ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
US HISTORY SINCE 1877
HISTORY
Founding principles
historical era
Turning point
Indian policies
Political machine
Civil Service Reform
Populism
political change
Economic change
social change
Industrialization
labor unions
Entrepreneurship
free enterprise
Big business
urbanization
Social Gospel
philanthropy
Immigration
missionaries
American expansionism
world power
Technological innovations
isolationism
Neutrality
Treaty of Versailles
Fourteen Points Plan
reform
Third party movements
Progressive Party
Populist Party
muckrakers
Initiative
referendum
Recall
Social Darwinism
Eugenics
nativism
Red Scare
Prohibition
Allies
Holocaust
Internment
Mobilization
Home Front
Office of War Information
Executive Order 9066
Bataan Death March
Concentration camps
volunteerism
War Bonds
victory gardens
Rationing
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Iron Curtain
NATO
Berlin Airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis
Arms race
space race
McCarthyism
Containment policy
Domino theory
Tet Offensive
Veitnamization
draft
Credibility gap
silent majority
Anti‐war movement
civil rights movement
Black Panthers
desegregation
Normalization
Reaganomics
Détente
entitlement programs
GEOGRAPHY
Physical geographic factors
human geographic factors
Demographic patterns
migration
Immigration
Great Migration
Rust Belt
Sun Belt
ECONOMICS
Economic growth
prosperity
Great Depression
Stock Market speculation
Tariffs
Federal Reserve
New Deal
unemployment
Baby Boom
GI Bill
Great Society
affirmative action
Title IX
unintended consequences
Global interdependence
Free Enterprise system
GOVERNMENT
Political Scandal
Teapot Dome
Watergate
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
USA Patriot Act of 2001
Legislative branch
Executive branch
Judicial branch
Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
strict construction
Judicial interpretation
CITIZENSHIP
American exceptionalism
constitutional republic
Liberty
egalitarianism
Individualism
Populism
Laissez‐faire
lobbying
Non‐violent protests
litigation
Constitutional amendments
civic responsibility
Effective leadership
CULTURE
Tin Pan Alley
Harlem Renaissance
The Beat Generation
rock and roll
Chicano mural movement
country and western music
Global cultural diffusion
Americanization movement
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
Technological innovations
management innovations
Assembly line
time‐study analysis