Units 5 & 6 Vocabulary
Part I: Reconstruction, Rise of Industrial America, Growth of Cities- DUE FEBRUARY 21st
Part II: National Politics in the Gilded Age, Progressive Era, WWI- DUE MARCH 7th
Directions: You need to know all of the terms on this list to be successful on the AP Exam. However, you ONLY need to define
the words that are bolded under each heading. Remember to define the word and explain the word’s significance. You must
fully define the word; in most cases a sentence will not be sufficient.
Civil War (Review)
1. Fort Sumter
2. Executive Power
3. Habeas Corpus
4. Insurrection
5. Border states
6. Confederate States of America
7. Jefferson Davis
8. Alexander H. Stephens
9. Bull Run (Manassas)
10. Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson
11. Winfield Scott
12. Anaconda Plan
13. George McClellan
14. Robert E. Lee
15. Antietam
16. Fredericksburg
17. Monitor and Merrimac
18. Ulysses S. Grant
19. Shiloh
20. David Farragut
21. Trent Affair
22. Alabama
23. Confiscation Acts
24. Emancipation Proclamation
25. 13th Amendment
26. Gettysburg
27. Vicksburg
28. Sherman’s March to the Sea
29. Election of 1864
30. Appomattox Court House
31. John Wilkes Booth
32. Copperheads
33. Ex Parte Milligan
34. Draft Riots
35. Green backs
36. Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
37. Homestead Act (1862)
38. Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
39. Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Reconstruction
1. Presidential Reconstruction
2. Proclamation of Amnesty and
Reconstruction (1863)
3. Wade Davis Bill (1864)
4. Andrew Johnson
5. Freedmen’s Bureau
6. Black Codes
7. Congressional Reconstruction
8. Radical Republicans
9. Charles Sumner
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Equal Protection of the laws
Due process of law
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Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Edwin Stanton
Impeachment
15th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Blanche K. Bruce
Hiram Revels
Sharecropping
Spoilsmen
Patronage
Jay Gould
Credit Mobilier
Boss Tweed and Tweed Ring
Thomas Nast
Liberal Republicans
Horace Greeley
Panic of 1873
Greenbacks
Redeemers
Ku Klux Klan
Force Act (1870, 1871)
Amnesty Act of 1872
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden
Compromise of 1877
The Last West and New South
Packet
Chinese Exclusion Act
Frederick Jackson Turner
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Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
George Custer
Little Bighorn
Helen Hunt Jackson
Dawes Act
Wounded Knee
George Washington Carver
Tuskegee Insititute
Segregation
Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Grandfather clause
Poll tax
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Literacy test
Ida B. Wells
Booker T. Washington
Munn v. Illinois
Interstate Commerce Act
Grange Movement
Rise of Industrial America
1. Cornelius Vanderbilt
2. Transcontinental railroad
3. Pools
4. Panic of 1893
5. JP Morgan
6. Interlocking directorates
7. Bessemer process
8. Andrew Carnegie
9. Vertical integration
10. John D. Rockefeller
11. Horizontal integration
12. Sherman Antitrust Act
13. Laissez-faire capitalism
14. Social Darwinism
15. Gospel of Wealth
16. Samuel F. B. Morse
17. Alexander Graham Bell
18. Thomas Edison
19. George Westinghouse
20. Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery
Ward
21. Horatio Alger
22. Scab
23. Lockout
24. Blacklist
25. Yellow dog contract
26. Great Strike of 1877
27. National Labor Union
28. Knights of Labor
29. Terrence Powderly
30. Haymarket bombing
31. American Federation of
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32. Samuel Gompers
33. Homestead strike
34. Pullman strike
35. Eugene V. Debs
Growth of Cities
1. Columbian Exposition
2. “old” immigrants
3. “new” immigrants
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5. Ellis Island
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Frederic Law Olmsted
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Henry George
Edward Bellamy
Jane Addams
Salvation Army
Women’s Christian
Temperance Union
John Hopkins University
W.E.B. DuBois
Jack London
Ashcan School
Louis Sullivan
Jazz
Jelly Roll Morton
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Melting pot
National Politics in the Gilded Age
1. Gilded Age
2. Roscoe Conkling
3. Stalwarts
4. Half-breeds
5. Mugwumps
6. Rutherford B. Hayes
7. James Garfield
8. Chester A. Arthur
9. Grover Cleveland
10. Pendleton Act
11. Bland-Allison Act
12. Benjamin Harrison
13. McKinley Tariff
14. Populist Party
15. Omaha platform
16. William Jennings Bryan
17. William McKinley
Progressive Era
1. Progressive Movement
2. John Dewey
3. Fredrick Taylor
4. Scientific management
5. Muckrakers
6. Lincoln Steffens
7. Ida Tarbell
8. Jacob Riis
9. Australian ballot
10. Robert LaFolette
11. 17th Amendment
12. initiative
13. referendum
14. recall
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17. Anthracite Coal Strike
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Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Conservation
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Gifford Pinchot
William H. Taft
Mann-Elkins Act
16th Amendment
Payne Aldrich Tariff
Bull Moose Party
Underwood Tariff
Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Niagara Movement
NAACP
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
19th Amendment
Imperialism
William Seward
Alaska
“New Imperialism”
Josiah Strong
Alfred T. Mahan
James Blaine
Cuba
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Valeriano Weyler
yellow journalism
Spanish-American War
De Lome Letter
USS Maine
Teller Amendment
Philippines
Teddy Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Hawaii (Queen Liliuokalani)
Puerto Rico
Guam
Emilio Aguinaldo
Anti-Imperialist League
Platt Amendment
John Hay
Spheres of influence
Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
Big Stick Policy
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
Russo-Japanese War
Gentlemen’s agreement
William Howard Taft
Dollar Diplomacy
Henry Cabot Lodge
Woodrow Wilson
New Freedom
Jones Act
Pancho Villa
John J. Pershing
World War I
1. neutrality
2. unrestricted submarine
warfare
3. Lusitania
4. Sussex pledge
5. Allied Powers
6. Central Powers
7. propaganda
8. Jeanette Rankin
9. Zimmerman telegram
10. Russian Revolution
11. George Creel
12. Espionage and Sedition Acts
13. Schenck v. U.S.
14. Selective Service Act
15. 14 Points
16. Treaty of Versailles
17. “Big Four”
18. League of Nations
19. Red Scare
20. Palmer Raids
21. Emma Goldman
22. Strikes
23. Race Riots