AP US History
Mr. Simmons
Essential Terminology & Vocabulary for Chapters 1-31
Chapter 1
Cahokia
Athapascan
Archaic period
Aztecs
kachinas
Beringia
Clovis tradition
clans
Anasazis
Ironquois Confederacy
transoceanic migrations
Pleistocene Overkill
Mesoamerica
rancherias
Great Serpent Mound
Renaissance
reconquista
Bartolome de Las Casas
Treaty of Tordesillas
Protestants
mestizo
“Black Death”
Taino
intercontinental exchange
Protestant Reformation
colonization
Herman Cortez
Quebec
Virginia Company
John Smith
House of Burgesses
proprietary colony
Calvinism
Massachusetts Bay Company
William Bradford
Narragansetts
Anne Hutchinson
Frame of Government
Coventant Chain
Glorious Revolution
Robert Sieur de La Salle
Beaver Wars
Powhatan Confederacy
Samuel de Champlain
Powhatan
matriarchy
Pilgrims/Separatists
Great Migration
John Winthrop
Salem witchcraft crisis
Quakers/Quakerism
Pequot War
Bacon’s Rebellion
King William’s War
Iroquois
Seven Years’ War
Middle Passage
“slave society”
Natchez Rebellion
Great Awakening
Stono Rebellion
Triangular Trade
War of Jenkins’s Ear
enumerated goods
polygyny
the “flux”
James Edward Olgethorpe
creoles
cimarron
plantation system
mercantilism
King George’s War
white skin privilege
Chapter 2
feudalism
Christopher Columbus
encomienda
epidemic disease
predestination
Metacomet
Chapter 3
coureurs de bois
New Amsterdam
Wahunsonacook
Matoaka
indentured servants
Puritanism
Mayflower Compact
Oliver Cromwell
“a city upon a hill”
Roger Williams
William Penn
King Phillip’s War
Culpepper’s Rebellion
Santa Fe
Chapter 4
African slavery
Transatlantic Slave Trade
“society with slaves”
European slavery
slave codes
New York Slave Revolt (1712)
Industrial Revolution
Queen Anne’s War
salutary neglect
Sally Hemmings
Chapter 5
the French cresent
middle colonies
Cotton Mather
Congregationalists
Old Lights
William Tennent
the Spanish borderlands
engages
almanac
Calvinist theology
Great Awakening
revivalism
Toleration Act
Enlightenment
Half-Way Covenant
New Lights
George Whitefield
Albany Plan of Union
French & Indian War
Royal Proclamation of 1763
Whigs
John Locke
actual representation
Thomas Jefferson
Declaratory Act
John Hancock
Crispus Attucks
Intolerable Acts
Committees of Correspondence
Committee of Safety
Paul Revere
Battle of Lexington
Thomas Paine
George Washington
Treaty of Paris
Lord Dunmore’s War
republicanism
Stamp Act
Samuel Adams
Sons of Liberty
Townshend Revenue Acts
Boston Massacre
John Adams
Quartering Act
Administration of Justice Act
minutemen
Battle of Bunker Hill
Olive Branch Petition
Common Sense
Continental Army
Abigail Adams
“Molly Pitcher”
Nathaniel Greene
Battle of Yorktown
Continental Congress
Land Ordinance of 1785
Thomas Jefferson
Constitutional Convention
Phyllis Wheatley
Valley Forge
Loyalists
United States Constitution
Treaty of Alliance
Charles Cornwallis
Treaty of Paris (1783)
John Jay
Bill of Rights
Absalom Jones
nationalists
Virginia Plan
Federalists
Mercy Otis Warren
Tariff of 1789
Whiskey Rebellion
Pinckney’s Treaty
Thomas Jefferson
Annapolis Convention
New Jersey Plan
Anti-Federalists
Judiciary Act of 1789
speculation
Treaty of Greenville
Federalism
XYZ Affair
Chapter 6
Benjamin Franklin
Edward Braddock
Neolin
John Peter Zenger
Sugar Act
virtual representation
Patrick Henry
nonimportation movement
John Dickinson
Tea Act of 1773
Boston Tea Party
Quebec Act
1st Continental Congress
2nd Continental Congress
Battle of Concord
Benedict Arnold
Declaration of Independence
Chapter 7
patriots
militia
Tories
Benedict Arnold
Joseph Brant
Articles of Confederation
demobilization
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
Benjamin Banneker
Chapter 8
Shays’ Rebellion
James Madison
Great Compromise
Alexander Hamilton
judicial review
Intercourse Act
Jay’s Treaty
Republicans
“Quasi-War”
Federalist Party
suffrage
Alien & Sedition Acts
Democratic Republican Party
Judith Sargent Murray
Jeffersonian Republicans
states’ rights
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Malthus
“republic of virtue”
Louisiana Purchase
Toussaint L’Ouverture
“peaceable coercion”
Black Hawk
War of 1812
Fort Dearborn
nullification
Era of Good Feelings
Henry Clay
Transcontinental Treaty of 1819
James Monroe
Missouri Compromise
republican agrarianism
expansionism
Monticello
Napoleon Bonaparte
Embargo Act
Lewis & Clark
Tecumseh
War Hawks
Battle of New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent
American System
Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817
Tariff of 1816
Panic of 1819
Battle of Tippecanoe
Industrial Revolution
internal slave trade
Second Great Awakening
black codes
William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner’s Revolt
gang system
Richard Allen
yeoman
gag rule
Albany Regency
abolitionism
Nullification Crisis
Trail of Tears
Whigs
“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”
Samuel B. Morse
Democrats
Old Hickory
Tariff of 1832
Black Hawk
Specie Circular
William Henry Harrison
Print Revolution
Transportation Revolution
commercialization
interchangable parts
“free labor”
sentimentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Deere
market revolution
the Lowell mills
mechanization
class consciousness
transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau
Chapter 9
clipper ship
Virginia Dynasty
yeoman farmers
Marbury v. Madison
“venerate the plough”
James Madison
pan-Indian military resistance movement
The Prophet
Dolly Madison
Andrew Jackson
Land Act of 1820
John Calhoun
2nd Bank of the United States
Monroe Doctrine
John Quincy Adams
Chapter 10
Eli Whitney
King Cotton
field vs. house slaves
Gabriel’s Rebellion
Denmark Vesey’s conspiracy
proslavery argument
Chapter 11
Martin Van Buren
universal white manhood suffrage
“Kitchen Cabinet”
Indian Removal Act
Bank War
Second American Party System
Davy Crockett
Gibbons v. Ogden
Chapter 12
apprenticeship
putting-out system
American System
“wage slave”
Catherine Beecher
self-reliance
Cyrus McCormick
Chapter 13
Declaration of Sentiments
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Famine Irish”
Astor Place Riot
minstrel show
urbanization
Five Points
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allen Poe
General Trades Union
machine politics
Tammany society
sabbatarianism
temperance
American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
Panic of 1837
Female Moral Reform Society
Seneca Falls Convention
Shakers
Dorothea Dix
Louisa May Alcott
Oneida Community
Joseph Smith
Mormonism
antislavery movement
American Colonization Society
Appeal to the Colored Citzens of the World
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Elijah Lovejoy
the Amistad case
American Anti-Slavery Society
Liberty Party
Sarah & Angelina Grimke
Theodore Weld
Chapter 14
Santa Fe Trail
Overland Trails
Empresarios
Mexican-American War
Gold Rush
Liberty Party
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
“the indian problem”
Oregon Trail
Stephen F. Austin
“Civil Disobedience”
Wilmot’s Proviso
popular soverignity
Manifest Destiny
Tejanos
“remember the Alamo”
Santa Anna
free soil movement
“Mr. Polk’s War”
Abraham Lincoln
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“the slave power”
“Young America” movement
John Brown
Republican Party
Lecompton constitution
“Secret Six”
Ostend Manifesto
Stephen Douglas
Compromise of 1850
popular sovereignity
Kansas-Nebraska Act
nativism
Charles Sumner
Panic of 1857
Constitutional Union Party
Jefferson Davis
Attack on Fort Sumter
Legal Tender Act
Morrill Tariff Act
“cotton diplomacy”
“contrabands”
Ulysses S. Grant
William Tecumseh Sherman
Fort Pillow massacre
John Wilkes Booth
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Bull Run
National Bank Act
Homestead Act
Anaconda Plan
13th Amendment
copperheads
Special Field Order #15
Battle of Gettysburg
Pacific Railway Act
Chapter 15
Lincoln-Douglas debates
“American Renaissance”
secession
Fugitive Slave Act
“Bleeding Kansas”
Know-Nothing Party
Scott v. Sandford
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Confederate States of America
Chapter 16
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Robert E. Lee
“greenbacks”
Morrill Land Grant Act
Peninsular campaign
Emancipation Proclamation
New York Draft Riots
Appomattox
Battle of Antietam
suspension of habeus corpus
Chapter 17
Reconstruction
Special Field Order #15
Congressional Reconstruction
Tenure of Office Act
Fourteenth Amendment
Union League
Scalawags
Slaughterhouse cases
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Compromise of 1877
Radical Republicans
Freedman’s Bureau
Civil Rights Act (1866)
black codes
Fifteenth Amendment
sharecropping
“redemption”
“crop lien” system
Liberal Republicans
Rutherford B. Hayes
Wade Davis Bill
Andrew Johnson
Reconstruction Act (1867)
Ku Klux Klan
Ulysses S. Grant
carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)
Burlingame Treaty
“waving the bloody shirt”
Sand Creek Massacre
Sitting Bull
Caminetti Act
Hispanic-American Alliance
Timber Culture Act (1873)
General Land Revision
Dawes Severalty Act
polygamy
George A. Custer
Nez Perce
Edmunds Act
lynching
Morrill Act of 1862
“Buffalo Bill” Cody
Omaha Act of 1882
horizontal combination
“gospel of wealth”
“gospel of work”
Haymarket Square riot
Booker T. Washington
tenements
the New Middle Class
vaudeville
interchangeable parts
vertical integration
Andrew Carnegie
Knights of Labor
Samuel Gompers
W.E.B. DuBois
Gilded Age
Albert Spaulding
Coney Island
Chapter 18
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Red Cloud
“Helldorados”
Edmunds-Tucker Act
Homestead Act of 1862
National Reclamation Act
Forest Management Act
Sioux Ghost Dancers
Chapter 19
Thomas Edison
John D. Rockefeller
Social Darwinism
American Federation of Labor
Eight Hour League
Conspicuous consumption
John Roebling
Women’s Educational & Industrial Union
Sherman Antitrust Act
Chapter 20
Looking Backward (1888)
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
Southern Farmers’ Alliance
Progress and Poverty (1879)
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
“protective association”
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Dingley Tariff of 1897
Jim Crow laws
John Marshall Harlan
Ida B. Wells
“the White Man’s Burden”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
“Remember the Maine”
Interstate Commerce Commission populist movement
grange
Granger Laws
Great Uprising of 1877
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
People’s Party
Coxey’s Army
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Pullman Strike (1894)
Eugene V. Debs
“free silver”
“the social gospel”
grandfather clauses
nativism
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
segregation
William Jennings Bryan
Tom Watson
Wilmington Riot (1898)
Chicago World’s Fair
“imperialism of righteousness”
imperialism
annexation of Hawai’i
Spanish American War
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Anti-Imperialist League
Chapter 21
Social Darwinism
Progressive Era
Jane Addams
prohibition
referendum
recall
muckraking
The Shame of the Cities (1902)
John Dewey
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Women’s Temperance Christian Union
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Industrial Workers of the World
“bohemian”
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
“double consciousness”
“the strenuous life”
Food and Drug Act
Hepburn Act
Underwood-Simmons Act
New Freedom
Sixteenth Amendment
Clayton Antitrust Act
Federal Trade Commission
Bread and Roses strike
Jacob Riis
initiative
Robert M. LaFollette
The Jungle (1906)
“the social evil”
Ludlow Massacre
The Clansman (1905)
Niagara Movement
Sherman Antitrust Act
John Muir
Federal Reserve Act
Woodrow Wilson
Margaret Sanger
Chapter 23
Second Industrial Revolution
Middleton (1929)
“roaring twenties”
tabloid
Volstead Act (1919)
“new immigrants”
“100% American”
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Scopes “monkey” Trial
Herbert Hoover
Dawes Plan
Equal Rights Amendment
Marcus Garvey
F. Scott Fitzgerald
welfare capitalism
Henry Ford
The Jazz Singer (1927)
“black sox” scandal
Al Capone
“old immigrants”
Immigration Act (1921)
darwinism
William Jennings Bryan
“associative state”
league of women voters
“New Negro”
“a lost generation”
Sacco & Vanzetti
open shop
Model T
The Amos ‘n’ Andy Show
flapper
bootlegging
eugenics
Ku Klux Klan
Clarance Darrow
fundamentalism
Teapot Dome Scandal
Sheppard-Towner Act
Harlem Renaissance
Earnest Hemingway
crash of 1929
Bonus Army
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“ first the hundred days”
Public Works Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Admin.
“second hundred days”
Social Security Act (1935)
Resettlement Administration
“New Deal coalition”
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
“okies”
Federal Writers Project
Walt Disney
“the Black Cabinet”
Black Tuesday
New Deal
“fireside chat”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
American Liberty League
Father Charles Coughlin
National Labor Relations Act
John L. Lewis
sunbelt
The Dust Bowl
Boulder Dam
Communist Party, USA
“swing era”
Fair Labor Standards Act
Chapter 24
Sit-down
Great Depression
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Emergency Banking Act
Civilian Conversation Corps
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
National Industrial Recovery Act
Huey Long
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Frances Perkins
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Soil Conservation Service
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
“Popular Front”
Schecter v. United States (1935)
“Roosevelt recession”
court-packing
Chapter 25
Manhattan Project
Nazis Party
Blitzkreig
Allied powers
“a date that will live in infamy”
Office of War Information
Rationing
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Internment
Zoot-suit riots (1943)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Women’s Army Corps
“battle fatigue”
Joseph Stalin
Battle of the Bulge
Kamikaze
Yalta Conference
Enola Gay
Executive Order #9981
Benito Mussolini
Nuremberg Laws
Neutrality Act of 1939
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
War Powers Act
bracero
issei
“Double V” campaign
Congress of Racial Equality
“the good war”
GI
Nisei
conscientious objectors
Operation Overlord
Eastern Front
Holocaust
Winston Churchill
Harry S. Truman
Adolf Hitler
Kristallnacht
Axis powers
Atlantic Charter
Office of Strategic Services
“Rosie the Riveter”
Executive Order #9066
A. Philip Randolph
Detroit riot (1942)
Douglas MacArthur
Executive Order #8802
“code talkers”
Operation Torch
D-Day
“island hopping”
genocide
Potsdam Conference
Nagasaki & Hiroshima
J. Edgar Hoover
International Monetary Fund
the policy of containment
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Berlin blockade
Immigration & Nationality Act
cold war liberalism
“Give ‘em hell Harry”
Central Intelligence Agency
Whittaker Chambers
Red Scare
“baby boom”
Chiang Kai-shek
Truman’s Fair Deal
Dwight D. Eisenhower
V-J Day
The Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Smith-Mundt Act
NSC 68
Taft-Hartley Act
dixiecrat
National Security Act (1947)
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthyism
consumerism
Mao Zedong
United Nations
rock-n-roll
Levittown
The Feminine Mystique (1963)
C. Wright Mills
teen delinquency
Sputnik
covert action
Ho Chi Minh
The Affluent Society (1958)
Federal Highway Act (1956)
Landrum-Griffin Act
George Meany
Rebel Without a Cause
“antiimperialism”
American intervention abroad
“military industrial complex”
Chapter 26
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
“the American century”
World Bank
The “iron curtain” speech
Executive Order #9835
Internal Security Act
Atomic diplomacy
Council of Economic Advisers
National Security Council
House Un-American Activities Committee
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
film noir
“zeal for democracy”
Korean War
Atomic Energy Act
Chapter 27
Elvis Presley
Federal Housing Administration
National Defense Education Act (1958)
The Organization Man (1956)
Jonas Salk
The Beats
Nikita Khrushchev
Geneva accord
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
John F. Kennedy
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
Kennnedy’s inaugural address
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro
Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
Lee Harvey Oswald
assassination of Pres. Kennedy
New Frontier
Alliance for Progress
Cuban Missle Crisis
Great Society
Lyndon B. Johnson
Chapter 28
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
E. D. Nixon
To Secure These Rights (1947)
Jackie Robinson
Congress of Racial Equality
Missouri vs. ex.rel. Gaines (1939)
McLaurin vs. OK State Regents
Brown vs. Board of Education (1952)
Kenneth B. Clark
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Little Rock 9
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
John Lewis
Ella Baker
nonviolent civil disobedience
Albany Movement
James Merideth
Eugene “Bull” Conner
Letter From Birmingham Jail
March on Washington
“I have a dream” speech
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
League of United Latin American Citizens “Bloody Sunday”
National Congress of American Indians
Immigration & Nationality Act
Rosa Parks
“freedom ride”
Ralph Bunche
Southern Manifesto
Thurgood Marshall
sit-in
“beloved community”
James Farmer
“jail, not bail”
George Wallace
Bayard Rustin
Freedom Summer
Bob Moses
Elijah Muhammad
“Operation Wetback”
Greensboro sit-in
Chapter 29
Students for a Democratic Society
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Operation Rolling Thunder
Free Speech Movement
counterculture
Black Power Movement
Office of Economic Opportunity
Community Action Program
Watts Uprising (1965)
Tet Offensive
Robert F. Kennedy
1968 Democratic National Convention
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Women’s Liberation Movement
Gay Liberation Movement
United Farm Workers
“Trail of Broken Treaties”
“vietnamization”
My Lai Massacre
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
Pentagon Papers
War Powers Act of 1973
The Port Huron Statement (1962)
Barry Goldwater
William Westmoreland
J. William Fulbright
“summer of love”
“turn on, tune in, drop out”
War on Poverty
The Great Society
Detroit’s “Great Rebellion”
Stokely Carmichael
“the whole world is watching”
“yippies”
Black Power (1967)
American Indian Movement
Sexual Politics (1970)
Chicano
Asian American Political Alliance
George C. Wallace
“peace with honor”
Environmental Protection Agency
“dirty tricks”
Ho Chi Minh
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietcong
Vietnam War
Mario Savio
napalm
The Other America (1962)
Medicare
Kerner Commission
James Earl Ray
Hubert H. Humphrey
Huey P. Newton
“sisterhood is powerful”
La Raza
Stonewall Riot
Cesar Chavez
Richard M. Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Kent State Shooting
Watergate
Spiro T. Agnew
Chapter 30
“born again” Christians
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
“Reaganomics”
sunbelt
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Title VII of Civil Rights Act
deregulation
Affirmative Action
Three Mile Island Incident
Silent Spring (1962)
The Moral Majority
Roe vs. Wade (1973)
The New Right
“the ME decade”
“moonies”
“No More Vietnams”
Camp David Accords
Carter Doctrine
detante
Iran Hostage Crisis
Wealth and Poverty (1981)
Economic Recovery Tax Act (1981)
Bakke vs. University of Califonia (1978)
“celebration of wealth”
“feminization of poverty”
“the evil empire”
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Strategic Defense Initiative
Contras
Iran-Contra Scandal
George H. W. Bush
glasnost
perestrokia
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Chapter 31
9/11
Saddam Hussein
North American Free Trade Agreement
Welfare Reform Act (1996)
“ethnic cleansing”
“electronic culture”
Immigration Reform & Control Act (1986)
Timothy McVeigh
Defense of Marriage Act
“The New Economy”
Global Warming
“war on terror”
weapons of mass destruction
UN Resolution 1441
Persian Gulf War
Gramm-Rudman
World Trade Organization
Bosnia
Silicon Valley
World Wide Web
Osama Bin Laden
multiculturalism
antiabortion movement
bilateralism
Kyoto Protocol
Operation Enduring Freedom
USA Patriot Act (2001)
Abu Ghraib prison
Operation Desert Storm
William J. Clinton
“Contract with America”
Kosovo
Internet
Los Angeles Riots
Branch Davidians
Proposition 187
Whitewater
2000 Election Controversy
globalization
jihad
Al Qaeda
“regime change”