APUSH Identifications List

Period 1:

Chapter 1:
Paleo-Indians
Teotihuacán
The Mayas
The Anasazi
Cahokia
Aztecs
Tenochtitilán
Maize
The lateen sail, the astrolabe, and
the quadrant
Christopher Columbus
John Cabot
HernánCrotés
Encomienda system
Spanish missionaries
The Columbian Exchange
Small pox and syphilis
Sugar, the horse, and tobacco
Treaty of Tordesillas
Sir Walter Raleigh
Lost Colony of Roanoke

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Chapter 2:
Joint Stock Company
Jesuits
Church of England
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther and John Calvin
Chesapeake Colonies
New England Colonies
Puritans
Separatists
Jamestown
Capt. John Smith
The Starving Time
Powhatan Confederacy
John Rolfe
headright system
Separatists
Plymouth
House of Burgesses
indentured servants
Pilgrims and the Mayflower
Compact
Massasoit and Squanto
Gov. John Winthrop and
Massachusetts Bay Company
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Maryland Act of Toleration
Fundamental Order of Connecticut
Primogeniture / Chapter 3:
Quakers
William Penn
Glorious Revolution / William and
Mary
Salem Witch Trials
Iroquois Confederacy
Pueblo Revolt
King Philip’s War
Bacon’s Rebellion
Atlantic Slave Trade
Middle Passage
triangular trade
mercantilism
Navigation Acts (1660’s)
Vice-admiralty courts
The Glorious Revolution
stratification
Proprietary Colonies
Royal Colonies / Chapter 4:
John Locke
The Enlightenment
Two Treatises of Government
Mestizos
John Peter Zenger
The Stono Rebellion
The New York Conspiracy
The First Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
“New Lights” & “Old Lights”
Halfway Communion

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Chapter 5:
Albany Congress/Albany Plan of
Union
Seven Years War
Treaty of Paris
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation of 1763
King George III
George Greenville
Individual Representation
Virtual Representation
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act
Patrick Henry
Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams
The Stamp Act Congress
Declaratory Act
Daughter of Liberty
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Committees of Correspondence
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Coercive/Intolerable Acts
The Quartering Act / Chapter 6:
First Continental Congress
Declaration of Rights and
Grievances
Patriots vs. Loyalists
Lexington and Concord
Continental Army
Second Continental Congress
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Gen. George Washington
Continental Army
Treaty of Paris (1783) / Chapter 7:
Republicanism
Abigail Adams
Articles of Confederation
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Annapolis Convention
Shay’s Rebellion
Constitutional Convention
James Madison
Checks and Balances
Virginia and New Jersey Plans
The Great Compromise/The Connecticut Compromise
Congress: the Senate and the House
of Representatives
Three-Fifth’s Compromise
Slave Trade Clause and Fugitive
Slave Clause
3 Branches: Executive, Legislative,
and Judicial (3 IDS)
Electoral College
Ratification
Federalists
Anti-Federalists
The Federalists Papers
Benjamin Franklin
Chapter 8:
The Bill of Rights
Judiciary Act of 1789
Pres. George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
Bank of the U.S.
Whiskey Rebellion
Democratic-Republicans
Federalists
Washington’s Proclamation of
Neutrality
The Jay Treaty
Pinckney Treaty
Washington’s Farewell Address
Pres. John Adams
Quasi-War with France
XYZ Affair
Alien and Sedition Acts
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Convention of 1800

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Chapter 9
Pres. Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson’s Inaugural Address
Chief Justice John Marshall
Judiciary Act of 1801
Marbury v. Madison
Judicial review
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark
12th Amendment
Impressment
Non-Intercourse Act
The Prophet and Tecumseh
Battle of Tippecanoe
Embargo Act
Warhawks
War of 1812 – “Mr. Madison’s War”
Gen. Andrew Jackson and the Battle of
New Orleans
Treaty of Ghent
Hartford Convention
Chesepeake Affair
Samuel Slater / Chapter 10
John C. Calhoun
Tariff of 1816
Pres. James Monroe
Era of Good Feelings
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
John Quincy Adams
Rush-Bagot Treaty
The Adams-Onis Treaty
Monroe Doctrine
Tallmadge Amendment
Market Economy
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
National Road
Erie Canal
Early Railroads
Cyrus McCormick’s reaper
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
peculiar institution
Lowell System
labor parties or unions
Commonwealth v. Hunt (1824)
assimilation
Cherokee Nation v Georgia (1831) and
Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Trail of Tears
Panic of 1837
Robert Fulton
Missouri Compromise / Chapter 11A
American System
Second Great Awakening
Burned Over District
Dorothea Dix
Abolition
William Lloyd Garrison and The
Liberator
American Anti-Slavery Society
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia
Mott
Seneca Falls and the Declaration of
Sentiments
The Shakers
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints-Mormonism
Pres. John Quincy Adams
corrupt bargain
National Republicans
mudslinging
Democratic Party
Pres. Andrew Jackson
1828 Tariff of Abominations
Nullification
Sen. Daniel Webster and Sen. Robert
Hayne
Second Bank of the United States
Whig Party
Henry Clay
Pres. Martin Van Buren
Pres. William Henry Harrison
Pres. John Tyler
Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842)
Temperence
Specie Circular
Spoils System
Whigs
Chapter 12A
Know Nothings
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brook Farm
Transcendentalism / Chapter 13
Yeoman Farmers
Landless Whites
Free Blacks
Planters
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner

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Chapter 11B
John L. O’Sullivan and manifest
destiny
Remember the Alamo
Sam Houston and Gen. Santa Anna
Annexation of Texas
Oregon Trail
Pres. James K. Polk / Chapter 12B
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Gold Rush and the forty-niners / Chapter 14
Oregon Treaty
War with Mexico
Wilmot Proviso
Popular sovereignty
Free soil party
President Zachary Taylor
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Act
Harriett Beecher Stowe’s Uncle
Tom’s Cabin
Underground Railroad and Harriet
Tubman
Pres. Franklin Pierce
Stephen A. Douglas
Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding
Kansas
The Republican Party
American Party of the Know
Nothings
Free SoilemOvement
Pres. James Buchanan
John Brown and Harper’s Ferry
Dred Scott Decision
Election of 1860
Pres. Abraham Lincoln
“House Divided” speech
Confederate States of America
(CSA) and Jefferson Davis
The Crittenden Compromise
Fort Sumter
Liberty Party
Frederick Douglas
Millard Filmore
Chapter 15
Bull Run
Gen. Stonewall Jackson
Gen. George B. McClellan
Anaconda Plan
The Monitor and Merrimack
Ulysses S. Grant
Battle of Shiloh
Robert E. Lee
Battle of Antietam
greenbacks
writs of habeas corpus
Emancipation Proclamation
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
and the “Scorched Earth Policy”
Appomattox Court House
John Wilkes Booth and
Lincoln’s Assassination
Morrill Land Grants
Homestead Act
National Banking Act / Chapter 16
Reconstruction/Radical
Reconstruction
Lincoln’s 10% Plan
amnesty
Wade-Davis Bill
13th Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau
“40 Acres and a Mule”
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Redeemer Democrats
sharecropping
Pres. Andrew Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction
black codes
Congressional Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
14th Amendment
Reconstruction Acts
Tenure of Office Act and
impeachment
Pres. Ulysses S. Grant
15th Amendment
carpetbaggers and scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
Compromise of 1877

Period 6: Purple indicates overlap, definitely keep

Chapter 17
Frederick Jackson Turner (Turner’s
Thesis)
Buffalo
Reservations
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
Battle of Little Big Horn
Gen. George
Custer
Dawes Severalty Act
Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee
Newlands Reclamation Act
Union Pacific and Central Pacific transcontinental railroad
Subsidies or land grants
Standardization of time
Mechanization of agriculture
Morrill Land Grant
Long drive and open range ranching / Chapter 18
Thomas Edison: electricity and the
light bulb
Patents
Henry Ford, the Model T and the
assembly line
Frederick W. Taylor and the Efficiency movement
Mass production
NYC Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Fire
Knights of Labor and Terence Powderly
Haymarket Riot
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
and Samuel Gompers
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Industrial Workers of the World
(IWW)
Laissez-Faire / Chapter 19A
Corporations
John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
Andrew Carnegie and U.S. Steel
Pools, trusts, holding companies, and
monopolies
Horizontal Integration
Vertical Integration
J.P. Morgan
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
Mass transportation
New immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act
Political machines
George Washington Plunkitt
Graft
Tammany Hall
Civic reform
Social reform
Jane Addams and Hull House
Urbanization
Leisure
Assimilation
Chapter 20
Gilded Age
Spoils system
Stalwarts, Half Breeds and Mugwumps
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Interstate Commerce
Commission (ICC)
McKinley Tariff of 1890
Monetary policy and the gold
standard
Pres. Rutherford Hayes
Pres. James Garfield
Pres. Chester Arthur
Pres. Grover Cleveland
Pres. Benjamin Harrison
Billion Dollar Congress
Lynching
Ida B. Wells
Disenfranchisement
Poll taxes
Grandfather clause
Plessey v. Ferguson
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation
National Woman Suffrage
Association (NWSA)
& American Woman’s
Suffrage Association
(AWASA)
Susan B. Anthony
Tenant farming and the crop-
lien system
The Grange
Farmer’s Alliance
The Populist Party or
People’s Party
Eugene V. Debs
Silver Crusade and the
Election of 1896
Samuel Gompers
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Gold Standard Act
William Jennings Bryan
Coxey’s Army
Depression of 1893