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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'''
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* add dates and definitions to terms
* use <nowiki><ul><li>{{#tip-text:term|explanation}}</ul></li></nowiki>
* create Wars timeline
== General terms to know for US History ==
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:abolitionism|the movement to end slavery; abolition,
abolitionist; see also emancipation}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:aristocratic|of high social status, usually conferred by birth; note "titles of nobility" are banned by US Constitution}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:blue collar v. white collar| blue collar = workers, in reference to the blue "coveralls" laborers may wear (originally clothing made of denim or coarse fabric); white = refernence to the collars of a white dress shirt}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:cession|leaving the Union or a state }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:chain migration|migration that follows existing personal, usually family, or other connections, such as a job skill or labor organization, thus a "chain" }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:class warfare|political posturing by emphasizing differences between social and economic classes; historically, a Democratic political strategy}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:''de facto'' v. ''de jure''|"in fact" v. "in law"; ''de facto'' means something that exists in practice; whereas ''de jure'' means a practice according to law}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:delegate (as noun and verb)|n: a representative to a political body; v. to assign or pass along a task, power, or sovereignty}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:direct tax|a tax that is applied "directly" to persons as opposed to an activity or material; the income tax is a "direct" tax, which required Constitutional amendment to allow under the law}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:disenfranchised|not allowd to vote; can be ''de jure'' (legal voting restrictions) or ''de facto'' (forcible, if illegal, voting restrictions}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:dissent|to disagree or protest, usually in terms of a standing law or political opinion; in the Supreme Courts, a "dissenting" judge disagrees with the marjoity opinion}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:domestic|related to national as opposed to overseas or international affairs}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:duties| taxes on importation or sale of goods; "duties" usually refers to taxes on imported goods; note that "duties" constituted the largest source of revenue for the federal government up until the mid-20th century, when the personal and corporate income taxes were imposed at higher rates than when first introduced in 1914; after the Civil War up until that time, import duties constituted about half of federal revenues, with excise taxes (taxes on sale of certain goods) were about 40% of federal revenue; prior to the Civil War, import duties were the source of up to 90% of federal income; note the federal government also received significant revenue from land sales, mineral rights, etc.) }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:emancipation|the act or process of freeing slaves (abolition)}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:embargo| to block or restrict access to something (Embargo Act of 1807, which restricted trade with Britain and France); embargo is usually in reference to a practical or legal exclusion of trade, or of a physical "naval blockade", such as the US embargo of Cuba in 1926; a naval blockade may be considered an act of war}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:equity| the notion that the laws must be applied equally; also a reference to capital ownership of a company (stock ownership = "equity"}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:excise tax|a tax upon a certain good, product or transaction}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:federal|in reference to the central, or "federal" government, and as opposed to state or local governments}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:franchise| = "the vote"; thus "disenfranchised" means to not have the right to vote}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:hegemony/hegomonic|control or rule of another country without direct military occupation; also used to describe the power of one body or person over another without directly managing that body or person ("hegemonic power"}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:imperialism| acts by a country of overseas conquest, possession or imposition; US imperialism started with the Spanish-American War (1896); U.S. foreign policy after WWII hgas been seen as "imperialistic" in the sense that it imposes U.S. policies or desires upon other nations; see "hegemony" }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:indemnity| in international affairs, money paid as compensation for some loss, especially following a war}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:infringe / infringement | to violate, or undermine, especially in law}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:intolerance| unwillingness to accept views, beliefs or persons different from oneself; in international affairs; the "Intolerable Acts" was a name given by the American colonists who opposed a series of Acts of Parliament called by England the "Coercive Acts"}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:laissez-faire| from French for "to leave alone"; used as reference to government non-intervention in the economy, usually regarding corporations; "laissez-faire" has a negative connotation, whereas supporters of government non-interference in the economy refer to that point of view as "libertarian"}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:mercantilism| colonialist policy of controling or regulating trade so as to require that colonial possessions only purchase from and sell to the mnother country; the philosophy was that economic "stakeholders" were home-country farms, businesses, and land owners}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:nativism| "ethnocentric" belief in the dominant ethnicity and culture of a nation, particularly as regards immigration (called "chauvanisme" in French)}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:nullify / nullification| the theory that since the Constitution is a "compact" (agreement) of the states, the authority to withhold that agreement or parts of it remains with the states;
as in the "Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions" and the Nullification Crisis of 1830s)}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Old World v. New World| "Old" = Europe; "New" = Americas}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:political|from Greek ''polis'' for "city"; governance or organization of a group of people; operates at all levels, as in local, state or national "politics" }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:political expediency|expedience = cutting corners, compromising principles to achieve a short term outcomes; political expediency comes of politicians / leaders who act against their stated beliefs in order to achieve a cerain outcome; may be seen as hypocrisy, but all politicians must engage in expedients at some point, and students may identify these in analysis of causes and effects}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:popular sovereignty|1850s political stance that held that territories and states should accept or not accept the practice of slavery based upon a vote of the people (i.e., "popular"; sovereignty = rule}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:precedent| the judicial practice of adhereing to prior or "preceding" decisions; decisions that change "precedent" are considered "landmark"}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:prohibition| >>definition here }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:"Republican motherhood"| the Early Republic belief that the role of a patriotic mother was to raise their sons as good "republicans," i.e. members of a self-governed society (not the political party)>>definition here }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:state|a sovereign political unit; in the "United States" the states are independent political entities that have yielded certain powers or sovereignties to the central government; internationally, a "state" is a country or nation (thus the "State Department" as the executive department that represents the country)}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:states rights| sovereignty and powers of states; generally, the belief that the federal government should not "infringe" }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:segregation| racial separation, either ''de facto'' or ''de jure''; Plessy v. Furgusen affirmed in law ''de facto'' segregation; ''Brown v Board of Education'' prohibited legal segregation in schools, but did not end its ''de facto'' practice in policy and implementation across the states}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:socialism| an economic and political theory that the state (the government) should own the "means of production" (farming, industry, etc.); "socialists" across time have varied in the degree to which they call for state-control of different segments of the economy and society }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:sovereignty|rule or "rule over"; government authority or rule is called its "soveriegnty", thus a monarch is also called a "soveriegn"|}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:suffrage| the right to vote; "suffragettes" were women activitists who promoted the right for women to vote}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:tariff| taxes on imports; also called "duties" }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:temperance movement| social and political movement to ban production and use of alcohol}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:unalienable| not divisible, cannot be taken away; thus in the Declaration, "unalienable rights" are those that people are born with and cannot be taken away; unalienable rights can be violated, but under the theory of "natural law" any violation of those rights is illegitimate; note: "unalienable" = same as "inalienable" }}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:unintended consequence|effects of a policy, decision or action that are unexpected or unanticipated}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:United States|so-called because of the "union" of independent states that joined to form a single country; it is useful to note that prior to the Civil War the nation was referred to as "these United States", in the plural, whereas after the Civil War it changed to "the United States", in the singular, reflecting a dramatic change in the self-conception of the nation and union}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:western expansion|we can look upon the American historical experience as one of ongoing westward, or western, expansion: 1st spreading westward from the Atlantic coastal plains, then over the Appalachians into the Ohio Valley, then into the Mississippi Valley and across the Mississippi River, then across the Great Plains, up to the Rocky Mountains, then expansion to Califoria, especially following the 1849 Gold Rush; then connecting the nation through netwards of railroads and telegraph; then overseas expansion (Spanish-American War) and intervention (WW's I and II) and spread of American political, cultural and economic activity and influence across the world into the modern world of instantaneous connectivity}}
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== Colonial Periods ==
== Colonial Periods ==
=== 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: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:indigenous|native to a place; original inhabitants}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Iroquois|North American tribes and linguistic group who originally occupied lands surrounding the St. Lawrence River and Lakes Ontario and Erie, as well as parts of upstate New York and Virginia; the Iroquois Confederacy arose after European contact, as tribes expanded and combined into the "Five Nations" who controlled central New York, Pennyslvannia and the western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Mississippian period/ culture|800-1600 AD, period of extensive maize production and mound building across the Mississippi valley, including moderate urbanization and centralized rule}}</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>
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=== 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 initial British and Dutch purposes of exploration: he desperately wanted to find a way to Asia, but kept running into more land; he sailed in 1607 for the Dutch, and claimed modern New York for them; then sailed for the Birith in 1610 and made claims in Canada ("Hudson Bay" which he was convinced was the "northwest passage" to Asia)}}</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 River|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>
=== Spanish colonialism ===
<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:Florida (or Spanish Florida)|After the French-Indian War (1763), Spain traded Florida for Louisiana Territories west of the Mississippi (Britain returned Havana Cuba and Manilla, Philippines, which it had seized during the Seven Years War); Britain ceded Florida back to Spain after the American Revolution; significant numbers of Americans moved into the western Florida panhandle, which the U.S. annexed in 1910 following declaration by those settlers of the "Free and Independent Republic of West Florida. After the 1817/18 First Seminole War (led by Andrew Jackson), the US took control of most of Florida, and Spain ceded the entire territory in the 1819 Adams–Onís Treaty in exchange for an indemnity of $5 milllion in American claims against Spain. Upon independence, Mexico refused to recognize the Treaty, but it was mostly upheld in the 1828 "Treaty of Limits" between the US and Mexico}}</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:Saint Augustine|started 1565, Spanish colonial settlement along the northeastern coast of Florida; in 1693 Spanish King Charles II issued a Royal Decree providing freedom for runaway slaves who converted to Catholicism, and the region served as a sanctuary for escaped slaves from the Carolinas}}</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; mulattos = African parentage mixed with other races/ethnicities}}</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:New Amsterdam|now Manhattan, a Dutch city established in 1626 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, called New Netherlands, included lower New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Delaware, all of which were ceded to Britain in 1664 (briefly retaken by the Dutch in 1673/4}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:New France|French colonial possessions in North America, from the St. 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; the French explored the Great Lakes, which is why Champlain, Detroit, LaSalle, St. Croix, Duluth, etc.}}</ul></li>
=== African Slave trade ===
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Middle Passage|refers to "passage" or transoceanic shipment of slaves across the Atlantic; mortality rate of slaves on the Middle Passage was 12.5%; a total of 15.3 million Africans were sent across it to the Americas, most of whom were sent to the Caribbean and Brazil}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olaudah Equiano| former slave who in 1789 wrote a memoir of hs experiences as a slave, includng his childhood in Africa, the Atlantic crossing and life as a slave, which deeply impacted British views on the cruelty of slavery; Equiano was purchased by a British Naval officer and ended up under a Philadelphia merchant who allowed him to purchase his freedom; Equiano became a sucessful merchant and adventurer}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:seasoning camps|centralized destinations in the Caribbean for new African slave arrivals to "season", or prepare, them for new conditions; about 1/3rd of slaves who arrived to these camps died their first year there, mostly of dysentery due to the horrible conditions}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:triangle trade|the geographic pattern of slave-trade exchange between Europe (selling manufactured goods, especiall arms, which African states used to acquire more slaves), African coastal states (selling slaves) and the Americas (sellng slave-produced products, especially sugar, molasses or rum}}</ul></li>
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=== English colonial period ===
Note that Britain held colonial possessions in the Caribbean region, as well as the thirteen colonies; following small wars and the worldwide French-Indian War  (Seven Years War), Britain sequentially took France's Canadian possessions as well as its landholdings between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. Levels of British control of the colonies rose and fell according to domestic British politics and its international priorities. The American Revolution was largely the result of the excercise of direct control of colonial affairs that followed the French-Indian War.
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Appalachian Mountains|running nort-south along the eastern coast of the 13 colonies, the Appalachians isolated the east coast and formed a natural barrier to western expansion; the Proclamation of 1863 unsuccessfully barred colonial settlement west of the Appalachians}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Bacon’s Rebellion|1676 Virginia rebellion that breifly occupied the colonial at Jamestown over a dispute over protection of settlers who had moved into indian lands; Bacon, a wealthy landowner, had let a militia to protect frontier settlers from indian raids, which the governor opposed. Legislators passed "Bacon's Laws" to authorize colonial militia to protect settlers (who were moving into lands east of the Appalachians; Bacon's rebellion marks one of many disputes across US history between urban political and commercial elites and settlers and rural inhabitants)}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lord Baltimore|George Calvert, 1st Baron of Baltimore, a Catholic British politician was given a charter by King Charles I for the proprietary colony of Maryland (and earlier in southern Newfoundland; Calvert's Catholicism and the borders led to disuptes with Virginia, with actual fighting over Maryland's Kent Island}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:term|explanation}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:term|explanation}}</ul></li>
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=== Colonial political, economic and social characteristics ===
Maryland| proprietary colony
Massachussets Bay Colony
Pennsylvania
Virginia colonies


=== Pre-Columbian ===


=== Colonial ===
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* Bacon’s Rebellion
* headright system
* headright system
* House of Burgesses
* House of Burgesses
* indentured servitude
* indentured servitude
* Jamestown- general characteristics
* Jamestown
* John Rolfe
* John Rolfe
* John Smith
* John Smith
* Jonathan Edwards
* Jonathan Edwards
* King Philip’s War
* King Philip’s War
* Massachusetts Bay – general characteristics
* Massachusetts Bay Colony
* Mercantilism
* miration push/ pull factors
* Native American-European interactions, including disease, treatment of
* Native American-European interactions, including disease, treatment of
* Navigation Acts
* Navigation Acts
* New England town meetings
* New England town meetings
* Pequot War
* Pequot War
* Puritans/intolerance
* Puritan
* Queen Anne's War
* Queen Anne's War
* Roanoke
 
* salutary neglect
* salutary neglect
* St. Augustine
* the Great Awakening
* the Great Awakening
* types of colonies: proprietary, royal, corporate
* William Penn
* William Penn
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=== American Revolution ===
=== American Revolution ===
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* ABC Boards
* Admiralty Court
* Albany Conference
* 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
* Fort Duquesne
* Gadsden flag
* 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
* Stamp Act
* Stamp Act Congress
* Sugar Act
* Thomas Paine
* Thomas Paine
* Treaty of Paris of 1783 - provisions
* Townsend Acts
* Valley Forge
* Treaty of Paris of 1783
* Valley Forge
* Yorktown
* Yorktown
* Continental Congress/es
* Continental Congress/es
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== Early Republic ==
== Early Republic ==
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=== U.S. Constitution ===
=== U.S. Constitution ===
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* 3/5ths Compromise
* 3/5ths Compromise
* amendment process
* amendment process
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* Virginia Plan
* Virginia Plan
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=== Early Republic ===
=== Early Republic ===
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* 12th Amendment
* 12th Amendment
* American System
* American System
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* Whiskey Rebellion
* Whiskey Rebellion
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== Antebellum ==
== Antebellum period ==


=== Jacksonian period ===
=== Jacksonian period ===
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* John Quincy Adams
* John Quincy Adams
* Bank War
* Bank War
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* Worcester v. Georgia
* Worcester v. Georgia
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=== Antebellum ===
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=== Antebellum ===


===Social reform ===
===Social reform ===
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* transcendentalism
* transcendentalism
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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=== Antebellum ===
=== Antebellum ===
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* Compromise of 1850
* Compromise of 1850
* Dred Scott decision
* Dred Scott decision
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* Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
* Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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== Latter 19th Century ==
== Latter 19th Century ==


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* Sherman’s March
* Sherman’s March
* U.S. Grant
* U.S. Grant
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=== Reconstruction ===
=== Reconstruction ===
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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 plans
** Lincoln's plan
** Johnson's program
** Johnson's program
** Congressional program
** Congressional program
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=== Post-Reconstruction ===
=== Post-Reconstruction ===
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=== Economic & Political ===
=== Economic & Political ===
* Andrew Carnegie
* Andrew Carnegie
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* transcontinental railroad
* transcontinental railroad
* U.S. Steel
* U.S. Steel
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=== Imperialism ===
=== Imperialism ===
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* Battle of Manila
* Battle of Manila
* “Big Stick Policy”
* “Big Stick Policy”
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* USS Maine
* USS Maine
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== First half 20th Century ==
== First half 20th Century ==
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=== Labor ===
=== Labor ===
* American Federation of Labor (AFL)
* American Federation of Labor (AFL)
* Samuel Gompers
* Samuel Gompers
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=== Progressive Era ===
=== Progressive Era ===
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* "Three Cs": Conservation, Corporate law, Consumer protections
* "Three Cs": Conservation, Corporate law, Consumer protections
* William Howard Taft
* William Howard Taft
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=== World War I era ===
=== World War I era ===
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* War Industries Board
* War Industries Board
* Zimmerman Note
* Zimmerman Note
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=== WWI aftermath ===
=== Post-WWI ===
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* Collective Security
* Collective Security
* Depression of 1920-1921
* Depression of 1920-1921
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* Treaty of Versailles
* Treaty of Versailles


=== post-WWI & 1920s ===


=== post-WWI & 1920s ===
* "America First"
* "America First"
* Black Tuesday
* Black Tuesday
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* Teapot Dome Scandal
* Teapot Dome Scandal
* Wilsonianism
* Wilsonianism
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=== 1920s ===
=== 1920s ===
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<div style="column-count:2">
* automobiles
* consumerism
* consumerism
* credit
* credit
* Bathtub gin
* Bathtub gin
*
* Harlem Renaissance
* Harlem Renaissance
* Jazz Age
* Jazz Age
* Klu Klux Klan
* Klu Klux Klan
* Margin buying
* Margin buying
* radio
* refrigerators
* Scopes "Monkey" Trial
* Scopes "Monkey" Trial
</div>
</div>
<br>
-------------------


=== Great Depression ===
== Great Depression & FDR ==
<div style="column-count:2">
<div style="column-count:2">
*
* Black Monday
* Black Monday
* Black Thursday
* Black Thursday
* Hawley-Smoot Tariff
* Hawley-Smoot Tariff
* Hoovervilles
* Hoovervilles
</div>


=== FDR & New Deal ===


* 100 Days
* 20th Amendment
* 21st Amendment
* fireside chats
* NRA
* "New Deal"


=== FDR & New Deal ===
* Social Security
* Social Security
* Supreme Court
* Supreme Court
=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
 
<div style="column-count:2">
=== Roosevelt Administration/s ===
 
* Brain Trust
* Brain Trust
* Francis Perkins
* Harry Hopkins
* Harry Hopkins
* Francis Perkins
*
</div>
</div>
=== Pre-WWII ===
<br>
<div style="column-count:2">
-------------------
=== Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation ===
 
== World War II ==
=== pre-WWII ===
* A Philip Randolph
* A Philip Randolph
* America First Committee
* America First Committee
* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
* appeasement
* isolationisms
* Battle of Britain
* “cash and carry”
* election of 1940
* isolationism
* Lend-Lease Act
* Lindburgh  
* Lindburgh  
* Maginot Line
* Maginot Line
* Munich Agreement
* Munich Agreement
* "Peace for our time"
* "Peace for our time"
* Sudetenland
* Poland invasion
</div>
* Sudetenland  
* U.S. Neutrality Acts
* "war footing"
* war preparations
 
<br>
-------------------
 
=== 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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* Manhattan Project
* Manhattan Project
* mechanized warfare
* mechanized warfare
* Nuremburg Trials
* propaganda
* Poland invasion
* rationing
* recycling
* Rosie the Riviter
* Truman’s decision
* "Victory Gardens"
* war bonds
Post-War plans/ conferences
 
* Potsdam Conference
* Potsdam Conference
* Sudatenland invasion
 
* Tehran Conference
* Tehran Conference
* Truman’s decision
 
* U.S. Neutrality Acts
* United Nations
* Yalta Conference
* Yalta Conference
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== Latter half 20th Century ==
=== Post-WWII ===
 
* 22nd amendment
* Nuremburg Trials
* United Nations</div>
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== Latter-half 20th Century ==


=== Early Cold War Foreign Affairs ===
=== 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  
* Greece
* 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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=== Korean War ===
=== Korean War ===
* Truman v. Gen. MacArthur
* Chinese Revolution
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=== Cold War diplomacy ===
=== Cold War diplomacy ===
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* East, the
* hegemony / hegemonic power
* nation-building
* Palestine partition
* Security Council
* Third World
* unaligned nations
* United Nations
* United Nations
* unaligned nations
* West, The
* third world
* nation-building


=== 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
* Eisenhower Doctrine
</div>
* containment in the Middle East
<br>
* containment in Latin America
-------------------
* Cuba “Falls to communism”
* CIA


=== Domestic US Cold War ===
=== Domestic US Cold War ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Executive Order 9835  
* Executive Order 9835  
* Second Red Scare
* Second Red Scare
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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
</div>
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<div style="column-count:2">
== Vietnam War ==
== Vietnam War ==
* French involvement, 1954-1955
* French involvement, 1954-1955
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* Fall of Saigon
* Fall of Saigon
* Cambodian genocide
* Cambodian genocide
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== post-WWII Domestic U.S ==
== post-WWII Domestic U.S ==
*
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=== 1950s culture ===
* baby boom
* baby boom
* "Fair Deal" (1945-49)
* "Fair Deal" (1945-49)
* suburbia
* suburbia
* rock'n'roll
* conformity
* conformity
* Interstate Highway Act
* Interstate Highway Act
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* civil disobedience
* civil disobedience
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* desegregation (Truman, 1948)
* 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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* Yugoslavia and Bosnia
* Yugoslavia and Bosnia
* Rwanda
* Rwanda
</div>
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== 21st Century ==
== 21st Century ==


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=== War on Terror ===
=== War on Terror ===
* September 11th
* September 11th
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* Obama Care
* Obama Care
* DREAM Act
* DREAM Act
 
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US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events

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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
  • sovereignty
  • 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 River

Spanish colonialism[edit | edit source]

  • asiento
  • De Las Casas
  • encomienda
  • Florida (or Spanish Florida)
  • New Laws of 1542
  • Pueblo Revolt
  • repartimiento
  • Saint Augustine

Sepúlveda

  • Spanish social heirarchies (terms)

Dutch and French colonialism[edit | edit source]

  • Beaver War
  • ''couriers de bois''
  • New Amsterdam
  • New France

African Slave trade[edit | edit source]

  • Middle Passage
  • Olaudah Equiano
  • seasoning camps
  • triangle trade


English colonial period[edit | edit source]

Note that Britain held colonial possessions in the Caribbean region, as well as the thirteen colonies; following small wars and the worldwide French-Indian War (Seven Years War), Britain sequentially took France's Canadian possessions as well as its landholdings between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. Levels of British control of the colonies rose and fell according to domestic British politics and its international priorities. The American Revolution was largely the result of the excercise of direct control of colonial affairs that followed the French-Indian War.

  • Appalachian Mountains


  • Bacon’s Rebellion
  • Lord Baltimore
  • term
  • term


Colonial political, economic and social characteristics[edit | edit source]

Maryland| proprietary colony Massachussets Bay Colony Pennsylvania Virginia colonies


  • headright system
  • House of Burgesses
  • indentured servitude
  • Jamestown
  • John Rolfe
  • John Smith
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • King Philip’s War
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • 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
  • salutary neglect
  • the Great Awakening
  • types of colonies: proprietary, royal, corporate
  • 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


WWI aftermath[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 & FDR[edit | edit source]

  • Black Monday
  • Black Thursday
  • Hawley-Smoot Tariff
  • Hoovervilles

FDR & New Deal[edit | edit source]

  • 100 Days
  • 20th Amendment
  • 21st Amendment
  • fireside chats
  • NRA
  • "New Deal"
  • Social Security
  • Supreme Court

Roosevelt Administration/s[edit | edit source]

  • Brain Trust
  • Francis Perkins
  • Harry Hopkins


World War II[edit | edit source]

pre-WWII[edit | edit source]

  • A Philip Randolph
  • America First Committee
  • appeasement
  • Battle of Britain
  • “cash and carry”
  • election of 1940
  • isolationism
  • Lend-Lease Act
  • Lindburgh
  • Maginot Line
  • Munich Agreement
  • "Peace for our time"
  • Poland invasion
  • Sudetenland
  • U.S. Neutrality Acts
  • "war footing"
  • war preparations


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
  • propaganda
  • rationing
  • recycling
  • Rosie the Riviter
  • Truman’s decision
  • "Victory Gardens"
  • war bonds

Post-War plans/ conferences

  • Potsdam Conference
  • Tehran Conference
  • Yalta Conference

Post-WWII[edit | edit source]

  • 22nd amendment
  • Nuremburg Trials
  • United Nations


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]

1950s culture[edit | edit source]

  • baby boom
  • "Fair Deal" (1945-49)
  • suburbia
  • rock'n'roll
  • 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


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