Terms to Recognize for American History II
1. Turning Point
2. Conflict
3. Legislation
4. Innovation
a. Thomas Edison
b. Incandescent light bulb
c. Phonograph
d. Motion pictures
e. George Westinghouse
f. Alternating Current (AC) System
g. Direct Current (DC) System
h. Space Race
i. Internet
j. World Wide Web
k. Electronic Mail
l. Transistor
m. Microchip
5. Supreme Court decision
6. Imperialism
a. Social factors
b. Economic factors
c. Political factors
d. Military factors
e. Religious factors
f. Samoa
g. Hawaii
h. Alaska
i. Philippines
j. Puerto Rico
k. Cuba
l. “spheres of influence”
m. Albert Beveridge
n. Josiah Strong
o. Alfred Thayer Mahan
p. “The Influence of Sea Power upon History”
q. Mark Twain
r. William Jennings Bryan
s. Anti-Imperialist League
7. Frontier
a. Frederick Jackson Turner
b. “The Significance of the Frontier” in American History”
8. Mercantilism
9. Spanish-American War
a. USS Maine
10. Open-Door Policy
11. Monroe Doctrine
12. Roosevelt Corollary
13. Panama Canal
14. Gilded Age
15. White Man’s Burden
16. Social Darwinism
a. “Survival of the fittest”
17. Migration
18. Settlement
19. Gold Rush
20. Destruction of the Buffalo
21. Reservations
22. Cowboys
23. Homesteaders
24. “Range Wars”
25. Great Plains
26. Indian Wars
27. Battle of Wounded Knee
28. Industrialization
29. Urbanization
30. Railroads
a. Impact
31. Telegraphs
32. Great Depression
a. John Steinbeck
b. Such As Us
c. The Grapes of Wrath
d. Native Son
e. Richard Wright
f. Studs Terkel
g. Hard Times
33. Great Migration
34. Dust Bowl
35. “Okies”
36. Suburbs
37. Sunbelt
38. Natural Disasters
a. Galveston hurricane of 1900
b. San Francisco earthquake of 1906
c. Johnstown flood of 1889
d. Hurricane Katrina
39. Race
40. Ethnicity
41. Native-Americans
42. American-Indians
a. Helen Hunt Jackson
b. A Century of Dishonor
c. Frank Norris
d. The Octopus
e. “The Future of the Red Man”
f. Simon Pokagon
g. Chief Joseph
h. Zitkala-Sa
43. Reservations
44. “Americanization”
45. Disintegration of American-Indian culture
46. African-American “Exodusters”
47. Former slaves
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Up from Slavery
c. WPA Federal Writers’ Project
d. Charles Chesnutt
e. “The Wife of His Youth”
f. Ida B. Wells
g. “The Atlanta Compromise”
h. W.E.B. DuBois
i. “The Talented Tenth”
48. Asian Immigration
49. “Americanization” of Native-Americans
50. Roles of women in the West
51. Settlement houses
52. Ethnic neighborhoods
a. Chicago’s mean-packing houses
b. New York’s garment industry
c. Cleveland’s steel mills
53. Immigration Push Factors
a. Europeans from 1900-1920
b. Asians & Latin Americans from 1970s-2000s
54. “Huddled masses”
a. Ellis Island
b. Angel Island
c. Naturalization
d. Lewis Hines
e. Abraham Cahan
f. Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto
g. Library of Congress immigration interviews
55. “Americanization”
56. Assimilation
57. Nativism
a. Italians
b. Irish
c. Roman-Catholics
d. Chinese
e. Mexican
f. Muslim
58. Social Gospel
a. Jane Addams
b. University Settlement Society of New York
c. YMCA
d. Ellen Starr
e. Lillian Wald
f. Jacob Riis
g. Muckrakers
h. “How the Other Half Lives”
i. Lincoln Steffens
j. “The Shame of Cities”
k. Ida M. Tarbell
l. “History of the Standard Oil Company”
m. Upton Sinclair
n. The Jungle
o. Thomas Nast
59. Political Machines
a. Tammany Hall
b. “The Plunkitt of Tammany Hall”
c. Boss Tweed
d. James Michael Curley
e. James Pendergast
f. Ed Crump
g. Graft
h. Corruption
60. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
61. Immigration Quota Act of 1924
62. Immigration Act of 1965
63. Political Movements
a. Populism
b. Progressivism
c. Labor Unrest
d. New Deal
e. Wilmington Race Riots
f. Eugenics
g. Civil Rights Movement
h. Anti-Vietnam War protests
i. Student movements
i. Watergate
j. “Bourbon Redeemers”
64. Jim Crow Laws
a. Disenfranchisement
65. Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)
66. Patronage
67. Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
68. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
69. Election of 1896
a. Populist Party
70. Socialist Party of America
71. Eugene V. Debs
72. Progressive Reforms
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. William H. Taft
c. Woodrow Wilson
73. Deregulation
a. Warren G. Harding
b. Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Hoover
74. Conservative Economic Policy
75. Scapegoat
76. “Rugged Individualism”
77. Franklin D. Roosevelt
78. New Deal
a. Effects
b. Direct relief
c. Supreme Court Rulings
79. Court-packing Scheme
80. Huey Long
81. Francis Townshend
82. Charles Coughlin
83. Fair Deal
84. New Frontier
85. Great Society
86. Segregation
87. Desegregation
88. Integration
89. Plessy v. Fergusion
a. “separate-but-equal”
90. Brown v. Board of Education
91. Executive Order 9981
92. Civil Rights Act (1964)
93. Voting Rights Action (1965)
94. Civil Rights Act (1968)
95. “Dixiecrats”
96. Assassination of President Kennedy
97. Ronald Regan
a. Escalation of defense
b. Anti-Community rhetoric
98. Scandal
99. Richard Nixon
a. Burglary
b. Cover-up
c. Congressional investigation
d. Resignation
100. Warren G. Harding
101. Bill Clinton
102. Iran-Contra Affair
103. Election of 1912
104. Election of 1936
105. Election of 1964
106. Election of 1968
107. Election of 1989
108. Election of 2000
109. Election of 2008
110. Currency Policy
111. Laissez-faire
112. Labor unrest
113. New Deal
a. Relief
b. Recovery
c. Reform
d. Cultural efforts
114. Great Society
115. Supply-side economics
a. Reaganomics
116. Tenant farming
117. Sharecropping
118. Textiles industry
119. Tobacco industry
120. Panic of 1873
121. Panic of 1893
122. Bimetallism
123. The Grange Movement
124. Tenements
125. Sanitation
126. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
127. Monopolies
128. “Robber baron”
129. “Captain of Industry”
a. John D. Rockefeller
b. Andrew Carnegie
c. “The Gospel of Wealth”
d. J.P. Morgan
e. George Pullman
130. Stock speculation
131. Buying on Margin
132. Black Tuesday Stock-Market crash
133. Consumerism
a. 1920s
b. 1950s
134. Materialism
135. Lyndon Johnson
a. Great Society
b. War on Poverty
136. Stagflation
a. Oil crisis
b. Recession- 1970s
137. 21st century “Great” Recession
a. Dot.com collapse
b. “Housing bubble”
c. Corporate scandals
d. Risky mortgages
e. Foreclosure crisis
f. Overextended Consumer Credit
g. 9/11 attacks
138. Prohibition
139. Knights of Labor
140. Terrence Powderly
141. AFL
142. Samuel Gompers
143. American Railway Union
144. Collective bargaining
145. Work stoppage
146. Strike
147. United Mine Workers
148. “Mother” Jones
149. Molly Maguires
150. Railroad Strike of 1877
151. Homestead Strike
152. Pullman Strike
153. Civil Rights Strategies
a. SNCC
b. SCLC
c. CORE
d. Black Panthers
e. Role of Women & Youth
f. Septima Clark
g. Ella Baker
h. Daisy Bates
i. Little Rock 9
j. Greensboro Four
k. James Meredith
l. Marcus Garvey
m. Malcolm X
n. Martin Luther King, Jr.
154. Feminist Movement
a. “Equal Pay for Equal Work”
b. Cult of domesticity
c. Betty Friedan
d. The Feminine Mystique
e. NOW
f. Gloria Steinham
155. Chicano Movement
156. American Indian Movement
157. Back to Africa movement
158. American Colonization Society
159. Counterculture
160. 1920s “modernism”
a. Jazz age
b. Flappers
c. “Lost Generation”
d. Ernest Hemingway
e. F. Scott Fitzgerald
f. Thomas Wolfe
g. William Faulkner
h. Harlem Renaissance
i. Alain Locke
j. Langston Hughes
k. Zora Neale Hurston
l. James Weldon Johnson
m. Negro nationalism
161. Traditionalism/Reactionism
a. Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
b. Fundamentalism
c. Scopes Monkey Trial
d. Ku Klux Klan
162. Albert Einstein
163. 1950s “Conformity”
a. Corporate life
b. “White Collar worker”
c. “Blue Collar worker”
d. Cult of domesticity
e. Levittowns
f. Surburbia
164. Youth culture
a. Beatniks
b. Delinquency
c. “Rock-n-roll”
d. Ralph Edison
e. “The Invisible Man”
f. John Kenneth Galbraith
g. “The Affluent Society”
h. Edward Hopper
165. Ideologies
166. Suffrage
167. “Warren Count”
168. Judicial
169. Rights of the Accused
170. Fourteenth Amendment
171. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg
172. Foreign Policy
173. Isolationism
174. World War I
175. Treatment of German Americans
176. Nineteenth Amendment
a. Universal Suffrage
b. Carrie Chapman Catt
c. Margaret Sanger
d. Alice Paul
e. Lucy Burns
177. Lusitania
178. Restrictions of Civil Liberties
a. Espionage & Sedition Acts
b. Schenck v. United States
179. “Allied Powers”
180. “Making the world safe for democracy”
181. Neutrality
182. Interventionism
183. Alliances
184. Lend-Lease Policy
185. Aid
186. World War II
187. “Four Freedoms”
188. Pearl Harbor
189. War on the Homefront
a. Japanese-American internment camps
b. Committee on Public Information
c. Propaganda
d. Four-Minute Men
e. “Meatless Tuesdays”
f. “Wheatless Wednesdays”
g. War Industries
h. Rationing
i. Women in workforce
j. Rosie the Riveter
k. WAVES
l. Farming gains
190. Various ethnic groups
a. Tuskegee Airmen
b. Bracero Program
c. “Code Talkers”
191. GI Bill
192. “Baby Boom”
193. Allied Conferences
a. Yalta
b. Potsdam
c. Causes of the Cold War
194. Interstate Highway System
a. “car culture”
195. Atomic Bomb
196. New markets
197. Neutrality
198. Containment
a. Truman Doctrine
b. Berlin Blockade
c. Marshall Plan
199. Homeland Security
200. McKinley Tariff
201. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
202. GATT
203. NAFTA
204. Treaty of Versailles
205. Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
206. SALT treaties
207. Camp David Accords
208. Support of Israel
209. Middle East conflict
210. George W. Bush
a. “axis of evil”
b. preemptive military action
211. Advancement of democracy
212. International Affairs
213. Cold War
a. “hot wars”
b. Korean War
i. Stalemate
ii. Armistice
c. Vietnam War
i. French Indochina
ii. “détente”
214. Brinkmanship
215. President Eisenhower
216. “Military-Industrial Complex”
217. U-2 incident
218. Suez crisis
219. Hungary Invasion
220. Kennedy’s international involvement
221. Bay of Pigs Invasion
222. Cuban Missile Crisis
223. Berlin Wall
224. “Red Scare”
a. 1920s
225. 1950s
226. McCarthyism
227. Reagan’s Escalation
a. Defense spending
b. Anti-communist rhetoric
228. Persian Gulf War
a. United National
b. George H.W. Bush
229. Iraqi War
a. “Second Gulf War”
230. War in Afghanistan
231. Patriot Act
a. War on Terror
b. Treatment of Muslims
c. Patriotism
232. J. Edgar Hoover
233. FBI
234. National Security Act
235. CIA
236. “Pop culture”
a. “Buffalo Bill’s Wild west” saloons
b. Vaudeville
c. City parks
d. Bicycles
i. Racing
e. Coney Island
f. Spectator sports
g. Boxing
h. Professional baseball
i. College football & basketball
j. Radio
k. Television
237. Wright Brothers
a. “first in flight”
238. Literature
239. Arts
240. Music
241. “American Dream”
a. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
b. FDR’s First Inaugural Address
c. Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech
d. George W. Bush’s “Congressional Speech on 9/11
e. Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech
242. National ideals
243. Worker’s toils
a. “The Report and Testimony on the Chicago Strike of 1894”
b. Frederick Winslow Taylor
c. “The Principles of Scientific Management”
d. Lewis Hine
e. Child Labor
f. “Yes, I Am my Brother’s Keeper”