Advanced Placement
United States History
Key Terms and Concepts (KTCs)
Battle of Lake Erie by William H. Powell.
Shows Oliver Hazard Perry during the Battle of Lake Erie-1813,
transferring from the Lawrence to the Niagara
Chapter 1: Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, & America, 1450-1620
Key Terms and Concepts
Amerigo Vespucci
Hernan Cotres
Aztecs
Hopewell Culture
Bartholomeu Dias
John Calvin
Christopher Columbus
Martin Luther
civic humanism
Mayans
Conquistadors
Mesoamerica
Eastern Woodland Peoples
Mississippian Civilization
Elizabeth I (England)
Moors: Spain
Enclosure Acts
Nicolo Machiavelli
European Renaissance
Outwork
Ferdinand Magellan
Price Revolution
Ferdinand of Aragon & Isabel of Castile
Prince Henry the Navigator
Fransico Pizarro
Protestant Reformation
Gentry
Pueblo Peoples
Giovanni de Verrazano
Triangle Trade (slavery)
Great Biological Exchange/Columbian Exchange Vasco de Balboa
Henry VIII (England)
Chapter 2: Worlds Collide: Europe, Africa, & America, 1450-1620
Key Terms and Concepts
"City on a Hill"
Lord Baltimore
"Peaceable Kingdom"
Lost Colony of Roanoke
Albany Plan of Union
Marflower Compact
Algonquian Peoples
Maryland Toleration Act-1649
Anne Hutchinson
Massachusettes Bay Colony
Bacon's Rebellion'New Amsterdam
Metacom's Rebellion
Chesapeake Colonies
Middle Colonies
Dominion of New England
New England Colonies
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Pequot War
George Whitefield
Predestination
Headright System
Puritans
Henry Hudson
Restoration Colonies
Huron
Robert de la Salle
Indentures
Roger Williams
Iroquois Confederation
Salem Witch Trials
Jamestown
Samuel de Champlain
Jesuits
Society of Friends
John Peter Zenger
St. Lawrence Valley
John Winthrop
Treaty of Tordesillas
Jonathan Edwards
Virginia Company
King Phillip's War
Virginia House of Burgesses
Line of Demarcation
William Bradford
Chapter 3: The British Empire in North Ameica, 1660-1750 &
Chapter 4: Growth & Crisis in Colonial Society, 1720-1765
Key Terms and Concepts
"New Light Churches"
Navigation Acts
Battle of Quebec
Nort & South Carolina Regulators
Benjamin Franklin
Paxton Boys
Deism
Pietism
Dominion of New England
Pontiac's Rebellion
Enlightenment
Proclamation of 1763
Freehold Society-New England
Robert Pearle
Glorious Revolution-1688
Salutary Neglect
Great Awakening
Scots-Irish
Gullah People/Dialect
Seven Years War/French & Indian War
Household Mode of Production
Shawnee
Marriage Portion
South Atlantic System
Mennonites
Southern Gentry
Mercantilism
Western Reserve
Middle Passage
William Penn
Molasses Act
William Pitt
Chapter 6: The New Political Order, 1776-1800
Key Terms and Concepts
Admiral de Grasse
Articles of Confederation
Baron von Steuben
Battle of Guilford's Court House
Battle of King's Mountain
Battle of Monmouth
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Yorktown
Benedict Arnold
Benjamin Franklin (role during Revolution)
Bunker Hill/Breed's Hill
Charles Cornwallis
Common Sense
Comte de Rochambeau
Continental Army
Count de Rochambeau
Declaration of Independence
Fort Ticonderoga
Francis Marion
Franco-American Alliance of 1778
Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
Hessians
Joseph Brant
Kazimierz Pulaski
Lexington & Concord
Lord Dunmore
Loyalists (Tories)
manumission
Marquis de Lafayette
Molly Pitcher
Nathaniel Greene
Olive Branch Petition
Patriots (Rebels)
Peace of Paris, 1783
Regulators
Thomas Paine
Valley Forge, PA
Chapter 7: The New Political Order, 1776-1800
Key Terms and Concepts
"Elastic Clause"
"Midnight Judges"
"Supremacy Clause"
"XYZ Affair"
3/5 Compromise
Alexander Hamilton
Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798
antifederalists
Bank of the United States
Bill of Rights
Connecticut/Great Compromise
Democratic-Republicans
Edmond Genet
Excise Tax
Federalist Papers
federalists
Federalists
James Madison
Jay's Treaty
John Jay
Judiciary Act of 1789
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
National Debt: 1790s (Hamilton's view)
Naturalization Act, 1790
New Jersey Plan
Notes on the State of Virginia
Panic of 1797
Party System: 1790s
Pinckney's Treaty
Protective Tariff
Quasi-French War
Report on Manufactures, 1791
Report on Public Credit, 1790
Strict vs. Loose Construction
Virginia Plan
Whisky Rebellion
Chapter 8: Dynamic Change: Western Settlement &
Eastern Capitalism, 1790-1820
Key Terms and Concepts
"Burr Conspiracy"
Henry Clay
"Mr. Madison's War"
impressment
"Turnpike Era"
James Fenimore Cooper
Aaron Burr
John C. Calhoun
Adams-Onis Treaty
John Marshall
Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
Battle of Lake Erie
Judicial Review
Battle of New Orleans
Judiciary Act of 1801
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Clermont
Macon's Bill No. 2
Daniel Webster
Marbury v. Madison, 1803
Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 1819
National Road
Election of 1800
Non-Intercourse Act
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
Embargo Act of 1807
Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)
Erie Canal
Sacagawea
First Seminole War (1817-1818)
Tecumseh
Fletcher v. Peck, 1810
The Prophet, Tenskwatawa
Francis Scott Key
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Gen. William Henry Harrison
War Hawks
Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824
Washington Irving
Hartford Convention
Zebulon Pike
Chapter 11: A Democratic Revolution, 1820-1844
Key Terms and Concepts
1832 Tariff
Albany Regency
Alexis de Tocqueville
American System
Anti-Masonsonic movement
Aroostock War (1842)
Black Hawk War (1832)
Charles River Bridge v. Warren (1837)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1830)
compact theory of government
Corrupt Bargain
Distribution Act (1836)
Door Rebellion (1842)
egalitarianism
Era of the Common Man
Five Civilized Tribes
Force Bill (1830)
Freemasons
Great Triumvirate
hard money [specie]
Independent Treasury Act
Indian Intercourse Act (1834)
Indian Removal Act of (1830)
infrastructure
Jacksonian Democracy
King Andrew
Kitchen Cabinet
Log Cabin & Hard Cider campaign
Maysville Road Bill
Maysville Road veto
National-Republicans
Nicholas Biddle
Old Hickory
Old Kinderhook
Panic of 1837
Peggy Eaton Affair
Pet Banks
Reign of King Mob
Roger B. Taney
Second National Bank of the U. S.
Second Party System
Second Seminole War (1835-1842)
soft money [paper currency]
Specie Circular (1836)
Spoils System
sub-treasury system
Tariff of Abominations
Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!
Trail of Tears
Treaties of Payne's Landing (1832-1833)
U. S. S. Creole
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
Webster-Hayne Debate
Whigs
Worcester v. Georgia (1831)
Chapter 12: Religion & Reform, 1820-1860 and
Chapter 13 The Crisis of the Union, 1844-1960
"Burned-Over District"
"Cult of Domesticity"
"separate spheres" theory
American Colonization society
American Temperance Society
Angelina & Sarah Grimké
Brigham Young
Brook Farm
Catharine Beecher
Civil Disobedience
communitarianism
Compromise of 1850
cotton gin
Dorothea Dix
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857
Edgar Allen Poe
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Female Moral Reform Society
Frederick Douglass
Free Soil party
Freeport Doctrine
Fugitive Slave Law
Gadsen Purchase
Godey's Lady's Book
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Horace Mann
Hudson River School
James Fennimore Cooper
John Humphrey Noyes
Joseph Smith
Kansas-Nebraska Act-1854
Know-Nothing party
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Lucretia Mott
Lucy Stone
Margaret Fuller
Mary Lyon
McGuffey Reader
Mexician cession
Mormons
Mother Ann Lee
Nat Turner's rebellion
Nathanial Hawthorne
New Harmony
Oberlin College
Oneida Community
phrenology
popular sovereignty
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Owen
Romanticism
Self-Reliance
Seneca Falls Convention
Shakers
Stephen Douglas
Susan B. Anthony
Sylvester Graham
Texas Revolution/Independence
The "Benevolent Empire"
Transcendentalism
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
utopian socialism
Walden
Walt Whitman
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
William Lloyd Garrison
William Morton
Wilmot Proviso
Chapter 14 Two Societies at War, 1861-1865
"A Rich man's war but a poor man's fight!"
"Lost Cause" or "Lost Cause of the
Confederacy"
Alexander Stephens
Anaconda Plan
Andersonville
Antietam
Appomattox
Chancellorsville
Clara Barton
Clement L. Vallandigham
Conscription Act, 1863
David Farragut
First Manassas
George Gordon Meade
George McClellan
Gettysburg
Greenbacks
James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart
James Longstreet
Jefferson Davis
John Buford
John Wilkes Booth
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
King Cotton Diplomacy
Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural
Mary Boykin Chestnut
Matthew Brady
Monitor & Merrimac
Morrill Land Grant
Pacific Railroad Act
Peace Democrats/Copperheads
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Robert E. Lee
Sherman's March to the Sea
Shiloh
The Killer Angels
Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson'
Trent Affair
Ulysses S. Grant
Vicksburg
Wade-Davis Bill
William H. Seward
William Tecumseh Sherman
Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Presidential Reconstruction
13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments
Radical Reconstruction
Black Codes
Radical Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Reconstruction Acts, 1867
Civil Rights Act, 18656
Thaddeus Stevens
Compromise of 1877
Samuel Tilden
Election of 1876
Scalawags
Ex Parte Milligan 1866
Charles Sumner
Field Order #15
Ten Percent Plan
Force Acts
Tenure of Office Act
Freedman's Bureau
Wade-Davis Bill
Ku Klux Klan
Chapter 17: Captial & Labor in the Age of Enterprise 1877-1900
Chapter 18: The Politics of Late 19th Century America
"Crime of '73"
James G. Blaine
"Cross of Gold" speech
Marcus Hanna
"Front-Porch" campaign
Mark Twain
"Gospel of Wealth"
Mary E. Lease
"invisible hand"
"Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?--He's going to the White
House, Ha! Ha! Ha!"
McKinley Tariff of 1890
"Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion"
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Atlanta Compromise
National Grange
bimetallism
Ocala Demands (1890)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Omaha Platform
Coxey's Army
Panic of 1893
Dynamic Sociology
Pendleton Act (1883)
Edward Bellamy
Populist [Peoples'] Party
Farmers' Alliance
Roscoe Conkling
Gilded Age
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Gold Standard Act (1900)
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Gold-Bugs
Silver-Bugs
Greenback Party
Social Gospel
Half Breeds
Stalwarts & Half Breeds
Henry George
sub-treasury plan
Herbert Spenser
The Wizard of Oz
Horatio Alger
William Graham Sumner
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
William Jennings Bryan
James B. Weaver
Wilson-Gorman Tariff (1894)
Mugwumps
Chapter 20: The Progressive Era
"Laboratory of Democracy"
"New Freedom"
"New Nationalism"
"Square Deal"
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
1913 Armory Show
19th. Amendment
Alice Paul
Ashcan School of Painting
Australian ballot
Bull Moose Party
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Nation
Charles A. Beard
Charles Evans Hughes
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
Dillingham Report
Election of 1912
Equal Rights Amendment
Eugene Debs
eugenics
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission
Francis Willard
Frank Norris
Gifford Pinchot
Hepburn Act (1906)
Hiram Johnson
Hull House
Ida Tarbell
IWW-"Wobblies"
Jacob Reiis
Jane Addams
John Muir
Lincoln Steffens
Lochner v US (1905)
Louis Brandeis
Mann-Elkins Act
Margaret Sanger
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
muckrakers
Newlands Reclamation Act (1902)
Northern Securities Co. v. US (1904)
Panic of 1907
Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
Progressivism
Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)
Robert La Follette
Settlement House Movement
Sierra Club
The Jungle (1906)
The Shame of the Cities (1904)
Thorstein Veblen's A Theory of the Leisure Class
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Upton Sinclair
Walter Rauschenbusch
Chapter 21: An Emerging World Power, 1877-1914
"Big Stick" Policy
Insular Cases (1901)
"Colossus of the North"
jingoism
"Dollar Diplomacy"
John Hay
"Gentlemen's" Agreement" (1908)
John J. ["Blackjack"] Pershing
"Great White Fleet"
José Martí
"reconcentration" policy
McKinley Tariff of 1890
"Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!
Open Door Policy
"Splendid Little War"
Platt Amendment
"White Man's Burden"
Queen Liliuokalani
"yellow" journalism
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Rough Riders
Anti-Imperialist League
Rudyard Kipling
Boxer Rebellion
Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Commodore George Dewey
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. (R-MA)
Commodore Matthew Perry
Teller Resolution
Cuba libre
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890)
De Lome Letter
Treaty of Kanagawa (1854)
Elihu Root
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Emilio Aguinaldo
Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
Francisco "Pancho" Villa
William Randolph Hearst
Chapter 22: War & the American State 1914-1920
A. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer Raids
Abrams v. U. S. (1919)
Red Scare
American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
Reservationists
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
Article 10
Sarajevo
Bernard Baruch
Schenck v. U. S. (1919)
Big Four
Sedition Act (1918)
Central Powers
Selective Service Act (1917)
Chicago Race Riots
Sussex Pledge
Committee on Public Information
Treaty of Versailles
Doughboys
Triple Alliance
Espionage Act (1917)
Triple Entente
Fourteen Points
U-Boat
Great Flu Pandemic of 1918
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Great Migration
War Industries Board
Jeannette Rankin (MT)
War Labor Board
League of Nations
War Revenue Act (1917)
Liberty Bonds
War-Guilt clause
Liberty Cabbage
Wilsonianism
Lusitania
Women's Peace Party
Marcus Garvey
Zimmermann Telegram
Chapter 23: Modern Times, the 1920s
"Black Tuesday" [Oct. 29, 1929]
Gertrude Stein
"Jazz Age"
Gov. Al Smith (NY)
"Lost Generation"
Harlem Renaissance
"on-margin" buying
Hawley-Smott Tariff
"Return to Normalcy"
Immigration Act of 1924
"Spirit of St. Louis"
Jelly Roll Morton
A Farewell to Arms
Josephine Baker
Al Capone
Langston Hughes
Andrew Mellon
Leopold & Loeb Trial
Babe Ruth
Louis Armstrong
Bonus Bill
Madame C. J. Walker
Charles Lindbergh
National Origins Act (1924)
Clarence Darrow
Ohio Gang
Claude McKay
Scopes ["Monkey"] Trial
Cotton Club
Sinclair Lewis
Dawes Plan
Speakeasy
Duke Ellington
T.S. Elliot
Elmer Gantry
Teapot Dome Scandal
Ernest Hemingway
The business of America is business!
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
George Gershwin
Volstead Act (1920)
Georgia O'Keefe
Zora Neale Hurston
Chapter 24: The Great Depression & Chapter 25:
The New Deal, 1933-1939
20th Amendment
Happy Days Are Here Again!
21st Amendment
John L. Lewis
Alf Landon
John Maynard Keynes
American Liberty League
John Steinbeck
Bank Holiday
Judiciary Reorganization Bill (1937)
Bonus Army
Marian Anderson
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO
New Deal
Dr. Francis Townsend
New Deal Coalition
Dust Bowl
Okies
Eleanor Roosevelt
Scottsboro Boys
Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)
Second New Deal
Every Man a King!
Securities & Exchange Commission [SEC]
Father Charles Coughlin
Sen. Huey P. Long [LA]
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC]
Share-the-Wealth program
Fireside Chats
Social Security Act-1935
First "Hundred Days"
Tennessee Valley Authority [TVA]
Francis Perkins
The Grapes of Wrath
Glass-Steagall Act (1933)
US v. Butler (1936)
Chapter 26: The World at War 1939-1945
"Arsenal of Democracy"
Neutrality Acts
"Rosie the Riveter"
Operation Overlord
"Zoot Suit" Riots
Panay incident
A. Philip Randolph
Potsdam Conference
America First Committee
Rosie the Riveter
Casablanca Conference
Selective Service Act (1940)
Committee to Defend America
Teheran Conference
Executive Order 8802
Tuskegee Airmen
Executive Order 9066
V-E Day
J. Robert Oppenheimer
V-J Day
Lend Lease Act (1941)
Wendell Wilkie
Navajo "code-talkers
Yalta Conference
Chapter 27: Cold War America 1945-1960
38th Parallel
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Alger Hiss
Klaus Fuchs
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Marshall Plan
Berlin Blockade
McCarran Internal Security Act
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
McCarthyism
Cold War
National Housing Act of 1949
COMECON
National Security Act (1947)
Communist Control Act (1954)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
containment
NSC-68
Dennis et. al. v. US (1951)
Red Channels
Dixiecrats
Red-baiting
Executive Order 9835
red-lining
Fair Deal
Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI)
film noir
Sen. Robert Taft (R-OH)
General Douglas MacArthur
Serviceman's Readjustment Act ["G.I. Bill"] (1944)
George F. Kennan
Syngman Rhee
Governor Strom Thurmond (D-SC)
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Hollywood Ten
The buck stops here!
House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC]
Truman Doctrine
Inchon landing (1950)
Warsaw Pact
Iron Curtain
Whittaker Chambers
Chapter 28: The Affluent Society & the Liberal Consensus 1945-1960
A vast wasteland!
National Defense Education Act (1958)
Baby Boom"
On the Road
Beat Generation
Payola Scandals
Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS (1954)
"Postwar Contract"
Civil Rights Act of 1957
"Race" Music
David Riesman
Rosa Parks
DDT
Rustbelt
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC]
Dr. Jonas Salk
Southern Manifesto
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sputnik I
"Duck-and-Cover"
Sunbelt
Explorer I
The Affluent Society
Gov. Orval Faubus (D-AR)
"The American Dream"
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Jack Kerouac
The Lonely Crowd
Jackie Robinson
"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit"
James Dean
The Organization Man
Keynesian Economics
The Other America
Levittown, LI
"Throwaway Society"
Little Rock Nine
Thurgood Marshall
Michael Harrington
UNIVAC
Montgomery, AL Bus Boycott
White Citizens' Councils
National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA]
William H. Whyte
Chapter 29: War Abroad & at Home the Vietnam Era, 1961-1975
"Black Power"
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)
National Organization of Women (NOW)
"Domino Theory"
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Operation "Rolling Thunder"
"Earth Day"
Escobedo v. IL (1964)
Peace Corps
"Great Society"
Eugene "Bull" Connor
Rachel Carson
"Landslide Lyndon"
Freedom Riders
Richard Milhaus Nixon (R-CA)
"New Frontier"
Freedom Summer
Robert McNamara
"New Left"
General William Westmoreland
Roe v. Wade (1973)
"search-and-destroy "[Zippo] mission
Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY)
Sandra Day O'Connor
"Silent Majority"
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
"Southern Strategy"
Gov. George Wallace (D-AL)
Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)
Agent Orange
Griswold v. CT (1965)
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY)
American Indian Movement [A. I. M.]
Haight-Ashbury
Sexual Politics
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Head Start
Silent Spring
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Hippies
Sirhan Sirhan
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC]
Berlin Wall
I Have a Dream speech
Spiro T. Agnew (R-MD)
Betty Friedan
Ich Bin Ein Berliner!
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panthers
Indian Civil Rights Act (1968)
Tet Offensive (1968)
Bobby Seale
James Earl Ray
The Chicago Seven
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
James Meredith
The Feminine Mystique
Caesar Chavez
Kate Millett
Title IX (1972)
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Malcolm X
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Civil Rights Act of 1968
March on Washington (1963)
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey
Clean Air Act (1970)
Mayor Richard J. Daley
Volunteers in Service to America [VISTA]
Clean Water Act (1971)
Medicare / Medicaid (1965)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Counterculture
Miranda v. AZ (1966)
War on Poverty
Cuban Missile Crisis
My Lai Massacre (1968)
Watts Riots
Dr. Timothy Leary
napalm
Woodstock '69
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)
Nation of Islam [Black Muslims]
Young Americans for Freedom