APUS Terms
Directions: List Who, When, Where, What, Why, Era/Period/Significance for each term
Unit 1 ch1-5
Iroquois confederacy
Function s of colonial cities
Colonial Massachusetts
Puritans
New Netherlands
Bacon’s rebellion
Colonial Virginia
The half way covenant
First Great awakening
Indentured labor
Molasses Act
Royal Charter
House of Burgesses
Anne Hutchinson
William Penn
Quakers
Dutch West India Company
New England Confederation
Massachusetts Bay Company
Mayflower Compact
Headright System
Benjamin Franklin
Unit 2 ch6-8
French Indian war
Proclamation of 1763
Continental Congress
England’s mercantilist policy
Virtual representation
Boston tea party
Stamp act
American revolution
1783 treaty of Paris
Indian Involvement in the American Revolution
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
Committees of Correspondence
Loyalists
Sons of Liberty
Navigation Acts
Common Sense
The Federalists
“Great Compromise”
“Three Fifths Compromise”
Unit 3 ch9-10
Articles of Confederation
Shay’s rebellion
Founding fathers
Congress
Federalist papers
Ordinances of 1785-1787
Constitutional convention
Whiskey rebellion
Kentucky and Virginia resolution
Washington’s farewell address
Pinckney treaty
Bill of Rights
Neutrality proclamation of 1793
Alexander Hamilton
Jeffersionian Republicans
Judiciary Act of 1789
Bank of the US
Jay Treaty
Alien and Sedition Laws
John Marshall
Judicial review
Marbury v. Madison
Unit 4 ch11-12
Thomas Jefferson
War of 1812
Louisiana purchase
Election of 1800
Alexander Hamilton
Tecumseh
American system
Henry clay
Monroe doctrine
Hartford Convention
Missouri Compromise
Fletcher v. Peck
Cohens v. Virginia
Dartmouth college v. woodward
McCulloch v. Maryland
Gibbons v. Ogden
Era of Good Feelings
Unit 5 ch13-15
Cherokee
Andrew Jackson
Tariff of abominations
Navigation acts
Jacksonian democracy
The Erie Canal
Eli Whitney
Know nothing party
Industrial revolution
Cult of domesticity
Lowell system
Mexican attitude towards Texas
Democratic party
“Trail of Tears”
Whig Party
Samuel Slater
Robert Fulton
Samuel F. B. Morse
Nativism
Tammany Hall
Cotton gin
Cult of Domesticity
Unit 6 ch16-20
Second Great awakening
Peter Cartwright
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
American Temperance Society
Edgar Allen Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Owen
Joseph Smith
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry David Thoreau
Brigham Young
Noah Webster
The Liberator
Frederik Douglass
Abolitionism
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Matthew C. Perry
Harriet Tubman
Underground Railroad
Fugitive slave law
John Brown
“Bleeding Kansas”
Jefferson Davis
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harpers Ferry raid
Alexis de Tocqueville
Transcendentalist
Horace Mann
Slavery in the Americas
Nullification controversy of 1832-33
American Colination society
Manifest destiny
Popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska act
Antebellum in the US
Wilmot Proviso
Union
Dred Scott decision
Farmers of the late 19th century
Unit 7 ch21-23
Difference between south and north (precivilwar)
Lincoln
Civil war
Indian Involvement in the Civil War
Congressional reconstruction
Individualism
Sharecropping
Reconstruction
Ulysses S. Grant
Wilkes Booth
Emancipation Proclamation
Andrew Johnson
William T. Sherman
Merrimack
Robert E. Lee
Alexander Stephens
Wade Davis Bill
Thaddeus Stevens
Freedmen’s Bureau
10 percent plan
14th amendment
Andrew Johnson
Civil Rights Act
Carpetbaggers
15th amendment
Unit 8 ch24-26
Plessey vs. Fergusson
Gilded age
Rail Road expansion
American federation of labor
Sherman anti-trust act
Joseph Pulitzer
W.E.B Du bois
William James
Booker T Washington
Ida B. Wells
Greenback Labor Party
Tweed Ring
Whiskey Ring
Credit Mobile
Leland Stanford
Collis P. Huntington
Cornelius Vanderblit
Vertical Integration
Union Pacific Railroad
Central Pacific Railroad
Bessemer Process
American Federation of Labor
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
John D. Rockefeller
Horizontal integration
Rebate
United States Steel
Haymarket riot
J. Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
Trust
Yellow dog Contract
Grange
Mark Twain
Yellow journalism
Horatio Alger
Philanthropy
Social Gospel
Temperance Union
Eighteenth Amendment
Unit 9 ch27,31
People’s party
2nd Sioux war
Helen Hunt Jackson
Dawes Act
Progressivisms
Muckrakers
Upton Sinclair
Jacob Riis
Sitting Bull
Battle of Wounded Knee
Homestead Act
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
Pure Food and Drug Act
Recall
Dollar Diplomacy
Forest Reserve Act
Unit 10 ch28-30,32-33
William Jennings Bryan
Pullman strike
Spanish American War
American jingoism
Russo Jap war
US open door policy
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt Corollary
WWI
Woodrow Wilson
Progressive era
Federal reserve system in 1915
Wilsons 14-point plan
Jim Crow Laws
Gold Standard Act
Imperialism
Rough Riders
Gentleman’s Agreement
Big- stick diplomacy
Panama Canal
Spheres of Influence
Lusitania
Federal Reserve Act
Allies
Treaty of Versailles
War Industries Board
Zimmermann Note
Big Four
Espionage and Sedition Act
Food Administration
League of Nations
Unit 11 ch34-36
American Farming during roaring 20’s
Charles Lindbergh
Palmer raids
American writers of 1920’s
US isolationism
KKK
Harlem renaissance
Flappers
Prohibition
E. E. Cummings
Andrew Mellon
D W Griffith
Hoover Ville
Herbert Hoover
Kellogg Briand act
Manchurian crisis
Bonus expeditionary force
Great Depression
New deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt
National industrial recovery act
Francis Townsend
Tennessee Valley authority
Assembly line production
John T. Scopes
Red Scare
Volstead Act
Fundamentalism
Ernest Hemingway
Sinclair Lewis
Clarence Darrow
Buying on margin
Sacco And Vanzetti case
Teapot Dome Scandal
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Huey Long
Glass-Steagall Act
National Recovery Act
WPA
AAA
Father Coughlin
Brain Trust
Hundred Days
The “three Rs”
Court-Packing Scheme
Social Security Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Public Works Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Dust Bowl
Federal Housing Authority
Unit 12 ch37-38
Pearl harbor
Japanese American life in US (WWII)
WWII
Zoot Suit Riots
Adolf Hitler
Isolationism
Totalitarianism
Teheran Conference
Neutrality Act
Lend-Lease/”cash-and-carry”
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Benito Mussolini
Braceros
V-E Day
Potsdam Conference
Good Neighbor Policy
Atlantic Charter
America First Committee
George S. Patton
D Day
A. Phillip Randolph
Douglas MacArthur
War Production Board
Casablanca Conference
V-J Day
Unit 13 ch39-40
Joseph R. McCarthy
Soviet-American Relations in Cuba
Marshal Plan
War in Korea
NATO
Harry Truman
Employment act of 1946
George Kennan
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rock and roll music (beginnings)
Brown vs. board of education
Sputnik
Dwight D. Eisenhower
David Riesman
Cold War
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Sunbelt
Jules and Ethel Rosenberg
United Nations
Iron Curtain
Yalta Conference
Nurenburg Trials
Berlin Airlift
38th Parallel
Rosa Parks
Ngo Diem Diem
Nikita Khrushchev
John F. Kennedy
Earl Warren
Ho Chi Minh
McCarthyism
Unit 14 ch41-44
Minority groups in the 1960’s
Black Panthers
Huey Newton
Malcolm X
1960’s Protest
Barry Goldwater
Strategic arms limitation talks
Richard Nixon
Carter Admin
Griswold v. Connecticut
Gideon- Case
Escobedo- Case
Miranda- Case
Schempp- Case
Roe v. Wade
Persian Gulf Crisis
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Robert F. Kennedy
Stokely Carmichael
War on Poverty
Great Society
Lyndon B. Johnson
Barry Goldwater
George Wallace
Voting Rights Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Cuban Missile Crisis
Counterculture
New Frontier
Peace Corps
Tet Offensive
Bay of Pigs
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ayatollah Khomeini
Watergate Scandal
Pentagon Papers
My Lai Massacre
Helsinki Accords
Henry Kissinger
Vietnamization
Kent State Killings
Geraldine Ferraro
Sandra Day O’ Conner
Reverse Discrimination
Strategic Defense Initiatives
Reaganomics
Ronald Reagan
“Supply-side” economics
Affirmative Action
Cesar Chavez
NAFTA
Neoconservatism