Mr. Mark
History
Review Sheet for Final Exam (June 2006)
This may be helpful. Some warnings: In my rush to get this to you, there may be some errors.
Some things may be under the wrong president (especially because I am tempted sometimes to
group things thematically rather than chronologically), and there certainly may be things
missing. Many things, even. This is the best you are going to get, so no whining, please.
I. Johnson
Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureau
Civil Rights Amendments
Radical Reconstruction
carpetbaggers
scalawags
impeachment
Tenure of Office Act
black codes
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
KKK
Redeemers
II. Grant
Reconstruction
corruption
Liberal Republicans
spoilsmen/politicos
Greenback party
Panic of 1873
III. Hayes
Compromise of 1877
Munn v. Illinois
IV. Garfield, Arthur
civil service reform
Pendleton Act
Mugwumps
Stalwarts
Half-Breeds
V. Cleveland
Wabash case
Interstate Commerce Commission
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VI. Benjamin Harrison
Billion Dollar Congress
McKinley Tariff
Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
VII. Cleveland
Gilded Age
populism
Farmers’ Alliance
Ocala Demands
free silver
bimetallism
William Jennings Bryan
Cross of Gold speech
Pullman Strike
Panic of 1893
Frontier Thesis/Agrarian Myth
Frederick Jackson Turner
VIII. McKinley
Gold Standard Act
imperialism
Alfred Mahan
Josiah Strong
Spanish-American War
yellow journalism
Cuba
Platt Amendment
Teller Amendment
USS Maine
Hawaii
Philippines
Admiral Dewey
Puerto Rico
Guam 
Rough Riders
Alaska
Open Door Notes
IX. Roosevelt
New Nationalism
Square Deal
bully pulpit (“jaw-boning”)
progressivism
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urban poverty
Robert LaFollette
Pure Food and Drug Act
muckrakers
Northern Securities case
railroad regulation
Muller v. Oregon
Lochner v. New York
Louis Brandeis
Bull Moose party
Big Stick Diplomacy
Roosevelt Corollary
Lodge Corollary
Panama Canal
Russo-Japanese War
X. Taft
Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments
Dollar Diplomacy
XI. Wilson
New Freedom
tariff reform (Underwood Tariff)
banking reform (Federal Reserve Act)
corporate reform (Clayton Antitrust Act)
women’s suffrage
Moral Diplomacy
idealism
Mexico
cooling-off treaties
freedom of the seas
U-boats
Lusitania
Sussex Pledge
War Industries Board
Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Lodge
Borah
Kellogg
Irreconcilables
Reservationists
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XII. Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
normalcy
end of poverty
tax cuts
tariff hikes
Roaring Twenties
Red Scare
Scopes Trial
immigration reform
Prohibition
Great Crash and Great Depression
volunteerism
RFC
isolationism
Dawes and Young Plans
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Clark Memorandum
Washington Naval Conferences
XIII. Roosevelt
Great Crash and Great Depression
overproduction
New Deal
bank holiday
relief, recovery, reform
NRA
Wagner Act
AAA
FDIC
Social Security Act
TVA
pump-priming (Keynes)
court-packing crisis
isolationism
Fortress America
Charles Lindbergh
Neutrality Laws (1930s)
Quarantine Speech
Cash-and-carry
Lend-Lease Act
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
German aggression
blitzkrieg
Pearl Harbor
Good Neighbor policy
split with conservative Southern Democrats
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coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats
XIV. Truman
Fair Deal
A-bomb
H-bomb
George Marshall
Dean Acheson
George Kennan
containment
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Berlin blockade/airlift
NATO
NSC-68
Baruch Plan
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Tse-Tung
Korea
Douglas MacArthur
Loyalty Review Board
HUAC
Rosenberg trial
Hiss trial
Joseph McCarthy
XV. Eisenhower
Highway Act
affluence
growth of suburbs
consumerism
beatniks
Jack Kerouac
Brown v. Board
Rosa Parks
Montgomery bus boycott
SCLC
SNCC
Earl Warren
massive retaliation
John Foster Dulles
Kruschev
missile gap
Sputnik
NASA
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National Defense Education Act
U-2 incident
Guatemala
Iran
Suez Canal
XVI. Kennedy
New Frontier
tax cuts
tariff reductions
Peace Corps
Gideon v. Wainwright
Baker v. Carr
Miranda v. Arizona
Martin Luther King
Thurgood Marshall
Stokely Carmichael
flexible response
Cuba
Castro
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall
Vietnam
XVII. Johnson
Great Society
war on poverty
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Humphrey
R. Kennedy
Goldwater
counterculture
hippies
black power
feminism
Robert McNamara
Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Affair/Resolution
Tet Offensive
XVIII. Nixon
détente
Henry Kissinger
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