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American History II Vocabulary

Module 1: New South, Frontier, and Rise of Populism

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  • Cash crop
  • Farmers’ Alliance
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875
  • Reservation
  • Sand Creek Massacre
  • Sitting Bull
  • Battle of Little Big Horn
  • Wounded Knee
  • Dawes General Allotment Act
  • Transcontinental Railroad
  • land grant
  • open range
  • Homestead Act
  • Exodusters
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • poll tax
  • Comstock Load
  • literacy test
  • grandfather clause
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Booker T. Washington
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • spoils system
  • civil service
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act
  • Oliver H. Kelley
  • Grange
  • Populist Party
  • William Jennings Bryan
  • William McKinley
  • Helen Hunt Jackson
  • Morrel Land Grant Act of 1862
  • bimetallism
  • Munn Vs Illinois
  • Interstate Commerce Act
  • Wabash vs. Illinois

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Module 2: Industrialization and Progressivism

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  • protective tariff
  • corporation
  • monopoly
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • horizontal integration
  • trust
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • vertical integration
  • Social Darwinism
  • Sherman Anti-trust Act
  • collective bargaining
  • Homestead Strike
  • Ellis island
  • Angel Island
  • nativism
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • urbanization
  • skyscraper
  • mass transit
  • tenement
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Mark Twain
  • Progressivism
  • muckraker
  • Jacob Riis
  • Social Gospel
  • settlement house
  • temperance movement
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Americanization
  • Niagara Movement
  • NAACP
  • Urban League
  • Anti-Defamation League
  • mutualistas
  • Pure Food and Drug Act
  • Progressive Party
  • Federal Reserve Act
  • Clayton Antitrust Act
  • Bessemer Process

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  • Boss Tweed
  • Credit Mobiler Scandal
  • Graft
  • Haymarket Riot
  • Eugene Debbs
  • Initiative
  • JP Morgan
  • Jane Adams
  • Pendleton Act
  • Political machine
  • Pullman Strike
  • recall
  • Referendum
  • Standard Oil Company
  • Tammany Hall
  • Great Strike of 1877
  • Thomas Nast
  • US vs E.C Knight Company
  • Whiskey Ring Scandal
  • Yellow Dog Contract

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  • Mann Elkins Act

Module 3: From Isolationism to World Power

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  • Imperialism
  • extractive economy
  • Alfred T. Mahan
  • Social Darwinism
  • Frederick J. Turner
  • Matthew Perry
  • Queen Liliuokalani
  • Jose Marti
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Yellow Press
  • George Dewey
  • Emilio Aguinaldo
  • Rough Riders
  • Treaty of Paris
  • insurrection
  • guerrilla warfare
  • William Howard Taft
  • sphere of influence
  • John Hay
  • Boxer Rebellion
  • Open Door Policy
  • Russo-Japanese War
  • “Gentlemen’s Agreement”
  • Great White Fleet

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  • Foraker Act
  • Hay-Bunau-varilla Treaty
  • JosephPulitzer
  • Platt Amendment
  • Roosevelt Corollary
  • Treaty of Portsmouth

Module 4: World War I

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  • Militarism
  • Francis Ferdinand
  • Western Front
  • U-boat
  • Lusitania
  • Zimmermann Note
  • Selective Service Act
  • CPI
  • George Creel
  • Espionage Act
  • Great Migration
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • John J. Pershing
  • Fourteen Points
  • League of Nations
  • Reparations
  • Red Scare
  • Palmer Raids
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Imperialism

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  • Espionage and Sedition Acts
  • Reservationist

Module 5: Boom and Bust

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  • Henry Ford
  • Mass production
  • Model T
  • assembly line
  • buying on margin
  • Andrew Mellon
  • Teapot Dome Scandal
  • Dawes Plan
  • Scopes Trail
  • quota scandal
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Prohibition
  • 18th amendment
  • bootlegger
  • flapper
  • Langston Hughes
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Black Tuesday
  • Great Depression
  • bread line
  • tenant farmer
  • Dust Bowl
  • trickle-down economics
  • Bonus Army
  • New Deal
  • fireside chats
  • FDIC
  • TVA
  • Second New Deal
  • Social Security Act
  • collective bargaining
  • sit-down strikes
  • court packing
  • Black cabinet

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  • 17th Amendment

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  • 19th Amendment
  • De jure segregation
  • de facto segregation

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Module 6: World War II and Cold War

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  • Totalitarianism
  • anti-Semitic
  • appeasement
  • Munich Pact
  • Axis Powers
  • Allies
  • Tripartite pact
  • Land-lease Act
  • Atlantic Charter
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Battle of Coral Sea
  • Dwight Eisenhower
  • unconditional surrender
  • strategic bombing
  • Battle of Midway
  • internment
  • D-Day
  • Battle of the Bulge
  • Manhattan Project
  • Holocaust
  • Yalta Conference
  • satellite state
  • Cold War
  • iron curtain
  • containment
  • Marshall Plan
  • Berlin Airlift
  • 38th Parallel
  • arms race
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • Red Scare
  • Hollywood Ten
  • McCarthyism
  • GI Bill of Rights
  • Baby Boom
  • Interstate Highway Act
  • consumerism
  • Totalitarianism
  • Fascism
  • Neutrality Act
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact
  • Appeasement
  • Lend Lease Act
  • Non-Aggression Pact
  • Manhattan Project

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Module 7: Civil Rights and Post War America

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  • De jure segregation
  • de facto segregation
  • Brown v. Board of Education
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Rosa Parks
  • Montgomery Bus boycott
  • sit-in
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Twenty-fourth amendment
  • Malcolm X
  • black power
  • Black Panthers
  • Richard M. Nixon
  • Fidel Castro
  • Freedom Riders
  • Voting Act of 1965
  • Schenck Vs US
  • Kerner Commission
  • CORRE
  • SCLC
  • flexible response
  • Peace Corps
  • Baby of Pigs invasion
  • Cuban missile crisis
  • Berlin Wall
  • New Frontier
  • space race
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Great Society
  • Medicaid
  • counterculture
  • Betty Friedan
  • Roe v. Wade

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  • Feminine Mystique
  • Silent Spring

Module 8: Cold War and Vietnam

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  • containment
  • domino theory
  • Vietcong
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  • Tet Offensive
  • United Nations
  • Satellite Nations
  • Iron Curtain
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Vietminh
  • Marshall Plan
  • Berlin Airlift
  • NATO
  • HUAC
  • Hollywood Ten
  • McCarthyism
  • Détente
  • Brinkmanship
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Eisenhower Doctrine
  • My Lai
  • War Powers Act

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Module 9: Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, and New Century

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  • OPEC
  • Watergate
  • 25th amendment
  • executive privilege
  • Gerald Ford
  • Jimmy Carter
  • amnesty
  • Helsinki Accords
  • SALT II
  • Camp David Accords
  • liberal
  • conservative
  • Moral Majority
  • Ronald Reagan
  • supply-side economics
  • budget deficit
  • national deficit
  • AIDS
  • Contras
  • Iran-Contra Affair
  • Tiananmen Square
  • apartheid
  • Saddam Hussein
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • satellite
  • internet
  • service economy
  • William Jefferson Clinton
  • H. Ross Perot
  • Family Medical Leave Act
  • Brady Bill
  • NAFTA
  • al Qaeda
  • Bush v. Gore
  • No Child Left Behind Act
  • Patriot Act

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