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Teacher: Mr. Gill
Director of Social Studies: Mr. Widmann
Wantagh High School
Social Studies Department
Mr. Gill’s U.S. History and Government
Vocabulary List- Part II
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Amnesty
Freedman’s Bureau
Pardon
13th Amendment
Black Codes
14th Amendment
Impeach
15th Amendment
Scalawags
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Carpet Baggers
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ku Klux Klan
W.E.B. Du Bois
Sharecropping
Booker T. Washington
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Clause
Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Lynching
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
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Westward Expansion
WORDS
EVENTS /PEOPLE/ PLACES
Transcontinental Rail Road
Credit Mobilier
Nomads
Homestead Act
Plains Indians
Wounded Knee
Buffalo
Populist Party
Reservations
Dawes Act
Cooperatives
National Grange
Free Silver
The Gilded Age
WORDS
EVENTS /PEOPLE/ PLACES
Immigration
Emigrate
Ellis Island
Steerage
Angel Island
Assimilate
Immigration Act of 1917
Sweatshops
Chinese Exclusion Act
Famine
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Nativists
Emergency Quota Act
Tenements
National Origins Act
Slums
Settlement House
Industrialization
Assembly Line
Henry Ford
Mass Production
Model T Ford
Corporation
John D. Rockefeller
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Stock
Andrew Carnegie
Shareholders
J. Piermont Morgan
Horizontal Integration
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Vertical Integration
Interstate Commerce Act
Mergers
Interstate Commerce Commission
Philanthropy
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair
Mergers
Pure Food and Drug Act
Robber Barons
Laissez Faire
Unions
Sweatshops
American Federation of Labor
Trade Unions
Samuel Gompers
Collective Bargaining
Triangle Shirt Waist Company (Fire)
Injunction
Homestead Strike
Haymarket Square Riot
Pullman Strike
Progressive Movement
Initiative
16th Amendment
Referendum
17th Amendment
Recall
18th Amendment
Prohibition
19th Amendment
Muckrakers
How the Other Half Lives- Jacob Riis
Yellow Journalists
Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party)
Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt
Suffrage
Seneca Falls Convention
William H. Taft
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Federal Reserve Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission
Imperialism
Isolationism
Joseph Pulitzer
Expansionism
William Randolph Hurst
Imperialism
William H. Seward (Seward’s Folly)
Annexation
(Commodore) Matthew Perry
Spheres of Influence
Boxer Rebellion
Protectorate
Open Door Policy
Anti-Imperialist
“The Great White Fleet”
Yellow Journalism
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Rough Riders
The Maine
“The Splendid Little War”- Spanish American War
Platt Amendment
Guantanamo Bay
Dollar Diplomacy
Panama Canal
“ Walk softly but carry a big stick” – Who said it and why?
World War I
Nationalism
Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand
Militarism
Lusitania
Alliance System
Trench Warfare
Propaganda
Liberty Bonds
Dissent
Schenck v. United States
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Pacifist
Woodrow Wilson
Espionage
Selective Service Act
Sabotage
Treaty of Versailles
Socialist
14 Points (speech)
Isolationism
League of Nations
Jazz Age
Flapper
Calvin Coolidge
Jazz
“Return to normalcy”
Installment Buying
Sacco and Vanzetti
Scandal
Warren G. Harding
Speak Easy
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
Evolution
Scopes Trial
21st Amendment
Depression and New Deal
Stock Exchange
Herbert Hoover
On Margin
“Black Thursday”
Work Relief
Great Depression
Migrant Workers
Hoovervilles
Relief
Bonus Army
Recovery
Dust Bowl
Reform
“The Grapes of Wrath”- John Steinbeck
Subsidies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Unemployment
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Unemployment Service
The New Deal
Hundred Days
Second New Deal
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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Social Security Act
Wagner Act
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
“Court Packing”
World War II
Fascism
Joseph Stalin
Anti- Semitism
Benito Mussolini
Totalitarian State
Adolf Hitler
Dictator
America First Committee
Appeasement
Lend-Lease Act
Blitzkrieg
Atlantic Charter
Allies
Pearl Harbor
Axis Powers
Rosie the Riveter
Ration
D-Day (Invasion of Normandy)
Internment Camps
V-E Day
Genocide
Harry S. Truman
Concentration Camps
Iwo Jima
Holocaust
Manhattan Project
Island Hopping
Hiroshima
Kamikazes
Nagasaki
V-J Day
Cold War and the 1950’s and 60’s
“Iron Curtain”
United Nations
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Inflation
Marshall Plan
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Stalemate
Berlin Wall
Demilitarized Zone
Blacklists
Berlin Air Lift
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
McCarthyism
NSC (National Security Council)
Censure
Mao Zedong
Arms Race
GI Bill of Rights
Space Race
Fair Deal
Exiles
Taft Hartley Bill
Domino Theory
Korean Conflict
Guerilla Warfare
38th Parallel
Baby Boom
House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Standard of Living
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Suburbs
Federal Highway Act
Rock and Roll
Civil Defense Administration
Materialism
NASA
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
Civil Rights Movement and the War in Vietnam
Segregation
Plessy v. Ferguson
Integration
Brown v. Board of Education
Boycott
Thurgood Marshall
Civil Disobedience
Little Rock, Arkansas (the Little Rock 9)
Poverty Line
Rosa Parks
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Medicare
Medicaid
Martin Luther King Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Sit In
Richard M. Nixon
Escalate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Counter Culture
“Great Society”
Draft
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Doves
Freedom Riders
Hawks
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Vietnamization
Malcolm X
Martial Law
Black Panther Party
Riot
Nixon’s Presidency
Détente
SALT I
Shuttle Diplomacy
Yom Kippur War
Affirmative Action
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Stagflation
OPEC
Deficit
Watergate
Impeachment
Freedom of Information Act (1972)
Ford and Carter’s Presidencies
Pardon
Gerald Ford
Amnesty
Camp David Accords
Underemployment
SALT II
Trade Deficit
Jimmy Carter
Human Rights
Ayatollah Khomeini
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
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Fundamentalists
Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush’s (JR) Presidencies
Deregulation
Ronald Reagan
Federal Debt
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Sandinistas
Iran-Contra Scandal
Contras
(START) Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Glasnost
Saddam Hussein
Perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev
Coup
Kuwait
Bankruptcy
George Bush (Senior)
Grass Roots
Operation Desert Storm
Budget Deficit
Bill Clinton
Line-Item Deficit
NAFTA
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
Al Gore
Incumbent
George W. Bush (Junior)
Internet
Election of 2000
Globalization
9/11/2001
Osama Bin Laden
War in Afghanistan
Taliban
Al Qaeda
War in Iraq