U.S. Vocabulary List

Domain I: Colonization through the Constitution

Standard 1

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  1. Virginia Company

A.Joint-stock company

B.Jamestown - Reason for founding

  1. John Smith
  2. Starving time
  3. John Rolfe
  4. Tobacco
  5. Indentured Servants
  6. Headright System
  7. Powhatan (Indians)
  1. House of Burgesses
  2. Bacon’s Rebellion

A.Effect on slavery

  1. Pilgrims

A.Mayflower Compact

B.Separatists

C.Thanksgiving

  1. Massachusetts Bay Colony

A.“City upon a Hill”

B.Half-way Covenant

C.King Philip’s War

  1. Metacom
  1. Quebec

A.Reason for founding

  1. New England Colonies – Make Cool New Rims

A.Economy

B.Massachusetts- Reason for founding

  1. Puritans
  2. Massachusetts Charter
  3. Salem Witch Trials

C.Connecticut

  1. Thomas Hooker

D.Rhode Island - Reason for founding

  1. Roger Williams
  2. Anne Hutchinson
  1. Middle Colonies – New Paint Never Dries

A.New Amsterdam = New York

  1. Reason for founding
  2. Reason for success

B.Pennsylvania - Reason for founding

  1. Quakers
  1. Southern Colonies

A.Virginia - Reason for founding

B.Maryland - Reason for founding

  1. Lord Baltimore (Calvert)

C.N & S Carolina

D.Georgia

Standard 2

  1. Mercantilism
  2. Adam Smith
  3. Wealth of Nations
  4. Transatlantic Trade
  5. Triangular Trade
  6. Middle Passage
  7. African American Culture
  8. Benjamin Franklin
  9. Enlightenment
  10. Individualism
  11. Social Mobility
  12. The Great Awakening
  13. Jonathan Edwards
  14. Personal responsibility for salvation
  15. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

Standard 3

  1. French & Indian War
  2. George Washington
  3. Quebec
  4. Treaty of Paris 1763
  5. Proclamation of 1763
  6. Navigation Act
  7. Sam Adams
  8. Sons of Liberty
  9. Daughters of Liberty
  10. The Stamp Act
  11. Townshend Act
  12. Boston Massacre
  13. Crispus Attucks
  14. Committees of Correspondence
  15. Boston Tea Party
  16. The Intolerable Acts
  17. Thomas Paine
  18. Common Sense
  19. Purpose
  20. Arguments (2)

Standard 4

  1. 1st Continental Congress
  2. List the 2 parts
  3. 2nd Continental Congress
  4. Olive Branch Petition
  5. General George Washington
  6. Continental Army
  7. Declaration of Independence
  8. Purpose
  9. John Locke
  10. Social Contract Theory
  11. Revolutionary War
  12. Lexington and Concord
  13. Minutemen
  14. Valley Forge
  15. Marquis de Lafayette
  16. Baron Von Steuben
  17. Crossing the Delaware
  18. Trenton
  19. Saratoga
  20. Battle of Yorktown
  21. General Charles Cornwallis
  22. Treaty of Paris 1783

Standard 5

  1. Articles of Confederation
  2. List 2 Weaknesses
  3. List 2 Strengths
  4. Shays’ Rebellion
  5. List Cause & Effect
  6. Federalist vs. Antifederalists
  7. List leaders
  8. T-Chart of beliefs
  9. Constitutional Convention – where?
  10. James Madison
  11. Constitution inspired by?
  12. The Federalist Papers
  13. Written by?
  14. Purpose
  15. Roger Sherman
  16. The Great Compromise
  17. 3/5Compromise
  18. Charles de Montesquieu
  19. Separation of Powers
  20. Legislative, Judicial, & Executive Branches
  21. Checks and Balances
  22. Limited Government
  23. Bill of Rights
  24. Inspired by?
  25. President George Washington
  26. Whiskey Rebellion
  27. Cause and Effect?
  28. Foreign Policy
  29. Presidential precedent
  30. Political Parties

E.Hamilton vs. Jefferson

  1. President John Adams

A.XYZ Affair

B.Alien & Sedition Acts

C.Midnight Judges

  1. John Marshall

A.Judiciary Act of 1789

B.Judiciary Act of 1801

C.Marbury v Madison

D.McCullough v Maryland

E.Gibbons v Ogden

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Domain II: New Republic through Reconstruction

Standard 6

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  1. Land Ordinance 1785
  2. Northwest Ordinance 1787
  3. President Thomas Jefferson
  4. Embargo Act of 1807
  5. Cause and Effect
  6. Louisiana Purchase
  7. Purchased from & why sold
  8. Lewis Clark Expedition
  9. Sacagawea
  10. President James Madison
  11. War of 1812
  12. Causes & Effect
  13. Battle of New Orleans
  14. Treaty of Ghent
  15. National Infrastructure
  16. National Road
  17. Erie Canal
  18. purpose
  19. Rise of NY City
  20. Monroe Doctrine
  21. Support for
  22. Argument against

Standard 7

  1. 2nd Great Awakening
  2. Tent Revivals
  3. Abolitionist
  4. Temperance Movement
  5. Abolition
  6. William Lloyd Garrison
  7. Liberator
  8. Frederick Douglass
  9. N. Star
  10. The Grimke Sisters
  11. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  13. Sojourner Truth
  14. “Ain’t I a Woman”
  15. Harriet Tubman
  16. Moses
  17. Underground Railroad
  18. Quakers
  19. Public Schools
  20. Horace Mann
  21. Women’s Suffrage
  22. Susan B. Anthony
  23. Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott
  24. Seneca Falls Conference
  25. President John Q. Adams
  26. Corrupt bargain
  27. American Nationalism
  1. President Andrew Jackson
  2. Jacksonian Democracy
  3. Spoils System
  4. Panic of 1837

Standard 8

  1. Missouri Compromise
  2. purpose
  3. Nat Turner
  4. Signal?
  5. Nullification Crisis
  6. John C. Calhoun
  7. Sectionalism
  8. States’ Rights
  9. James K. Polk
  10. Manifest Destiny
  11. 54° 40’ or Fight
  12. Texas Revolution
  13. Stephen Austin
  14. Sam Houston
  15. “Remember the Alamo”
  16. Battle of San Jacinto
  17. Wilmot Proviso
  18. Mexican-American War
  19. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  20. Gadsen Purchase
  21. Compromise of 1850
  22. Fugitive Slave Act

Standard 9

  1. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  2. Overturned?
  3. Bleeding Kansas
  4. Pottawatomie Massacre
  5. Popular Sovereignty
  6. Stephen Douglas
  7. Dred Scott
  8. John Brown
  9. Harper’s Ferry
  10. Abraham Lincoln
  11. Suspension of Habeas Corpus
  12. Emancipation Proclamation
  13. Gettysburg Address
  14. Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address
  15. Strategies
  16. North
  17. South
  18. North vs. South
  19. List 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses for EACH
  20. Ulysses S. Grant
  21. Robert E. Lee
  22. William Tecumseh Sherman
  23. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
  24. Jefferson Davis
  25. Battles
  26. Fort Sumter
  27. Antietam
  28. Monitor v Merrimack
  29. Siege of Vicksburg
  30. Gettysburg
  31. Battle of Atlanta
  32. March to the Sea
  33. Andersonville
  34. Appomattox Courthouse

Standard 10

  1. 13, 14th & 15th Amendments
  2. Reconstruction
  3. 10% Plan
  4. Presidential Reconstruction
  5. Radical Republican Reconstruction
  6. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
  7. Freedmen’s Bureau
  8. Morehouse College
  9. Black Codes
  10. Tenant Farming
  11. Share Cropping
  12. KKK
  13. Hiram Revels
  14. Johnson’s impeachment
  15. Redemption
  16. Compromise of 1877

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Domain III: Industrialization, Reform, and Imperialism

Standard 11

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  1. Railroad Industry
  2. Land Grants
  3. Transcontinental Railroad
  4. Central Pacific
  5. Chinese Laborers
  6. Union Pacific
  7. Irish Laborers
  8. Steel Industry
  9. Bessemer Process
  10. Andrew Carnegie
  11. John D. Rockefeller
  12. Standard Oil Company
  13. Trusts
  14. Monopolies
  15. Alexander Graham Bell
  16. Thomas Edison
  17. Menlo Park
  18. List 3 inventions

Standard 12

1. Dawes Act

  1. Treaty of Fort Laramie
  2. Sitting Bull
  3. Wounded Knee
  4. Ellis Island
  5. AngelIsland
  6. American Federation of Labor
  7. Samuel Gompers
  8. tactics
  9. Pullman Strike
  10. Eugene V. Debs
  11. tactics

Standard 13

1. Populist Party – platform & supporters

  1. William Jennings Bryan
  2. Cross of Gold speech
  1. Progressives reforms
  2. Temperance Movement
  3. Initiative
  4. Referendum
  5. Recall
  6. 16th Amendment
  7. 17th Amendment
  8. Muckrakers
  9. Upton Sinclair
  10. The Jungle
  11. Pure Food & Drug Act
  12. Meat Inspection Act
  13. Ida Tarbell
  14. Hull House
  15. Jane Addams
  16. Tenements
  17. Plessy v. Ferguson
  18. Jim Crow Laws
  19. NAACP
  20. W.E.B. Dubois
  21. Booker T. Washington

Standard 14

1. Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

  1. Chinese Exclusion Act
  2. Gentlemen’s Agreement
  1. Spanish American War
  2. Yellow Journalism
  3. Hurst & Pulitzer
  4. “Remember the Maine”
  5. Jose Marti
  6. San Juan Hill
  7. Rough Riders
  8. Philippine American War
  9. Emilio Aguinaldo
  10. Open Door Policy
  11. President Teddy Roosevelt
  12. Square Deal
  13. Trust busting
  14. Speak Softly but Carry a Big Stick
  15. Conservation Movement
  16. Roosevelt Corollary
  17. Panama Canal
  18. William Taft
  19. Dollar Diplomacy

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Content Domain IV: Establishment as a World Power

Standard 15

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  1. President Woodrow Wilson
  2. Moral Diplomacy
  3. WWI – Causes
  4. U.S. Neutrality
  5. Unrestricted Sub Warfare
  6. Selective Service Act
  7. Lusitania
  8. Zimmerman Note
  9. WWI – Impacts
  10. The Great Migration
  11. Espionage & Sedition Acts
  12. Eugene V. Debs
  13. 18th & 19th Amendments
  14. Carrie Nation
  15. Temperance Movement
  16. Suffrage
  17. Susan B. Anthony
  18. 14 Points
  19. League of Nations
  20. Treaty of Versailles
  21. War Guilt Clause
  22. Reparations

Standard 16

  1. Isolationism
  2. Red Scare
  3. Communism
  4. Palmer Raids
  5. Sacco and Vanzetti
  6. Anti-Immigrant sentiments
  7. Revival of KKK
  8. Scopes Monkey Trial
  9. Clarence Darrow
  10. William Jennings Bryan
  11. Fundamentalism
  12. Radio & Movies
  13. Jazz
  14. Harlem Renaissance
  15. Langston Hughes
  16. Louis Armstrong
  17. Duke Ellington
  18. Henry Ford
  19. Model T
  20. Assembly line

Standard 17

  1. Causes of The Great Depression
  2. List and EXPLAIN 3 causes
  3. Black Tuesday
  4. The Great Depression
  5. Hoovervilles
  6. Bonus Army
  7. Dust Bowl
  8. Okies

Standard 18

  1. FDR
  2. Fireside chats
  3. Bank Holiday
  4. 21st Amendment
  5. Eleanor Roosevelt
  6. New Deal Programs
  7. TVA
  8. FDIC
  9. CCC
  10. WPA
  11. AAA
  12. PWA
  13. NIRA
  14. Social Security Act
  15. Wagner Act=NLRB
  16. Unions
  17. AFL
  18. Huey P. Long
  19. Court-Packing Bill
  20. Neutrality Acts
  21. “Cash & Carry”
  22. Lend Lease Act

Standard 19

  1. A. Philip Randolph
  2. WWII
  3. Pearl Harbor
  4. Internment Camps
  5. Mobilization
  6. Selective Service
  7. WAAC
  8. WOW
  9. Rosie the Riveter
  10. Wartime conservation
  11. Rationing
  12. Allied Powers
  13. Axis Powers
  14. Tehran Conference
  15. Yalta Conference
  16. United Nations
  17. Potsdam Conference
  18. European Theater
  19. D-Day = Normandy
  20. List the 5 Beaches
  21. Battle of the Bulge
  22. The Fall of Berlin
  23. Nuremberg Trials
  1. Pacific Theater
  2. Battle of Midway
  3. Battle of Coral Sea
  4. Manhattan Project
  5. Where?
  6. Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Standard 20

  1. 22nd Amendment
  2. Marshall Plan
  3. Berlin Airlift
  4. NATO
  5. Warsaw Pact
  6. Satellite nations
  7. Truman Doctrine
  8. Containment
  9. Korean War
  10. 38th parallel
  11. Spy Scandals
  12. Alger Hiss
  13. Rosenbergs
  14. McCarthyism
  15. HUAC
  16. Blacklist
  17. Hollywood 10
  18. Cuban Revolution
  19. Bay of Pigs
  20. Cuban Missile Crisis
  21. Vietnam War
  22. Domino Theory
  23. Ho Chi Minh Trail
  24. Tet Offensive

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Content Domain V: Modern Era

Standard 21

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  1. President Truman
  2. Integration of U.S. Armed Forces
  3. Truman Doctrine
  4. GI Bill
  5. Baby Boom
  6. Levittown
  7. President Eisenhower
  8. Interstate Highway Act
  9. Eisenhower Doctrine
  10. Brinksmanship
  11. U2 incident
  12. Kennedy/Nixon Debates
  13. President John F. Kennedy (JFK)
  14. Camelot
  15. TV News Coverage of the Civil Rights Movement
  16. Effects of Air Conditioning
  17. Effects of Personal computers
  18. Cold War
  19. Sputnik I
  20. Space Race

Standard 22

  1. Jackie Robinson
  2. Brown v. Board of Education
  3. Little Rock 9
  4. Martin Luther King Jr.
  5. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
  6. Montgomery Bus Boycott
  7. SCLC
  8. SNCC
  9. Stokely Carmichael
  10. “I Have a Dream” Speech
  11. Counter Culture
  12. Civil Rights Act of 1964
  13. 24th Amendment
  14. Voting Rights Act of 1965
  15. Civil Rights Act 1968
  16. Defacto segregation
  17. Dejure segregation

Standard 23

1.Warren Court

  1. Miranda V. Arizona
  2. Roe v. Wade
  3. Regents of University of California v. Bakke
  4. Gideon v Wainwright
  1. Assassination of President Kennedy
  2. President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
  3. “The Great Society”
  4. Medicare
  5. “War on Poverty”
  6. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  7. Anti-Vietnam War Movement
  8. 1968
  9. Assassination of MLK, Jr.
  10. Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
  11. Democratic National Convention
  12. Tet Offensive

Standard 24

  1. Civil Rights Movement
  2. Sit-Ins
  3. Freedom Rides
  4. Freedom Summer
  5. NOW
  6. Gloria Steinem
  7. ERA = 28th Amendment
  8. Cesar Chavez
  9. United Farm Workers
  10. List 1 tactic
  11. Rachel Carson
  12. Silent Spring
  13. DDT
  14. EPA
  15. Earth Day
  16. Conservative Movement
  17. Barry Goldwater

Standard 25

1.President Richard Nixon

  1. Détente
  2. Nixon’s Visit to China
  3. SALT Treaty
  4. Watergate Scandal
  5. Nixon’s resignation
  6. Change in American attitude

2.President Gerald Ford

  1. Nixon Pardon

3.President Jimmy Carter

  1. Camp David Accords
  2. Iranian Revolution
  3. Iranian Hostage Crisis

4.President Ronald Reagan

  1. Reaganomics
  2. Sandra Day O’Connor
  3. Iran-Contra Scandal
  4. Fall of the Berlin Wall
  5. Collapse of the Soviet Union
  6. End of Cold War

5.President Bill Clinton

  1. NAFTA
  2. Impeachment of Clinton

6.2000 Presidential Election

  1. George W. BushAl Gore
  2. Electoral College

7.President George W. Bush

  1. 9/11
  2. Department of Homeland Security
  3. Patriot Act
  4. War on Terrorism
  5. Operation Enduring Freedom
  6. Operation Iraqi Freedom
  7. Saddam Hussein
  8. WMD

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