American History
Master Vocabulary List
Chapter 2
Section 2
1. joint-stock company
2. headright,
3. Walter Raleigh,
4. Powhatan Confederacy
Section 3
1. Separatist
2. William Bradford
3. Squanto
4. John Winthrop
5. Massachusetts Bay Co.
6. Roger Williams
7. Anne Hutchinson
Section 4
1. English Civil War
2. Maryland Toleration Act
3. William Penn
4. James Oglethorpe
Chapter 3
Section 1
1. cash crop
2. plantation
3. indentured servant
4. subsistence farming
5. Middle Passage
6. slave code
7. Eliza Lucas
8. William Berkeley
Section 2
1. bill of exchange
2. triangular trade
Section 3
1. mercantilism
2. natural rights
3. Dominion of New England
4. Glorious Revolution.
Section 4
1. Enlightenment
2. Great Awakening
3. Cotton Mather
4. Stono Rebellion
5. John Locke,
6. Montesquieu
7. Jonathan Edwards
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Chapter 4
Section 1
1. duty
2. nonimportation agreement
3. writ of assistance
4. Albany Plan of Union
5. French and Indian War
6. Treaty of Paris
7. Quartering Act
Section 2
1. committee of correspondence
2. minuteman
3. Loyalist
4. Patriot
5. Boston Tea Party
6. Intolerable Acts
7. Second Continental Congress
8. Battle of Bunker Hill
9. Declaration of Independence
Section 3
1. Valley Forge
2. Marquis de Lafayette
3. Saratoga
4. John Paul Jones
5. Charles Cornwallis
6. Yorktown
Section 4
1. emancipation
2. manumission
3. Virginia Statute for Religious
Freedom
Chapter 7
Section 1
1. revenue tariff
2. protective tariff
3. Era of Good Feelings
4. John C. Calhoun
5. John Marshall
6. Adam-Onís Treaty
Section 2
1. interchangeable parts
2. National Road
3. Robert Fulton
4. Industrial Revolution
5. Francis C. Lowell
6. Eli Whitney
7. Samuel F.B. Morse
Section 3
1. cotton gin
2. task system
3. gang system
4. driver
5. Frederick Douglass
6. Denmark Vesey
7. Nat Turner
Section 4
1. “corrupt bargain,”
2. Missouri Compromise
3. Henry Clay
4. American System
Chapter 8
Section 1
1. spoils system
2. secede
3. nullification
4. Tariff of Abominations,
5. Daniel Webster
6. Indian Removal Act
7. Trail of Tears
8. Panic of 1837
Section 2
1. nativism
2. utopia
3. Second Great Awakening
4. Charles Grandison Finney
5. Joseph Smith
Section 3
1 . temperance
2. Dorothea Dix
3. Horace Mann
4. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Section 4
1. abolition,
2. American Colonization Society
3. William Lloyd Garrison
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Chapter 9
Section 1
1. Manifest Destiny
2. John Louis O’Sullivan
3. John Deere
4. Cyrus McCormick
5. John Sutter
6. Kit Carson
7. Donner Party
8. Brigham Young
4. War of attrition.
5. Robert E. Lee
6. Anaconda Plan
Section 2
1. empresario
2. National Colonization Act
3. Antonio López de Santa Anna
4. Sam Houston
5. Alamo
6. William B. Travis
Section 3
1. Hardtack
2. 54th Massachusetts,
3. Elizabeth Blackwell
4. United States Sanitary
Commission
5. Clara Barton
6. Andersonville Prison
Section 3
1. James K. Polk
2. “Fifty-four Forty or Fight,”
3. Zachary Taylor
4. Bear Flag Republic
5. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Chapter 10
Section 1
1. popular sovereignty
2. secession.
3. “Forty-Niners.”
4. Underground Railroad,
5. Transcontinental Railroad
6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
7. Fugitive Slave Act
8. Harriet Tubman
9. Gadsden Purchase
10. Kansas-Nebraska Act
Section 2
1. Dred Scott
Section 3
1. Confederacy
2. Martial Law
3. Crittenden’s Compromise
4. Jefferson Davis
Chapter 11
Section 1
1. Greenback
2. Conscription
3. habeas corpus
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Section 2
1. Bounty
2. “Stonewall” Jackson
3. Ulysses S. Grant,
4. George B. McClellan
5. Emancipation Proclamation
Section 4
1. George Meade
2. Pickett’s Charge
3. William Tecumseh Sherman.
Section 5
1. “Sherman neckties,”
2. Sherman’s March to the Sea
3. Thirteenth Amendment
4. Appomattox Courthouse
5. John Wilkes Booth
Chapter 12
Section 1
1. Reconstruction
2. Amnesty
3. pocket veto
4. Thaddeus Stevens
5. Radical Republicans
6. Wade-Davis Bill
7. Freedmen’s Bureau
Section 2
1. Black Codes
2. Impeach.
3. Civil Rights Act
4. Fourteenth Amendment
5. Military Reconstruction Act
6. Tenure of Office Act
Section 3
1. Carpetbagger
2. Scalawag
3. Graft.
4. Ku Klux Klan Act
Section 4
1. Sin Tax
2. Tenant Farmer
3. Sharecropper,
4. Crop lien
5. Debt Peonage
6. “WhiskeyRing,”
7. Panic of 1873
8. Compromise of 1877
Chapter 13
Section 1
1. Open Range
2. The Long Drive
3. Henry Comstock
4. Vigilance Committee
5. Chisholm Trail
6. Barbed Wire.
Section 2
1. Homestead
2. Dry Farming
3. Sodbuster
4. Bonanza Farm
5. Great Plains
6. Homestead Act 1862
Section 3
1. Annuity
2. Assimilate,
3. Allotment.
4. Little Crow
5. Indian Peace Commission
6.George A. Custer
7. Dawes Act
Chapter 14
Section 1
1. Laissez Faire
2. Morrill Tariff
3. Alexander Graham Bell
4. Thomas Alva Edison
Section 2
1. Time Zone
2. Land Grant
3. Pacific Railway Act
4. Cornelius Vanderbilt
5. Jay Gould
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Section 3
1. Corporation
2. Economies of Scale
3. Fixed costs
4. Operating Costs
5. Pool
6. Vertical Integration
7. Horizontal Integration
8. Monopoly
9. Trust
10. Holding Company
11. Andrew Carnegie
Section 4
1. Trade Union
2. Industrial Union
3. Lockout
4. Marxism
5. Arbitration
6. Closed Shop
7. Blacklist
8. Knights of Labor
Chapter 15
Section 1
1. Steerage
2. Nativism
3. Ellis Island
4. Jacob Riis
5. Angel Island
6. Chinese Exclusion Act.
Section 2
1. Tenement
2. Political Machine
3. Party Boss
4. graft
5. Louis Sullivan
6. George Plunkitt
7. William M. “Boss” Tweed
5. Edward Bellamy
6. Jane Addams
Chapter 16
Section 1
1. Patronage
2. Interstate Commerce Commission
Section 2
1. Populism
2. Greenback
3. Graduated Income Tax
4. Goldbug
5. Silverite.
6. The Grange
7. People’s Party
8. William Jennings Bryan
Section 3
1. Sharecropper
2. Poll tax
3. Segregation
4. Jim Crow laws
5. Ida B. Wells
6. W.E.B. Du Bois
Chapter 17
Section 1
1. imperialism
2. protectorate
3. Anglo-Saxonism
4. Matthew C. Perry
5. Queen Liliuokalani,
Section 2
1. yellow journalism
2. William Randolph Hearst
3. Joseph Pulitzer
4. Theodore Roosevelt
5. Platt Amendment
Section 3
1. Philanthropy
2. Vaudeville
3. Ragtime
4. Gilded Age
5. Social Darwinism
6. Gospel of Wealth
Section 3
1. Open Door policy
2. Dollar Diplomacy
3. Boxer Rebellion
4. “Great White Fleet”
5. Roosevelt Corollary
Section 4
1. Settlement House
2. Americanization
3. Henry George
4. Lester Frank Ward
Chapter 18
Section 1
1. progressivism
2. muckraker
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3. suffrage
4. temperance
5. prohibition
6. socialism
7. Jacob Riis
8. Robert La Follette
9. Alice Paul
Section 2
1. Square Deal
2. Northern Securities
3. United Mine Workers
4. Upton Sinclair
Section 3
1. Payne-Aldrich Tariff
2. Richard Ballinger
3. Gifford Pinchot
Section 4
1. Progressive Party
2. New Nationalism
3. New Freedom
4. Federal Reserve Act
5. Federal Trade Commission
6. National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
Chapter 19
Section 1
1. nationalism
2. self-determination
3. propaganda
4. U-boat
5. Pancho Villa
6. Franz Ferdinand
7. Allies
8. Central Powers
9. Sussex Pledge
10. Zimmermann Telegram
Section 2
1. conscription
2. victory garden
3. War Industries Board
4. Liberty Bond/ Victory Bond
5. Committee on Public
Information
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Section 3
1. armistice
2. reparations.
3. “no man’s land,”
4. Vladimir Lenin
5. Fourteen Points
6. League of Nations
7. Treaty of Versailles
7. National Broadcasting Company
& Columbia Broadcasting System
Section 4
1. Red Scare
2. A. Mitchell Palmer
3. J. Edgar Hoover
Chapter 22
Section 1
1. stock market
2. bull market
3. margin
4. margin call
5. speculation
6. Black Tuesday
7. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Chapter 20
Section 1
1. anarchist
2. eugenics
3. flapper
4. speakeasy
5. Ku Klux Klan
6. Emergency Quota Act
7. Fundamentalism
Section 2
1. Bohemian
2. Ernest Hemingway
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Section 3
1. jazz/ blues
2. Great Migration
3. Harlem Renaissance
4. Langston Hughes
5. Cotton Club
6. Marcus Garvey
Chapter 21
Section 1
1. Return to Normalcy
2. Ohio Gang
3. Albert B. Fall
4. Teapot Dome scandal
5. Robert M. La Follette
Section 2
1. mass production
2. assembly line
3. welfare capitalism
4. open shop
5. Model T
6. Charles Lindbergh
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Section 3
1. supply-side economics
2. isolationism
3. Charles G. Dawes
Section 2
1. shantytown
2. Hooverville
3. hobo
4. Dust Bowl
5. Walt Disney
6. John Steinbeck
7. William Faulkner
Section 3
1. public works
2. relief
3. Reconstruction Finance Corp.
4. Bonus Army
Chapter 23
Section 1
1. gold standard
2. New Deal
3. polio
4. bank holiday
Section 2
1. fireside chats
2. 1st Hundred Days
3. Securities and Exchange
Commission
4. Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
5. Agricultural Adjustment
Administration
6. Civilian Conservation Corps
Section 3
1. deficit spending
2. sit-down strike
3. Social Security Act.
4. Works Progress Administration
5. National Labor Relations
Board
6. Dr. Francis Townsend
7. Huey Long
8. Father Coughlin
Section 4
1. Frances Perkins
2. court-packing
3. John Maynard Keynes
Chapter 24
Section 1
1. fascism
2. Benito Mussolini
3. Joseph Stalin
4. Adolf Hitler
5. Manchuria
6. Neutrality Act of 1935
Section 2
1. appeasement
2. blitzkrieg
3. Maginot Line
4. Winston Churchill
5. Battle of Britain
Section 3
1. Holocaust
2. concentration camp
3. extermination camp
4. Nuremberg Laws
5. Wannsee Conference
Section 4
1. hemispheric defense zone
2. strategic materials
3. Lend-Lease Act
4. Atlantic Charter
Chapter 25
Section 1
1. cost-plus
2. Liberty ship
3. War Production Board
4. Selective Service and Training
Act
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Section 2
1. convoy system
2. Chester Nimitz
3. Douglas MacArthur
4. James Doolittle
5. George Patton
Section 3
1. rationing
2. victory garden
3. Rosie the Riveter
4. zoot suits
5. E bond
Section 4
1. kamikaze
2. Operation Overlord
3. D-Day
4. Guadalcanal
Section 5
1. hedgerow
2. napalm
3. Battle of the Bulge
4. V-E Day
5. Harry S Truman
5. Manhattan Project
6. V-J Day
7. United Nations
Chapter 26
Section 1
1. Cold War
2. iron curtain
3. Potsdam Conference
4. Satellite Nation
Section 4
1. massive retaliation
2. brinkmanship
3. military-industrial complex
4. Sputnik
5. Central Intelligence Agency
Chapter 27
Section 1
1. closed shop
2. featherbedding
3. GI Bill
4. Fair Deal
5. Federal Highway Act
Section 2
1. white-collar
2. blue-collar
3. baby boom
4. Levittown
5. Jonas Salk
Section 3
1. generation gap
2. Ed Sullivan
3. Elvis Presley
4. Little Richard
Section 4
1. poverty line
2. urban renewal
3. termination policy
4. juvenile delinquency
5. Michael Harrington
6. Bracero program
Section 2
1. containment
2. Pusan Perimeter
3. Chaing Kai Shek
4. Marshall Plan
5. NATO
Chapter 28
Section 1
1. missile gap
2. New Frontier
3. Earl Warren
4. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Section 3
1. Fallout
2. fallout shelter
3. loyalty review program
4. Alger Hiss
5. McCarran Act
6. McCarthyism
Section 2
1. space race
2. Peace Corps
3. Berlin Wall
4. Warren Commission
Section 3
1. War on Poverty
2. VISTA
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3. Great Society
4. Medicare/Medicaid
5. Head Start
Chapter 29
Section 1
1. separate-but-equal
2. de facto segregation
3. sit-in
4. NAACP
5. Thurgood Marshall
6. Linda Brown
7. Martin Luther King
8. Jr. Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
Section 2
1. Freedom Riders
2. poll tax
3. Jesse Jackson
4. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Section 3
1. black power
2. Chicago Movement
3. Richard Daley
4. Stokely Carmichael
5. Malcolm X
6. Black Panthers
Chapter 30
Section 1
1. domino theory
2. guerrilla warfare
3. Ho Chi Minh
4. Dien Bien Phu,
5. Ngo Dinh Diem
Section 2
1. Vietcong
2. napalm.
3. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
4. Agent Orange
5. Ho Chi Minh trail
Section 3
1. teach-in
2. doves
3. hawks
4. William Westmoreland
5. Tet offensive
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Section 4
1. Vietnamization.
2. Henry Kissinger
3. Pentagon Papers
4. War Powers Act
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