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1: Early America
Vocabulary:
Enlightenment
French and Indian War
Sugar, Stamp, and Tea Acts
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Declaration of Independence
American Revolution
Loyalist
Patriot
First and Second Continental Congress
Articles of Confederation
Shays’ Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
Constitution
Great Compromise
Federalist
Anti-Federalist
Bill of Rights
Cabinet
Washington’s Farewell Address
First National Bank
Loose construction
Strict construction
Political party
Democratic-Republicans
Federalists
Whisky Rebellion
Alien and Sedition Acts
XYZ Affair
Impressment
War of 1812
Fort McHenry
Burning of Washington
Status quo
Era of Good Feelings
Monroe Doctrine
Internal Improvements
Indian Removal Act
Second National Bank
Jacksonian Democracy
Whig Party
Major Figures:
George III
Thomas Paine
Charles Cornwallis
George Washington
Marquis de Lafayette
Nathanael Greene
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
John Jay
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Andrew Jackson
Nicholas Biddle
John Marshall
Documents:
2: Expansion and Union
Vocabulary:
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri Compromise
Manifest Destiny
Santa Fe Trail
Mexican-American War
Texas War of Independence
Annex
California Gold Rush
Oregon Trail
Sectionalism
Plantation system
Cash crop
Cotton gin
Tariff
Nullification
Interchangeable parts
Eerie Canal
First Industrial Revolution
Abolitionism
Underground Railroad
Second Great Awakening
Seneca Falls Convention
Suffrage
Turner’s Rebellion
Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Free soilers
Popular sovereignty
Scott v. Sandford
Republican Party
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Election 1860
Border states
Secession
Confederate States of America
Civil War
War of attrition
Draft
Martial law
Writ of habeas corpus
King Cotton
Anaconda Plan
Emancipation Proclamation
contraband
Battles: Bull Run, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg
Siege
Gettysburg Address
Guerillas
Reconstruction
13th Amendment
14th Amendament
15th Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau
Radical Reconstruction
Civil rights
Impeachment
Carpet baggers
Scalwags
Tenant farming
Ku Klux Klan
Major Figures:
Thomas Jefferson
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
John C. Calhoun
Eli Whitney
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nat Turner
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglas
Harriett Tubman
Dredd Scott
Roger Taney
John Brown
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Documents:
Factory Life as It Is, by an Operative, 1845
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Slavery as a Positive Good - John C. Calhoun
The Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Conference
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” - Frederick Douglass
“A House Divided” speech, Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural Address - Abraham Lincoln
3: Industrialization and Westward Expansion
Vocabulary:
Industrialization
Capitalism
Transportation Revolution
Bessemer Process
Mass production
Railroads
Robber Barons
Monopoly
Cartel
Trust
Economies of Scale
Sherman Antitrust
Business cycle
Division of labor
Transcontinental Railroad
“Wild West”
Exodusters
Morrill Land-Grant Act
Land speculators
Homestead Act
Dry farming
Long drive
Buffalo Soldiers
Indian Wars
Battle of Little Big Horn
Wounded Knee Massacre
Reservations
Dawes Act
Genocide
Boomers
Sooners
Social Darwinism
Socialism
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Collective bargaining
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Populist Party
Deflation
Monetary policy
The Grange
Interstate Commerce Act
Progressive income tax
Bimetalism
Xenophobia
Nativism
Quarantine
Chinese Exculsion Act
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Suburbs
Tenements
Ghettos
Gilded Age
Laissez-faire
Blue laws
Civil service
Political machines
Social gospel movement
Settlement house
Niagra Movement
Ragtime
Rural free delivery
Department stores
Mail-order catalogs
Jim Crow
Poll tax
Grandfather clause
Plessy v. Ferguson
Lynching
Segregation
Major Figures:
Thomas Edison
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
George Armstrong Custer
William Jennings Bryan
Frederick Jackson Turner
Andrew Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
James G. Blaine
Grover Cleveland
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Chief Joseph
William McKinley
Boss Tweed
Jacob Riis
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Scott Joplin
Documents:
American Progress - John Gast
“The Atlanta Exposition Address” speech - Booker T. Washington
“Cross of Gold” Speech - William Jennings Bryan
Homestead Act (1862)
4: Imperialism, Progressivism, and WWI
Vocabulary:
Imperialism
Nationalism
Banana republics
Jingoism
Yellow journalism
U.S.S. Maine
Spanish-American War
Open Door Policy
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
Dollar Diplomacy
Great White Fleet
Square Deal
Zimmerman note
Lusitania
U-boat
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Selective Service Act
American Expeditionary Force
Armistice
Liberty bonds
Price controls
Direct primary
Initiative
Recall
Referendum
Coservationsists
New Nationalism
New Freedom
Clayton Antitrust
Federal Reserve system
Child labor
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Department of Labor
Rationing
Sedition
Wilsonian Interventionism
Mobilization
Propaganda
Treaty of Versailles
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Self-determination
Reparations
League of Nations
Isolationism
Muckrakers
Social welfare programs
Women’s suffrage
Civil disobedience
National American Woman Suffrage Association
19th Amendment
Temperance movement
NAACP
Harlem Renaissance
Central powers
Allies
Stalemate
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Ellis Island
Quota
Great Migration
Barrio
Race Riots
Red Summer
Garvey movement
Nativism
Major Figures:
William McKinely
Theodore Roosevelt
Willian Randolph Hearst
Queen Liliuokalani
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Jane Addams
William Howard Taft
J.P. Morgan
Woodrow Wilson
Florence Kelley
Susan B. Anthony
John J. Pershing
Documents:
“The New Colossus” - Emma Lazarus
“The New Nationalism” Speech - Thedore Roosevelt
Fourteen Points - Woodrow Wilson
5: Interwar, Great Depression and WWII
Vocabulary:
Roaring Twenties
Jazz Age
Flappers
Feminism
Installment plan
Mass media
Lost Generation
Assembly line
Harlem Renaissance
Communism
New Deal
Hundred Days
Public works programs
Tennessee Valley Authority
Works Progress Administration
Wagner Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Securities and Exchange Commission
National Recovery Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Agricultural Adjustment Administrration
Social Security Act
American Liberty League
Demagogues
Red Scare
Schenck v. US
Palmer Raids
Prohibition
Bootleggers
Speakeasies
Fundamentalism
Scopes Trial
Assembly Line Production
Flight
Court packing
Sit-down strikes
Totalitarian
Fascism
Axis Powers
Appeasement
Allies
Isolationism
Neutrality Acts
Cash and carry
Lend-Lease Act
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic Charter
Bataan Death March
Battles: Midway, D-Day, Okinawa, Battle of the Bulge, Iwo Jima
Yalta Conference
Manhattan Project
Electrification
Wesfare capitalism
Buying on margin
Stock market
Black Tuesday
Gross National Product
Hoovervilles
Dust Bowl
Bonus Army
Smoot-Hawley tariff
Potsdam Conference
Holocaust
anti-Semitism
Concentration camps
Death camps
Nisei
Internment camps
Women in the Workplace
Navajo Code Talkers
Zoot Suit Riots
Tuskegee Airmen
Rationing
Wildcat strikes
Deficit spending
Economic Growth
Victory Garden
War Bonds
“Double V” Campaign
Major Figures:
Sacco and Vanzetti
Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Dorothea Lange
John Steinbeck
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Father Coughlin
Huey Long
John L. Lewis
George Patton
George Marshall
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A. Phillip Randolph
Documents:
“The Case against the Reds” - A. Mitchell Palmer
“Four Freedoms” speech - Franklin D. Roosevelt
“A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”
6: Post War US
Vocabulary:
Sattelite nations
Containment
Iron curtain
Long Telegram
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
North American Treaty Organization (NATO)
Collective security
Warsaw Pact
Second Red Scare
House Un-American Activites Committee (HUAC)
Hollywood Ten
Blacklist
Korean War
McCarthyism
Domino theory
Nuclear Anxiety
Brinkmanship
Arms race
ICBMs
Sputnik
Eastern European Uprisings
Berlin Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Mutually Assured Destruction
Franchises
Transistors
Fair Deal
Taft-Hartley Act
National Defense Education Act
Interstate system
Baby Boom
GI Bill
Beatniks
Brown vs Board of Education
Desegregation
Little Rock Nine
Desegregation of the military
Major Figures:
George Marshall
George Kennan
Harry S Truman
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Alger Hiss
Eugene McCarthy
Douglas MacArthur
Ruby Bridges
Jackie Robinson
Rosa Parks
Documents:
Iron Curtain speech - Winston Churchill
Long Telegram - George Kennan
Address Before the Joint Session of Congress (1947) - Harry S. Truman
“Declaration of Conscience” Speech - Margaret Chase Smith
Eisenhower Sputnik Conference Memo
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
7: US in Troubled Times
Vocabulary:
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Disobedience
Nonviolent protest
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Sit-in
Freedom Rides
Albany Movement
Nationa of Islam
Black Nationalism
Black Power
De jure segregation
De facto segregation
New Frontier
Warren Commission
Great Society
Medicare
Medicaid
War on Poverty
Immigration Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
Space Race
Green Revolution/2nd Agricultural Revolution
Environmentalism
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Enviornmental Proection Agency (EPA)
Second Wave Feminism
National Organization of Women (NOW)
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Anti-War
Disability rights movement
Migrant farm workers
United Farm Workers (UFW)
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Autonomy
Vietnam War
Viet Cong
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
Pacification
New Left
Pentagon Papers
Conscientious objectors
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Paris peace talks
Vietnamization
SALT
Detente
One China Policy
Camp David Accords
Irananian hostage crisis
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Decolonization
Israel
War on Drugs
Silent majority
Southern Strategy
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Embargo
Watergate
Special prosecutor
Stagflation
Recession
War Powers Act
Major Figures:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
James Baldwin
George Wallace
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
Phyllis Schlafly
Cesar Chavez
Rachel Carson
Ralph Nader
Denis McNamara
Henry Kissinger
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Documents:
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” and “I Have a Dream” speech - Martin Luther King Jr. Speech
“The Ballot or the Bullett” - Malcolm X
Inaugural Address (1961) - John F Kennedy
Excerpts from The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
“Address to the Commonwealth Club of California” - Cesar Chavez
8: End of the Cold War
Vocabulary:
Reagan Revolution
New Right
Supply side economics
Air Traffic Controllers Strike
Strategic Defense Initiative
INF Treaty
Increased defense spending
Moral Majority
Iran-Contra Affair
Sandinistas
START I
Persian Gulf War
Contract with America
Entitlements
Aid to Families with Dependent children (AFDC)
Computer Age
Climate Change
AIDS/HIV
Glasnost
Perestroika
End of the Cold War
End of History
Unipolar World
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Neoliberalism
Triangulation
Globalization
Outsourcing
Deindustrialization
Free Trade
Major Figures:
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Sandra Day O’Connor
Colin Powell
Bill Clinton
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Alan Greenspan
Documents:
Address to the Nation on the Economy - February 1981 - Ronald Reagan
“Speech at the Brandenburg Gate” - Ronald Reagan
President Bush Addresses the Nation Announcing Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf
The End of History? - Francis Fukuyama
9: 21st Century America
Vocabulary:
Mujahadeen
Islamism
9/11
Terrorism
Global War on Terror
Internet Age
Social Media
Undocumented immigrants
Lone Wolf Terrorism
Black Lives Matter
Housing Crisis
Financial Crisis
Bailout
Stimulus
Tea Party
Occupy Wall Street
Populism
COVID-19
Major Figures:
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Hilary Clinton
Donald Trump
Documents:
“Freedom at War with Fear” speech - George Bush
Victory Speech - Barack Obama
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Presidential Campaign Announcement - Donald Trump
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