APUSH: THE MOTHER OF ALL REVIEW SHEETS I: AMERICAN PAGEANT TERMS & PEOPLE
CHAPTER 1: NEW WORLD BEGINNINGS (33,000 B.C.E – 1769 C.E.)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Incas
Aztecs
Nation-States
Cahokia
Three-Sister Farming
Caravel
Columbian Exchange
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
Conquistadores
Capitalism
Encomienda
Mestizos
Popé’s Rebellion
Black Legend
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Ferdinand of Aragon
Isabella of Castile
Christopher Columbus
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Hernán Cortés
Malinche (Doña Marina)
Moctezuma
CHAPTER 2: THE PLANTING OF ENGLISH AMERICA (1500 – 1733)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Protestant Reformation
Roanoke Island
Spanish Armada
Primogeniture
Joint-Stock Company
Charter
Jamestown
First & Second Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Act of Toleration
Barbados Slave Code
Squatters
Tuscarora War
Yamasee Indians
Iroquois Confederacy
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Walter Raleigh
James I
Captain John Smith
Powhatan
Pocahontas
Lord De La Warr
John Rolfe
Lord Baltimore
James Oglethorpe
Hiawatha
CHAPTER 3: SETTLING THE NORTHERN COLONIES (1619 – 1700)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Calvinism
Predestination
Conversion
“Elect”
Puritans
Separatists
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Colony – “City upon a hill”
Antinomianism
Fundamental Orders
Pequot War
King Philip’s War
Dominion of New England
Navigation Laws
Glorious (Bloodless) Revolution
Salutary Neglect
Quaker
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Martin Luther
John Calvin
William Bradford
John Winthrop
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Massasoit
Metacom (King Philip)
Charles II
Sir Edmund Andros
Henry Hudson
Peter Stuyvesant
Duke of York
William Penn
CHAPTER 4: AMERICAN LIFE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1607 – 1692)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Indentured Servants
Headright System
Bacon’s Rebellion
Royal African Company
Middle Passage
Jeremiad
Half-Way Covenant
Salem Witch Trials
Leisler’s Rebellion
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
William Berkeley
Nathaniel Bacon
CHAPTER 5: COLONIAL SOCIETY ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION (1700 – 1775)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Paxton Boys
Regulator Movement
Triangular Trade
Molasses Act
Arminianism
Great Awakening
Old Lights
New Lights
Poor Richard’s Almanack
Zenger Trial
Royal Colonies
Proprietary Colonies
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Jacobus Arminius
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Phyllis Wheatley
John Trumbull
John Singleton Copley
John Peter Zenger
CHAPTER 6: THE DUEL FOR NORTH AMERICA (1608 – 1763)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Huguenots
Edict of Nantes
Coureurs de bois
King William’s War
Queen Anne’s War
War of Jenkins’ Ear
King George’s War
Acadians
French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War)
Albany Congress
Battle of Québec
Pontiac’s Uprising
Proclamation of 1763
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Louis XIV
Samuel de Champlain
Edward Braddock
William Pitt
James Wolfe
Pontiac
CHAPTER 7: THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION (1763 – 1775)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Republicanism
Whigs
Mercantilism
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act/Tax
Admiralty Courts
Stamp Act Congress
Nonimportation Agreements
Sons/Daughters of Liberty
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Committees of Correspondence
Boston Tea Party
“Intolerable Acts”
Quebec Act
First Continental Congress
The Association
Battles of Lexington & Concord
Valley Forge
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
John Hancock
George Grenville
Charles Townshend
Crispus Attucks
George III
Lord North
Samuel Adams
Thomas Hutchinson
Marquis de Lafayette
Baron von Steuben
Lord Dunmore
CHAPTER 8: AMERICA SECEDES FROM THE EMPIRE (1775 – 1783)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Second Continental Congress
Battle of Bunker Hill
Olive Branch Petition
Hessians
Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Loyalists
Patriots
Model Treaty
Armed Neutrality
Treaty of Fort Stanwix
Privateers
Treaty of Paris
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
Thomas Paine
Richard Henry Lee
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph Brant
George Rogers Clark
CHAPTER 9: THE CONFEDERATION AND THE CONSTITUTION (1776 – 1790)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Society of the Cincinnati
Disestablishment
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Civic Virtue
Republican Motherhood
Articles of Confederation
Old Northwest
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance
Shays’ Rebellion
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Great Compromise
Common Law
Civil Law
3/5 Compromise
Antifederalists
Federalists
The Federalist
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Lord Sheffield
Daniel Shays
Patrick Henry
CHAPTER 10: LAUNCHING THE NEW SHIP OF STATE (1789 – 1800)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Bill of Rights
Judiciary Act of 1789
Funding at Par
Assumption
Tariff
Excise Tax
Bank of the United States
Whiskey Rebellion
Reign of Terror
Neutrality Proclamation
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Treaty of Greenville
Jay’s Treaty
Pinckney’s Treaty
Farewell Address
XYZ Affair
Convention of 1800
Alien Laws
Sedition Act
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Louis XVI
Edmond Genet
Little Turtle
“Mad Anthony” Wayne
John Jay
John Adams
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
CHAPTER 11: THE TRIUMPHS AND TRAVAILS OF THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLIC (1800 – 1812)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Revolution of 1800
Patronage
Judiciary Act of 1801
Midnight Judges
Marbury v. Madison
Tripolitan War
Louisiana Purchase
Corps of Discovery
Orders in Council
Impressment
Chesapeake Affair
Embargo Act
Non-Intercourse Act
Macon’s Bill No. 2
War Hawks
Battle of Tippecanoe
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Thomas Jefferson
Albert Gallatin
John Marshall
Samuel Chase
Napoleon Bonaparte
Robert B. Livingston
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Aaron Burr
James Madison
Tecumseh
Tenskawatawa (“The Prophet”)
CHAPTER 12: THE SECOND WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE AND THE UPSURGE OF NATIONALISM (1812 –
1824)
TERMS TO KNOW:
War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans
Congress of Vienna
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
Rush-Bagot Agreement
Tariff of 1816
American System
Era of Good Feelings
Panic of 1819
Land Act of 1820
Tallmadge Amendment
Peculiar Institution
Missouri Compromise
McCulloch v. Maryland
Loose Construction
Cohens v. Virginia
Gibbons v. Ogden
Fletcher v. Peck
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Anglo-American Convention
Florida Purchase Treaty (Adams-Onís Treaty)
Monroe Doctrine
Russo-American Treaty
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
James Monroe
CHAPTER 13: THE RISE OF A MASS DEMOCRACY (1824 – 1840)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Corrupt Bargain
Spoils System
Tariff of Abominations
Nullification Crisis
Compromise Tariff of 1833
Force Bill
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Black Hawk War
Bank War
Anti-Masonic Party
Pet Banks
Specie Circular
Panic of 1837
Alamo
Goliad
Battle of San Jacinto
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Denmark Vesey
John C. Calhoun
Black Hawk
Nicholas Biddle
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
Martin Van Buren
Stephen Austin
Sam Houston
Santa Anna
William Henry Harrison
CHAPTER 14: FORGING THE NATIONAL ECONOMY (1790 – 1860)
TERMS TO KNOW:
“Self-Reliance”
Rendezvous
Ecological Imperialism
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Molly Maguires
Tammany Hall
Know-Nothing Party
Cotton Gin
Patent Office
Limited Liability
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Cult of Domesticity
McCormick Reaper
Turnpike
Erie Canal
Clipper Ships
Pony Express
Transportation Revolution
Market Revolution
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Samuel Slater
Eli Whitney
Elias Howe
Isaac Singer
Samuel F.B. Morse
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
Robert Fulton
DeWitt Clinton
Cyrus Field
John Jacob Astor
CHAPTER 15: THE FERMENT OF REFORM AND CULTURE (1790 – 1860)
TERMS TO KNOW:
The Age of Reason
Deism
Unitarians
Second Great Awakening
Burned-Over District
Mormons
Lyceum
American Temperance Society
Maine Law of 1851
Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
New Harmony
Brook Farm
Oneida Community
Shakers
Hudson River School
Minstrel Shows
Transcendentalism
“The American Scholar”
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Peter Cartwright
Charles Grandison Finney
Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
Horace Mann
Dorothea Dix
Neal S. Dow
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Lucy Stone
Amelia Bloomer
Robert Owen
John J. Audubon
Stephen C. Foster
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Louisa May Alcott
Emily Dickinson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Francis Parkman
CHAPTER 16: THE SOUTH AND THE SLAVERY CONTROVERSY (1793 – 1860)
TERMS TO KNOW:
West Africa Squadron
Breakers
Black Belt
Responsorial
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Amistad
American Colonization Society
Liberia
The Liberator
American Anti-Slavery Society
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Mason-Dixon Line
Gag Resolution
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
William T. Johnson
Nat Turner
William Wilberforce
Theodore Dwight Weld
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Sojourner Truth
Martin Delany
Frederick Douglass
CHAPTER 17: MANIFEST DESTINY AND ITS LEGACY (1841 – 1846)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Tariff of 1842
Caroline
Creole
Aroostook War
Manifest Destiny
“Fifty-four forty or fight”
Liberty Party
Walker Tariff
Spot Resolutions
California Bear Flag Republic
Battle of Buena Vista
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Conscience Whigs
Wilmot Proviso
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Stephen W. Kearny
John C. Frémont
Winfield Scott
Nicholas P. Trist
David Wilmot
CHAPTER 18: RENEWING THE SECTIONAL STRUGGLE (1848 – 1854)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Popular Sovereignty
Free Soil Party
California Gold Rush
Underground Railroad
Seventh of March Speech
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Ostend Manifesto
Opium War
Treaty of Wanghia
Treaty of Kanagawa
Gadsden Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Lewis Cass
Zachary Taylor
Harriet Tubman
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
William Walker
Caleb Cushing
Matthew C. Perry
CHAPTER 19: DRIFTING TOWARD DISUNION (1854 – 1861)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Impending Crisis of the South
New England Emigrant Aid Company
Lecompton Constitution
Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Panic of 1857
Tariff of 1857
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Freeport Question
Freeport Doctrine
Harpers Ferry
Constitutional Union Party
Confederate States of America
Crittenden Amendments
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Ward Beecher
James Buchanan
Charles Sumner
Preston S. Brooks
Dred Scott
Roger B. Taney
Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
John C. Breckenridge
John Jordan Crittenden
CHAPTER 20: GIRDING FOR WAR: THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH (1861 – 1865)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Fort Sumter
Border States
West Virginia
Trent Affair
Alabama
Laird Rams
Dominion of Canada
Writ of Habeas Corpus
New York Draft Riots
Morrill Tariff Act
Greenbacks
National Banking System
Homestead Act
U.S. Sanitary Commission
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Charles Francis Adams
Napoleon III
Maximilian
Jefferson Davis
Elizabeth Blackwell
Clara Barton
Sally Tompkins
CHAPTER 21: THE FURNACE OF CIVIL WAR (1861 – 1865)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
Gettysburg Address
Sherman’s March
Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War
Copperheads
The Man Without a Country
Union Party
Appomattox Court House
Reform Bill of 1867
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Salmon Chase
Clement L. Vallandigham
John Wilkes Booth
CHAPTER 22: THE ORDEAL OF RECONSTRUCTION (1865 – 1877)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Freedmen’s Bureau
“10 Percent” Reconstruction Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Black Codes
Pacific Railroad Act
Civil Rights Bill
Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction Act
Fifteenth Amendment
Ex parte Milligan
Redeemers
Woman’s Loyal League
Union League
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Force Acts
Tenure of Office Act
Seward’s Folly
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Oliver O. Howard
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus Stevens
Hiram Revels
Edwin M. Stanton
Benjamin Wade
William Seward
CHAPTER 23: POLITICAL PARALYSIS IN THE GILDED AGE (1869 – 1896)
TERMS TO KNOW:
“Waving the Bloody Shirt”
Tweed Ring
Crédit Mobilier Scandal
Panic of 1873
Gilded Age
Patronage
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Sharecropping
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Act
Homestead Strike
Grandfather Clause
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Jay Gould
Horace Greeley
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Chester Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Thomas B. Reed
Tom Watson
William Jennings Bryan
J.P. Morgan
CHAPTER 24: INDUSTRY COMES OF AGE (1865 – 1900)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois
Interstate Commerce Act
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Trust
Interlocking Directorates
Standard Oil Company
Social Darwinists
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Square
American Federation of Labor
Closed Shop
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Samuel Gompers
CHAPTER 25: AMERICA MOVES TO THE CITY (1865 – 1900)
TERMS TO KNOW:
New Immigrants
Settlement Houses
Liberal Protestants
Tuskegee Institute
Land-Grant Colleges
Pragmatism
Yellow Journalism
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
World’s Columbian Exposition
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Jane Addams
Charles Darwin
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
John Dewey
Horatio Alger
Mark Twain
Carrie Chapman Catt
CHAPTER 26: THE GREAT WEST AND THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION (1865 – 1896)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Reservation System
Battle of Little Bighorn
Battle of Wounded Knee
Dawes Severalty Act
Mining Industry
Homestead Act
Mechanization of Agriculture
Populists
Pullman Strike
Fourth Party System
Gold Standard Act
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Frederick Jackson Turner
Jacob S. Coxey
William McKinley
Marcus Alonzo Hanna
CHAPTER 27: EMPIRE AND EXPANSION (1890 – 1909)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Big Sister Policy
Great Rapprochement
McKinley Tariff
Insurrectos
Maine
Teller Amendment
Rough Riders
Anti-Imperialist League
Foraker Act
Insular Cases
Platt Amendment
Open Door Note
Boxer Rebellion
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Roosevelt Corollary
Root-Takahira Agreement
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Josiah Strong
Alfred Thayer Mahan
James G. Blaine
Richard Olney
Liliuokalani
“Butcher” Weyler
Dupuy de Lôme
George Dewey
Emilio Aguinaldo
William H. Taft
John Hay
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
CHAPTER 28: PROGRESSIVISM AND THE REPUBLICAN ROOSEVELT (1901 – 1912)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Social Gospel
Muckrakers
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Australian Ballot
Muller v. Oregon
Lochner v. New York
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Elkins Act
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Hetch Hetchy Valley
Dollar Diplomacy
Payne-Aldrich Bill
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Thorstein Veblen
Jacob A. Riis
Robert M. (“Fighting Bob”) La Follette
Hiram W. Johnson
Florence Kelley
Frances E. Willard
Gifford Pinchot
John Muir
CHAPTER 29: WILSONIAN PROGRESSIVISM AT HOME AND ABROAD (1912 – 1916)
TERMS TO KNOW:
New Freedom
New Nationalism
Underwood Tariff
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Holding Companies
Workingmen’s Compensation Act
Adamson Act
Jones Act
Tampico Incident
Central Powers
Allies
U-Boats
Lusitania
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Herbert Croly
Louis D. Brandeis
Victoriano Huerta
Venustiano Carranza
Francisco (“Pancho”) Villa
John (“Black Jack”) Pershing
Charles Evans Hughes
CHAPTER 30: THE WAR TO END WAR (1917 – 1918)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Zimmermann Note
Fourteen Points
Committee on Public Information
Espionage Act
Schenck v. United States
War Industries Board
National War Labor Board
Industrial Workers of the World
Nineteenth Amendment
Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act
Battle of Château-Thierry
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
League of Nations
Irreconcilables
Treaty of Versailles
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Arthur Zimmermann
George Creel
Eugene V. Debs
William D. (“Big Bill”) Haywood
Bernard Baruch
Herbert C. Hoover
Henry Cabot Lodge
David Lloyd George
CHAPTER 31: AMERICAN LIFE IN THE “ROARING TWENTIES” (1919 – 1929)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Bolshevik Revolution
Red Scare
Criminal Syndicalism Laws
American Plan
Ku Klux Klan
Bible Belt
Immigration Act of 1924
Eighteenth Amendment
Volstead Act
Racketeers
Fundamentalism
Scientific Management
Fordism
United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
A. Mitchell Palmer
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Horace Kallen
Randolph Bourne
Al Capone
John T. Scopes
Frederick W. Taylor
Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
Sigmund Freud
CHAPTER 32: THE POLITICS OF BOOM AND BUST (1920 – 1932)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
Nine-Power Treaty
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law
Teapot Dome Scandal
McNary-Haugen Bill
Dawes Plan
Agricultural Marketing Act
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Black Tuesday
Hoovervilles
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act
Bonus Army
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Warren G. Harding
Albert B. Fall
Calvin Coolidge
John W. Davis
Robert M. (“Fighting Bob”) La Follette
Albert E. Smith
CHAPTER 33: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL (1933 – 1939)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Brain Trust
New Deal
Hundred Days
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Dust Bowl
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Social Security Act
Wagner Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)
Court-packing Plan
Keynesianism
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Harry L. Hopkins
Father Charles Coughlin
Francis E. Townshend
Huey P. (“Kingfish”) Long
Frances Perkins
Mary McLeod Bethune
Robert F. Wagner
CHAPTER 34: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE SHADOW OF WAR (1933 – 1941)
TERMS TO KNOW:
London Economic Conference
Good Neighbor Policy
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Rome-Berlin Axis
Johnson Debt Default Act
Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936 and 1937
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Quarantine Speech
Appeasement
Hitler-Stalin Pact
Neutrality Act of 1939
Kristallnacht
War Refugee Board
Lend-Lease Bill
Atlantic Charter
Pearl Harbor
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Francisco Franco
Cordell Hull
Wendell L. Willkie
CHAPTER 35: AMERICA IN WORLD WAR II (1941 – 1945)
TERMS TO KNOW:
ABC-1 Agreement
Executive Order No. 9066
War Production Board (WPB)
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
National War Labor Board (NWLB)
Smith-Connally Strike Act
WAACs (Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps)
WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service)
SPARs (U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserve)
Bracero Program
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Navajo Code Talkers
Battle of Midway
D-Day
V-E (Victory in Europe) Day
Potsdam Conference
Manhattan Project
V-J (Victory in Japan) Day
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Douglas MacArthur
Chester Nimitz
Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Albert Einstein
CHAPTER 36: THE COLD WAR BEGINS (1945 – 1952)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Taft-Hartley Act
Operation Dixie
Employment Act of 1946
GI Bill
Sunbelt
Levittown
Baby Boom
Yalta Conference
Bretton Woods Conference
United Nations (U.N.)
Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
Berlin Airlift
Containment Doctrine
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Fair Deal
National Security Council Memorandum Number 68 (NSC-68)
Korean War
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Benjamin Spock
Joseph Stalin
Jiang Jieshi
George F. Kennan
Reinhold Niebuhr
George C. Marshall
CHAPTER 37: THE EISENHOWER ERA (1952 – 1960)
TERMS TO KNOW:
The Feminine Mystique
Rock ‘n’ Roll
Checkers Speech
McCarthyism
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Jim Crow
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Operation Wetback
Federal Highway Act of 1956
Policy of Boldness
Hungarian Uprising
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Suez Crisis
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Sputnik
Kitchen Debate
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Dwight D. “Ike” Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Betty Friedan
Elvis Presley
Joseph McCarthy
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Earl Warren
John Foster Dulles
Nikita Khrushchev
Ho Chi Minh
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
CHAPTER 38: THE STORMY SIXTIES (1960 – 1968)
TERMS TO KNOW:
New Frontier
Peace Corps
Apollo
Berlin Wall
European Economic Community (EEC)
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Freedom Riders
Voter Education Project
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Affirmative Action
Great Society
Freedom Summer
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Black Panther Party
Black Power
Six-Day War
Stonewall Rebellion
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert S. McNamara
Ngo Dinh Diem
James Meredith
Lee Harvey Oswald
Malcolm X
Eugene McCarthy
George C. Wallace
CHAPTER 39: THE STALEMATED SEVENTIES (1968 – 1980)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Vietnamization
Nixon Doctrine
Silent Majority
My Lai Massacre
Kent State University
Pentagon Papers
Détente
Miranda Warning
Philadelphia Plan
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Earth Day
Southern Strategy
War Powers Act
Watergate
“Smoking Gun” Tape
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Roe v. Wade
Malaise Speech
SALT II
Iranian Hostage Crisis
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Henry A. Kissinger
Warren E. Burger
Rachel Carson
George McGovern
Gerald (“Jerry”) Ford
John Dean III
James Earl (“Jimmy”) Carter, Jr.
Leonid Brezhnev
CHAPTER 40: THE RESURGENCE OF CONSERVATISM (1980 – 1992)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Proposition 13
Boll Weevils
Supply-Side Economics
Reaganomics
Strategic-Defense Initiative (SDI)
Sandinistas
Contras
Glasnost
Perestroika
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
Iran-Contra Affair
Moral Majority
Black Monday
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Operation Desert Storm
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
Mikhail Gorbachev
Saddam Hussein
Jerry Falwell
Sandra Day O’Connor
George H.W. Bush
Boris Yeltsin
Nelson Mandela
Manuel Noriega
Norman (“Stormin’ Norman”) Schwarzkkopf
Clarence Thomas
CHAPTER 41: AMERICA CONFRONTS THE POST-COLD WAR ERA (1992 – 2004)
TERMS TO KNOW:
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
Democratic Leadership Council
Oklahoma City Bombing
Contract with America
Welfare Reform Bill
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
McCain-Feingold Act
Whitewater
Lewinsky Affair
Kyoto Treaty
9/11
Al Qaeda
USA Patriot Act
Department of Homeland Security
Guantánamo Detention Camp
Abu Ghraib Prison
No Child Left Behind Act
Hurricane Katrina
PEOPLE TO KNOW:
William Jefferson (“Bill”) Clinton
H. Ross Perot
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Newt Gingrich
Robert Dole
John McCain
Sarah Palin
Monica Lewinsky
George W. Bush
Richard Cheney
John Kerry
Nancy Pelosi
Barack Obama
Joseph R. (“Joe”) Biden
CHAPTER 42: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FACE A NEW CENTURY