AP U.S. HISTORY | Ms. Barnes
APUSH Summer Vocabulary
INSTRUCTIONS:
 Create flash cards for each of the following terms
 For each terms, identify: Who or what?, Where?, When? Why is it significant? and/or How did it change events or
conditions?
 Categorize them by Time Period/Topic. You may use colors or icons to identify the various time periods/topics.
THE THIRTEEN COLONIES AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1607-1750
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comparison of Spanish & French colonies vs. English colonization (economies, government, societies)
2.
role of joint-stock companies in English colonization
3.
Roanoke Island (1588)
4.
Regions: South, Chesapeake, Middle, New England – Compare/contrast reasons for settlement & types of settlers
5.
Who founded Virginia Colony and why
6.
Jamestown
7.
role of tobacco in Virginia; John Rolfe
8.
Bacon’s Rebellion
9.
indentured servitude
10.
Slavery: Why did it become established? Where did it legally exist by 1700?
11.
Lord Baltimore & Maryland
12.
Maryland Act of Toleration (1649)
13.
Separatist Puritans (Pilgrims)
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Mayflower Compact
15.
Puritans; Reasons for emigration, Massachusetts Bay Colony
16.
Great Migration
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Roger Williams, Rhode Island
18.
Anne Hutchinson
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Half-way Covenant
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King Phillip’s War
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Why the Dutch settled New Netherland; New York
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Quakers (Society of Friends)
23.
William Penn & Pennsylvania as a “holy experiment”
24.
Rice and indigo
25.
Georgia; James Oglethorpe
26.
mercantilism
27.
Navigation Acts
28.
colonial response to the Dominion of New England – and reaction of Great Britain
29.
“triangular trade”
30.
middle passage
31.
Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692)
COLONIAL SOCIETY IN THE 18TH CENTURY
32.
Immigrant groups: Why, when & where they settled (English, Germans, Scots-Irish, Africans)
33.
extent of social mobility
34.
colonial family life (compare New England vs. Chesapeake)
35.
Colonial governments: corporate, royal, proprietary (explain each, which colonies?)
36.
colonial economies: variations by region/topography (New England, Middle, Chesapeake & South)
37.
salutary neglect
38.
main religions by region/colony
39.
religious toleration: reasons for, extent
40.
(First) Great Awakening
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Jonathon Edwards & George Whitefield
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New Lights vs. Old Lights
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deism
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Enlightenment thought – main ideas
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Benjamin Franklin
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education in the colonies
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John Peter Zenger
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Colonial governors and legislatures (reasons for colonial autonomy)
49.
town meetings
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THE COMING OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1754-1775
50.
French and Indian War (1754-63)
51.
Albany Plan of Union (1754); significance as to colonial unity
52.
Peace of Paris (1763)
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Impact of the French & Indian War on the colonies
54.
Pontiac’s Rebellion
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Proclamation of 1763
56.
Sugar Act (1764)
57.
Quartering Act (1765)
58.
Stamp Act (1765)
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Stamp Act Congress
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Sons/Daughters of Liberty
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Declaratory Act (1766)
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Townshend Duties (1767)
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Writs of Assistance
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Boston Massacre (1770)
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Committees of Correspondence
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Tea Act (1773)
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Boston Tea Party (1773)
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Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts (1774)
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Quebec Act (1774)
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Enlightenment political ideals
71.
John Locke
72.
virtual representation/actual representation
AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE CONFEDERATION, 1776-1787
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First Continental Congress (1774)
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Samuel Adams & John Adams
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Lexington and Concord
76.
Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
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Second Continental Congress (1775)
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Olive Branch Petition
79.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, The Crisis
80.
Declaration of Independence
81.
Patriots and Loyalists
82.
George Washington; Continental Army
83.
Battle of Saratoga – where, when, significance
84.
Battle of Yorktown – where, when, significance
85.
Treaty of Paris (1783); main provisions
86.
Reasons for the American victory in the Revolution
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effect of the revolution on slavery
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republican motherhood
89.
Articles of Confederation; structure of government set up; strengths and weaknesses
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Land Ordinance of 1785
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Northwest Ordinance (1787)
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Shay’s Rebellion
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THE CONSTITUTION AND THE FEDERAL PERIOD, 1787-1800
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Constitutional Convention
94.
Socioeconomic status of Framers; James Madison, Alexander Hamilton
95.
Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan
96.
Connecticut Plan (Great Compromise)
97.
separation of powers; checks and balances
98.
Limits on power of the people: electoral college, senate, Supreme Court
99.
Three-fifths Compromise; slave trade compromise
100.
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
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Federalist Papers
102.
Bill of Rights; Reasons for its addition to the Constitution
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Executive departments formed: War, Treasury, State; the Cabinet system
104.
Judiciary Act (1789)
105.
Hamilton’s Financial Plan (Report on Public Credit, Report on Manufactures) - national debt, state debts, Bank
106.
impact of the French Revolution on American politics in the 1790s
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Neutrality Proclamation (1793)
108.
Pinckney’s Treaty (1795)
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Jay’s Treaty (1794)
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Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
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formation of political parties: Democratic-Republicans and Federalists
112.
John Adams
113.
XYZ Affair
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN ERA 1800-1824
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“Revolution of 1800”
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Jefferson’s actions with respect to the national government and the presidency
118.
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
119.
Lewis and Clark
120.
John Marshall
121.
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
122.
strict vs. broad construction of the constitution
123.
response of slaveholders to the Haitian Revolution
124.
American position during the Napolianic wars
125.
Chesapeake Incident
126.
Embargo Act (1807)
127.
James Madison
128.
Non-intercourse Act (1808)
129.
Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)
130.
Tecumseh and the Prophet
131.
Battle of Tippecanoe and William Henry Harrison
132.
War of 1812
133.
War Hawks
134.
Battle of New Orleans
135.
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
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Hartford Convention; effect on the Federalist Party
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“Era of Good Feelings”
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increase in nationalism after the War of 1812 (cultural, economic, diplomatic, judicial)
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James Monroe
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“American System”
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Second Bank of the United States
142.
Panic of 1819
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McCullough v. Maryland
144.
implied powers (loose construction)
145.
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
146.
Gibbons v. Ogden
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Missouri Compromise (1820)
148.
Adams-Onis Treaty (1819), Florida
149.
Monroe Doctrine (1823); why it was issued
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A DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION, 1824-1840
150.
universal male suffrage – when, why, how
151.
John Quincy Adams
152.
Henry Clay
153.
“corrupt bargain”; effects on Democratic-Republican party
154.
Tariff of Abominations
155.
Andrew Jackson; programs he supported as President
156.
Party nominating conventions emerge
157.
spoils system
158.
Jacksonian democracy (??) – belief in the common man
159.
Second Party System
160.
Democratic Party: when and why formed, major beliefs and goals
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Whig Party: when and why formed, major beliefs and goals
162.
Indian Removal Act (1830)
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Worchester v. Georgia (1832)
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“Trail of tears”
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states’ rights
166.
Nullification crisis
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John C. Calhoun, South Carolina Exposition and Protest
168.
Nicholas Biddle
169.
“pet banks”
170.
Specie Circular
171.
Panic of 1837
172.
Martin Van Buren
173.
Hudson River School of art
ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, 1815-1860
174.
turnpikes; National (Cumberland) Road
175.
impact of steamboats; Robert Fulton
176.
impact of the Erie Canal on (1) transportation and (2) economic and social development of the U.S.
177.
earliest railroad in U.S.; characteristics of early railroads (pre-1850)
178.
Eli Whitney, interchangeable parts, cotton gin
179.
Market Revolution (and/or transportation revolution??); relationship to the Industrial Revolution
180.
Samuel Slater and the factory system
181.
role of the Lowell mills in early industrialization; characteristics of Massachusetts textile workers in the 1830s, who
replaced them?
182.
early unions – legality, who joined, how effective
183.
characteristics of 1840s Irish immigrants (Potato Famine)
184.
characteristics of German “48ers”
185.
nativists
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American Party
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role of “King Cotton” in the South, when it developed, where, effect on the Southern economy and society
188.
Southern concept of the “peculiar institution”
189.
basic structure of Southern society (planters, yeoman farmers, poor whites, hill people)
190.
extent of slave ownership in the South; why slaveholders held disproportionate power
191.
status of free blacks in the South and in the North
192.
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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RELIGION AND REFORM, 1820-1860
193.
transcendentalism
194.
Ralph Waldo Emerson; ideas
195.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “Civil Disobedience”
196.
Oneida Community
197.
Mormons
198.
Second Great Awakening
199.
temperance movement
200.
asylum reform: Dorothea Dix
201.
penitentiaries; (prison reform)
202.
public school movement – goals and impact; Horace Mann
203.
Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
204.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott
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Susan B. Anthony
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cult of domesticity
207.
American Colonization Society; What was its goal?
208.
abolitionism
209.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Frederick Douglass; The North Star
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gag rule
WESTWARD EXPANSION, 1830-1848
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Texas Revolution – causes, results
213.
Alamo, San Jacinto, Sam Houston
214.
Lone Star Republic; why Jackson rejected its annexation request
215.
overland trails; Oregon Trail
216.
“manifest destiny”
217.
“54° 40’ or Fight!”; Oregon Treaty
218.
James K. Polk
219.
Rio Grande/Nueces River
220.
Mexican War (1846-1847)
221.
opposition to the Mexican War
222.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
223.
Mexican Cession
THE CRISIS OF THE UNION, 1848-1860
224.
Wilmot Proviso
225.
California Gold Rush; 49ers
226.
free soil movement; Free Soil Party
227.
Compromise of 1850 – reasons for, provisions
228.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
229.
popular sovereignty
230.
Stephen Douglas
231.
Underground Railroad
232.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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Ostend Manifesto (1852)
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Gadsden Purchase (1853)
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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
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Republican Party; position on slavery
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“Bleeding Kansas”
238.
John Brown
239.
Sumner-Brooks Incident
240.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
241.
Abraham Lincoln
242.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
243.
Freeport Doctrine
244.
John Brown’s attack on Harper’s Ferry – purpose, impact
245.
Election of 1860; split in parties
246.
secession; Confederate States of America
247.
Crittenden Compromise
248.
Fort Sumter
THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865
249.
causes of the Civil War
250.
border states
251.
First Battle of Bull Run
252.
Jefferson Davis and Alexander P. Stephens
253.
Robert E. Lee
254.
Antietam
255.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Lincoln’s use of wartime powers: habeus corpus, conscription, taxes, military courts
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New York City draft riots
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Homestead Act (1862)
259.
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
260.
Pacific Railway Acts (1862 & 1864)
261.
Emancipation Proclamation (1863); immediate effect
262.
Gettysburg (1863)
263.
Vicksburg (1863)
264.
Appomattox Court House
265.
Lincoln’s assassination; John Wilkes Booth
RECONSTRUCTION, 1863-1877
266.
Andrew Johnson
267.
black codes
268.
Freedman’s Bureau
269.
Radical Republicans; leaders, objectives
270.
14th Amendment
271.
Congressional Reconstruction
272.
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
273.
Impeachment of Johnson
274.
15th Amendment
275.
“scalawags”
276.
“carpetbaggers”
277.
status of freedmen 1865-1875 (Sharecropping; crop-lien system)
278.
Ku Klux Klan
279.
Election of 1876 (Hayes-Tilden)
280.
Compromise of 1877
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THE GILDED AGE: INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1865-1900
281.
transcontinental railroad; Union Pacific and Central Pacific
282.
Federal land grants to railroads
283.
Bessemer Process
284.
Andrew Carnegie
285.
vertical integration vs. horizontal integration
286.
United States Steel Co.
287.
John D. Rockefeller
288.
Standard Oil Trust
289.
Stock-watering, pools, rebates, trusts
290.
J.P. Morgan
291.
Laissez-faire capitalism (?)
292.
Social Darwinism
293.
Gospel of Wealth
294.
White collar workers
295.
Women in workforce
296.
Scab, lockout, blacklist, yellow-dog contract; injunction
297.
National Labor Union
298.
Knights of Labor
299.
American Federation of Labor; goals, tactics
300.
Samuel Gompers
301.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
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Haymarket Bombing (1886)
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Homestead Strike (1892)
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Pullman Strike (1894)
305.
Eugene Debs
GILDED AGE: URBANIZATION & URBAN CULTURE 1865-1900
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“new” immigrants vs. “old” immigrants
307.
Ellis Island
308.
characteristics of American cities from 1890-1920
309.
reasons for declining death rates in late 19th century cities
310.
skyscrapers (Louis Sullivan)
311.
tenements, dumbbell tenements
312.
Streetcars, mass transportation
313.
suburbs
314.
political machines, city bosses (political corruption, voter fraud)
315.
Tammany Hall, “Boss” Tweed
316.
Social Gospel
317.
Settlement houses
318.
Jane Addams
319.
Entertainment: sports, Barnum-Bailey, Wild West shows
320.
Mark Twain
THE GILDED AGE: THE FAR WEST AND NEW SOUTH, 1868-1900
321.
Three frontiers: mining, cattle, farming
322.
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
323.
cattle drives
324.
homesteaders, sodbusters
325.
barbed wire, Joseph Glidden
326.
Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”
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Reservation system
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Indian Wars
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George Armstrong Custer and Little Big Horn
330.
Wounded Knee
331.
assimilationists
332.
Dawes Severalty Act (1887); Indian policy from 1890 until the New Deal
333.
A Century of Dishonor – Helen Hunt Jackson
334.
sharecropping, crop lien system
335.
Jim Crow
336.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
337.
disenfranchisement: poll tax, literacy tests, grandfather clause
338.
Ida B. Wells
339.
lynching
340.
Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute
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THE GILDED AGE: NATIONAL POLITICS 1865-1900
341.
Ulysses S. Grant (president)
342.
Credit Mobilier
343.
Stalwarts vs. Halfbreeds
344.
Role of Presidents during Gilded Age
345.
Sources of government revenue in late 1800s
346.
Pendleton Act
347.
Granger Movement, Granger Laws
348.
Farmers Alliances
349.
Munn v. Illinois; Wabash v. Illinois
350.
Interstate Commerce Act (1886)
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McKinley Tariff (1890)
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
354.
United States v. E.C. Knight
355.
Populist (People’s) Party
356.
Panic of 1893
357.
free silver
358.
William Jennings Bryan
359.
“Cross of Gold” Speech
360.
William McKinley
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM, 1865-1914
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Alaska Purchase (1867)
362.
“new imperialism” – when, where, why
363.
Cuban Rebellion
364.
yellow journalism (Hearst & Pulitzer)
365.
Spanish-American War; causes
366.
De Lôme Letter
367.
Maine Explosion
368.
Teller Amendment
369.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Rough Riders
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Hawaii, Liliuokalani
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Treaty of Paris, 1899
373.
Philippines Annexation and Rebellion
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Platt Amendment (1901)
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Open Door Policy
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Boxer Rebellion
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“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
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Panama Canal; how the U.S. secured rights to build the canal
379.
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Santo Domingo
380.
Gentlemen’s Agreement
381.
dollar diplomacy
382.
Mexican Expeditionary Force, John J. Pershing
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THE PROGRESSIVE ERA, 1901-1918
383.
Progressivism; characteristics of Progressive leaders
384.
muckrakers
385.
Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives
386.
Lincoln Steffens – The Shame of the Cities
387.
Ida Tarbell – A History of the Standard Oil Company
388.
secret ballot
389.
direct primary
390.
Robert LaFollette
391.
17th Amendment – Direct election of senators
392.
Initiative, referendum, recall
393.
social welfare
394.
Square Deal
395.
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
396.
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
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Meat Inspection Act (1906)
398.
William Howard Taft
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preservationism v. conservationism
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Federal income tax – 16th Amendment
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Socialist Party, Eugene Debs
402.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
403.
Bull Moose Party
404.
New Nationalism v. New Freedom
405.
Underwood Tariff (1913)
406.
Federal Reserve Act (1914)
407.
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
408.
Federal Trade Commission
409.
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
410.
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
411.
18th Amendment; causes
412.
W.E.B. DuBois; philosophy for race relations
413.
NAACP
414.
National American Women Suffrage Association, Carrie Chatman Catt
415.
National Women’s Party, Alice Paul
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19th Amendment
WORLD WAR I, 1914-1918
417.
Allied Powers v. Central Powers
418.
American position during initial years of WWI
419.
unrestricted submarine warfare
420.
Lusitania
421.
Sussex Pledge
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Reasons the U.S. entered WWI
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George Creel, Committee on Public Information, its goals
425.
War agencies: War Production Board, War Industries Board
426.
Espionage Act (1917) and Sedition Act (1918)
427.
Schenck v. U.S (1919)
428.
Great Migration
429.
American Expeditionary Force; Military impact of U.S. involvement in WWI
430.
Fourteen Points
431.
Treaty of Versailles
432.
League of Nations
433.
Henry Cabot Lodge
434.
Red Scare
435.
Palmer Raids
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THE 1920s
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Warren G. Harding
437.
Teapot Dome Scandal
438.
Calvin Coolidge
439.
Herbert Hoover
440.
economic policies of the federal government in the 20s (Andrew Mellon)
441.
business prosperity
442.
open shop
443.
welfare capitalism
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results of Ford’s assembly line
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Consumerism: autos, radio, movies, advertising
446.
radio, KDKA
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Charles Lindbergh
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Margaret Sanger and birth control
449.
Lost Generation – characteristics, important writers
450.
Harlem Renaissance, important writers
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Jazz; Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington
452.
flappers
453.
modernism vs. fundamentalism
454.
Scopes Trial
455.
Prohibition and Volstead Act (1919)
456.
organized crime
457.
Al Capone
458.
immigration quotas, National Origins Act (1924)
459.
Ku Klux Klan (of the 20s); Birth of a Nation
460.
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL, 1929-1941
461.
Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)
462.
underlying causes of the Great Depression (e.g. income distribution)
463.
Buying on margin, stock speculation
464.
Herbert Hoover
465.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)
466.
Hoover’s responses to the Great Depression
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
468.
Bonus Army (1932) – objective, results
469.
FDR
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Hundred Days; concerns addressed
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Three R’s (relief, recovery, reform)
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Bank Holiday
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Glass-Steagall Act, FDIC
474.
Repeal of Prohibition, 21st Amendment
475.
Fireside chats
476.
Public Works Administration
477.
Civilian Conservation Corps
478.
Tennessee Valley Authority
479.
National Recovery Administration
480.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
481.
Schechter v. United States (sick chicken case)
482.
Securities and Exchange Commission
483.
Second New Deal
484.
Works Progress Administration, Harry Hopkins
485.
Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act) (1935)
486.
Social Security Act (1935)
487.
Fr. Charles Coughlin, Francis Townshend
488.
Huey Long, “Share Our Wealth”
489.
Court-packing Plan
490.
Congress of Industrial Organizations, John J. Lewis
491.
Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)
492.
Keynesian economics
493.
Dust Bowl, Okies
494.
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
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DIPLOMACY AND WORLD WAR II, 1929-1945
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Washington Conference (1921)
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Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)
497.
Dawes Plan (1924)
498.
Stimson Doctrine
499.
Good Neighbor Policy
500.
Axis Powers
501.
Isolationism
502.
Neutrality Acts
503.
America First Committee
504.
Appeasement, Munich Conference
505.
cash-and-carry
506.
Selective Service Act (1940)
507.
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
508.
Atlantic Charter
509.
Pearl Harbor
510.
economic effects of military spending during WWII
511.
rationing
512.
“Rosie the Riveter” (?)
513.
Japanese Internment (Exec. Order 8066)
514.
Korematsu v. US (1944)
515.
A. Phillip Randolph, Fair Employment Practices Comm.
516.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
517.
D-Day
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Battle of Midway
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Yalta Conference (Feb. 1945)
520.
Harry S Truman
521.
Potsdam Confence (July 1945)
522.
Manhattan Project; J. Robert Oppenheimer
523.
Atomic bomb
524.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
525.
United Nations; San Francisco Conference
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TRUMAN AND THE COLD WAR, 1945-1952
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GI Bill (1944)
527.
baby boom
528.
reasons for growth of suburbia
529.
sunbelt
530.
22nd Amendment (two-term limit for pres)
531.
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
532.
Dixiecrats in 1948; Strom Thurmond
533.
Fair Deal
534.
Cold War
535.
Iron Curtain, communist satellites
536.
containment policy; George Kennan
537.
Truman Doctrine
538.
Marshall Plan
539.
Berlin Airlift
540.
East Germany, West Germany
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NATO; Warsaw Pact
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Arms race
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Korean War; UN police action
544.
HUAC
545.
Alger Hiss
546.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case
547.
Joseph McCarthy; McCarthyism
THE EISENHOWER YEARS, 1952-1960
548.
Dwight D. Eisenhower; “Modern Republicanism”
549.
Federal Highway Act (1956)
550.
brinksmanship
551.
massive retaliation
552.
domino theory
553.
Sputnik
554.
NASA
555.
U2 incident
556.
Fidel Castro
557.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS (1954), Earl Warren
558.
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Martin Luther King, Jr.
559.
Little Rock crisis
560.
Civil Rights Act of 1957, Civil Rights Commission
561.
beatniks
PROMISES AND TURMOIL: THE 1960S
562.
Election of 1960 (Kennedy vs. Nixon)
563.
New Frontier
564.
Peace Corps
565.
Bay of Pigs
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566.
Berlin Wall
567.
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
568.
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
569.
Assassination of Kennedy (1963)
570.
Lyndon Johnson; Great Society
571.
War on Poverty
572.
Medicare, Medicaid
573.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)
574.
Immigration Act of 1965
575.
SCLC, SNCC, non-violent protest
576.
Greensboro sit-ins
577.
March on Washington, 1963, “I have a dream…”
578.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
579.
Freedom Summer, 1964
580.
24th Amendment
581.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
582.
Malcolm X
583.
Stokeley Carmichael (SNCC), Black Power!
584.
Black Panthers
585.
Watts Riots, 1965
586.
Warren Court: Rights Revolution, Miranda v. Arizona
587.
counterculture
588.
Woodstock (and Altamont)
589.
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
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590.
National Organization for Women (NOW)
591.
ERA
592.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
593.
Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed
594.
Vietnam War
595.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
596.
Tet Offensive
597.
Hawks and doves
598.
Robert Kennedy, impact of assassination
599.
moon landing (1969)
MODERN AMERICA, 1969-1980
600.
Richard Nixon; reasons for “comeback” win in 1968 (“Southern strategy”)
601.
George Wallace; support for him in 1968 presidential campaign
602.
Henry Kissinger
603.
Vietnamization
604.
Kent State shootings
605.
My Lai Massacre
606.
Pentagon Papers
607.
détente with USSR
608.
Paris Peace Accords, 1973
609.
Nixon’s China visit, 1972
610.
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks (SALT)
611.
stagflation (stagnation + inflation)
612.
reasons for high inflation in the late 1960s and early 1970s
613.
Watergate
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614.
United States v. Nixon.
615.
War Powers Act, 1973
616.
Middle East War, 1973
617.
OPEC oil embargo
618.
Roe v. Wade
619.
Jimmy Carter; characteristics of the economy during his term
620.
Panama Canal Treaty (1978)
621.
Camp David Accords
622.
Iran Hostage Crisis
623.
Mexican Americans, Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers
624.
American Indian Movement (AIM)
625.
Indian Self-Determination Act (1975)
626.
Gay-rights movement; Stonewall Inn raid 1969; 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell”
627.
Nuclear accidents: Three Mile Island (‘79), Chernobyl (’86)
628.
Clean Air Act (1970)
629.
Clean Water Act (1972)
630.
EPA
631.
Ronald Reagan; “Reaganomics” and its results
632.
Iran-contra scandal
633.
Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
634.
Berlin Wall's fall
635.
Gulf War; Operation Desert Storm
636.
Whitewater; Monica Lewinsky
637.
welfare reform
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