Instructions: Answer the essential questions in complete sentences. Define and states the significance of each word. (Significance- impact, cause, or importance of word)

Unit 1:

Essential Questions:

  1. How did the election of 1860 affect the possibility of compromise on the issue of slavery?
  2. What were the positive and negative benefits of territorial expansion during the 1840s and 1850s?
  3. What factors intensified sectional conflict in the 1850s?

Vocab:

  1. Wilmot Proviso
  2. Free-Soil Party
  3. Popular Sovereignty
  4. Secede
  5. Compromise of 1850
  6. Fugitive Slave Act
  7. Personal Liberty laws
  8. Underground Railroad
  9. Harriet Tubman
  10. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  11. John Brown (and his raid)
  12. Bleeding Kansas
  13. Know Nothings
  14. Republican Party
  15. Dred Scott Case
  16. Abraham Lincoln
  17. Stephen Douglas
  18. Harpers Ferry
  19. Jefferson Davis
  20. Confederate States of America
  21. Crittenden’s Compromise

Unit 2:

Essential Questions:

  1. How did the North’s advantages in the Civil War compare to the South’s advantages?
  2. How did the Civil War impact Northern and Southern society economically and politically?
  3. To what degree was the New South really new?
  4. What methods were used to create and maintain second-class citizenship for African-Americans?

Vocab:

  1. Fort Sumter
  2. Robert E. Lee
  3. Anaconda Plan
  4. Border States
  5. Stonewall Jackson
  6. Ulysses S. Grant
  7. Shiloh
  8. Antietam
  9. Emancipation Proclamation
  10. Income Tax
  11. Homestead Act
  12. Conscription
  13. Copperhead
  14. Habeas Corpus
  15. Clara Barton
  16. Vicksburg
  17. Gettysburg
  18. George Pickett
  19. Gettysburg Address
  20. Total War
  21. William Tecumseh Sherman
  22. Thirteenth Amendment
  23. John Wilkes Booth
  24. Land Grant College Act
  25. Reconstruction
  26. Radical Republicans
  27. Wade-Davis Bill
  28. Freedmen’s Bureau
  29. Andrew Johnson
  30. Black Codes
  31. Civil Rights Act of 1866
  32. Fourteenth Amendment
  33. Impeach
  34. Fifteenth Amendment
  35. Scalawag
  36. Carpetbagger
  37. Segregation
  38. Sharecropping
  39. Tenant Farming
  40. Ku Klux Klan
  41. Enforcement Acts
  42. Rutherford B. Hayes
  43. Compromise of 18

Unit 3 and 4:

Essential Questions:

  1. What facts would you select to show the negative and positive impacts of the Dawes Act? 
  2. What is the relationship between farmers, miners, and ranchers in the West?
  3. What motive is there to continue expanding west?
  4. What are the distinguishing factors of Western immigration?
  5. Evaluate which ideology was most effective capitalism, socialism or communism.
  6. Analyze the economic, political and social consequences of the rise of big business during the Gilded Age.
  7. Analyze whether monopolists should be given the term “robber barons” or “captains of industry”?
  8. To what degree and in what ways were labor unions successful in improving the lives of workers during the Gilded Age?

Vocab:

  1. Farmers’ Alliance
  2. Sand Creek Massacre
  3. Sitting Bull
  4. Transcontinental railroad
  5. Exoduster
  6. Chinese Exclusion Act
  7. Geronimo
  8. Battle of Little Big Horn
  9. Chief Joseph
  10. Wounded Knee
  11. Dawes Act
  12. Homestead Act
  13. Frederick Jackson Turner
  14. Plains Indians
  15. Progressives
  16. Social Gospel Movement
  17. Salvation Army
  18. Temperance Movement
  19. Consumers
  20. Muckrakers
  21. Ida Tarbell
  22. Upton Sinclair
  23. Jacob Riis
  24. Settlement House
  25. Jane Addams
  26. National Woman Suffrage Association
  27. Municipal Reform
  28. Political machines
  29. City Manager
  30. Robert La Follette
  31. Secret Ballot Initiative
  32. Referendum
  33. Recall
  34. Direct Primary
  35. 16th Amendment
  36. 17th Amendment
  37. 19th Amendment
  38. Women’s suffrage
  39. Susan B. Anthony
  40. Alice Paul
  41. Child labor
  42. Theodore Roosevelt
  43. Government regulation
  44. “Square Deal”
  45. Coal Strike of 1902
  46. Meat Inspection Act
  47. Pure Food and Drug Act
  48. William Howard Taft
  49. Woodrow Wilson
  50. Graduated Income Tax
  51. Federal Reserve Act
  52. Clayton Antitrust Act
  53. Federal Trade Commission
  54. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
  55. Corporation
  56. Communism
  57. Capitalism
  58. Socialism
  59. Andrew Carnegie
  60. John D. Rockefeller
  61. JP Morgan
  62. Thomas Edison
  63. Labor Union
  64. Nativism

Unit 5:

Essential Questions:

  1. Compare the major themes of different pro- and anti-imperialism arguments?
  2. How are the Philippines related to the Plains Tribes?
  3. What is the motive behind the Espionage Act?
  4. What ideas justify the United States refusing to join the League of Nations?

Vocab

  1. Emilio Aguinaldo
  2. Alfred T. Mahan
  3. Queen Liliuokalani
  4. Boxer Rebellion
  5. “Open Door” Policy
  6. Panama Canal
  7. Yellow Journalism
  8. William McKinley
  9. Dollar Diplomacy
  10. Moral Diplomacy
  11. Jingoism
  12. Spanish-American War
  13. Francisco “Pancho” Villa
  14. Platt Amendment
  15. Lusitania
  16. Roosevelt Corollary
  17. The Fourteen Points
  18. Zimmermann Telegram
  19. Great White Fleet
  20. “Big Stick” Diplomacy
  21. Great Migration
  22. League of Nations
  23. Treaty of Versailles
  24. Trench Warfare

Unit 6:

Essential Questions:

  1. Analyze the degree to which disillusionment with World War I influenced U.S. foreign policy in the 1920s and early 1930s.
  2. Analyze the ways in which new technology influenced American society.
  3. To what degree and in what ways did industry re-consolidate and form a relationship with government’s similar to that of the Gilded Age?
  4. Compare and contrast the myth and reality of the “new woman” in the 1920s.
  5. Analyze the reasons for and consequences of the movement toward a mass consumer society in the 1920s.
  6. Analyze significant changes that occurred for African Americans and women during the 20s decade.
  7. How did disillusionment with World War I influence society in the 1920s?
  8. Analyze the causes of the Great Depression.
  9. To what degree and in what ways did the Great Depression change the lives of farmers, minorities and women?
  10. Analyze the effects of the New Deal on American Society and the critics’ response to Roosevelt’s programs.
  11. Analyze the impact of the Great Depression on artistic expression.

Vocab:

  1. Roaring Twenties
  2. Demobilization
  3. Disarmament
  4. Red Scare
  5. Palmer Raids
  6. J. Edgar Hoover
  7. Sacco and Vanzetti
  8. Anarchists
  9. Warren G. Harding Normalcy
  10. Teapot Dome Scandal
  11. Fordney-McCumber Act
  12. Nativism National Origins Act
  13. Dawes Plan
  14. League of Nations
  15. Washington Naval Conference
  16. Four-Power Treaty
  17. Kellogg-Briand Pact
  18. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
  19. Bull market
  20. Bear market
  21. Buying on margin
  22. Black Tuesday
  23. Smoot-Hawley Tariff
  24. Herbert Hoover
  25. “Hoovervilles”
  26. Bonus Expeditionary Force
  27. Gross National Product (GNP)
  28. Dust Bowl
  29. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  30. Fireside Chats
  31. Relief, Recovery, Reform
  32. Bank Holiday
  33. National Recovery Act (NRA)
  34. National Recovery Administration (NRA)
  35. Henry Ford Assembly line
  36. Consumerism
  37. 18th Amendment
  38. 19th Amendment
  39. NAWSA (National American Women’s Suffrage Association)
  40. NWP (National Women’s Party)
  41. Volstead Act
  42. Prohibition
  43. Flappers
  44. Great Migration
  45. Booker T. Washington
  46. W.E.B. Dubois
  47. Marcus Garvey
  48. Harlem Renaissance
  49. Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
  50. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
  51. Works Progress Administration (WPA)
  52. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  53. Social Security
  54. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  55. National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
  56. Sit-down strike
  57. Court-packing plan
  58. Jazz Age
  59. NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
  60. Ku Klux Klan

Unit 7:

Essential Questions:

  1. To what degree and in what ways did Franklin Roosevelt attempt to change the mindset of the American people toward involvement in European affairs prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
  2. To what degree and in what ways was the foreign policy of the United States isolationist and to what degree and in what ways was it internationalist?
  3. What factors led the American public to move from an isolationist stance to one which favored U.S. involvement in international conflict between 1930 and 1941?
  4. What were some of the new technologies introduced in WWII and what were the political, social, and economic implications of the use of technology?
  5. Analyze both the continuity and changes in American foreign policy toward Latin America and the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1940.

Vocab:

  1. Fascism
  2. Nazism
  3. Benito Mussolini
  4. Adolf Hitler
  5. Josef Stalin
  6. Franklin D. Roosevelt
  7. Harry S. Truman
  8. Winston Churchill
  9. Nazi
  10. Soviet Pact
  11. Spanish Civil War
  12. Appeasement
  13. Munich Conference
  14. Blitzkrieg
  15. Neutrality Acts
  16. Quarantine Speech
  17. Lend-Lease Act
  18. “Four Freedoms”
  19. Atlantic Charter
  20. Pearl Harbor
  21. Salerno
  22. Stalingrad
  23. D-Day
  24. Normandy
  25. Battle of the Bulge
  26. Home front
  27. Japanese-American Internment
  28. Korematsu v. United States
  29. “Double V” Campaign
  30. A.Philip Randolph
  31. CORE
  32. Holocaust
  33. Final Solution
  34. Ghetto
  35. Auschwitz
  36. Nuremberg Trials
  37. Tehran Conference
  38. United Nations
  39. San Francisco Conference
  40. Mary McLeod Bethune
  41. Security Council General Assembly
  42. Women’s Army Corps
  43. Rations
  44. War Production Board
  45. VJ Day
  46. Hiroshima
  47. Nagasaki
  48. Midway
  49. Coral Sea
  50. V-E Day

Unit 8:

Essential Questions:

  1. To what extent did American actions in the 1950s increase US power and standing in the world?
  2. What is the relationship between McCarthyism and conformity in the 1950s?
  3. How “happy” were the happy days of the 1950’s?
  4. How could the Cuban Missile Crisis have been handled differently?

Vocab:

  1. Satellite state
  2. Iron Curtain
  3. Truman Doctrine
  4. Containment
  5. Marshall Plan
  6. Berlin Airlift
  7. Arms Race
  8. Brinkmanship
  9. Nikita Khrushchev
  10. NASA
  11. CIA
  12. Red Scare
  13. NATO
  14. Warsaw Pact
  15. Douglas MacArthur
  16. Interstate Highway Act
  17. Sunbelt
  18. Rock-and-roll
  19. Cuban Missile Crisis
  20. Apollo 11
  21. HUAC
  22. McCarthyism
  23. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
  24. GI Bill of Rights
  25. Baby boom
  26. Cult of the Housewife
  27. Space Race

Unit 9:

Essential Questions:

  1. What were the political, social, and economic impacts of the war in Vietnam on American society?
  2. To what degree did the civil rights movement of the 1960s resolve issues left unsettled by Reconstruction?
  3. To what degree was 1968 considered to be a turning point in U.S. history?
  4. How did the Malcolm X’s approach to civil rights differ from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s?

Vocab:

  1. NAACP
  2. National Urban League
  3. Congress of Racial Equality
  4. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
  5. Segregation
  6. Thurgood Marshall
  7. Integration
  8. Busing
  9. Rosa Parks
  10. Montgomery Bus Boycott
  11. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  12. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  13. Social Activism
  14. Sit-ins
  15. Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
  16. Freedom Riders
  17. March on Washington (1963)
  18. Civil Rights Act (1964)
  19. Voting Rights Act (1965)
  20. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
  21. Black power
  22. Nation of Islam
  23. Malcolm X
  24. Stokely Carmichael
  25. Black Panthers
  26. John F. Kennedy
  27. Lyndon B. Johnson
  28. Vietnam War
  29. Indochina
  30. Ho Chi Minh
  31. Geneva Accords
  32. Vietcong (VC)
  33. Domino theory
  34. SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)
  35. Guerilla warfare
  36. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  37. Tet Offensive
  38. Richard M. Nixon
  39. Vietnamization
  40. Cambodia
  41. Dr. Henry Kissinger
  42. Paris Peace Accords
  43. “Credibility Gap”
  44. Antiwar protests
  45. War Powers Act

Unit 10:

Essential Questions:

  1. To what degree did American foreign policy in the 1970s and 80s intensify and/or reduce the severity of the Cold War?
  2. How does liberalism and conservatism differ?
  3. To what degree was the election of Ronald Reagan a “revolution?”
  4. How did American foreign policy respond to direct and indirect threats to American security?
  5. How has the argument over environmentalism impacted political parties?
  6. How has the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan affected America at home?

Vocab:

  1. Détente
  2. Watergate
  3. Apartheid
  4. OPEC
  5. Palestinian Liberation Organization
  6. Jimmy Carter
  7. Panama Canal Treaty
  8. Camp David Accords
  9. Iranian Revolution
  10. Iran Hostage Crisis
  11. Ronald Reagan
  12. Mikhail Gorbachev
  13. Glasnost
  14. Perestroika
  15. IranContra Affair
  16. George H.W. Bush
  17. Persian Gulf War
  18. Saddam Hussein
  19. Bill Clinton
  20. Bosnia and Kosovo
  21. World Trade Organization
  22. NAFTA
  23. Election of 2000
  24. George W. Bush
  25. September 11, 2001
  26. Al-Qaeda
  27. Jihad
  28. Taliban
  29. Osama Bin Laden
  30. Iraq War
  31. Barak Obama
  32. Globalization
  33. Cesar Chavez
  34. United Farm Workers
  35. American Indian Movement
  36. 26th Amendment
  37. Americans with Disabilities Act
  38. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
  39. Mapp v. Ohio
  40. Miranda v. Arizona
  41. Roe v. Wade
  42. Oklahoma City Bombing
  43. USA PATRIOT Act
  44. Climate Change
  45. Kyoto Treaty
  46. Affordable Care Act
  47. Great Recession (2007)