This is an exhaustive list of US History terms covering the 19th Century.
in bold type were identified by the Pueblo Curriculum Symposium.
Terms
Standard 1: The student will analyze the nature of territorial and population
growth and the impact of this growth in the early decades of the new nation.
Marbury v. Madison
Judicial Review
Northwest Ordinance
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
Barbary Coast Pirates
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
Zebulon Pike
Embargo Act of 1807
Non-Intercourse Act
Macon’s Bill Number 2
Battle of Thames
Tecumseh
War of 1812
Francis Scott Key
Oliver Hazard Perry
Battle of New Orleans
USS Constitution
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
War Hawks
William Henry Harrison
Erie Canal
New York City
national infrastructure
Monroe Doctrine
Adams-Onis Treaty
Era of Good Feeling
Henry Clay
American System
Second Bank of the US
National Road
Talmadge Amendment
Missouri Compromise
Geography of Landforms
Standard 2: Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional
and national impact in the first half of the 19th century, and the different
responses to it.
Pony Express
Bank of the US
Panic of 1837
Industrial Revolution
Ohm’s Law – electric current
Samuel F.B. Morse
Robert Fulton’s Steamboat
Eli Whitney
cotton gin
Growth of Textile industry
Growth of Slavery
Cyrus McCormick
interchangeable parts (muskets)
Lowell factory system
Child labor
Manifest Destiny
2d Great Awakening
reform movements
Transcendentalism
temperance
abolitionism
public schools
women's suffrage
Horace Mann
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B Anthony
Carrie Nation
Seneca Falls Conference “Declaration of Sentiments”
Seminole Wars - 1835
Andrew Jackson
Jacksonian Democracy
Two party system
Whig Party
suffrage
political culture
nationalism
Standard 3: The student will explain the relationship between growing northsouth divisions and westward expansion.
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Oklahoma
Black Hawk Wars - 1832
Oregon Treaty
Mormon Trail
Mormon Migration
Daniel Webster
“Fifty-four forty or Fight”
slavery and American politics
Free Soil Party
Know-Nothing Party
Nat Turner's rebellion
abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
Grimke sisters
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Nullification Crisis
States' rights
John C. Calhoun
Sectionalism
Texas War for Independence
Republic of Texas
Davy Crockett
Daniel Boone
Sam Houston
Stephen F. Austin
Santa Anna
Westward growth
Social hierarchy of settlers
Alamo
James K Polk
Annexation of Texas
Mexican-American War
Winfield Scott
Alamo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
Gadsden Purchase
Sante Fe and Oregon Trail
Navajo Conquest begins
California Gold Rush
Sutter’s Mill
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Standard 4: The student will identify key events, issues, and individuals
relating to the causes, course, and consequences of the Civil War.
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Pottawattamie Massacre
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Lincoln-Douglas debates
popular sovereignty
Dred Scott case
John Brown's Raid
Bleeding Kansas
secession
President Lincoln's second inaugural address
Gettysburg Address
use of emergency powers,
suspension of habeas corpus
Ulysses Grant
Robert E. Lee
"Stonewall" Jackson
William T. Sherman
Jefferson Davis
Battle of Fort Sumter
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle for Atlanta.
Emancipation Proclamation
economic disparity between the North and the South
population
railroads
industrial output
Standard 6: The student will identify legal, political, and social dimensions of
Reconstruction.
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Republican Reconstruction
land redistribution
Freedmen's Bureau
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
Black Codes
Ku Klux Klan
Redeemers
impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Clara Barton
Compromise of 1877
Standard 7: The student will describe the growth of big business and
technological innovations after Reconstruction.
Railroads
Bessemer Process
steel industry
big business
trusts
monopolies
transcontinental railroad
Chinese labor
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Standard Oil Company
Thomas Nast
Thomas Edison: electric light bulb, motion pictures, and the phonograph
George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington
Standard 8: The student will analyze important consequences of American
industrial growth.
Ellis Island
Old immigration
New immigration
Statue of Liberty
American Federation of Labor
Growth of Unioins
Cripple Creek
Ludlow
Samuel Gompers
Knights of Labor
western growth
barbed wire
Dawes Act of 1877
Homestead Act
Morril Act
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Sand Creek Massacre
George Armstrong Custer
Red Cloud
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
Nez Perce Indians
Little Big Horn
Ghost Dancers
Wounded Knee
1894 Pullman strike
Standard 9: The student will identify major efforts to reform American society
and politics in the Progressive Era.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
meatpacking industry
Jane Addams
Hull House
reform movements
role of women
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
NAACP
Ida Tarbell
Muckraker
progressive reforms
initiative
recall
referendum
Robert Lafollette
direct election of senators
labor law reform
Child labor
Compulsory education laws
Boss Tweed
Tammany Hall
Populist Party
Gold Standard
Free Silver
William Jennings Bryan
Scopes Trial
Grangers
mugwumps
Interstate Commerce Act
Standard 10: The student will explain America's evolving relationship with the
world at the turn of the twentieth century.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
anti-Asian immigration
Standard 11: The student will explain America's evolving relationship with the
world at the turn of the twentieth century.
Annexation of Hawaii
Spanish-American War
Philippines
Philippine insurrection
American expansionism
Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
Imperialism
Theodore Roosevelt