AP US History vocabulary list

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

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

Pre-Columbian

Algonquian

Hopewell tradition

indigenous

Iroquois

Mississippian period/ culture

reciprocal relations

Woodland Period

Age of Exploration

caravel

Henry Hudson

conquistador

St. Lawrence River

Spanish colonialism

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

Beaver War

''couriers de bois''

New Amsterdam

New France

African Slave trade

Middle Passage

Olaudah Equiano

seasoning camps

triangle trade

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.

Appalachian Mountains

Bacon’s Rebellion

Lord Baltimore

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Colonial political, economic and social characteristics

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

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

Articles of Confederation Period

Articles of Confederation
Shay’s Rebellion
confederation
sovereignty
supermajority
unicameral

U.S. Constitution

3/5ths Compromise
amendment process
anti-Federalists
bicameral
Bill of Rights
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

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

Jacksonian period

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

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

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

Latter 19th Century

Civil War

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

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

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

First half 20th Century

Labor

American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Samuel Gompers

Progressive Era

"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

WWI

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

Collective Security
Depression of 1920-1921
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Treaty of Versailles

post-WWI & 1920s

"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

automobiles
consumerism
credit
Bathtub gin
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
Klu Klux Klan
Margin buying
radio
refrigerators
Scopes "Monkey" Trial

Great Depression & FDR

Black Monday
Black Thursday
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Hoovervilles

FDR & New Deal

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

Social Security
Supreme Court

Roosevelt Administration/s

Brain Trust
Francis Perkins
Harry Hopkins

World War II

pre-WWII

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

"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

22nd amendment
Nuremburg Trials
United Nations

Latter-half 20th Century

Early Cold War Foreign Affairs

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

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

Truman v. Gen. MacArthur
Chinese Revolution

Cold War diplomacy

East, the
hegemony / hegemonic power
nation-building
Palestine partition
Security Council
Third World
unaligned nations
United Nations
West, The

Eisenhower period

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

Executive Order 9835
Second Red Scare
McCarthyism
HUAC
Hollywood 10
McCarren Act
Rosenbergs
Alger Hiss
Space Race

Kennedy

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

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

Eisenhower period of Vietnam War

Dien Bien Phu

Kennedy period of Vietnam War

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

Johnson period of Vietnam War

Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Tet Offensive
Walter Cronkite
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

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

draft, the
hippies
Kent State
Jackson State

post-Nixon

Fall of Saigon
Cambodian genocide

post-WWII Domestic U.S

1950s culture

baby boom
"Fair Deal" (1945-49)
suburbia
rock'n'roll
conformity
Interstate Highway Act

Civil Rights

“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

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

Great Society
War on Poverty

1970s: Nixon, Ford & Carter

Watergate
pardoning of Nixon
stagflation
Afghanistan
Olympic boycott
Iranian hostage crisis
OPEC
oil embargo
Camp David Accords

Reagan era

Iran-Contra Affair
John Stockton
Landslide
Star Wars
"Reagan Revolution”
Reaganomics
Supply-side economics

End of the Cold War

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

War on Terror

September 11th
Al Queda
Afghanistan War
Iraq
Patriot Act

Obama Administration

Great Recession
ISIS
Affordable Care Act
Obama Care
DREAM Act