Foundations: Background to American History
American Revolution
Separation of Power
Seventh Amendment
Jonathan Trumbull
Federalism
Eighth Amendment
John Peter
Checks & Balances
Alexis de Tocqueville
Declaration of Independence
Popular Sovereignty
Liberty
Unalienable Rights
Bill of Rights
Eminent Domain
John Hancock
First Amendment
Egalitarianism
Benjamin Rush
Second Amendment
Individualism
Charles Carroll
Third Amendment
Populism
John Witherspoon
Fourth Amendment
Laissez-faire
U.S. Constitution
Fifth Amendment
Limited Government
Sixth Amendment
Industrialization and the Gilded Age:
Bessemer Process
Entrepreneurs
Strike
Transcontinental Railroad
Andrew Carnegie
Knights of Labor
Free Enterprise System
John D. Rockfeller
American Federation of Labor
Corporate
Unions
Samuel Gompers
Urbanization
New Immigrants
Klondike Gold Rush
Demography
Ethnic Ghettos
Homestead Act
Tenement
Nativists
Indian Wars
Political Machine
Americanization
Reservations
Political “bosses”
Chinese Exclusion Act
Dawes Act
Immigration
Frontier
“Push” and “Pull” factors
Great Plains
American Indian Citizenship
Act
American Society in Transition:
The Progressive Era:
Interstate Commerce Act
Upton Sinclair
William H. Taft
William Jennings Bryan
Jane Addams
Woodrow Wilson
Third Parties
W.E.B. DuBois
Federal Reserve Act
Progressive Movement
Seventeenth Amendment
National Park Service
Social Gospel Movement
Theodore Roosevelt
Susan B. Anthony
Muckrakers
Square Deal
Nineteenth Amendment
Foreign Policy
Theodore Roosevelt
Open Door Policy
Spanish-American War
Imperialism
Boxer Rebellion
Joseph Pulitzer
Alfred Thayer Mohan
Panama Canal
William Randolph
Platt Amendment
Big Stick Policy
Yellow Journalism
Queen Liliuokalani
Dollar Diplomacy
De Lôme Letter
Sanford B. Dole
“Watchful Waiting”
U.S.S Maine
John Hay
Pancho Villa
World War 1
Schenck vs. U.S.
Woodrow Wilson
Zimmerman Telegram
American Expeditionary Force
Fourteen Points
Freedom of the Seas
John J. Pershing
Versailles Treaty
Lusitania
Battle of Argonne Forest
Reparations
Sussex Pledge
Alvin York
League of Nations
Submarine Warfare
Trench Warfare
Henry Cabot Lodge
Selective Service Act
U-Boats
Isolationism
America Builds an Empire:
America in WWI:
The “Roaring 20s”:
Roaring Twenties
Henry Ford
Eugenics
“Return to Normalcy”
Prohibition
Flapper
Red Scare
Frances Willard
Tin Pan Alley
Teapot Dome Scandal
Eighteenth Amendment
Great Migration
Warren Harding
Twenty-first Amendment
Harlem Renaissance
Calvin Coolidge
Scopes “Monkey Trail”
Langston Hughes
Herbert Hoover
Clarence Darrow
Marcus Garvey
“Rugged Individualism”
Immigration Acts
Charles Lindbergh
Great Depression
“Hoovervilles”
Civilian Conservation Corps
Herbert Hoover
Fireside Chats
Federal Reserve
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Gold Standard
John Steinbeck
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Fiat Money
Dorothea Lange
National Recovery Adm.
Twenty-second Amendment
Dust Bowl
Baking Crisis
Schechter Poultry vs. U.S.
New Deal
Agric. Adjustment Acts
Court-packing Plan
Adolf Hitler
Tuskegee Airmen
Holocaust
Appeasement
Executive Order 9066
Bataan Death March
Neutrality Acts
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Navajo Code Talker
Flying Tigers
George Patton
Battle of Midway
Pearl Harbor
Dwight Eisenhower
Nuremburg Trials
Rationing
George Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Victory of Gardens
Vernon Baker
Harry Truman
Office of War Information
Omar Bradley
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
Great Depression/New Deal:
World War II:
Cold War & Civil Rights:
Cold War
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Containment Policy
Mao Zedong
Korean War
Sputnik
House Un-American Activities
Committee
Rosenberg Trial
Vernona Papers
“McCarthyism”
Jonas Salk
Civil Rights Movement
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Brown vs. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
Orval Faubus
Lester Maddox
George Wallace
Civil Rights Acts
Affirmative Action
Billy Graham
The 1960s: Protest and Change:
John F. Kennedy
Black Power Movement
White vs. Regester
John Glenn
Black Panthers
Vietnam War
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Chicano Movement
Domino Theory
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hector Garcia
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Lyndon B. Johnson
Cesar Chavez
Vietnamization
Great Society
Dolores Hurerta
Roy Benavidez
Barry Goldwater
Am. Indian Movement
Tet Offensive
Anti-war Movement
Mendez vs. Westminister
Credibility Gap
Feminist Movement
Hernandez vs. Texas
“Silent Majority”
Betty Friedan
Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD
Fall of Saigon
Title IX
Edgewood ISD vs. Kirby
Beat Generation
Crisis and Resurgence 1969-2000:
Richard Nixon
Newt Gingrich
Iran-Contra Affair
Tinker vs. Des Moines
Ronald Reagan
Contract with America
Wisconsin vs. Yoder
Sun Belt
George H.W. Bush
Phyllis Schlafly
Peace Through Strength
Rust Belt
Environmental Protection Act
(EPA)
Star Wars
Persian Gulf War
Reganomics
Bill Clinton
Reagan Doctrine
Impeachment
Sandra Day O’Connor
Hillary Clinton
GATT/WTO
Bill Gates
NAFTA
Sam Walton
Estee lauder
Jimmy Carter
National Rifle Association
(NRA)
Camp David Accords
Heritage Foundation
Iran Hostage Crisis
Moral Majority
Endangered Species Act
Détente
Watergate Scandal
Gerald Ford
OPEC
Robert Johnson
Lionel Sosa
America in the New Millenium:
George W. Bush
Al Gore Jr.
Presidential Election of 2000
September 11, 2001
World Trade Center
Pentagon
Osama bin Laden
Al-Qaeda
Taliban
War on Terror
Department of Homeland
Security
USA Patriot Act
War in Iraq
Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans Levees
Financial Crisis of 2008
Barack Obama
Sonia Sotomayor
Technology/Innovation
J-I-T Production
Robotics
Time-study Analysis
Computer Revolution
Genetic Engineering
Multinational Corp.
Demography
Illegal Immigration