Before
Reconstruction
People
Benjamin Rush
John Hancock
John Jay
John Witherspoon
John Peter Muhlenberg
Charles Carroll
Jonathan Trumbull Sr.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Documents
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
Geography
Dates
1776
1787
Literature
Democracy in America, 1835, Alexis de
Tocqueville
Court Cases
Quotes
Terms
Liberty
Egalitarianism
Individualism
Populism
Laissez-faire
Film, Art, Music
1776
Industrialization
and Urbanization
Geography
Alaska: Klondike Gold Rush
Boundaries: new states
People
Williams Jennings Bryan
Eugene V. Debs
Thomas Alva Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
John D. Rockefeller
Jane Addams
Rutherford B. Hayes
Wright Brothers
George Custer
William McKinley
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
W. E. B. Du Bois
Boss Tweed
James A. Garfield
Booker T. Washington
Dates
1877
1890
1898
Literature
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County (Twain)
Risen from the Ranks (Alger)
The Jungle (Sinclair)
Court Cases
Munn vs. Illinois
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Documents
13 , 14 , and 15th Amendments
Compromise of 1877
Homestead Act
Dawes Act
Morrill Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Act
th
Quotes
th
“We are men; we will be treated as men.” (Du Bois)
“The advance of the frontier has meant…a steady growth of
independence on American lives.” (Turner)
“The growth of a large business is merely a survival of the
fittest.” (Rockefeller)
Terms
Great Plains
Wounded Knee
Grange
Chisholm Trail
Credit Mobilier
Immigration
optimism
quotas
Populist
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
Transcontinental Railroad
Ellis Island
American Federation of
Labor
Melting Pot
Urbanization
Tenement
Graft
Settlement House
Political Machine
Patronage
Civil Service
Laissez-Faire
“e Pluribus Unum”
American Indians
Assimilation
Westward Expansion
Philanthropy
Entrepreneur
Policy
Industry boom
Free enterprise
Electricity
Telephone
Steel production
Oil production
Tammany Hall
Film, Art, Music
“Dances With Wolves”
Terms
Progressive Era
Geography
Panama, Panama Canal
Spanish-American War: Guam, Philippines,
Hawaii, Puerto Rico
People
Robert Lafollette
William McKinley
William H. Taft
Susan B. Anthony
Rough Riders
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Sanford P. Dole
W.E.B. DuBois
Henry Ford
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Carrie Chapman Catt
John J. Pershing
Ida B. Wells
Henry Cabot Lodge
Frances Williard
Documents
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Platt Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal Treaty
Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Reserve Act 1913
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
Dates
1898
1901
1910
Literature
The Jungle (Sinclair)
The Wonderful World of Oz (Baum)
Call of the Wild (London)
Court Cases
Quotes
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” (Hearst)
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.” (Roosevelt)
“I am going to make dirt fly.” (Roosevelt about the Panama
Canal)
“I really believe that we might pull off a campaign which
would mean the vote within the next six years…” (Catt)
White Man’s Burden
Isolationism
NAACP
Imperialism
Diplomacy
Prohibition
Foreign Policy
Recall
Yellow Journalism
Muckraker
Initiative
Square Deal
Referendum
Conservation
Suffrage
Federal Reserve
System
Panama Canal
USS Maine
Bull Moose
Dollar Diplomacy
Open Door Policy
Progressive Movement
Expansionism
Yellow fever
New territory
acquisition
Film, Art, Music
Terms
World War I
People
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
General John J. Pershing
Eddie Rickenbacker
Georges Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Henry Cabot Lodge
War Industries Board
Woodrow Wilson
Alvin York
Documents
National Parks Service Act
Selective Service Act
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Treaty of Versailles
Geography
Dates
Argonne Forest
European boundaries before and after WWI
1914-1918
Literature
O Pioneers! and My Antonia (Cather)
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock (Eliot)
Of Human Bondage (Maugham)
Court Cases
Muller vs. Oregon
Schenck v. United States
Quotes
“The world must be made safe for democracy.” (Wilson)
“Let us, while this war lasts, forget our special grievances
and close our ranks shoulder to shoulder with our own white
fellow citizens and the allied nations that are fighting for
democracy.” (Du Bois)
“I believe…that the first time the first woman [in Congress]
had a chance to say no to war she should say it.” (Rankin)
Draft
Fourteen Points
Ratify
League of Nations
Neutrality
Appeasement
Nationalism
Allies
Central Powers
Trench Warfare
Unrestricted Submarine
Warfare
Convoy
Lusitania
Zimmermann note/letter
No Man’s Land
Armistice
Great Migration
American Expeditionary
Force (AEF)
Propaganda
Western Front
Isolationism
Women’s roles: taking
over men’s jobs in
agriculture and industry
during the war
Increased economy
activity after the war
Film, Art, Music
“All Quiet on the Western
Front”
“Sergeant York”
Terms
The Roaring
Twenties
People
Sacco and Vanzetti
John L. Lewis
Warren G. Harding
Charles Evans Hughes
Calvin Coolidge
Clarence Darrow
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Dates
1919-1933
1920
1929
Geography
Literature
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
James Weldon Johnson
Charles Lindbergh
William Jennings Bryan
Bessie Smith
W.E.B. DuBois
Henry Ford
Glenn Curtiss
Documents
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
21st Amendment
American Indian Citizenship Act
1924
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Dream Variations (Hughes)
Court Cases
Quotes
“The business of America is business.” (Coolidge)
“A chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage.”
(Hoover)
Isolationism
Normalcy
Communism
Flapper
Anarchists
Quota System
Teapot Dome Scandal
Urban sprawl
Installment Plan
Prohibition
Speakeasy
Bootlegger
Fundamentalism
Scopes Trial
Harlem Renaissance
Red Scare
Stock Market Crash
Tin Pan Alley
Nativism
Assembly line
Production
Efficiency
Changing role of
women
Social Darwinism
Reduced taxes
Great Migration
Film, Art, Music
“Great Gatsby”
The Great
Depression
Geography
Dates
1929-1939
Dust Bowl
Westward migration
People
Herbert Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Huey Long
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Literature
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
The War of the Worlds (Welles)
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)
Crash of the Hindenburg (radio)
American Gothic (Wood)
Native Son (Wright)
Court Cases
Documents
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Social Security Act
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
Federal Securities Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Wagner Act
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
National Recovery Act (NRA)
Quotes
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” (Roosevelt)
“I pledge to you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the
American people.” (Roosevelt)
Terms
Inflation Overproduction
Recession
Underconsumption
Speculation
Buying on the Margin
Deflation
Black Tuesday
Credit
Dow Jones Industrial
Average
Price Supports
Shantytown
Bread line
Soup Kitchen
Dust Bowl
Direct Relief
Bonus Army
New Deal
Black Cabinet
Bank failures
Court packing
Unemployment
Fiat money
Gold standard
Deportation
Repatriation
Impact on tariffs
World trade
Federal Reserve System
Oakies
Film, Art, Music
“Grapes of Wrath”
“The War of the Worlds”
“Gone with the Wind”
Crash of the Hindenburg
primary source video
“This Land is Your Land”
(Guthrie)
1940’s and
World War II
People
FDR
Joseph Stalin
Adolph Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
Charles de Gaulle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harry S. Truman
Chester A. Nimitz
George Marshall
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Francisco Franco
Vernon Baker
Hideki Tojo
Omar Bradley
George Patton
Douglas MacArthur
Geography
European theater
Midway
Pacific theater
Western Front
Eastern front (Europe)
Island hopping
Berlin Conference
Pearl Harbor
Normandy
Battle of the Bulge
Dates
1933
1939
1941-1945
December 7, 1941
June 6, 1944
Literature
The Lottery (Jackson)
The Human Comedy (Saroyan)
Black Boy (Wright)
Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
(Spock)
Court Cases
Documents
Executive Order 9066
Neutrality Acts
Nonaggression Pact
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Taft-Hartley Act
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Quotes
“Never was so much owed by so many to so few.”
(Churchill)
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – is a date which will live in
infamy.” (Roosevelt)
Terms
Fascism
Genocide
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Rationing
Totalitarian
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
Kamikaze
GI Bill of Rights
Holocaust, Kristallnacht
Ghetto
Nuremberg Trials
Concentration Camp
Axis Powers
Allies
Home Front
D-Day
V-E Day
Japanese, German, and
Italian Internment
Relocation centers
Rosie the Riveter
Little Boy and Fat Boy
Desegregation of military
Liberty Bonds
Victory Gardens
Radar, jet planes
Flying Tigers
Navajo Code Talkers
Penicillin
Amphibian
Tuskegee Airmen
Flack
Manhattan Project
Atomic bomb
Enola Gay
Bataan Death March
U.S. Office of War
Information
Film, Art, Music
“Tora! Tora! Tora!”
“Saving Private Ryan”
“Tuskegee Airmen”
Foo, a JapaneseAmerican Prisoner of the
Rising Sun: The Secret
Prison Diary of Frank
Fujita
1950’s and
The Cold War
Geography
U.S.S.R.
Korea
38th Parallel
People
Harry S. Truman
Mao Zedong
Joseph McCarthy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dr. Jonas Salk
George Marshall
Dates
1950
1957
Literature
Joseph Stalin
Chiang Kai-shek
The Rosenberg’s
John Foster Dulles
Douglas MacArthur
Elvis Presley
Documents
Interstate Highway Act
22nd Amendment
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of
1944
Venona Papers
The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury)
The Power of Positive Thinking (Peale)
Atlas Shrugged (Rand)
The Affluent Society (Galbraith)
Court Cases
Brown v. Board of Education
Mendez v. Westminster
Delgado v. Bastrop
Sweatt v. Painter
Hernandez v. Texas
Quotes
“Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the
Communist Party?” (McCarthy)
“The buck stops here.” (Truman)
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Treiste in the Adriatic, an iron
curtain has descended across the continent.” (Churchill)
“You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the
first one and …the last one …will go over very quickly.”
(Eisenhower)
Terms
Iron Curtain
Containment
Communism
Red Scare
Marshall Plan
Brinkmanship
Truman Doctrine
NATO
United Nations
Satellite Nation
Sputnik I
House Un-American
Activities Committee
(HUAC)
Korean War
McCarthyism
U-2 Incident
Warsaw Pact
H-bomb
GI Bill of Rights
Suburb
Fair Deal
Dixiecrat
Baby Boom
Planned Obsolescence
Consumerism
CIA
Urban Renewal
Bracero
Eisenhower Doctrine
Korean War
Domino Theory
Federal Communications
Commission
Rust Belt to Sun Belt
Credibility gap
Polio vaccine
Film, Art, Music
The Crucible (book, play
and movies)
Rock ‘n Roll
Country and western
music
“J. Edgar”
“Emperor”
Music diffusion
The Turbulent
Sixties
Geography
Saigon
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs
Little Rock
My Lai
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Gulf of Tonkin
Sea of Tranquility
Montgomery and Selma, Alabama
People
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Dien Bien Phu
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Neil Armstrong
Cesar Chavez
Henry Kissinger
Shirley Chisholm
Robert Kennedy
Lester Maddox
Documents
1961
1963
1964
1965
1968
1969
Literature
Fidel Castro
Ray Benevedies
Lee Harvey Oswald Hector P. Garcia
George Wallace
Malcolm X
Robert McNamara
Billy Graham
Gloria Steinem
Betty Freidan
Stokley Carmichael Orval Faubus
Delores Huerta
Ho Chi Minh
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
General William Westmoreland
Pentagon Papers
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Economic Opportunity Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Immigration Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1968
24th Amendment
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Letters from Birmingham
Selective Service Act
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
Dates
Court Cases
Baker v. Carr
Escobedo v. Illinois
Reynolds v. Sims
Engel v. Vitale
Gideon v. Wainwright
Miranda v. Arizona
Mapp v. Ohio
Tinker v. DesMoines
Quotes
“The Great Society demands an end to poverty and racial
injustice.” (LBJ)
“Ich ben ein Berliner.” (JFK)
“I have a dream today,..that people will be judged not by the
color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
(MLK)
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
(Armstrong)
Terms
Flexible Response
Hot Line
Cuban Missile Crisis
Black Power
New Frontier
Peace Corps
Domino Theory
Alliance for Progress
NASA
Migrant Workers
Warren Commission
Great Society
NOW
Medicare
Medicaid
Hawk
Warren Court
Reapportionment
War on Poverty
Dove
Vietcong
Counterculture
March on Washington
Vietnamization
SNCC (Student
Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee)
Sit In
Freedom Riders
Silent Majority
Tet Offensive
“I Have a Dream”
Hippies
Fall of Saigon
Medicare (solvency)
Chicano Mural Movement
American Independent
Party
Affirmative Action
Blank Panthers
Film, Art, Music
“Fog of War”
Andy Warhol
Pop art
Protest music
Woodstock
The 1970’s
Geography
Dates
1969
1972
1974
People
Richard M. Nixon
Neil Armstrong
John Mitchell
John Sirica
John Haldeman
John Ehrlichman
Barbara Jordan
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ayatollah Khomeini
Barry Goldwater
Committee to Reelect the President
Documents
US Reinvestment Act
Endangered Species Act
Equal Rights Amendment
Family Assistance Plan
26th Amendment
War Powers Act
National Energy Act
Camp David Accords
SALT I Treaty (Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks)
Literature
Silent Spring (Carson)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
Seasons In The Sun (McKuen)
Court Cases
Wisconsin v. Yoder
Roe v. Wade
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
Quotes
“I am not a crook.” (Nixon on Watergate)
“I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln.” (Ford)
Terms
New Federalism
Revenue Sharing
Southern Strategy
Stagflation
OPEC (Organization of
the Petroleum Exporting
Countries)
Realpolitik
Détente
Impeachment
Watergate
Saturday Night Massacre
Human Rights
Earth Day
Environmentalism
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
Three Mile Island
Kent State
NOW (National
Organization of Women)
Title IX
Heritage Foundation
Normalization
Marines in Lebanon
Film, Art, Music
The 1980s
Geography
Iran
Nicaragua
U.S.S.R.
Berlin Wall
People
Ronald Reagan
Sandra Day O’Connor
Geraldine Ferraro
George H. W. Bush
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gen. Colin Powell
Jerry Falwell
Oliver North
Phyllis Schlafly
Gen. Norman Schwartzhopf
Documents
Gramm Rudman Hollings Act
Strategic Defense Initiative
A Nation At Risk (AIDS)
Dates
1989
1991
Literature
Beloved (Morrison)
All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten (Fulgham)
Iacocca: an Autobiography (Iacocca)
Court Cases
Edgewood ISD v. Kirby
Texas v. Johnson
Quotes
“I thought it was a neat idea.” (North on Iran-Contra)
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” (Reagan)
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” (Reagan)
Terms
Entitlement Program
New Right
Glasnost
Perestroika
Affirmative Action
Reverse Discrimination
Conservative Coalition
Moral Majority
Reaganomics
Supply-side Economics
Deregulation
AIDS
Iran Contra Affair
Iran Hostage Situation
Sunbelt
INF Treaty
Sandanistas
Tiananmen Square
Operation Desert Storm
Cell phones
NRA (National Rifle
Association)
Peace through strength
Film, Art, Music
“Argo”
Disco music
1990’s and The
New
Millennium
People
William Jefferson Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Kenneth Starr
George W. Bush
Osama bin Ladin
Barack Obama
Estee Lauder
Robert Johnson
Sonia Sotomayor
Geography
World Trade Center
The Balkans
New Orleans levees
H. Ross Perot
Newt Gingrich
Al Gore
Bill Gates
Saddam Hussein
Oprah Winfrey
Sam Walton
Lionel Sosa
Documents
Telecommunications Act of 1996
Proposition 187
Antiterrorism Law of 2001
27th Amendment
American Recover and
Reinvestment Act 2001
USA PATRIOT Act 2001
Dates
1991
1998
2000
2001
Literature
House on Mango Street (Cisneros)
The Joy Luck Club (Tan)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou)
7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Covey)
Court Cases
Grutter v. Bollinger
Bush v. Gore
Quotes
“We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to
terrorism. Every nation in every region now has a decision
to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the
terrorists.” (Bush)
Terms
9/11
War on Terror
al-Qaeda
Persian Gulf War
Axis of Evil
NAFTA
GATT
Contract with America
Service Sector
Downsize
NASDAQ
Dotcom
Global Economy
Internet
Impeachment
Information Superhighway
Telecommute
Genetic Engineering
Graying of America
Oklahoma City Bombing
Kashmir
Jammu
Anthrax
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Facebook
Social media
Eminent domain
Balkan Crisis
President Election of 2000
President Election of 2008
American Conservative
Party
Constitutionalist Tea Party
Green Party
Libertarian Party
United Nations
ACLU
LULAC
Islamic Brotherhood
Caliphate
Illegal immigration
Hurricane Katrina
Film, Art, Music