Advanced Placement United States History
Vocabulary List
Period 7: 1890-1845
For PPT: Internationalism and Imperialism
1. “New Manifest Destiny”
2. Monroe Doctrine
3. Maximilian of Mexico
4. Alaska Purchase Treaty
5. Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Influence of Sea Power upon History
(1890)
6. Social Darwinism, “survival of the fittest”
7. Josiah Strong, Our Country, 1886
8. “yellow journalism,” William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
9. Pan-Americanism
10.Samoan Crisis, Pago Pago
11.Venezuela Boundary Dispute, 1895-96
12.President Grover Cleveland
13.Hawaii
14.Queen Liliuokalani
15.Cuba
16.explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
17.Spanish-American War
18.Teller Amendment
19.Philippines
20.Battle of Manila Bay
21.Emilio Aguinaldo
22.“Rough Riders”
23.Treaty of Paris, 1899
24.Guam
25.Puerto Rico
26.Anti-Imperialist League
27.Insular cases
28.Platt Amendment
29.“splendid little war”
30.Philippines Insurrection
31.William H. Taft, Philippine Commission
32.Open Door Policy
33.“spheres of influence”
34.Open Door Note
35.Secretary of State John Hay
36.Boxer Rebellion
37.President McKinley assassinated
38.President Theodore Roosevelt
39.“Big Stick” policy
40.Panama Canal
41.“gunboat diplomacy”
42.Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
43.Venezuela Crisis, 1900s
44.“Colossus of the North”
45.Russo-Japanese War
46.Treaty of Portsmouth
47.San Francisco School Board Incident
48.“Gentleman’s Agreement,” 1906
49.“Great White Fleet”
50.Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
51.President Woodrow Wilson
52.Panama Canal Tolls Act
53.Jones Act, 1916
54.Jones Act, 1917
55.“Moral Diplomacy”
56.Mexican Revolution
57.“Pancho” Villa
58.General John J. Pershing
For PPT: The Progressive Era I & II
1. Greenback Labor Party
2. Populists
3. Progressives
4. plutocracy
5. political machines
6. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
7. Social Gospel movement
8. Muckrakers
9. Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities
10.Ida Tarbell
11.Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
12.David Phillips, “The Treason of the State”
13.Jane Addams, Hull House
14.Florence Kelley
15.Muller v. Oregon, 1906
16.Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
17.Child Labor Act, 1916
18.Robert La Follette
19.“Wisconsin Experiment”
20.direct primary
21.initiative, referendum, recall
22.direct election of senators
23.17th Amendment
24.Republican “Old Guard”
25.Australian Ballot
26.commission system
27.President Theodore Roosevelt
28.“Square Deal”
29.Anthracite Coal Strike
30.Department of Commerce and Labor
31.Bureau of Corporations
32.Northern Securities Co.
33.trust busting
34.Hepburn Act, 1906
35.Meat Inspection Act, 1906
36.Pure Food and Drug Act, 1906
37.John Muir
38.Sierra Club
39.Gifford Pinchot
40.Newlands Reclamation Act, 1902
41.Panic of 1907
42.President William H. Taft
43.“rule of reason”
44.Bureau of Mines Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1910
45.Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
46.“New Nationalism”
47.“Bull-Moose” Party
48.Election of 1912
49.“New Freedom”
50.President Woodrow Wilson
51.Eugene Debs, Socialist party
52.Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
53.Underwood Tariff Bill, 1913
54.16th Amendment
55.Federal Reserve Act, 1913
56.Federal Trade Commission, 1914
57.Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914
58.Louis Brandeis
59.Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 1923
60.18th Amendment
61.Volstead Act, 1920
62.National American Women’s Suffrage Association
63.Carrie Chapman Catt, “Winning Plan”
64.Alice Paul
65.19th Amendment
66.Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
67.Chicago Race Riot, 1919
68.Ida B. Wells-Barnett
69.Booker T. Washington
70.W. E. B. Du Bois
71.Niagara Movement
72.“talented tenth”
73.NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
74.D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation
75.Ku Klux Klan
76. eugenics
For PPT: World War I
1. Central Powers, Triple Alliance
2. Allies, Triple Entente
3. Britain’s naval blockade
4. President Woodrow Wilson
5. Lusitania
6. Sussex Ultimatum
7. Election of 1816
8. unrestricted submarine warfare
9. Zimmerman Note
10.“Make the world safe for democracy”
11.“War to end all wars”
12.Fourteen Points
13.Creel Committee, Committee on Public Information
14.Espionage Act, 1917
15.Sedition Act, 1918
16.International Workers of the World (IWW)
17.Eugene Debs
18.Schenck v. U.S., 1918
19.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
20.War Industries Board
21.Nineteenth Amendment
22.The “Great Migration”
23.National War Labor Board
24.Herbert Hoover
25.Food Administration
26.voluntary compliance
27.18th Amendment
28.Bond drives, Liberty Loans
29.Selective Service Act
30.Archangel expedition
31.Western Front
32.American Expeditionary Force (AEF)
33.General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing
34.Meuse-Argonne Offensive
35.Paris Peace Conference
36.Big Four
37.League of Nations
38.mandates
39.Article X
40.Article 231
41.“self-determination”
42.Henry Cabot Lodge
43.“Irreconcilables”
44.Lodge Reservations
45.Election of 1920
46.“normalcy”
47.President Warren G. Harding
48. isolationism
For PPT: American Society in the 1920s
1. radical
2. anarchy
3. communism
4. socialism
5. conservative
6. reactionary
7. liberal
8. “Americanism”
9. “Red Scare”
10.Billy Sunday
11.Seattle General Strike
12.Boston Police Strike
13.steel strike
14.United Mine Workers
15.John L. Lewis
16.Palmer Raids
A. Mitchell Palmer
17.American Legion
18.Sacco and Vanzetti case
19.Ku Klux Klan
20.Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith
21.nativism
22.Immigration Act of 1921
23.National Origins Act, 1924
24.Scopes “Monkey” Trial
25.fundamentalism
26.American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
27.Clarence Darrow
28.William Jennings Bryan
29.Prohibition
30.18th Amendment
31.Volstead Act, 1919
32.“bootlegging”
33.Al Capone
34.speakeasies
35.mass-consumption economy
36.Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows
37.“trickle down” tax policies
38.“buy now, pay later”
39.white-collar workers
40.advertising
41.scientific management
42.Frederick W. Taylor
43.assembly line
44.Henry Ford
45.Model-T
46.airplane
47.Wright Brothers
48.Charles Lindbergh
49.Amelia Earhart
50.radio
51.KDKA
52.movies
53.Hollywood
54.Cecil B. De Mille
55.The Jazz Singer
56.welfare capitalism
57.sexual revolution
58.Dr. Sigmund Freud
59.flapper
60.Margaret Sanger
61.Alice Paul
62.Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
63.Jazz
64.Louis Armstrong
65.Harlem Renaissance
66.Langston Hughes
67.Claude McKay
68.Countee Cullen
69.Zora Neale Hurston
70.Marcus Garvey
71.United Negro Improvement Association
72.The “Lost Generation”
73.H. L. Mencken, American Mercury
74.F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise; The Great Gatsby
75.Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy
76.Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms
77.Sinclair Lewis, Main Street; Babbitt
For PPT: The Politics of the 1920s
1. election of 1920
2. isolationism
3. President Warren G. Harding
4. “normalcy”
5. Andrew Mellon, Treasury Secretary
6. Herbert Hoover, Commerce Secretary
7. “trickle-down” economics
8. Fordney-McCumber Tariff
9. trade associations
10.McNary-Haugen Bill
11.Isolationism
12.Election of 1928
13.Al Smith
14.President Herbert Hoover
15.bull market
16.bear market
17.on margin buying of stocks overspeculation
18.Great Crash of 1929 (“Black Tuesday”)
19.overproduction
20.underconsumption
21.runs on banks
22.Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 1930
23.Great Depression
24.deflation
25.“Hoovervilles”
26.Agricultural Marketing Act, 1929
27.Federal Farm Board
28.debt moratorium
29.Reconstruction Finance Corporation
30.Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Act
31.Bonus Army
For PPT: The New Deal
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Eleanor Roosevelt
3. election of 1932
4. 21st Amendment
5. New Deal
6. “Brain Trust”
7. Francis Perkins, Secretary of Labor
8. “First Hundred Days”
9. fireside chats
10.Relief, Recovery, Reform: “3 Rs”
11.“First New Deal”
12.“bank holiday”
13.Emergency Banking Relief Act
14.Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
15.Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
16.Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
17.Securities and Exchange Commission
18.Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
19.Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
20.Harry Hopkins
21.“dole” payments
22.Civilian Works Administration (CWA)
23.Public Works Administration (PWA)
24.Works Progress Administration (WPA)
25.Federal Arts Project
26.National Youth Administration (NYA)
27.Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
28.subsidies
29.Butler v. U.S., 1935
30.Dust Bowl
31.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
32.Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
33.National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
34.Section 7(a)
35.National Recovery Administration (NRA)
36.“Blue Eagle”
37.Schechter v. U.S., 1935
38.Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
39.Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
40.John L. Lewis
41.sit-down strike, Flint Michigan
42.Fair Labor Standards Act
43.Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
44.Federal Housing Authority (FHA)
45.“red-lining”
46.Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
47.Indian Reorganization Act
48.American Liberty League
49.Father Charles Coughlin
50.Huey P. Long, “Share Our Wealth”
51.Dr. Francis Townsend
52.Social Security Act
53.“Second New Deal”
54.1936 elections
55.new Democratic coalition
56.Judiciary Reorganization Bill, 1937
57.“court packing”
58.Recession of 1937-38
59.John Maynard Keynes
60.deficit spending
61.“conservative coalition”
For PPT: Isolationism and the Road to WWII (1920-1941)
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isolationism
Washington Naval Conference
Five-Power Treaty
reparations
Ruhr Crisis
Dawes Plan
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Great Depression
Mexican Oil Crisis
10.Dwight D. Morrow
11.“Good Neighbor” policy
12.Montevideo Conference
13.Buenos Aires Convention
14.Tydings-McDuffie Act
15.Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
16.Secretary of State Cordell Hull
17.totalitarianism
18.fascism
19.Benito Mussolini
20.Adolf Hitler, Nazi Party
21.communism
22.Joseph Stalin
23.Japan’s invasion of Manchuria
24.Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
25.Tripartite Pact: Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
26.Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia
27.London Economic Conference
28.Nye Committee
29.Neutrality Acts
30.“cash and carry”
31.Spanish Civil War
32.Rome-Berlin Axis
33.Panay incident
34.“Quarantine” Speech
35.Neville Chamberlain
36.appeasement
37.pacifism
38.Sudetenland
39.Munich Conference
40.invasion of Czechoslovakia
41.German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
42.invasion of Poland
43.Blitzkrieg
44.Fall of France
45.Battle of Britain
46.German invasion of the Soviet Union
47.Neutrality Act of 1939
48.“Arsenal of Democracy” Speech
49.Havana Conference
50.Destroyer-Bases Deal
51.Winston Churchill
52.Internationalism
53.Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
54.America First Committee
55.Charles Lindbergh
56.election of 1940
57.“Four Freedoms” Speech
58.Lend-Lease Act
59.“shoot on sight” policy
60.Atlantic Charter
61.“Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”
62.Tripartite Pact: Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
63.Hideki Tojo
64.Pearl Harbor
For PPT: The US in World War II
1. Pearl Harbor
2. Home Front
3. WACs
4. WAVES
5. Tuskegee Airmen
6. 442nd Regiment Combat Team
7. Navajo “code talkers”
8. War Production Board (WPD)
9. “Rosie the Riveter”
10.Sunbelt
11.War Labor Board
12.Office of Price Administration (OPA)
13.Smith-Connelly Anti-Strike Act
14.John L. Lewis
15.Manhattan Project
16.J. Robert Oppenheimer
17.Detroit Race Riot
A. Philip Randolph
18.March On Washington Movement
19.FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Commission)
20.Bracero Program
21.Zoot Suit Riots
22.Japanese internment
23.Executive Order 9066
24.Issei
25.Nisei
26.Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
27.Grand Alliance
28.Bataan Death March
29.Battle of Stalingrad
30.Battle of El Alamein
31.“Operation Torch”
32.Dwight D. Eisenhower
33.D-Day, invasion of Normandy
34.Battle of the Bulge
35.Battle of Midway
36.Island Hopping
37.Okinawa
38.Iwo Jima
39.election of 1944
40.death of FDR
41.President Harry Truman
42.Potsdam Conference
43.Hiroshima
44.Nagasaki
45.Casablanca Conference
46.Chang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)
47.Tehran Conference
48.Yalta Conference
49.Holocaust, “Final Solution”