APUSH REQUIRED KEY TERMS
Period 1 (1491-1607)
Great Basin
Great Plains
Columbian Exchange
encomiendasystem
feudalism
capitalism
Period 2 (1607-1754)
folkways
racial hierarchy
indentured servants
Atlantic slave trade
New England
Puritans
Chesapeake
African “chattel” slaves
Pueblo Revolt
“Atlantic World”
Anglicanization
Protestant evangelism
Enlightenment
mercantilism
Period 3 (1754-1800)
French fur trade
Seven Years’ War
French Revolution
George Washington’s “Farewell Address”
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
federalism
separation of powers
Bill of Rights
American Revolution
Northwest Ordinance
“Republican motherhood”
Period 4 1800-1848
Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
Democratic Party
Whigs
market economy/market revolution
2nd Great Awakening
liberalism
Romanticism
perfectionism
xenophobia
railroads and telegraphs
specialization
American System
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri Compromise
Period 5 (1844-1876)
Manifest Destiny
Mexican-American War
nativism
Civil War
abolitionists
States’ Rights
Nullification
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Dred Scott Decision
secession
Republican Party
Abraham Lincoln
Free Soil
Election of 1860
Union & Confederacy
Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction
13th Amendment
sharecropping
Radical Republicans
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
segregation
Period 6 (1865-1898)
industrialization
Gilded Age
monopoly
corporations
trusts
holding companies
Social Darwinism
“conspicuous consumption”
tenant farming (sharecropping)
conservation and preservation
People’s Party (Populists)
boomtowns
“Americanization”
political machines
settlement houses
women’s clubs
Transcontinental Railroad
reservations
assimilation
Laissez-Faire
Plessy v. Ferguson
utopianism
Social Gospel Movement
Period 7 (1898-1945)
imperialism
“closed” frontier
Spanish-American War
Philippine War
Anti-Imperialists
Progressive Movement
mass media
World War I
civil liberties
Red Scare
Great Migration
Woodrow Wilson
American Expeditionary Force
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Modernism (religious)
urbanization
consumerism
Fundamentalist Christianity
Harlem Renaissance
cinema
quota system (immigration)
laissez-faire capitalism
The Great Depression
Franklin Roosevelt
New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
New Deal Coalition
financial regulatory system
limited welfare state
isolationism vs. interventionism
Pearl Harbor
mass mobilization
World War II
Axis & Allies
Japanese internment
segregation
atomic bomb debate
Period 8 (1945-1980)
Baby boom
suburbanization
juvenile delinquency
collective security
containment
decolonization
Cold War
nuclear arsenal
“military-industrial complex”
Korean War
Vietnam War
Antiwar protesters
counterculture
sexual revolution
detente
liberalism
Civil Rights Movement
nonviolent protest
Brown v. Board of Education
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society
Immigration Act of 1965
“Sun Belt”
Period 9 (1980-present)
globalization
conservatism
neoconservatism
fundamentalism
Ronald Reagan Administration
Mikhail Gorbachev
deregulation
“big government”
September 11, 2001
World Trade Center & Pentagon Attack
War on Terrorism
Afghanistan War
Iraq War
human rights
economic inequality
fossil fuels
Internet & social networks