American History II Term Review

Unit 1- The West

  1. Great Plains
  2. Manifest Destiny
  3. Buffalo
  4. Massacre at Sand Creek
  5. Custer’s Last Stand (George Custer)
  6. Dawes Act
  7. Assimilation
  8. Battle of Wounded Knee
  9. Long drive (Chisholm Trail)
  10. Barbed wire
  11. Homestead Act
  12. Exoduster
  13. Soddy
  14. Morrill Act
  15. Populism
  16. Bimetallism
  17. William Jennings Bryan (“Cross of Gold”)

Unit 2- Gilded Age and Progressive Era

  1. Thomas Edison
  2. Alexander Graham Bell
  3. Industrialization
  4. Transcontinental railroad
  5. Interstate Commerce Act
  6. Credit Mobilier
  7. Andrew Carnegie
  8. John D. Rockefeller
  9. Horizontal integration
  10. Vertical Integration
  11. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
  12. Eugene V. Debs
  13. Social Darwinism
  14. “Gospel of Wealth”
  15. Haymarket Square Riot
  16. Urbanization
  17. “Melting pot”
  18. New v. old immigrants
  19. Ellis Island v. Angel Island
  20. Nativism
  21. Chinese Exclusion Act
  22. Tenement
  23. Graft
  24. Patronage
  25. Boss Tweed (Tammany Hall)
  26. Booker T. Washington
  27. W.E.B. DuBois
  28. Plessy v. Ferguson
  29. Jim Crow Laws
  30. Prohibition
  31. Progressive movement
  32. 17th Amendment
  33. 18th/21st Amendment
  34. 19th Amendment
  35. Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal
  36. Bull Moose Party

Unit 3- Imperialism and WWI

  1. Queen Liliuokalani (Hawaii)
  2. Seward’s Folly (Alaska)
  3. Spanish American War- Causes/US Involvement
  4. Yellow journalism
  5. USS Maine
  6. Rough Riders
  7. Foraker Act
  8. Protectorate
  9. Sphere of influence
  10. Open Door Notes (John Hay)
  11. Boxer Rebellion
  12. Panama Canal
  13. Progressive Presidents (Diplomacy Types)
  14. Roosevelt Corollary
  15. MANIA (Causes of WWI)
  16. Trench warfare (“no man’s land”)
  17. Zimmerman Note
  18. Convoy system
  19. Armistice
  20. War Industries Board
  21. Espionage & Sedition Acts
  22. League of Nations
  23. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
  24. War-guilt clause

Unit 4- Boom and Bust

  1. Isolationism
  2. Communism
  3. Sacco & Vanzetti
  4. Henry Ford
  5. Installment plans
  6. Speakeasy
  7. Scopes Trial
  8. Flappers
  9. Babe Ruth
  10. Charles Lindbergh
  11. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  12. Marcus Garvey
  13. Harlem Renaissance
  14. Langston Hughes
  15. Jazz Age
  16. Speculation
  17. Black Tuesday
  18. “Hoovervilles” (shantytowns)
  19. Dust Bowl
  20. New Deal
  21. Deficit spending
  22. Social Security Act
  23. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

Unit 5- World War II

  1. Totalitarianism
  2. Nazism (Hitler)
  3. Fascism (Mussolini)
  4. Josef Stalin
  5. Appeasement
  6. Non-aggression pact
  7. Blitzkrieg
  8. Holocaust (genocide)
  9. Kristallnacht
  10. Concentration camps/death camps/internment camps
  11. 2Axis Countries
  12. Allied Countries
  13. Pearl Harbor
  14. Rationing
  15. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  16. D-Day
  17. Island-hopping
  18. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
  19. Manhattan Project
  20. Douglas MacArthur
  21. Kamikaze
  22. Nuremburg Trials/Tokyo Trials
  23. Korematsu v. the US
  24. Domino theory
  25. Containment
  26. Marshall Plan
  27. Soviet Union
  28. Berlin Airlift
  29. NATO
  30. Warsaw Pact

Unit 6- Cold War to Present

  1. 38th Parallel (Korea)
  2. The Rosenbergs
  3. Joseph McCarthy
  4. Brinkmanship
  5. U-2 incident
  6. Suburbs
  7. Baby boom
  8. Planned obsolescence
  9. Beatniks
  10. Rock-n-Roll
  11. Berlin Wall
  12. Bay of Pigs
  13. Cuban Missile Crisis
  14. Medicaid and Medicare
  15. Brown v. Board of Education
  16. Rosa Parks
  17. Martin Luther King Jr
  18. George Wallace
  19. Malcom X
  20. Black Panthers
  21. Vietcong
  22. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution2
  23. Napalm
  24. Agent Orange
  25. “Living room war”
  26. Vietnamization
  27. Pentagon Papers
  28. Kent State University (1970)
  29. War Powers Act
  30. Feminism
  31. US v. Nixon
  32. Watergate
  33. SALT I
  34. Stagflation
  35. OPEC
  36. Camp David Accords
  37. Iran Hostage Crisis
  38. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  39. Moral Majority
  40. Reaganomics
  41. SDI (“Star Wars”)
  42. AIDS/HIV
  43. Roe v. Wade
  44. Iran-Contra Scandal
  45. Operation Desert Storm (Persian Gulf War)
  46. Impeachment
  47. September 11th, 2001
  48. NAFTA
  49. 2000 Election (Bush v. Gore)
  50. Dept. of Homeland Security
  51. Patriot Act