AP U.S. History Terms List
Define the following:
1. House of Burgesses
2. Great Awakening
3. Mercantilism
4. Stamp Act
5. Declaration of Independence
6. Constitution
7. Checks & Balances
8. Bill of Rights
9. Amendments
10. Marbury vs. Madison
11. Louisiana Purchase
12. Missouri Compromise
13. Monroe Doctrine
14. Trail of Tears
15. Manifest Destiny
16. Abolitionism
17. Civil War
18. Gettysburg Address
19. Emancipation Proclamation
20. Reconstruction
21. Freedman’s Bureau
22. Ku Klux Klan
23. Fourteenth Amendment
24. Sharecropping
25. Compromise of 1877
26. Bessemer Process
27. Social Darwinism
28. Monopoly
29. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
30. Children of the Poor, Jacob Riis
31. American Federation of Labor (AFL)
32. Pullman Strike
33. Homestead Act
34. Exodusters
35. Reservations
36. Dawes Act
37. Massacre at Wounded Knee
38. Bonanza Farms
39. Populist Party
40. Buffalo Bill
41. Laissez-Faire
42. Ethnic Communities
43. Gentlemen’s Agreement
44. Tenements
45. Ellis Island
46. Settlement House
47. Booker T. Washington
48. NAACP
49. Vaudeville
50. Yellow Journalism
51. Plessey vs. Ferguson
52. Jim Crow
53. U.S.S. Maine
54. Filipino War
55. Roosevelt Corollary
56. Panama Canal
57. Dollar Diplomacy
58. Anti-Imperialist League
59. Socialism
60. Muckrackers
61. Coal Strike of 1902
62. Interstate Commerce Act
63. Pure Food and Drug Act
64. Conservationist
65. Federal Reserve System
66. 19th Amendment
67. Arabic Pledge
68. League of Nations
69. Daylight Savings Time
70. Palmer Raids
71. National Origins Act
72. Calvin Coolidge
73. Flapper
74. Charles Lindbergh
75. Lost Generation
76. Harlem Renaissance
77. Scopes Monkey Trial
78. Marcus Garvey
79. Hoovervilles
80. Bonus Army
81. 100 Days
82. FDIC
83. Wagner Act
84. Huey Long
85. WPA
86. Demagogue
87. Lend-Lease Act
88. Yalta Conference
89. Manhattan Project
90. “Rosie the Riveter”
91. Double V
92. Korematsu vs.U.S.
93. “Iron Curtain”
94. Marshall Plan
95. Containment
96. HUAC
97. Interstate Highway Act
98. Brinkmanship
99. Sputnik
100. “I Love Lucy”
101. GI Bill
102. Beat Generation
103. Taft-Hartley Act
104. Brown v. Board of Education
105. Great Society
106. Cuban Missile Crisis
107. Peace Corps
108. Alliance for Progress
109. SCLC
110. SNCC
111. Freedom Summer
112. Malcolm X
113. Black Power
114. Roe v. Wade
115. Cesar Chavez
116. AIM
117. EPA
118. Ho Chi Minh
119. Ngo Dinh Diem
120. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
121. Tet Offensive
122. My Lai Massacre
123. Pentagon Papers
124. Vietnamization
125. War Powers Act
126. Watergate