AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions

== General terms to know for US History ==

<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>

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=== Age of Exploration ===

<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: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>

{{#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>

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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>

=== American Revolution ===

* ABC Boards

* Admiralty Court

=== U.S. Constitution ===

* 3/5ths Compromise

* amendment process

* Virginia Plan

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=== Early Republic ===

* 12th Amendment

* American System

* Whiskey Rebellion

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== Antebellum period ==

=== Jacksonian period ===

* John Quincy Adams

* Bank War

* Worcester v. Georgia

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=== Antebellum ===

* Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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=== Antebellum ===

* Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

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== Latter 19th Century ==

* Sherman’s March

* U.S. Grant

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=== Reconstruction ===

** Congressional program

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=== Post-Reconstruction ===

=== Economic & Political ===

* Andrew Carnegie

* U.S. Steel

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=== Imperialism ===

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* USS Maine

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== First half 20th Century ==

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* Samuel Gompers

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=== Progressive Era ===

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* "Three Cs": Conservation, Corporate law, Consumer protections

* William Howard Taft

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=== World War I era ===

* Zimmerman Note

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* Collective Security

* Senate Foreign Relations Committee

* Treaty of Versailles

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

* "America First"

* Teapot Dome Scandal

* Wilsonianism

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=== 1920s ===

* refrigerators

* Scopes "Monkey" Trial

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=== Great Depression ===

* Hawley-Smoot Tariff

* Hoovervilles

=== FDR & New Deal ===

* Social Security

* Supreme Court

=== Roosevelt Administrations ===

* Brain Trust

* Harry Hopkins

* Francis Perkins

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* isolationism

* "war footing"

* A Philip Randolph

* America First Committee

* isolationisms

* Lindburgh  

* Maginot Line

* Sudetenland

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=== WWII ===

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* Yalta Conference

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=== Early Cold War Foreign Affairs ===

* anti-ballistic missile

* nuclear shield

=== Korean War ===

* Truman v. Gen. MacArthur

* Chinese Revolution

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=== Cold War diplomacy ===

* Suez crisis

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=== Domestic US Cold War ===

* Peace Corps

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== Vietnam War ==

* French involvement, 1954-1955

* Fall of Saigon

* Cambodian genocide

== post-WWII Domestic U.S ==

* baby boom

* "Fair Deal" (1945-49)

* suburbia

* conformity

* Interstate Highway Act

* Yugoslavia and Bosnia

* Rwanda

== 21st Century ==

=== War on Terror ===

* September 11th

* Obama Care

* DREAM Act

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