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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'''


== Pre-Columbian ==
== Colonial Periods ==


== Colonial Period ==
=== Pre-Columbian ===
 
=== Colonial ===
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* Bacon’s Rebellion
* Bacon’s Rebellion
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== American Revolution ==
=== American Revolution ===
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* Boston Massacre
* Boston Massacre
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== Articles of Confederation Period ==
 
== Early Republic ==
 
=== Articles of Confederation Period ===
* Articles of Confederation
* Articles of Confederation
* Shay’s Rebellion
* Shay’s Rebellion
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* unicameral
* unicameral


== 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
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== Jacksonian period ==
== Antebellum ==
 
=== Jacksonian period ===
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* John Quincy Adams
* John Quincy Adams
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== Antebellum ==
=== Antebellum ===
 
===Social reform ===
===Social reform ===
* cult of domesticity
* cult of domesticity
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* Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
* Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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== Civil War ==  
== Latter 19th Century ==
 
=== Civil War ===
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* 1860 Election
* 1860 Election
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== Reconstruction ==
 
=== Reconstruction ===
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* 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
* 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
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== Post-Reconstruction ==
=== Post-Reconstruction ===
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== Economic & Political ==
=== Economic & Political ===
* Andrew Carnegie
* Andrew Carnegie
* Battle of Wounded Knee
* Battle of Wounded Knee
* bimetallism
* bimetallism
* Chinese Exclusion Act
* Chinese Exclusion Act
* Dawes Act /assimilation
* Dawes Act /assimilation
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* “Big Stick Policy”
* “Big Stick Policy”
* Cuba
* Cuba
* de Lôme Letter,  
* de Lôme Letter,
* imperialism
* imperialism
* William McKinley
* William McKinley
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* USS Maine
* USS Maine
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== Progressive Era ==
 
== First half 20th Century ==
 
=== Progressive Era ===
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* "Square Deal”
* "Square Deal”
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== World War I ==
 
=== World War I era ===
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* 21st & 22nd  Amendments
* Black Tuesday
* Court-packing scheme
* deficit spending
* Depression of 1920-1921
* Dust Bowl
* Harlem Renaissance
* Hoover
* Hoovervilles
* League of Nations
* Lusitania/Zimmerman Note
* National Origins Act
* New Deal
* Proclamation of Neutrality
* prohibition
* pump-priming
* Red Scare
* return to ‘normalcy’
* Sacco and Vanzetti
* Scopes Trial
* Social Security
* Supreme Court
* Teapot Dome Scandal
* Treaty of Versailles
** US Senate opposition
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== 1920s ==
 
=== 1920s ===
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== Great Depression ==
=== Great Depression ===
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== FDR & New Deal ==
 
=== FDR & New Deal ===


=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
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* Brain Trust
* Brain Trust
* Harry Hopkins
* Harry Hopkins
* Francis Perkins
* Francis Perkins


== Worl
=== World War II ===
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* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
* appeasement
* Hiroshima, Nagasaki
* Homefront
* Japanese Internment Camps
* Korematsu v. U.S.
* Nuremburg Trials
* Truman’s decision
* U.S. Neutrality Acts
* United Nations
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== Cold War vocabulary ==
== Latter half 20th Century ==
 
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=== start of Cold War
=== Early Cold War ===
* Berlin crisis
* Berlin crisis
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
* NSC-68
* ideology/ ideological
* capitalism  
* capitalism  
* Chiang Kai-shek
* China, loss of
* communism  
* communism  
* sphere/s of influence
* UK sterling crisis
* containment policy
* containment policy
* George F. Kennan  
* George F. Kennan  
* Greece
* ideology/ ideological
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
* Israel/ Palestine
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
* Mao Zedong
* Marshall Plan
* NATO
* NATO/Warsaw Pact
* NSC-68
* SEATO
* sphere/s of influence
* Suez Canal Crisis
* Truman Doctrine
* Truman Doctrine
* Greece
* Turkey
* Turkey
* Marshall Plan
* UK sterling crisis
* NATO
* Warsaw Pact
* Warsaw Pact
* China, loss of
* Mao Zedong
* Chiang Kai-shek
* Israel/ Palestine
* SEATO


=== atomic age ===
=== Atomic age ===
* German scientists
* German scientists
* testing
* testing
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* anti-ballistic missile
* anti-ballistic missile
* nuclear shield
* nuclear shield
=== Korean War ===
=== Korean War ===


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* third world
* third world
* nation-building
* nation-building
* Peace Corps


=== Eisenhower period ===  
=== Eisenhower period ===  
* containment
* Dwight Eisenhower
* Joseph McCarthy
* Marshall Plan
* McCarthyism
* Suez crisis
* Suez crisis
* Eisenhower Doctrine
* Eisenhower Doctrine
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* Cuba “Falls to communism”
* Cuba “Falls to communism”
* CIA
* CIA
=== Domestic US Cold War ===
=== Domestic US Cold War ===
* Second Red Scare
* Second Red Scare
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* Rosenbergs
* Rosenbergs
* Alger Hiss
* Alger Hiss
* baby boom
* suburbia
* conformity
* Space Race
* Space Race
=== Cuban Missile Crisis ===
 
=== Kennedy ===
* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Berlin Wall
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* Domino Theory
* Bay of Pigs
* Bay of Pigs
Cu* ban Missile Crisis
* Hot-Line  
* Hot-Line  
* Robert F. Kennedy
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* quarantine v. blockade
* quarantine v. blockade
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
* RFK
* Peace Corps


=== Vietnam War ===  
 
 
== Vietnam War ==
* French involvement, 1954-1955
* French involvement, 1954-1955
* US involvement, 1959-1973
* US involvement, 1959-1973


==== Eisenhower period of Vietnam War ===  
=== Eisenhower period of Vietnam War ===
* Dien Bien Phu
* Dien Bien Phu


==== Kennedy period of Vietnam War ====
=== Kennedy period of Vietnam War ===
* JFK
* JFK
* Robert McNamara
* Robert McNamara
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* Camelot
* Camelot
* assassination
* assassination
==== Johnson period of Vietnam War ====
 
=== Johnson period of Vietnam War ===
* Gulf of Tonkin Incident  
* Gulf of Tonkin Incident  
* Tet Offensive
* Tet Offensive
* Walter Cronkite
* 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 ====
=== Nixon period of Vietnam War ===
* Operation Linebacker II
* Christmas bombings
* "silent majority”
* "silent majority”
* Vietnamization
* Paris Peace Accords
* Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
* Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
* Paris Peace Accords
* Paris Peace Accords
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* Kissinger
* Kissinger
* Pentagon Papers
* Pentagon Papers
* Watergate
* White House protests
* White House protests
==== protest movements ====
 
==== Vietnam War protest movements ====
* draft, the
* draft, the
* hippies
* hippies
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* Jackson State
* Jackson State


==== post-Nixon =====
==== post-Nixon====
* Fall of Saigon
* Fall of Saigon
* Cambodian genocide
* Cambodian genocide


=== 1970s: Ford & Carter ===
== post-WWII Domestic U.S> ==
* baby boom
* suburbia
* conformity
* Interstate Highway Act
 
=== Civil Rights ===
* “Little Rock Nine”
* Brown v. Board of Education
* civil disobedience
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Malcolm X
* March on Washington
* Martin Luther King, Jr.
* Montgomery bus boycott
* nonviolence
* Voting Rights Act of 1965
=== Other Civil Rights Movements
* 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
* pardoning of Nixon
* stagflation
* stagflation
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* Olympic boycott
* Olympic boycott
* Iranian hostage crisis  
* Iranian hostage crisis  
* OPEC
* oil embargo
* Camp David Accords
=== Reagan era ===
=== Reagan era ===
* Iran-Contra Affair
* John Stockton
* Landslide
* Star Wars
* "Reagan Revolution”  
* "Reagan Revolution”  
* Iran-Contra Affair
* Reaganomics
* Supply-side economics
 
 
=== End of the Cold War ===
=== End of the Cold War ===
* HW Bush
* George HW Bush
* Gulf War
* Gulf War
* Bill Clinton
*
* 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
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