AP US History vocabulary list
US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events
Pre-Columbian
Colonial Period
- Bacon’s Rebellion
- headright system
- House of Burgesses
- indentured servitude
- Jamestown- general characteristics
- John Rolfe
- John Smith
- Jonathan Edwards
- King Philip’s War
- Massachusetts Bay – general characteristics
- Mercantilism
- Native American-European interactions, including disease, treatment of
- Navigation Acts
- New England town meetings
- Pequot War
- Puritans/intolerance
- Queen Anne's War
- Roanoke
- salutary neglect
- St. Augustine
- the Great Awakening
- William Penn
American Revolution
- Boston Massacre
- Boston Tea Party
- Common Sense
- Declaration of Independence
- Enlightenment philosophers
- First Continental Congress
- French and Indian War
- John Locke
- Lexington/Concord
- Montesquieu
- natural rights
- Navigation Acts
- Proclamation of 1763
- Saratoga
- social contract theory
- Thomas Paine
- Treaty of Paris of 1783 - provisions
- Valley Forge
- Yorktown
- Continental Congress/es
Articles of Confederation Period
- Articles of Confederation
- Shay’s Rebellion
- confederation
- sovereignty
- supermajority
- unicameral
== U.S. Constitution
- 3/5ths Compromise
- amendment process
- anti-Federalists
- bicameral
- Bill of Rights/10th Amendment
- 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
FDR & New Deal vocabulary
Roosevelt Administrations
- Brain Trust
- Harry Hopkins
- Francis Perkins
== Worl
Cold War vocabulary
=== start of Cold War
- Berlin crisis
- Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
- NSC-68
- ideology/ ideological
- capitalism
- communism
- sphere/s of influence
- UK sterling crisis
- containment policy
- George F. Kennan
- Long Telegram / Article “X”
- Truman Doctrine
- Greece
- Turkey
- Marshall Plan
- NATO
- Warsaw Pact
- China, loss of
- Mao Zedong
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Israel/ Palestine
- SEATO
atomic age
- German scientists
- testing
- atmosphere
- bombers
- A-bomb
- H-bomb
- brinkmanship
- ICBM
- Nike missile system
- MAD/ mutually-assured destruction
- anti-ballistic missile
- nuclear shield
Korean War
Cold War diplomacy
- United Nations
- unaligned nations
- third world
- nation-building
- Peace Corps
Eisenhower period
- Suez crisis
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- containment in the Middle East
- containment in Latin America
- Cuba “Falls to communism”
- CIA
Domestic US Cold War
- Second Red Scare
- McCarthyism
- HUAC
- Hollywood 10
- McCarren Act
- Rosenbergs
- Alger Hiss
- baby boom
- suburbia
- conformity
- Space Race
Cuban Missile Crisis
- Bay of Pigs
Cu* ban Missile Crisis
- Hot-Line
- Limited Test Ban Treaty
- quarantine v. blockade
- Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
- RFK
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
Nixon
- "silent majority”
- Vietnamization
- Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
- Paris Peace Accords
- opening of China
- Kissinger
- Pentagon Papers
- Watergate
- White House protests
protest movements
- draft, the
- hippies
- Kent State
- Jackson State
post-Nixon =
- Fall of Saigon
- Cambodian genocide
1970s: Ford & Carter
- pardoning of Nixon
- stagflation
- Afghanistan
- Olympic boycott
- Iranian hostage crisis
Reagan era
- "Reagan Revolution”
- Iran-Contra Affair
End of the Cold War
- HW Bush
- Gulf War