AP US History Terminology
Chapter 1 Terms
Land Bridge
Pueblos
Mesoamerica
Teotihuacan
Aztecs
Tenochtitlan
Incas
Cuzco
Maize
Poverty Point
Cahokia
Chapter 2 Terms
Christopher Columbus
The Renaissance
Ferdinand and Isabella
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Prince Henry the Navigator
Vasco da Gama
Treaty of Tordesillas
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizzaro
St. Augustine
Santa Fe
John Cabot
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Walter Raliegh
King Henry VIII
Puritans
James I
Giovanni da Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Quebec
Henry Hudson
New Netherland
Columbian Exchange
Spanish Armada
Jamestown
Virginia Company (joint stock)
House of Burgesses
John Smith
John Rolfe
Plymouth
The Mayflower Compact
The Massachusetts Bay Company
Chapter 3
Charter Colonies
Corporate Colonies
Royal Colonies
Proprietary Colonies
Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)
Act of Toleration (1649)
Bacon’s Rebellion
Indentured Servants
Headright System
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Thomas Hooker
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Halfway Covenant
New England Confederation
Restoration
Pequot War
King Philip’s War
Salem Witchcraft Trials
Quakers
William Penn
Pueblo Revolt
Chapter 4
Dominion of New England
Sir Edmund Andros
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
King William’s War
Queen Anne’s War
Mercantilism
Navigation Acts
Middle Passage
Stono Rebellion
James Oglethorpe
King George’s War
The Enlightenment
Benjamin Franklin
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Chapter 5
George Washington
Albany Plan
French and Indian War
Salutary Neglect
William Pitt
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
Writs of Assistance
George Grenville
Sugar Act (1764)
Quartering Act (1765)
Stamp Act (1765)
Patrick Henry
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Declaratory Act (1766)
Townshend Acts (1767)
John Dickinson
Massachusetts Circular Letter
Lord North
John Wilkes
Boston Massacre
Committees of Correspondence
Tea Act (1773)
The Gaspee
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable (Coercive) Acts (1774)
Quebec Act (1774)
First Continental Congress
Suffolk Resolves
Governor Thomas Gage
Paul Revere, William Dawes
Lexington and Concord
Bunker Hill
Second Continental Congress
Olive Branch Petition
Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Chapter 6
Patriots
Loyalists, Tories
John Burgoyne
Horatio Gates
Battle of Saratoga
George Rogers Clark
Battle of Yorktown
Treaty of Paris
Abigail Adams
Mary McCauley (Molly Pitcher)
Deborah Sampson
The Articles of Confederation
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Shays’ Rebellion
The Annapolis Convention
The Philadelphia Convention
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
The Virginia Plan
The New Jersey Plan
The Great Compromise
Three-Fifths Compromise
Commercial Compromise
Tariffs
Electoral College System
Ratification
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
The Federalist Papers
Bill of Rights (know each amendment)
Chapter 7
Election of 1788
George Washington
John Adams
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Edmund Randolph
Henry Knox
Judiciary Act of 1789
Report on the Public Credit
Report on the National Bank
Necessary and Proper Clause
The National Gazette
Whiskey Rebellion
French Revolution
Proclamation of Neutrality
“Citizen” Genet
Jay’s Treaty
Pinckney’s Treaty (San Lorenzo)
Treaty of Greenville
Public Land Act (1796)
Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
Election of 1796
Washington’s Farewell Address
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Nullification
Supremacy Clause
Election of 1800
Aaron Burr
Report on the Subject of Manufacturers
“Republican Motherhood”
Indian Trade and Intercourse Acts (1796)
Fugitive Slave Law (1793)
Haitian Slave Revolution
Gabriel’s Rebellion
Cotton Gin
Chapter 8
Jeffersonianism
John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison
The Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon Bonaparte
Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Quids
Aaron Burr
Barbary Pirates
Impressment of US sailors
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
Embargo Act (1807)
Election of 1808
James Madison
Charles Pinckney
Nonintercourse Act (1809)
Macon’s Bill No.2 (1810)
Battle of Tippecanoe
Tecumseh
War Hawks
Election of 1812
Doves
Invasion of Canada
Oliver Perry
William Henry Harrison
“Star Spangled Banner”
Burning of the White House
Battle of New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
“Era of Good Feelings”
McCulloch v. Maryland
Dartmouth v. Woodward
Fletcher v. Peck
Martin v. Hunter’s Lease
Cohens v. Virginia
Gibbons v. Ogden
Election of 1816
James Monroe
Noah Webster
Tariff of 1816
Henry Clay’s American System
The Panic of 1819
Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun
Missouri Compromise
Tallmadge Amendment
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)
Treaty of 1818
Monroe Doctrine
Chapter 9
Market Economy
Lancaster Turnpike
National (Cumberland) Road
Erie Canal
Robert Fulton
Eli Whitney
Samuel Slater
Waltham and Lowell Mills
Five Civilized Tribes
Treaty of Indian Springs (1825)
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Trail of Tears
Black Hawk
Speculators
Squatters
Second Bank of the US
Commonwealth v. Hunt
John Jacob Astor
Five Points District
Richard Allen
African American Episcopal Church
Catharine Beecher
Woman’s “Sphere”
Voluntary Associations
Chapter 10
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Self-made Man”
Political Democratization
Anti-Masonic Party
Spoils System
Election of 1824
“Corrupt Bargain”
Election of 1828
Maysville Road Veto
“Kitchen Cabinet”
Peggy Eaton Affair
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia
Tariff of Abominations
Nullification Crisis
Nicholas Biddle
“Pet Banks”
Specie Circular
Election of 1832
Democratic Party
Whig Party
Election of 1836
Panic of 1837
Independent Treasury Act (1838)
Election of 1840
“Log Cabin” Campaign
Second Great Awakening
Antebellum Period
Revivalism
Charles G. Finney
Peter Cartwright
Unitarianism
Millennialism
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Polygamy
The Shakers
American Temperance Society
Horace Mann
William Holmes McGuffey
American Colonization Society
William Lloyd Garrison
Liberty Party
Frederick Douglass
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
Cult of Domesticity
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention
Dorothea Dix
Thomas Gallaudet
Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
American Peace Society (1828)
Sylvester Graham
Amelia Bloomer
Utopias
New Harmony
Oneida
Fourier Phalanxes
Chapter 11
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Elias Howe
Samuel Morse
“American System of Manufacturing”
New York Stock Exchange
Treatise on Domestic Economy
Epidemics
Crawford Long
William T.G. Morton
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Hydropathy
Grahamism
Phrenology
Penny Press
James Gordon Bennett
Horace Greeley
Astor Place Riot
Minstrel Shows
P.T. Barnum
American Renaissance
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Brook Farm
Hudson River School
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Margaret Fuller
Walt Whitman
The Wide, Wide World
George Catlin
Frederick Law Olmsted
Chapter 12
Upper South
Deep South
King Cotton
Tredegar Iron Works
Plantation Owners
Small Slaveholders
Yeomen
Pine Barrens People (Squatters)
Nat Turner
Virginia Emancipation Legislation
Hinton Helper
George Fitzhugh
Southern Code of Honor
Dueling
Southern Evangelicals
Gang Labor
Southern Free Blacks
Denmark Vesey
Harriet Tubman
Pidgin
Spirituals
Chapter 13
Manifest Destiny
German Immigrants
Irish Immigrants
Nativism
Lyman Beecher
“Know-Nothing” Party
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Texas Revolution
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
Sam Houston
The Alamo
Battle of San Jacinto
Annexation of Texas
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
Willamette Valley
54-40 or Fight
Overland Trails
Election of 1844
John Slidell
Zachary Taylor
Stephen Kearney
John C. Fremont
Battle of Buena Vista
Winfield Scott
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Wilmot Proviso
Ostend Manifesto
Walker Expedition
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)
Gadsden Purchase
Election of 1848
Free-Soil Party
California Gold Rush
Matthew G. Perry
Panic of 1857
Chapter 14
Free Soil Movement
Popular Sovereignty
Zachary Taylor
Stephen A. Douglas
The Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Underground Railroad
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“Wage Slaves”
Election of 1852
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Know-Nothing Party
Republican Party
Election of 1856
Franklin Pierce
Millard Fillmore
John C. Fremont
“Bleeding Kansas”
Sack of Lawrence
John Brown’s Raid
Brooks-Sumner Incident
Lecompton Constitution
Topeka Constitution
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Lincoln-Douglass Debates
Freeport Doctrine
Harper’s Ferry
John C. Brekinridge
William H. Seward
Constitutional Union Party
Election of 1860
Secession
Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Crittenden Compromise
Fort Sumter
Chapter 15
Conscription Act
Impressment Act
Enrollment Act
Legal Tender Act
National Bank Act
Morrill Tariff Act (1861)
Radical Republicans
Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
Anaconda Plan
First Battle of Bull Run
Peninsula Campaign
Second Battle of Bull Run
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Monitor v. Merrimac
Ulysses S. Grant
David Farragut
Trent Affair
Confederate Raiders
“Cotton Diplomacy”
First Confiscation Act
Second Confiscation Act
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Army of the Potomac
Sherman’s March
Election of 1864
Appomattox
John Wilkes Booth
Ex Parte Milligan
Freedman’s Bureau
New York City Draft Riots
US Sanitary Commission
Clara Barton
Women’s National Loyal League
Thirteenth Amendment
Chapter 16
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Freedman’s Bureau
Andrew Johnson
Thirteenth Amendment
Black Codes
Election of 1866
Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Fourteenth Amendment
Joint Committee Report (1866)
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Impeachment of Johnson
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Election of 1868
Fifteenth Amendment
Susan B. Anthony
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Hiram Revels
Sharecropping
Crop-Lien Economy
Grantism
Liberal Republicans
Jay Gould
Credit Mobilier
Whiskey Ring
Election of 1872
Panic of 1873
Greenbacks
Greenback Party
Slaughterhouse Cases
US v. Reece
US v. Cruikshank
“Redeemers”
“Exodusters”
Ku Klux Klan
Enforcement Acts (1871)
Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)
Amnesty Act (1872)
Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
Chapter 17
“Mountain Men”
“Great American Desert”
Homestead Act (1862)
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Mining Towns
Cattle Drives
Cattle Towns
Joseph G. McCoy
Bonanza Farms
Oklahoma Land Rush
Curtis Act (1898)
Frederick Jackson Turner
Plains Indians
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody
Reservation Policies
Fort Laramie Treaty
Sand Creek Massacre
Black Hills
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Battle of Little Bighorn
Battle of Wounded Knee
Chief Joseph
Assimilation
Helen Hunt Jackson
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Ghost Dance Movement
Transcontinental Railroad
US v. Reynolds
Edmunds-Tucker Act (1887)
Las Gorras Blancas
Dime-Novel Hero
Wild West Show
Owen Wister
National Parks Movement
John Muir
Chapter 18
The “Gilded Age”
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan
Jay Gould
Industrial Revolution
Henry Bessemer
Andrew Carnegie
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Edwin Drake
John D. Rockefeller
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
US v. EC Knight
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Adam Smith
Social Darwinism
William Graham Sumner
Herbert Spencer
Lester Frank Ward
Henry George
Karl Marx
Gospel of Wealth
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Wabash v. Illinois
Alexander Graham Bell
Samuel Morse
Cyrus W. Field
George Eastman
Thomas Edison
George Westinghouse
Horatio Alger
Lockout
Blacklist
Yellow Dog Contract
Injunctions
Great Railroad Strike (1877)
National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Square Bombing (1886)
American Federation of Labor
Homestead Strike (1892)
Pullman Strike (1894)
Henry W. Grady
Cotton-Mill Economy
“Separate Spheres”
Charles Crocker
Samuel Gompers
Eugene V. Debs
Chapter 19
“Pushes” and “Pulls”
“Old” Immigrants
“New” Immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Statue of Liberty
Streetcars
Brooklyn Bridge
Frederick Law Olmsted
Political Machine
Boss William Tweed
Thomas Nast
Settlement House Movement
Social Gospel Movement
Salvation Army
Josephine Lowell Shaw
Jane Addams
Florence Kelley
Walter Rauschenbusch
NAWSA
WCTU
Frances E. Willard
Anthony Comstock
Richard T. Ely
Mark Twain
William Dean Howells
Stephen Crane
Jack London
Theodore Dreiser
Winslow Homer
Mary Cassatt
“Ashcan School”
Henry Hobson Richardson
Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Daniel Burnham
John Philip Sousa
Jelly Roll Morton
Scott Joplin
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
John L. Sullivan
Victorian Morality
Henry Ward Beecher
E.L. Godkin
Catharine Beecher
The “woman’s sphere”
Department Store
R.H. Macy
Marshall Field
Frank Woolworth
Leland Stanford
William Torrey Harris
Research University
Vaudeville
Coney Island
Chapter 20
Waving the “Bloody Shirt”
Solid South
Mugwumps
James Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Pendleton Act (1881)
Election of 1884
Grover Cleveland
Gold Standard
James B. Weaver
Coinage of Silver
Election of 1888
Billion-dollar Congress
McKinley Tariff (1890)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
George Washington Carver
Farmers’ Southern Alliance
Colored Farmers’ National Alliance
National Grange Movement
Granger Laws
Munn v. Illinois
Omaha Platform
Populist Party
Election of 1892
Panic of 1893
Wilson-Gorman Tariff (1894)
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust
Coxey’s Army
William H. Harvey
Election of 1896
William Jennings Bryan
“Cross of Gold” Speech
William McKinley
“Gold Bug” Democrats
Dingley Tariff (1897)
Lynching
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Jim Crow Laws
Ida B. Wells
Henry Turner
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
William H. Seward
Napoleon III
“Seward’s Folly”
“New Imperialism”
International Darwinism
Josiah Strong
Henry Cabot Lodge
Alfred T. Mahan
James G. Blaine
Pan-American Conference (1889)
Richard Olney
Spanish-American War
Jingoism
Valeriano Weyler
“Yellow Journalism”
De Lome letter (1898)
The U.S.S. Maine
Teller Amendment (1898)
“Splendid Little War”
George Dewey
Rough Riders
Queen Lil
Treaty of Peace (1898)
Emilio Aguinaldo
Insular Cases
Platt Amendment (1901)
Election of 1900
Chapter 21
Progressivism
Charles Darwin
Frederick W. Taylor
Muckrakers
Henry Demarest Lloyd
McClure’s Magazine
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Jacob Riis
Theodore Dreiser
Frank Norris
Thorstein Veblen
Henry James
Herbert Croly
Jane Addams
John Dewey
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Maria Van Vorst
Lewis Hine
Hiram Johnson
Secret Ballot
Robert La Follette
Seventeenth Amendment
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Samuel Jones
Tom L. Johnson
Commission Government
Council-Manager Government
Charles Evans Hughes
Orville and Wilbur Wright
American Social Hygiene Association (1914)
Mann Act (1910)
Anti-Saloon League
Prohibition
Federal Narcotics Act (1914)
Eugenics
Madison Grant
The Birth of A Nation
NAACP
“Brownsville Incident”
Ida Wells-Barnett
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Niagara Movement
National Urban League
Carrie Chapman Catt
National American Women’s Suffrage Association
Emma Goldman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Margaret Sanger
National Woman’s Party
Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
American Federation of Labor
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
ILGWU
IWW
Theodore Roosevelt
“Square Deal”
Coal Strike of 1902
“Trustbusting”
Elkins Act (1903)
Hepburn Act (1906)
Upton Sinclair
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Forrest Reserve Act (1901)
Newlands Reclamation Act (1902)
Gifford Pinchot
William Howard Taft
Bureau of Mines
Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
Sixteenth Amendment
Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy
Joe Cannon
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party
Election of 1912
Progressive Party
Woodrow Wilson
“New Freedom”
Underwood Tariff (1913)
Federal Reserve Act (1914)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Farm Loan Act (1916)
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916)
Louis Brandeis
Chapter 22
“Spheres of Influence”
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Open Door Policy
John Hay
“Big-Stick” Diplomacy
Panama Revolution
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (1901)
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
Russo-Japanese War
Treaty at Portsmouth (1905)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1908)
Great White Fleet
Root-Takahira Agreement (1908)
Second International Peace Conference (1907)
“Dollar Diplomacy”
The Lodge Corollary
“Moral Diplomacy”
Jones Act (1916)
Puerto Rico Act (1917)
Victoriano Huerta
Tampico Incident (1914)
Venustiano Carranza
Pancho Villa
John J. Pershing
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Willhelm I
Neutrality
Allied Powers
Central Powers
U-Boats
The Lusitania Crisis
The Arabic
The Sussex
“Preparedness”
National Security League
National Defense Act (1916)
Election of 1916
“He Kept Us Out of War”
Colonel Edward House
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Zimmerman Telegram
Russian Revolution
Declaration of War (1917)
War Industries Board
Food Administration
Fuel Administration
National War Labor Board
Liberty Bonds
George Creel
William McAdoo
American Protective League
Espionage and Sedition Acts (1918)
Schenck v. US
Selective Service Act (1917)
Bolsheviks
Convoy System
American Expeditionary Force
George M. Cohan
Battle of Chateau-Thierry
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Armistice (1918)
Fourteen Points
Self-Determination
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
David Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau
Vittorio Orlando
Irreconcilables
Reservationists
Demobilization
The Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Strikes of 1919
Chicago Race Riots (1919)
Influenza Pandemic (1918)
Eighteenth Amendment
Chapter 23
Roaring Twenties
Henry Ford
Model T
Assembly Lines
Election of 1920
Warren G. Harding
Normalcy
“Old Guard” Republicans
Charles Evans Hughes
Andrew Mellon
William Howard Taft
Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922)
Bureau of the Budget
Albert B. Fall
Teapot Dome Scandal
Harry M. Daugherty
Calvin Coolidge
Election of 1924
Robert La Follette
Alfred E. Smith
“Trickle-down” Theory
McNary-Haugen Bill (1928)
Election of 1928
Herbert Hoover
Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930)
Washington Naval Arms Conference (1921)
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
Dawes Plan (1924)
Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
Nineteenth Amendment
John L. Lewis
Open Shops
Electrification
The Jazz Age
Saturday Evening Post
Reader’s Digest
NBC and CBS
Greta Garbo
Rudolf Valentino
Mary Pickford
The Jazz Singer
Steamboat Willie
Babe Ruth
Ty Cobb
Jack Dempsey
Jim Thorpe
Bobby Jones
Charles Lindbergh
Sigmund Freud
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flapper
H.L. Mencken
Sinclair Lewis
Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Eugene O’Neill
Gertrude Stein
Frank Lloyd Wright
Functionalism
Edward Hopper
Georgia O’Keefe
Charles Sheeler
Aaron Copeland
George Gershwin
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Fats Waller
“Jelly Roll” Morton
Modernism
Fundamentalism
Creationism
Revivalists
Billy Sunday
Aimee Semple McPherson
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Bessie Smith
Paul Robeson
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. Du Bois
National Origins Act (1924)
The Scopes Trial
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Ku Klux Klan
Prohibition
Al Capone
Speakeasies
Bootleggers
Chapter 24
Great Depression
Black Thursday
Black Tuesday
Installment Buying
Federal Farm Board
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
“Hoover Valley”
Farm Holiday Association
Bonus Army March
Election of 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Deal
The Brain Trust
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rexford G. Tugwell
Adolf A. Berle
Florence Kelley
Frances Perkins
Harold Ickes
Bank Holiday (1933)
Twenty-first Amendment (1933)
Fireside Chats
The First Hundred Days
Emergency Relief Banking Act (1933)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1933)
Home Owners Loan Corporation (1933)
Farm Credit Administration (1933)
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (1933)
Public Works Administration (1933)
Civilian Conservation Corps (1933)
Tennessee Valley Authority (1933)
National Recovery Administration (1933)
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1933)
Civil Works Administration (1933)
Securities and Exchange Commission (1933)
Federal Housing Administration (1933)
The Second New Deal
Works Progress Administration (1935)
Harry Hopkins
Resettlement Administration (1935)
National Labor Relations Act (1935)
Rural Electrification Administration (1935)
Social Security Act (1935)
Election of 1936
American Liberty League
Father Charles Coughlin
Francis E. Townsend
Huey Long
Court-packing bill (1937)
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Recession of 1937
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
John Maynard Keynes
Dust Bowl
Fair Employment Practices Committee (1941)
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
John Collier
“Scottsboro Boys”
Chapter 25
Isolationism
“Good Neighbor” Policy
Pan-American Conferences
London Economic Conference (1933)
Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934)
Manchuria Crisis
Stimson Doctrine
Benito Mussolini and the Fascists
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
Nye Committee
Neutrality Acts (1935, 1936, 1937)
Spanish Civil War (1936)
America First Committee
Appeasement
Invasion of Ethiopia (1935)
Militarizing the Rhineland (1936)
Invasion of China (1937)
Anschluss of Austria (1938)
Sudetenland (1938)
Munich Pact (1938)
Nonaggression Pact (1939)
Invasion of Poland (1939)
Blitzkrieg
“Cash and Carry” Policy
Selective Service Act (1940)
Destroyers-for-Bases Deal (1940)
Winston Churchill
Election of 1940
Wendell Willkie
Four Freedoms
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Atlantic Charter
Shoot-on-Sight Policy
Axis Powers
Hideki Tojo
Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Smith-Connally Act (1943)
Braceros
CORE
A. Phillip Randolph
Korematsu v. US
Japanese Internment Camps
“Rosie the Riveter”
Office of War Information
Election of 1944
Thomas Dewey
Battle of the Atlantic
Operation Torch
Dwight Eisenhower
Invasion of Sicily
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
VE-Day
Holocaust
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Island Hopping Strategy
Douglas McArthur
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Kamikaze
Battle of Okinawa
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
VJ Day
Casablanca Conference
Tehran Conference
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
Joseph Stalin
Harry Truman
United Nations
Chapter 26
GI Bill of Rights (1944)
Baby Boom
William J. Levitt
Sunbelt
Harry Truman
Employment Act of 1946
Committee on Civil Rights (1946)
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Eightieth Congress
Twenty-second Amendment (1951)
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Election of 1948
Dixiecrats
The Fair Deal
Cold War
Satellite States
Iron Curtain
George F. Kennan
Containment Policy
Walter Lippmann
The Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan
The Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
National Security Act (1947)
Arms Race
Douglas McArthur
US-Japanese Security Treaty (1951)
Chiang Kai-shek
Mao Zedong
Taiwan
Korean War
Truman-McArthur Conflict
“Limited War”
Second Red Scare
Loyalty Review Board
Dennis v. US (1951)
McCarran Internal Security Act (1950)
HUAC
Alger Hiss
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Joseph McCarthy
Army-McCarthy hearings
Chapter 27
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Election of 1952
“The Mess in Washington”
Checkers Speech
Modern Republicanism
Dynamic Conservatism
McCarthyism
Interstate Highway Act (1956)
The Election of 1956
John Foster Dulles
Brinkmanship
Covert Actions
Allen Dulles
Korean Armistice (1953)
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
Domino Theory
SEATO
The Suez Crisis
Eisenhower Doctrine
OPEC
The “Spirit of Geneva” (1955)
Nikita Khrushchev
Hungarian Revolt (1956)
Sputnik
National Defense and Education Act (1958)
NASA
Second Berlin Crisis (1958)
U-2 Incident
Fidel Castro
Military Industrial Complex
Civil Rights Movement
Jackie Robinson
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Southern Manifesto
Thurgood Marshall
Earl Warren
Little Rock Nine
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1960
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
SNCC
Television
Records
Elvis Presley
AFL-CIO
Disneyland (1955)
Baby and Child Care by Benjamin Spock
“Beatniks”
ENIAC
Billy Graham
“I Love Lucy”
Bracero Program
Chapter 28
John F. Kennedy
The Election of 1960
Richard Nixon
New Frontier
Robert McNamara
Robert Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
“Camelot Years”
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962)
Peace Corps
Trade Expansion Act (1962)
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Hot Line
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Flexible Response
Green Berets
Kennedy Assassination (1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Other America by Michael Harrington (1962)
Office of Economic Opportunity
Job Corps
The Election of 1964
Barry Goldwater
Great Society
Medicare and Medicaid
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Immigration Act of 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965
James Meredith
George Wallace
March on Washington (1963)
March to Montgomery (1965)
Malcolm X
Black Power
Stokely Carmichael
Kerner Commission
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination (1968)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Reapportionment
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Yates v. US (1957)
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
American Indian Movement
Cesar Chavez
Asian-American Political Alliance
NOW
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Equal Pay Act (1963)
“The Pill”
Vietnam War
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
Operation Rolling Thunder
Search-and-destroy Tactics
William Westmoreland
Hawks v. Doves
Chapter 29
Students for a Democratic Society
Port Huron Statement
New Left
“Hippies”
LSD
Woodstock
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Sexual Revolution
Gay Liberation Movement
Equal Rights Amendment (1973)
Phyllis Schlafly
Kent State and Jackson State
Tet Offensive
Robert Kennedy Assassination
Hubert Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
“Yippies”
The Election of 1968
Democratic Convention in Chicago
George Wallace
Richard Nixon
“Peace with Honor”
Henry Kissinger
“Vietnamization”
Nixon Doctrine
My Lai Massacre
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Paris Accords (1973)
Détente
Nixon’s Visit to China
SALT I
Shuttle Diplomacy
Realpolitik
New Federalism
Family Assistance Plan
Stagflation
“Silent Majority”
Warren Burger
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Neil Armstrong
Clean Air Act (1970)
EPA
The Election of 1972
George McGovern
“Deep Throat”
CREEP
The Watergate Scandal
War Powers Act (1973)
Yom Kippur War (1973)
Chapter 30
Gerald Ford
Pardoning of Nixon
Fall of Saigon (1975)
Cambodia Genocide (1975)
WIN
Bicentennial (1976)
The Election of 1976
Jimmy Carter
Human Rights Diplomacy
Panama Canal Treaty (1978)
Camp David Accords (1978)
Iran Hostage Crisis (1979)
SALT II (1979)
Olympic Boycott (1980)
Alaska Lands Act (1980)
Three Mile Island (1979)
Taxpayers’ Revolt (1978)
Indian Self-Determination Act (1975)
Moral Majority
Regents of UC v. Bakke (1978)
Election of 1980
Conservatism
William Buckley
AIDS
Pro-Life Movement
Affirmative Action
Jerry Folwell
Pat Robertson
“Reaganomics” or Supply-side Economics
Deregulation
PATCO incident
“Yuppies”
Sandra Day O’ Connor
William Rehnquist
Jesse Jackson
Election of 1984
Walter Mondale
Geraldine Ferraro
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget Act (1985)
Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)
Chernobyl Explosion (1986)
Strategic Defense Initiative or “Star Wars”
The “Contras”
Invasion of Grenada (1983)
Iran-Contra Affair
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yassir Arafat
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
INF Agreement (1987)
Chapter 31
The Election of 1988
George H. Bush
Michael Dukakis
Dan Quayle
Tiananmen Square
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
CIS
START I and II
Invasion of Panama
Saddam Hussein
Persian Gulf War (1990)
Operation Desert Storm
Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill
Savings and Loans Crisis
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (1989)
Twenty-Seventh Amendment (1992)
Election of 1992
William J. Clinton
Ross Perot
Madeleine K. Albright
Hillary R. Clinton
Family and Medical Leave Act (1993)
Voter-Motor Law (1993)
Brady Bill (1993)
Anti-Crime Bill (1994)
NAFTA
Congressional Elections of 1994
Christian Coalition
Newt Gingrich and the “Contract with America”
Oklahoma City Bombing (1995)
Welfare Reform Act (1996)
Election of 1996
Bob Dole
E-Commerce
Impeachment of Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
Boris Yeltsin
Chechnya
Balkan Wars
Kosovo
Solobodan Milosevic
Yitzhak Rabin
Osama Bin Laden
Globalization
World Trade Organization
International Monetary Fund
European Union
Election of 2000
Al Gore
George W. Bush
Chapter 32
Richard Cheney
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Donald Rumsfeld
No Child Left Behind Act
September 11th
War on Terror
Al Qaeda
Afghanistan War
Homeland Security Department
Patriot Act (2001)
Iraq War
Election of 2004
John Kerry
Tom DeLay
John Roberts
Guantanamo Bay
Hurricane Katrina
FEMA
Financial Crisis of 2007
Global Warming
Kyoto Accords
Election of 2008
Barack Obama
John McCain
Sarah Palin
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)
AP US History Vocabulary
For each term make sure to know both the definition and the significance with relation to its time
period. Why is the term important to AP US History?
Chapter 1 Terms
Land Bridge
Pueblos
Mesoamerica
Teotihuacan
Aztecs
Tenochtitlan
Incas
Cuzco
Maize
Poverty Point
Cahokia
Chapter 2 Terms
Christopher Columbus
The Renaissance
Ferdinand and Isabella
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
John Calvin
Prince Henry the Navigator
Vasco da Gama
Treaty of Tordesillas
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizzaro
St. Augustine
Santa Fe
John Cabot
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Walter Raliegh
King Henry VIII
Puritans
James I
Giovanni da Verrazano
Jacques Cartier
Samuel de Champlain
Quebec
Henry Hudson
New Netherland
Columbian Exchange
Spanish Armada
Jamestown
Virginia Company (joint stock)
House of Burgesses
John Smith
John Rolfe
Plymouth
The Mayflower Compact
The Massachusetts Bay Company