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Maize
Slavery in Colonial America
Northwest Ordinance
Civilizations in the Great Basin,
Mississippi River Valley, and
California
Bacon’s Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
Middle Passage/Triangle Trade
The Constitution
Iroquois Confederacy
Slavery in the Chesapeake Region vs.
Deep South
Limited Government
Spanish Exploration
Columbian Exchange
Joint-Stock Companies
Slave Codes
Slave Resistance
African American Culture
Federalism
Separation of Powers
The Great Compromise
3/5 Compromise
Effect of Epidemics on Native
Americans
Staple Crop
Encomienda System
Life in the Chesapeake Colonies
Pueblo Revolt
Life in New England
British Exploration
First Great Awakening
Powhatan’s Confederacy and first
and second Anglo-Powhatan Wars
Salutary Neglect
Jamestown
Albany Plan
Alexander Hamilton’s Economic
Policies
Settlement in the Southern Colonies
French and Indian War
Whiskey Rebellion
Indentured Servitude
Proclamation of 1763
Bank of the United States
Tobacco
Mercantilism
Strict Constructionist
Influence of the West Indies
Loose Constructionist
House of Burgesses
Influence of the Enlightenment on
the Revolution
Settlement in the Northern Colonies
Effects of Taxes on the Revolution
Settlement in the Middle Colonies
The Rights of Englishmen
Plymouth
The Revolutionary War
Religious Freedom in the Colonies
Major Battles of the Revolutionary
War
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
State’s Rights
The Declaration of Independence
Nullification
French Involvement
Federalists
Benjamin Franklin
Democratic Republicans
Influence on other Revolutions
John Marshall Court
“Republican motherhood”
Marbury v. Madison
Articles of Confederation
McCulloch vs. Maryland
Royal Colonies
Proprietary Colonies
Charter Colonies
Mayflower Compact
Town Hall Meetings
New England Confederation
Pequot War
King Phillips War
George Washington
Prohibition of the Slave Trade
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
Federalist Papers
Ratification
Bill of Rights
Jay’s Treaty
Impressment
Washington’s Farewell Address
Alien and Sedition Acts
Cohens vs. Virginia
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Fletcher vs. Peck
Mormonism
Reform Movements
Dartmouth College vs. Woodward
Louisiana Purchase
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown
Temperance Movement
Stephen Douglas
War of 1812
Women’s Rights Movement
The American System
Monroe Doctrine
Declaration of Sentiments – Seneca
Falls Women’s Rights Convention
The Impending Crisis of the South
The Era of Good Feelings
Utopian Movements
Dred Scott decision
Transcendentalism
Rise of the Republican Party
The Missouri Compromise
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Hartford Convention
Henry Clay
The Corrupt Bargain
Universal Manhood Suffrage
Abraham Lincoln
Rise of Antebellum Culture
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Lone Star Rebellion
1860 Election
Annexation of Texas
Southern Secession
The Democratic Party
Andrew Jackson:
Manifest Destiny
Confederate States of America
Oregon Trail
Influence of Northern Manufacturing
on Sectionalism
Mexican American War
Influence of Southern Agriculture on
Sectionalism
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Union advantages and disadvantages
The Trail of Tears
Wilmot Proviso
Confederate advantages and
disadvantages
The Bank War
Cotton Gin
Emancipation Proclamation
The Whig Party
Cotton Production
Reasons for Union Victory
Election of 1840
Southern Society
African American Enlistment
Market Revolution -Factory Labor
Slave Culture
Importance of the Border States
Urbanization
Free Black Life and Culture
New York Draft Riot
Inventions of the Market Revolution
Abolitionist movements
Major Battles of the Civil War
Lowell Factory
William Lloyd Garrison
Gettysburg Address
Cult of Domesticity
Frederick Douglass
13th Amendment
Irish Immigration
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
14th Amendment
Nativism and the Know Nothing
Party
Popular Sovereignty
15th Amendment
California Gold Rush
Effect of Reconstruction on Women
Underground Railroad
The Freedman’s Bureau
Compromise of 1850
Presidential Reconstruction
Fugitive Slave Law
Congressional Reconstruction
Expansion in Latin America
Radical Reconstruction
Increased trade with Asia
Black Codes
Gadsden Purchase
Sharecropping
Increased Sectionalism
The Tariff of Abominations
The Nullification Crisis
The Indian Removal Act
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts
Erie Canal
Railroads
Second Great Awakening
Ku Klux Klan
New South – industrialization
Compromise of 1877
Labor Unions
Government Corruption in the
Gilded Age
American Federation of Labor
Political machines- Boss Tweed
Immigration – New Immigration
Jim Crow Laws
Development of ethnic
neighborhoods
Grandfather Clause
Assimilation and Americanization
Poll Tax
Social Gospel
Plessy v. Ferguson
Settlement Houses
African American Migration after
the Civil War
Nativism
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
Increased standard of living during
the Gilded Age
Increased gap between the rich and
poor during the Gilded Age
Women in the Gilded Age
Economy focused on the production
of Consumer Goods
Improved Standard of Living,
Transportation, and
Communication
Muckrakers
Progressive Goals – federal
regulation
Conservationists and the
Establishment of National Parks
Prohibition – 18th Amendment
Women’s Role in Progressive
Reform
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Women’s Suffrage - 19th
Amendment
The Gold Standard
African Americans during the
Industrial Revolution
Divisions within the Progressive
Movement – segregation,
immigration
The effect of mechanization on
agriculture
Booker T. Washington
Dollar Diplomacy
W.E.B. Dubois
Eugene V. Debs and Socialism
Charles Darwin and Evolution
Moral Diplomacy
Temperance Movement
US Intervention in Mexico during
the Mexican Revolution
The Populist Party
Government subsidies for railroads
Transcontinental railroad
Interstate Commerce Act and
Commission
Boomtowns of the West
Increased production of goods
- Mining
- Technological innovation
- Farming
- Access to natural resources
- Ranching
- Redesigned financial structure
- Railroads
- Growing labor force
Decimation of the bison population
American Isolationism at the start
of WWI
“War to End all Wars”
US Military Contributions to WWI
14 Points
Trusts
Laissez-faire policies
- Increase in immigration from
Mexico
League of Nations
Vertical Integration
Competition for land between
Mexican Americans, American
Indians, and Mexican Americans
Horizontal Integration
Reservation System
Treaty of Versailles
Interlocking Directorates
Dawes Severalty Act
Red Scare
Andrew Carnegie
Turner Thesis
Sacco and Vanzetti
John D. Rockefeller
American Imperialism
J.P. Morgan
Panama Canal
Immigration Restrictions of the
1920’s – Quotas
Social Darwinism
Spanish American War
Gospel of Wealth
Big Stick Diplomacy
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe
Doctrine
Restrictions on Freedom of Speech
during WWI
Scopes Trial and the Evolution
Debate
Fundamentalism vs. Modernism
Increased production of consumer
goods in the 1920’s – improved
standard of living
Keynesian Economics
Taft-Hartley Act
Successes of the New Deal
GI Bill
Henry Ford and the Model T
Failures of the New Deal
Baby Boom
City Life in the 1920’s
The Dust Bowl
Sunbelt Migration
Speakeasies and Jazz
Radical, Union and Populist
influence on the New Deal
Suburbia and White Flight
Mass Media – Radio, Movies
Gender Roles – Flappers, Margaret
Sanger
Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration
Mexican Immigration
Wagner Act
Committee for Industrial
Organization
Conservative resistance to the New
Deal- Father Charles Coughlin and
Huey P. Long
Military Industrial Complex
Rise of Consumerism and New
Technology in the 1950’s
US Role in the Post-War (WWII)
peace settlements
United Nations
Political realignment within the
Democratic party during the 1930’s
Rise of the US as a Superpower
Teapot Dome Scandal
“Rugged Individualism”
Good Neighbor Policy
Berlin Airlift
Foreign Policy between the World
Wars
Isolationism in WWII
Containment
- Isolationism
- Neutrality Acts of 1935,1936, and
1937
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
- Naval Treaties
- Neutrality Act of 1939 – “Cash and
Carry”
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Lend-Lease Act
NATO vs. Warsaw Pact
Credit Market instability in the
early 20th century leads to the Great
Depression
- Atlantic Conference and Charter
Joseph McCarthy and
McCarthyism
- Intervention in Latin America
- Instability in Farming after WWI
– Overproduction
Pearl Harbor Attack
Motivation for American
Participation in the War
Causes of the Cold War
Central Intelligence Agency
The Korean War
Domino Theory
Wartime Industrial Mobilization
Brown v. Board of Education
- Rosie the Riveter
Desegregation in the South
- Over speculation – Buying on
Margin
- Desegregated Factory Labor
during WWII
Arms Race
Black Tuesday
Japanese Internment
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Bracero Program
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Minority Soldiers in WWII
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
WWII Warfare - Technological
advances
- European Debt and the Dawes
Plan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Massive Retaliation
US Involvement in Vietnam during
the 1950’s
Competition between the US and
USSR for influence in Asia, Africa,
and the Middle East
US Anti-Communist intervention in
Latin America
New Deal
Major Battles in the European
Theater
Hundred Days
D-Day
Social Security
Major Battles in the Pacific Theater
Fair Labor Standards Act
Island Hopping
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine
Mystique
Securities and Exchange
Commission
Use of the Atomic Bomb
Election of 1960
Yalta Conference Agreements
Kennedy’s New Frontier
Federal Housing Administration
Space Race
The Beatniks
Berlin Wall
- Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Immigration Reform
US Anti-Communist intervention in
Latin America
Chicano Movement, American
Indian and Asian American
Movements
Changes in Gender Roles and
Family Structure
- Bay of Pigs
- Cuban Missile Crisis
Civil Rights Movement
Martin Luther King
Feminist Movement
Equal Rights Amendment
The War on Terror – Afghanistan
and Iraq
Roe v. Wade (1973)
The Patriot Act
Nonviolent Protests
Affirmative Action
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Gay Rights Movement
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Environmentalist Movement
Thurgood Marshall
Camp David Accords
Black Power Movement
SALT II
Liberalism
Iran Hostage Crisis
The Great Society – War on Poverty
Immigration and Nationality Act of
1965 – Changes in Immigration
Conservative Movement- Rise of
Evangelical Christianity
- New Right and the Moral Majority
Ronald Reagan’s election
- Escalation
- Tet Offensive
- Economic Policies - tax cuts,
deregulation of industry
- Vietnamization
Liberal Opposition to Conservatism
Antiwar Protests
Sandra Day O’Connor
Democratic Convention of 1968
Kent State Massacre
Conservative Concerns during the
1960’s
Liberal Concerns during the 1960’s
Economic Stagnation of the 1970’s
Détente
- Nixon’s Foreign Policy with China
Alternative Energy
US’s continued role as a superpower
The Vietnam War
Counterculture of the 1960’s
9/11
Ronald Reagan’s Cold War Policy –
Rollback
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
Military Buildup and Increased
military spending
Iran-Contra Affair
The End of the Cold War
Fall of the Soviet Union
Operation Desert Storm
Americans with Disabilities Act
- Nixon’s Foreign Policy with the
USSR
NAFTA
Energy Crisis
Safety Net Reform – Social Security
National Energy Policy
The Internet
Watergate Scandal
Globalization
Change in public opinion towards
the government after the 1960’s
Growth of the Service Sector –
Shrinking of Manufacturing
The Warren Court
Growing income inequality
- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Growing Immigration from Latin
America
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