US History End of Course
Review Guide
Colonization
Reasons for Colonization
First Great Awakening
Bacon’s Rebellion
John Winthrop
Triangular Trade/Middle Passage
French and Indian War
Revolution
Stamp Act
Boston Massacre and Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Common Sense
2nd Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Battle of Saratoga
Yorktown
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Shays Rebellion
Constitution
Constitutional convention
“Bundle of Compromises” Examples
Checks and Balances
Federalism
Federalists vs Anti-federalists
Federalist Papers
Ratification
Early Republic
Westward Expansion (see map)
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Act
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Nullification
War of 1812 )Causes and Events of)
Embargo Act
Early Republic cont’d
Monroe Doctrine
Missouri Compromise
Indian Removal and Trail of Tears
Antebellum America
Manifest Destiny
Mexican- American War
Market Revolution
Lowell Mills
Early or Old Immigration
Second Great Awakening
Abolition Movement and Leaders
Seneca Fall Convention
Dorthea Dix
Horace Mann
Compromise of 1850
Underground Railroad
Kansas Nebraska Act
Dred Scott case
Civil War and Reconstruction
Anaconda Plan
Reason for Secession
Fort Sumter
Conscription
Antietam/Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Gettysburg
Total War
Appomattox
Reconstruction Act of 1867
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment
Freedman’s Bureau
Sharecropping
Compromise of 1877
Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v Ferguson
Grandfather Clause
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Western Expansion and Populism
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
Importance of Gold and RR
Abuses of the Railroad
Assimilation
Dawes Act
Wounded Knee
Role of Women in the West
Grange and Granger Laws
Populism
Free Silver Issue
William Jennings Bryan
Cross of Gold Speech
Imperialism cont’d
American Expansion (see chart)
Spanish American War
Yellow Journalism
DeLome Letter
USS Maine
Philippine Debate
Platt Amendment
Open Door Note (Policy)
Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Policy
Roosevelt Corellary
Panama Canal
Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
Wilson’s “Moral or Missionary Diplomacy”
Urbanization, Immigration, Progressivism
Rise of Unions (Reasons for)
Social Darwinism
Monopolies and Trusts
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Collective Bargaining
Eugene V. Debs
Socialism
Strike of the 1880s and 1890s
New Immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gentleman’s’ Agreement
Problems of Urbanization
Social Gospel
Jane Addams and Hull House
Political Machine
Boss Tweed
Patronage or Spoils System
Goals of Progressivism
Prohibition
Muckrakers
Initiative, Referendum, and Recall
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
Wilson’s New Freedom
World War I
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Lusitania
Zimmerman Note
Selective Service Act
War Industries Board
Food Administration
War Bonds
Creel Committee
Espionage and Sedition Act
Great Migration
Wilson’s 14 points
League of Nations
Reparations
War Guilt Clause
Reasons for American Rejection of Treaty of
Versailles
Imperialism
American Motivations
1920s and 1930s
Red Scare of 1920s
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Rise of the KKK
Immigration Quota System
Scopes Trial
Prohibition/Organized Crime
Flappers
Dawes Plan
1920s and 1930s
Installment Plan
Flappers
Harlem Renaissance
Lost Generation
Uneven Distribution of Wealth
Speculation
Buying on Margin
Black Tuesday
Great Depression
Shantytowns (Hoovervilles)
Soup Kitchen and Bread Lines
Dust Bowl
Direct Relief
Boulder Ban
Bonus Army
“Rugged Individualism”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
ABC Agencies
Relief, Reform, Recovery
Court Packing
Huey Long
New Deal and Minorities
Deficit Spending
World War II
Rise of Fascism in Europe
Changes in American Neutrality
Holocaust
Nuremburg Trials
Japanese Interment
Zoot Suit Riots
Congress of Racial Equality
Rosie the Rivetor
Office of Price Administration
War Production Board
Rationing
Convoy systems
Battle of Stalingrad
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
World War II cont’d
Island Hopping
Battle of Midway
Battle of Iwo Jima
Manhattan Project
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Potsdam Conference
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Cold War
Potsdam Conference
Satellite nations
Truman’s Containment
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Korean War
Loyalty Review Board
HUAC
Hiss and Rosenburgs
Mac Carthyism
Eisenhower Massive Retaliation/ Brinkmanship
Suez Crisis
Hungarian Crisis
Sputnik
NASA
Interstate Highway Act
GI Bill
Consumerism of 1950s
Anxiety of 1950s
Kennedy New Frontier
“Flexible Response”
Castro and Cuba
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Hotline
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Peace Corps
Alliance for Progress
1960s and 1970s
LBJ’s Great Society programs
Rachel Carson’s Silent Springs
Segregation
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education
Little Rock
Montgomery Bus Boycott
SCLC
Martin Luther King Jr.
SNCC
Sitins
Freedom riders
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Domino theory
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Kent State University
My Lai
Tet Offensive
Students for a Democratic Society
War Powers Act of 1973
Richard Nixon
Vietnamization
Paris Peace Accords
Détente
Watergate
Iran Hostage Crisis
Stagflation
Energy Crisis
Three Mile Island
Equal Rights Amendment
1980s and 1990s
Ronald Reagan
Supply Side Economics/ Trickle down
economics
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Taliban
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Star Wars Project
Iran-Contra Schandal
George H. Bush
Iraqi War (Invasion of Kuwait)
Deregulation
Bill Clinton
NAFTA
Moral Majority
Global Warming
George W. Bush
Patriot Act