holdings included lower New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Delaware, all of which were ceded to Britain in 1664 (breifly retaken by the Dutch in 1673/4 }}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:New France|French colonial possessions in North America, from theSt. Lawrence waterway to the Great Lakes and along the Mississippi River to New Orleans; northern New France was primarily focused on fur trade, although cities were established with French migrants}}</ul></li> | |||
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=== English Colonial === | === English Colonial === | ||
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Revision as of 14:31, 1 May 2024
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General terms to know for US History[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
- federal
- franchise
- hegemony/hegomonic
- imperialism
- indemnity
- infringe / infringement
- intolerance
- laissez-faire
- mercantilism
- nativism
- nullify / nullification
- Old World v. New World
- political
- political expediency
- popular sovereignty
- precedent
- prohibition
- "Republican motherhood"
- state
- states rights
- segregation
- socialism
- socialism
- suffrage
- tariff
- temperance movement
- unalienable
- unintended consequence
- United States
- western expansion
Colonial Periods[edit | edit source]
Pre-Columbian[edit | edit source]
- Algonquian
- Hopewell tradition
- indigenous
- Iroquois
- Mississippian period/ culture
- reciprocal relations
- Woodland Period
Age of Exploration[edit | edit source]
- Caravel
- Henry Hudson
- conquistador
- St. Lawrence waterways
Spanish Colonial[edit | edit source]
- asiento
- De Las Casas
- Encomienda
- New Laws of 1542
- Pueblo Revolt
- repartimiento
- Sepúlveda
- Spanish social heirarchies (terms)
Dutch and French colonialism[edit | edit source]
- Beaver War}}
- ''couriers de bois''
- Manhattan (New Amsterdam)
- New France
English Colonial[edit | edit source]
- Appalachian Mountains
- Bacon’s Rebellion
- John Cabot
- 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
- miration push/ pull factors
- 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
- Tidewater region
- "triangle trade"
- William Penn
American Revolution[edit | edit source]
- ABC Boards
- Admiralty Court
- Albany Conference
- Boston Massacre
- Boston Tea Party
- Common Sense
- Declaration of Independence
- Enlightenment philosophers
- First Continental Congress
- Fort Duquesne
- Gadsden flag
- 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
- Stamp Act
- Stamp Act Congress
- 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