QUICK VIEW OF ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY FROM REVISED AP US HISTORY CONCEPT OUTLINE / AUGUST 2015

Period 1 / Period 2 / Period 3
  1. Maize
  2. American Southwest
  3. Great Basin
  4. Great Plains
  5. Mississippi River Valley
  6. Columbian Exchange
  7. Feudalism
  8. Capitalism
  9. Joint Stock Companies
  10. Spanish Empire
  11. Conquistador
  12. Encomienda system
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  1. Mayflower Compact
  2. Chesapeake
  3. North Carolina
  4. Tobacco
  5. Cash Crops
  6. 1st & 2nd Anglo Powhatan Wars
  7. Indentured servants
  8. New England colonies
  9. Maryland Acts of Toleration 1649
  10. Puritans
  11. Middle Colonies
  12. Southernmost Colonies
  13. British West Indies
  14. Barbados Slave Codes
  15. Staple Crops
  16. *Salutary neglect
  17. Town Meetings
  18. Colonial Assemblies
  19. King Philip’s War
  20. Pueblo Revolt
  21. Great Awakening
  22. Enlightenment
  23. Protestant Evangelicalism
  24. Mercantilism
  25. Chattel Slavery
  26. William Penn
  27. House of Burgesses
  28. Navigation Acts
  29. Quakers
  30. Bacon’s Rebellion
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  1. Seven Years War
  2. *Proclamation of 1763
  3. *Taxation Without Representation
  4. Benjamin Franklin
  5. Patriot
  6. Loyalist
  7. Colonial Militia
  8. Continental Army
  9. Albany Congress
  10. Coercive/Intolerable Acts
  11. First and Second Continental Congress
  12. George Washington
  13. Ideological
  14. Natural Rights
  15. Thomas Paine
  16. Common Sense
  17. Iroquois Confederation
  18. Declaration of Independence
  19. Olive Branch Petition
  20. Abolitionism
  21. Republican motherhood
  22. French Revolution
  23. Haitian Revolution
  24. Latin American Revolutions
  25. State constitutions
  26. Articles of Confederation
  27. Constitutional Convention
  28. Federalism
  29. Separation of powers
  30. * 3/5 Compromise
  31. 1808 Slave Trade Agreement
  32. Constitution
  33. Federalists vs Anti-Federalists
  34. Federalist Papers
  35. Alexander Hamilton
  36. James Madison
  37. Bill of Rights
  38. George Washington
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  1. John Adams
  2. Federalists vs Democratic-Republicans
  3. Thomas Jefferson
  4. Northwest Ordinance
  5. Spanish Mission Settlements
  6. George Washington’s Farewell Address
  7. Washington’s Neutrality

Period 4 / Period 5 / Period 6
  1. Suffrage
  2. Political parties
  3. Tariff
  4. *Marbury v. Madison
  5. Democrats
  6. Andrew Jackson
  7. Whigs
  8. Henry Clay
  9. National Bank
  10. Internal improvements
  11. *Tariff of Abominations
  12. rationalism
  13. Market Revolution
  14. War of 1812
  15. Mobility
  16. Second Great Awakening
  17. Utopian movements
  18. Liberalism
  19. Spoils System
  20. Romanticism
  21. Perfectionism
  22. Voluntary organizations
  23. Trail of Tears
  24. Tariff of 1832
  25. Nullification Crisis
  26. Temperance
  27. Gradual emancipation
  28. Seneca Falls Convention
  29. Interchangeable parts
  30. Telegraph
  31. Separate spheres
  32. American System
  33. Louisiana Purchase
  34. Monroe Doctrine
  35. Appalachian Mountains
  36. Missouri Compromise
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  1. Manifest Destiny
  2. Mexican-American War
  3. “old immigrants” (Irish & German)
  4. nativism
  5. “free labor”
  6. free-soil movement
  7. *Underground Railroad
  8. secession
  9. Mexican Cession
  10. Compromise of 1850
  11. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  12. Dred Scott Decision
  13. Second Party System
  14. Republican Party
  15. Abraham Lincoln
  16. Election of 1860
  17. *Homestead Act
  18. Civil War
  19. Mobilization
  20. Home front
  21. Union
  22. Confederacy
  23. Emancipation Proclamation
  24. Gettysburg Address
  25. Reconstruction
  26. 13th Amendment
  27. 14th Amendment
  28. 15th Amendment
  29. Radical Republicans
  30. Sharecropping
  31. Segregation
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  1. *Pacific Railway Act
  2. Henry Ford
  3. John D. Rockefeller
  4. Bessemer Process
  5. Muller v Oregon
  6. Lochner v New York
  7. trusts
  8. financial panic
  9. laissez-faire
  10. labor
  11. management
  12. New South
  13. Populist Party (People’s Party)
  14. “new immigrants”
  15. assimilation
  16. political machines
  17. consumer culture
  18. transcontinental railroad
  19. boomtowns
  20. American bison
  21. Indian Reservations
  22. Dawes Severalty Act
  23. Carlisle Indian School
  24. Gilded Age
  25. Pure Food and Drug Act
  26. Meat Inspection Act
  27. Slaughterhouse Cases
  28. Jacob Riis
  29. Upton Sinclair
  30. Insular Cases
  31. Social Darwinism
  32. Gospel of Wealth
  33. Cross of Gold
  34. Trust Busting
  35. Currency issues (“Cross of Gold speech)
  36. Jane Addams
  37. Settlement houses
  38. Plessy v. Ferguson

Period 7
  1. Yellow Journalism
  2. Spanish American War
  3. 1920 census
  4. Flappers
  5. Marcus Garvey
  6. Great Depression
  7. Progressive Era
  8. *muckrakers
  9. 18th Amendment
  10. 19th Amendment
  11. preservationists
  12. conservationists
  13. National Parks
  14. Welfare state
  15. American liberalism
  16. Progressives
  17. Franklin Roosevelt
  18. New Deal
  19. Hawley Smoot Tariff
  20. The First Hundred Days
  21. FDIC
  22. CCC
    AAA
  23. WPA
  24. SEC
  25. TVA
  26. Relief, recovery, reform
  27. Conservatives
  28. *New Deal Coalition
  29. The Dust Bowl
  30. Hoovervilles
  31. Bonus Army
  32. Court Packing
  33. radio
  34. cinema
  35. Harlem Renaissance
  36. Gentleman’s Agreement
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  1. *Espionage and Sedition Acts
  2. Red Scare
  3. Joseph McCarthy
  4. Palmer Raids
  5. Sacco and Vanzetti
  6. HUAC
  7. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
  8. World War I
  9. Alvin York
  10. National Origins Act (quotas)
  11. World War II
  12. Theodore Roosevelt
  13. Great Migration
  14. Imperialism
  15. 1890 census
  16. *Frontier thesis
  17. anti-imperialists
  18. Spanish American War
  19. Good Neighbor Policy
  20. Philippine Insurrection
  21. Neutrality
  22. Fourteen Points
  23. Open Door Note
  24. Dollar Diplomacy
  25. Moral Diplomacy
  26. Roosevelt Corollary
  27. Big Stick Policy
  28. Woodrow Wilson
  29. American Expeditionary Force
  30. Zimmerman Note
  31. Allies vs. Central Powers
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  1. Treaty of Versailles
  2. League of Nations
  3. Unilateral foreign policy
  4. Isolationism
  5. Fascism
  6. Japan
  7. Pearl Harbor
  8. Allies vs. Axis
  9. Holocaust
  10. Mobilization
  11. Rosie the Riveter
  12. Lend Lease Act
  13. Japanese internment
  14. Island hopping
  15. D-Day invasion
  16. Battle of Midway
  17. Battle of the Bulge
  18. Atomic bomb
  19. Vernon Baker
  20. Cash and Carry
  21. Appeasement
  22. Non Aggression Pact
  23. Totalitarianism
  24. Nazi Germany
  25. Truman Doctrine
  26. Marshall Plan
  27. United Nations
  28. NATO
  29. Warsaw Pact
  30. Berlin Airlift
  31. Korematsu v US
  32. Chester Nimitz

Period 8 / Period 9
  1. Hernandez v Texas
  2. Levittown
  3. Eisenhower Doctrine
  4. Interstate Highway Act
  5. Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
  6. George Kennan and Note X
  7. Domino Theory
  8. Counter Culture Movement
  9. Cold War
  10. Communism
  11. Brinkmanship
  12. Sputnik
  13. Suez Crisis
  14. CIA overthrows
  15. U-2 Spy Incident
  16. New Frontier
  17. Bay of Pigs Invasion
  18. Cuban Missile Crisis
  19. Free-market
  20. Collective security
  21. Containment
  22. Korean War
  23. Schenck v United States
  24. Vietnam War
  25. Roy Benavidez
  26. Détente
  27. Gulf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution
  28. Richard Nixon
  29. SALT
  30. Kent State
  31. Pentagon Papers
  32. Watergate
  33. U.S. v Nixon
  34. Vietnamization
  35. Silent Majority
  36. Doves vs Hawks
  37. My Lai Massacre
  38. Tet Offensive
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  1. Decolonization
  2. Non-aligned nations
  3. Military-industrial complex
  4. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  5. March on Washington
  6. Freedom Rides
  7. Montgomery Bus Boycott
  8. Desegregation of the armed forces
  9. Brown v. Board of Education
  10. Little Rock High School
  11. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  12. Civil Rights Act of 1964
  13. *Voting Rights Act of 1965
  14. Wisconsin v Yoder
  15. Lyndon Johnson
  16. Henry Kissinger
  17. Great Society
  18. Private sector
  19. War Powers Act
  20. Baby boom
  21. Sun Belt
  22. Roe v. Wade
  23. *Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965
  24. evangelical Christian churches
  25. University of Cali v. Bakke
  26. Phyllis Schlafly
  27. Gloria Steinem
  28. Tinker v. Des Moines
  29. Miranda v. Arizona
  30. Equal Rights Amendment
  31. Title IX
  32. Clean Air Act 1970
  33. OPEC
  34. Arab Oil Embargo
  35. Jimmy Carter
  36. Delgado v Bastrop ISD
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  1. Ronald Reagan
  2. Election of 1980
  3. The New Right
  4. Moral Majority
  5. *Reaganomics / supply side economics
  6. deregulation
  7. Reagan Recession
  8. Edgewood ISD v Kirby
  9. Stagflation
  10. SDI
  11. free-trade agreements
  12. “social safety net”
  13. Iran Contra
  14. Sandra Day O’Connor
  15. Internet
  16. Iran Hostage Crisis
  17. Social networking
  18. Service sector
  19. Manufacturing
  20. Real wages
  21. Interventionism
  22. George H.W. Bush
  23. Persian Gulf Crisis
  24. Desert Storm
  25. Bill Clinton
  26. Clinton’s Impeachment
  27. George W. Bush
  28. Bush v. Gore
  29. September 11, 2001 terror attacks
  30. War on Terror
  31. World Trade Center
  32. Pentagon
  33. War in Afghanistan
    War in Iraq
  34. Fossil fuels
  35. Barack Obama
  36. Bill Gates
  37. Sam Walton
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  1. Estee Lauder
  2. Robert Johnson
  3. Lionel Sosa
  4. Oprah Winfrey
  5. Sonia Sotomayor

*Terms that do not actually appear in the Concept Outline but are described in such a way in the outline that makes them essential to know