Foundations: Background to American History
American Revolution
Jonathan Trumbull
John Peter
Declaration of Independence
Unalienable Rights
John Hancock
Benjamin Rush
Charles Carroll
John Witherspoon
U.S. Constitution
Limited Government
Separation of Power
Federalism
Checks & Balances
Popular Sovereignty
Bill of Rights
First Amendment
Second Amendment
Third Amendment
Fourth Amendment
Fifth Amendment
Sixth Amendment
Seventh Amendment
Eighth Amendment
Alexis de Tocqueville
Liberty
Eminent Domain
Egalitarianism
Individualism
Populism
Laissez-faire
Industrialization and the Gilded Age:
Bessemer Process
Transcontinental Railroad
Free Enterprise System
Corporate
Entrepreneurs
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockfeller
Unions
Strike
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
American Society in Transition:
Urbanization
Demography
Tenement
Political Machine
Political “bosses”
Immigration
“Push” and “Pull” factors
New Immigrants
Ethnic Ghettos
Nativists
Americanization
Chinese Exclusion Act
Frontier
Great Plains
Klondike Gold Rush
Homestead Act
Indian Wars
Reservations
Dawes Act
American Indian Citizenship Act
The Progressive Era:
Interstate Commerce Act
William Jennings Bryan
Third Parties
Progressive Movement
Social Gospel Movement
Muckrakers
Upton Sinclair
Jane Addams
W.E.B. DuBois
Seventeenth Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt
Square Deal
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Reserve Act
National Park Service
Susan B. Anthony
Nineteenth Amendment
America Builds an Empire:
Foreign Policy
Spanish-American War
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph
Yellow Journalism
De Lôme Letter
U.S.S Maine
Theodore Roosevelt
Imperialism
Alfred Thayer Mohan
Platt Amendment
Queen Liliuokalani
Sanford B. Dole
John Hay
Open Door Policy
Boxer Rebellion
Panama Canal
Big Stick Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
“Watchful Waiting”
Pancho Villa
America in WWI:
World War 1
Zimmerman Telegram
Freedom of the Seas
Lusitania
Sussex Pledge
Submarine Warfare
Selective Service Act
Schenck vs. U.S.
American Expeditionary Force
John J. Pershing
Battle of Argonne Forest
Alvin York
Trench Warfare
U-Boats
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points
Versailles Treaty
Reparations
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
Isolationism
The “Roaring 20s”:
Roaring Twenties
“Return to Normalcy”
Red Scare
Teapot Dome Scandal
Warren Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
“Rugged Individualism”
Henry Ford
Prohibition
Frances Willard
Eighteenth Amendment
Twenty-first Amendment
Scopes “Monkey Trail”
Clarence Darrow
Immigration Acts
Eugenics
Flapper
Tin Pan Alley
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
Charles Lindbergh
Great Depression/New Deal:
Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Steinbeck
Dorothea Lange
Dust Bowl
New Deal
“Hoovervilles”
Fireside Chats
Eleanor Roosevelt
Relief, Recovery, Reform
National Recovery Adm.
Baking Crisis
Agric. Adjustment Acts
Civilian Conservation Corps
Federal Reserve
Gold Standard
Fiat Money
Twenty-second Amendment
Schechter Poultry vs. U.S.
Court-packing Plan
World War II:
Adolf Hitler
Appeasement
Neutrality Acts
Flying Tigers
Pearl Harbor
Rationing
Victory of Gardens
Office of War Information
Tuskegee Airmen
Executive Order 9066
Korematsu vs. U.S.
George Patton
Dwight Eisenhower
George Marshall
Vernon Baker
Omar Bradley
Holocaust
Bataan Death March
Navajo Code Talker
Battle of Midway
Nuremburg Trials
Douglas MacArthur
Harry Truman
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
Cold War & Civil Rights:
Cold War
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Containment Policy
Mao Zedong
Korean War
Sputnik
House Un-American Activities Committee
Rosenberg Trial
Vernona Papers
“McCarthyism”
Jonas Salk
Civil Rights Movement
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Brown vs. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks
OrvalFaubus
Lester Maddox
George Wallace
Civil Rights Acts
Affirmative Action
Billy Graham
The 1960s: Protest and Change:
John F. Kennedy
John Glenn
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Lyndon B. Johnson
Great Society
Barry Goldwater
Anti-war Movement
Feminist Movement
Betty Friedan
Title IX
Black Power Movement
Black Panthers
Chicano Movement
Hector Garcia
Cesar Chavez
Dolores Hurerta
Am. Indian Movement
Mendez vs. Westminister
Hernandez vs. Texas
Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD
Edgewood ISD vs. Kirby
White vs. Regester
Vietnam War
Domino Theory
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietnamization
Roy Benavidez
Tet Offensive
Credibility Gap
“Silent Majority”
Fall of Saigon
Beat Generation
Crisis and Resurgence 1969-2000:
Richard Nixon
Tinker vs. Des Moines
Wisconsin vs. Yoder
Phyllis Schlafly
Environmental Protection Act (EPA)
Endangered Species Act
Détente
Watergate Scandal
Gerald Ford
OPEC
Jimmy Carter
Camp David Accords
Iran Hostage Crisis
Newt Gingrich
Ronald Reagan
Sun Belt
Peace Through Strength
Star Wars
Reganomics
Reagan Doctrine
Sandra Day O’Connor
GATT/WTO
NAFTA
National Rifle Association (NRA)
Heritage Foundation
Moral Majority
Iran-Contra Affair
Contract with America
George H.W. Bush
Rust Belt
Persian Gulf War
Bill Clinton
Impeachment
Hillary Clinton
Bill Gates
Sam Walton
Estee lauder
Robert Johnson
Lionel Sosa
America in the New Millenium:
George W. Bush
Al Gore Jr.
Presidential Election of 2000
September 11, 2001
World Trade Center
Pentagon
Osama bin Laden
Al-Qaeda
Taliban
War on Terror
Department of Homeland Security
USA Patriot Act
War in Iraq
Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans Levees
Financial Crisis of 2008
Barack Obama
Sonia Sotomayor
Technology/Innovation
J-I-T Production
Robotics
Time-study Analysis
Computer Revolution
Genetic Engineering
Multinational Corp.
Demography
Illegal Immigration